Owning a Handgun..... pain in @ss or not

Yea I will continue to do it too. Even though the CFO here in NB will not give me an ATT. They will not return my calls or emails. The refuse to allow people to visit the office as well. Think I need to contact the people they work for.

Moe
 
It's only a pain at the beginning before you get the R in RPAL. Mostly a waiting game at that stage. Once you have your first, storage and transport options are worked out, the rest are easy. On an ongoing basis, R is not more difficult than non-R. The typical wait for most people to purchase an R and bring it home is a week, sometimes a lot faster, sometimes a lot slower. It depends on many things.
 
Everything the government is involved in is a pain, everywhere.
Since you have the RPAL, you'll have to join a club to shoot. Belonging to a club opens doors that are closed to you now. Still a pain, but you've already done the worst of it.
 
Moe said:
Yea I will continue to do it too. Even though the CFO here in NB will not give me an ATT. They will not return my calls or emails. The refuse to allow people to visit the office as well. Think I need to contact the people they work for.

Moe
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So you can't bring your restricteds to the range?
 
silver69 said:
I have my RPAL, and live in Ab. However just about every range within an hour drive is always packed on the weekend (only time I can go shooting) and you have to book a time and be done at a certain time because someone else is booked behind you, also I can't stand the attitude of a number of a certain type of 'RO" and too boot...most of these ranges charge an arm and a leg and have so many restrictions that it's just no fun. I bought a cheap ($40/yr) family membership at a range that's 6 hours away just to make the CFO happy when I wanted to buy an old used AR (one I have never ended up shooting!)

I have way more fun driving a half an hour out to the bush where I have a place where I have set up out to 800m. No one bugs me, I'm in no rush, and there's no membership fees!

There's my 2 cents.....yes our laws make owning/shoot restricted's a pain in the a$$.
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What part of Alberta has those kind of clubs?
 
I think all the antis and gun grabbers love to hear "It's a PITA to own one". That means their plan is working.
This is why I want to own as many as I can, because I can, and fight to remove all the useless "restricted" paperwork that never saved a life and only hassles law abiding ppl to begin with.

I say go ahead and get a handgun. The worst that could happen is you may not like it (doubtful), and you could sell it without taking too much of a loss.
 
The whole process is designed to dissuade you. Ignore it...do it anyway. You won't be disappointed and the more people that jump through the hoops, the better off we'll all be...and maybe somewhere down the road, their won't be so many hoops. Also, write your MP...
 
Is it more of a pain than in some parts of the US where you walk in to a corner hardware store, show a driver's license, plunk a couple of hundred bucks on the counter and walk out with a handgun and ammunition. Take it to your cousin's ranch and let loose? Yup, it sure is.

The Canadian experience is different; FAR too much processing, but if you're patient, almost anyone can get through the red tape. The weighing of the pro's and con's has to be done kind of backwards on a personal level (Is there a conveniently located range that has memberships available? Can I afford the hobby or at least the start up costs? etc).

On the other side of the coin, RPAL opens up avenues for other firearms; not just handguns. I don't believe it's "conspiracy thinking" to suggest a government agenda to alter the laws pertaining to firearm ownership. There has been an ongoing push-pull issue when it comes to those laws over the decades, and it's the vigilant owners who can be credited for preventing even MORE ridiculous restrictions being enacted.

Besides, "grandfathering" has routinely been a feature when the laws change. I'd rather be on the "grandfathered" side of the law, than being unable to acquire a particular class of firearms.
 
Innavedaw said:
The whole process is designed to dissuade you. Ignore it...do it anyway. You won't be disappointed and the more people that jump through the hoops, the better off we'll all be...and maybe somewhere down the road, their won't be so many hoops. Also, write your MP...
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^^^^^^^^ Precisely!!
 
the province does not make much difference other than maybe the initial wait time, you need to join a club and apply for LTATT no matter what province your in

its worth it if you want to shoot restricted.

it is a pain compared to NR, you have to maintain a club membership yearly, which in some cases might be a bit of a hassle, phone tag, emails etc to get ahold of someone to renew your membership, this would be less of am issue at a bigger more organized club but then there's crazy fees

you have to re apply for your long term ATT every time it expires which means no shooting until it comes in again.

and there's the obvious fact that you have to go to the range, not a big deal for city folk but for those that live in the middle of nowhere where the closest approved range is a 2 hour drive or more away it would suck.

again totally worth it if you want to shoot! I have been focusing on other hobbies lately and im just finding that keep the ability to shoot my restricteds if I wanted too is a multiple process per year ordeal, not the same "get PAL, take NR to gravel pit, shoot!, clean, put away" routine.
 
Not really. It's just the initial stages of getting the RPAL status that is tedious. Paperwork, basically. Once you get it though, the rest is easy. Obviously transporting is a bit different but once you get to the range it's the same.

Just means you will have less money in the bank, that's all ;)
 
well I can tell you for me it was to much .to much money tied up in handguns that I can only shoot paper with ,I had a dealer lic and a carry for dispatch licc on my trapline and gave it all up ,if I can not hunt with in I do not deed it ,rather spend the money on guns that I can do what I want with .I had to go do the wilderness course every so many years to keep the carry lic up and I found it was just a pain to carry the handgun around here for trapping .got to have in unloaded every time you come to a road locked box in the truck ,so every time you stop to check traps you had to unlock the box take the trigger lock off load it after you got off the road .then do the same when you got back to the truck .most cops have no clue about the carry laws so you spend hours answering stupid questions on the side of the road every time so passer by seen you and called it in .I had three real nice ruger single six 22 and several others and sold them all .until I can legally hunt deer with them I will not get another one .Dutch
 
wow what a reply.... from the sounds of it the majority seem to think it is a PITA but worth it. hmmm ...
good to know.

whats the out door cost of owning a 'R'??
not including club membership.
 
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