Set The Record Straight with Transporting Ammo/Pistols Together

(i believe some provinces have their own rules though ie Ontario has a ammuntion act or some such and it may have it's own transport rules)
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That may be the case in QC since this is the info that was given to me by the owner of my shooting club
 
triplepete said:
Well I suppose my firearms instructor may have been wrong.
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Yup. And many others. It's pretty clear in the c.c. text I think.

It's one of the bigger urban legends of guns, and a pet peeve of mine.

It's beaten to death and many threads about it. Here's a particularly lengthy one if you care to read it. (also included a few police officers in the discussion). 122 posts.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=746391

Or perhaps you have the right to refuse so long as you are in compliance and have proper documents.
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Consider..... Yes officer I have firearms with me. No I will not show them to you. Who will win in the end?? (I'm not trying to sound like a smart-ass)

The cops would need justification to see your firearms during transport, no?
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Absolutely.... I think telling the officer you are transporting firearms would open it up to an "inspection" for compliance of transport regs.

The last part of the c.c. I quoted says this...

Compliance with requirements
(13) Nothing in this section relieves a public
officer of criminal liability for failing to comply
with any other requirements that govern the
collection of evidence

Just make sure you are somewhere between your home and your range when you get stopped eh?
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Definately. A prominent lawyer on this site says they are defending people charged with ATT violations fairly regularly for not being on a reasonably direct route.
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Sometimes we forget cops are just people and make mistakes of law too. Mistakes they can investigate themselves and cover up. Just behave and comply and you will make it home to pay your taxes.
 
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All this said and done, if I had a "do over button" I wouldn't have told him I had firearms or that I was going to a gun range. The problem with lying to cops is they can smell it a mile off..."Afternoon sir, the reason I pulled you over was... Where are you headed?" "Err, uh... a friends house, yea that's it! definitely a friends house!? "Friends house you say...where is this friend staying???"

We all know where that is going...and I had guns in the car= a very long and "f'd" up day IMHO.
 
questioned when pulled over.

plinker 777 said:
All this said and done, if I had a "do over button" I wouldn't have told him I had firearms or that I was going to a gun range. The problem with lying to cops is they can smell it a mile off..."Afternoon sir, the reason I pulled you over was... Where are you headed?" "Err, uh... a friends house, yea that's it! definitely a friends house!? "Friends house you say...where is this friend staying???"

We all know where that is going...and I had guns in the car= a very long and "f'd" up day IMHO.
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I'm a bit confused. I don't see a legal reason for the LEO to ask where you are going or any obligation for you to answer. Last time I was asked where I was going (I wasn't getting a ticket at the time) I said " Forward". When he rephrased the question I got irate and told him it was none of his business. Then he explained that proceding forward without detouring to an immediate alternate route would put me on a road likely blocked by a big rock concert.
 
Yea, guys I get it, but I wasn't doing anything wrong {aside from speeding :)}. I had paperwork, triggerlocks ect, ect..."I'm not saying" only invites suspicion from the cop which would equate to me getting the "f" around for hours and I had targets that were crying for holes.

As to trying to get on an officer's good side to avoid a ticket...you're sh1tting me right? I left my mini skirt and low cut at the house...picks up too much hot brass at the range??? The ticket was inevitable, I wasn't trying to talk my way out of anything{like some whinnie b1tch} Cop asked where I was going and I told him...Next time my reply will be "out for a drive".
 
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