Locking up air guns question

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Do air handguns and rifles need to be trigger locked and in a gun safe by law when a PAL wasn't required to purchase them. I'm thinking it's only a personal safety issue with children around and some anti calling the cops if they see something that resembles a firearm. It's getting so I feel uncomfortable just loading a rifle into my truck for a shoot at the local range or hunting trip.
Years ago I used to carry my Dad's single shot .22 to the local gopher pasture down the street of our village after school. That was before the Liberals re-programed the public!
 
No they don't have to be locked up, there is no laws against kids shooting. My kid is 4 and has her own red ryder. Kids for 100 years have been using air guns what is your beef with them having access?

Let the anti's call and make a report. If we keep hiding ourselves from the public eye when will we ever gain the respect we deserve!

Carry your long guns uncased, no trigger locks, and unloaded to your car. Make a statement.

PS this belongs in the general firearms section, not NEWS!
 
There is a regulation related to whether the airgun is a firearm or not. It has to do with muzzle velocities over (considered a firearm) or under 500 fps. Obviously, if the airgun is classed as a firearm, then all rules apply.
 
Criminal Code definition of a firearm, are deemed not to be firearms for certain purposes of the Firearms Act and Criminal Code.
These are air guns with a maximum muzzle velocity of 152.4 meters or 500 feet per second and/or a maximum muzzle energy of 5.7 joules or 4.2 foot pounds.

Such air guns are exempt from licensing, registration, and other requirements under the Firearms Act, and from penalties set out in the Criminal Code for possessing a firearm without a valid licence or registration certificate. However, they are considered to be firearms under the Criminal Code if they are used to commit a crime. Anyone who uses such an air gun to commit a crime faces the same penalties as someone who uses a regular firearm.

The simple possession, acquisition and use of these air guns for lawful purposes is regulated more by provincial and municipal laws and by-laws than by federal law. For example, some provinces may have set a minimum age for acquiring such an air gun. For more information, please contact your local or provincial authorities.

These air guns are exempt from the specific safe storage, transportation and handling requirements set out in the regulations supporting the Firearms Act. However, the Criminal Code requires that reasonable precautions be taken to use, carry, handle, store, transport, and shipped them in a safe and secure manner.
 
Keebler750 said:
Well....he wasn't asking if he should hold up a bank with one... :p
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... Look at it this way.. If you had a 400 fps air rifle, and lets say somebody in your dwelling was plinking cans, and someone happend to miss or mishandle the air rifle and someone was hit... Well guesss what? That's now assault and guess what else? Now it's a FIREARM under the CCC, and now safe storeage and so on comes into play... Just playing the devils advocate here... If you read what i put up, you'd soon realize that everything is kosher, till it's not kosher.... Sort of a grey area of canadian law when we talk of air guns... I'm not saying I agree with this foolishness, I'm just saying that it's dangerous to give someone advice about air guns without giving them the proper information.
 
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