Kind of a grey area there mabey.
My understaning was your not suppose to discharge a restricted firearm outside a range.
I don't understand why you could discharge a rifle outside an approved range and not a handgun, I don't make the rules.
Mind you if the neighbours don't mind who is going to find out
We all wish we could do that but because guns are evil and handguns are SUPER evil we cannot sadly
it sucks all round, my youngest brother was shooting his 11mm mauser in the backyard of our farm one day, when an RCMP officer showed up because of a complaint from a neighbour a ways up the road (and on the other side) who shoots in his front yard desided he had the right too and my brother didnt, well the officer was confronted by my father who raised a fuss we had been shooting on our 100 acres with permission of the ajoining neighbours all farmers with 100rds of acres of land between us for years and they all did the same in thier back yards, well the officer started to kick up a fuss and got cut short when the old man asked him...see that garden over there? if there was a racoon digging that up right now and you owned it what would you do, the officer said he'd shoot it, and dad proceeded to ask him to leave lol the officer had nothing farther to say after that little slip up and droped the matter, I heard later that his CO ripped a strip off him for being so loose lipped.....long as the neighbours dont mind shootaway (a pistol though) im not sure what you can do with that our laws are a royle mess.
"...in the criminal code..." Isn't a CCofC thing. It's a FA thing. Your ATT likely has some wording like 'To an approved range only.' Your back yard, no matter how big it may be, isn't an approved range.
"...about 15 acres..." Isn't as big as it sounds.
"...municipalities have bylaws..." Discharge of firearms and sometimes the max calibre of a rifle only. Nothing about what firearm can be shot.