CGN General Rules and Guidelines

The "Beaver" Canadiangunnutz logo is copyrighted. Use of the logo is restricted to those who have received the explicit permission of the site owner and creator of www.canadiangunnutz.com. The site owner possesses the right to the name "Canadiangunnutz". Use without permission is strictly prohibited.

The following rules will be strictly enforced. Violation may lead to temporary or permanent suspension from the site.

1. Any discussion and/or promotion of illegal activities. Moderators and site admin will use their best judgement in situations of legal ambiguity, or situations that may lead to legal risk exposure for www.canadiangunnutz.com. If you have any doubt, please use the "Legalese" forum. All decisions are final and must be complied with.


2. Using anonymizer proxy to access CGN is not allowed. Account could be suspended immediately if the user uses anonymizer proxy to access CGN.


3. Incitement of violence against the legal government of Canada, its employees and representatives.


4. Soliciting and collecting information for news outlet, including but not limited to solicitation made by journalists, without explicit approval from the administrator of the forums.


5. Personal insults are not permitted.


6. General insulting remarks are not permitted. These include, but not limited to, remarks against named public figures and general groups of people using words such as "nazi", "facist" and "brownshirts". Images that are graphically insulting are considered general insulting remarks.


7. Any physical threats, whether the threat is targeted at a particular person or general in nature.


8. Racist remarks and symbols/pictograms that are commonly accepted as related to racist groups, Nazism, or outlawed organizations are not permitted. Nazi symbols are only exempted where they are displayed and discussed in historical context.


9. Derogatory, negative stereotyping and sweeping generalization, based on profession(such as Law Enforcement), religion, race, sex, etc, are not allowed.


10. Respect members from different provinces. Do not insult members from other provinces as a group.


11. Disrupting behaviours which are detrimental to discussions in the forum and the general reputation of www.canadiangunnutz.com are not allowed.


12. Members are not allowed to organize auction, draws/raffles or any gambling activities using CGN resources.


13. Promotion of members' own personal blogs, media channels and social media must be placed in the appropriate designated forum only. Members are not allowed to promote forums and commercial websites using CGN resources


14. Private messages should not be posted in the public forums, and copied to a 3rd party by any means, unless they are explicitly authorized by the orignators.


15. Making offer or solicitation to purchase/trade/buy in any forums other than the Equipment Exchange forums are not allowed. Business members are excluded where the exclusions are specified in the relevant terms of use applicable to the business members;


16. For profit and commercial activities fall under the "Policy for Business or Profit Seeking Activities at www.Canadiangunnutz.com" in the terms of use;


17. Trade related disputes originated from Equipment Exchange forums shall not be discussed in the forums. All disputes and feedbacks should be confined to trader rating feedback system and private messaging.


18. Group buys must receive prior approval from CGN admin. Any solicitations made by members in the forum are not the responsibilities of the CGN forum. Members are fully responsible of their actions concerning any solicitations and offers made in the CGN forum.


19. No one shall disclose any personal information of any members without formal written consent of the member in question, unless the information is officially published in the public domain already with the consent of the member. Personal information include but not limited to first name, last name, place of employment and family information, or any information that may lead to the these information.


20. Absolutely no nudity or pornographic materials, or links to same, are permitted.


21. Multiple accounts or identities are not allowed. Suspected violations could result in supension of access.


22. Account Name Change: we no longer perform account name change. If user would like to perform a name change, please private message "CGN Admin" to request an account deactivation. After acknowledgement by "CGN admin", you may open a new account.


23. No "hotlinking" email/website info or posting of phone numbers and/or contact information for businesses who do not support the operation of CGN.


24. Only one sigline picture is allowed, and the height of the picture must be no more than 100 pixels. One member may not quote another member in their respective sigline without the permission of the other member. Any sigline images or text deemed to be inappropriate, including but not limited to, images of women in suggesting positon, may be removed without warning and infraction points could possibly be issued.


25. Advertising of and/or hotlinking to internet blogs, forums, media channels, auctions or any other publications is not allowed in the sigline or anywhere else in the profile. Advertising of and/or hotlinking to sale, offer to buy or any kind of solicitation is not allowed in the sigline or anywhere else in the profile.


26. Interrupting a business member's selling or marketing thread with business or non-business solicitations


27. Members are not allowed to send unsolicited messages to other members using CGN resources, including but not limited to using CGN private messaging;


28. Making reference to, such as by listing the URL, of a solicitation that is located outside of the www.canadiangunnutz.com forums is disallowed. For example, linking or posting the URL of an advertisement in Ebay or Kijiji;


29. General disrupting activities, including “trolling” and any activities that dilute the content quality of CGN will not be tolerated


30. The followings are not permitted: any general Insults against the general members of CGN; Any insults or abuse languages against the moderators and administrator of CGN in public or private; Any statements with the intention to create harm/damages/negative goodwill to CGN .

The following topics will not be tolerated. Violation will result in immediate and permanent suspension. Some quasi legal/ grey/downright illegal examples that are specifically not tolerated are:

1. Shipping and driving items to Canada from the US that require US export permit.


2. Discharging firearms in places where firearms are not allowed to be discharged.


3. Manufacture or use of flammable and explosive substances or “tracer” projectiles.


4. Unblocking 5 rd magazines to regular capacity.


5. Swapping non-restricted barrel for restricted barrel at gun range.


6. Home made firearms with illegal or misleading markings. For example, marking a chunk of metal with "Valmet 78".


7. Solicitation of unregistered firearms or magazine kits.


8. No postings of any materials that could be likely considered as investment advices. Investments include financial instruements, real estates and anything deemed to be reasonable by the operator of CGN.