Do you need a PAL to handle firearms in a gun store?

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Skeet Mcgee

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I went to a gun store/range the other day and my friend was told he could not handle the firearms on display unless he had a PAL. This seems weird, since he was just shooting rifles and pistols on a supervised range as an unlicensed shooter.
 
My friend has his PAL application in the process and wanted to check out the action on some rifles for comparison sake for when he gets his PAL. Fair deal though, I guess any store can have any policy../
 
When i was at Cablela's Calgary they did not ask me for PAL when wanting to handle rifles, But asked for RPAL when i wanted to look at a pistol.
 
hemmonsm said:
This is true. Why would they let you handle them when you cannot buy them??
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Future sales, would be one good reason.

Before my daughter was licensed, she asked to hold a gun at one of our LGS's. The answer was a very superior "No."
Can you guess how many firearms she's purchased there since she got her PAL/RPAL??
 
some of it has 2 do with whether you're known to the staff or not- I never get asked at the locals for my pal- they all know by first name-
 
Makes sense, can't touch what you cannot buy and also for insurance reasons no reason to hand a deadly firearm to someone who does not possess a license to own them.... I don't blame retailers for being careful in there policies in this area.
 
Take a trip to a NYS gun store to look an actually handle their definition of a restricted an unless you possess a NYS pistol permit the gun will remain behind the glass counter.Now where it changes is for eg: Buffalo Gun Store. For they possess a .gov ( import/ export permit) which they can an do sell to Canadians an you can actually handle a firearm provided you can show proof you're a Canadian.
 
no different than going to the local ford/dodge/gmc dealership and wanting to take a test drive went you don't have a DL. i worked in a local gun store and we preferred to not hand firearms over the counter to non licenced peoples. unless accompanied by a purchasing customer. if you can't buy then you don't really to be handling. its also a safe guard.
 
We let pretty much anyone handle them - don't require a PAL, don't ask for one, don't even ask if they have one.

Exactly for the reason cited here by a few. We are looking for a future customer. Maybe they have applied for their PAL or are waiting to do a course or are just considering getting things rolling.

There is no law that says they can't hold one - they are unloaded - there is a PAL holder standing right there with them to answer their questions and demonstrate how the thing works etc.

So no harm...
 
philhut said:
Makes sense, can't touch what you cannot buy and also for insurance reasons no reason to hand a deadly firearm to someone who does not possess a license to own them.... I don't blame retailers for being careful in there policies in this area.
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Forgive my nit picking, but conditioning is a b*tch.

A firearm is not deadly, it's inanimate, a block of steel and or plastic.
A person, on the other hand...

Carry on :)
 
To the letter of the law, you are not. You are allowed to shoot at a range under direct supervision of either a person with a PAL or with a safety officer for the range. Plus depends on the policy of the range. If in a store, why do you want to handle a firearm if you are not properly licensed? You can't buy one so why hold one. Get your PAL
 
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