Back in Canada

[NRA4Life]

I'm back in Canada, and relatively out-of-the-loop; but, racing up the learning-curve. I've just gotten fully in compliance with the new Firearms Act---having been screwed while I was away: I had to sell all the 'newly' prohibited specimens from my personal collection and several heirlooms. I've been relegated to a standard PAL with a few 12(7) provisions.

I'm interested in IPSC, learning to hand-load, and becoming politically active, a Range Officer at my local club, a Canadian Firearms Safety Instructor, and possibly even a Verifier.

I have some pieces from my family collection I'd be willing to part with in order to finance new acquisitions.

I really am a National Rifle Association Life Member. I've taken honest professional defensive shooting courses in the USA, but I don't have a "Black Badge" (although I understand I'll need one around here), and I've never competed in a tournament.

 

[MTF]

Hello and welcome. Must be something of a shock. Although born in Canada, I grew up and lived my life in the US. I "returned" to Canada about three-and-a-half years ago. I've been involved with guns for over fifty years (C&R license). I, too, had to give up quite a few pieces when I moved. Quite a difference here. Enjoy the site. By the by, if you've got a .380 Savage in your trove with a "restricted" length barrel, I'd like to buy it.

 

[NRA4Life]

Hello and welcome. Must be something of a shock. Although born in Canada, I grew up and lived my life in the US. I "returned" to Canada about three-and-a-half years ago. I've been involved with guns for over fifty years (C&R license). I, too, had to give up quite a few pieces when I moved. Quite a difference here. Enjoy the site. By the by, if you've got a .380 Savage in your trove with a "restricted" length barrel, I'd like to buy it.

I was born and raised here and went away for a few years, beginning in 1990, and when I got back I was oblivious, and then when my Dad wanted to give me his collection, I went to apply for a new 'FAC' and found that I was virtually on a different planet: "You MANIACS! You blew it up..." Needless to say, I was floored, in addition to being colossally unimpressed (to put it mildly) since neither my father or I were notified by the government that we needed to RE-register everything, and neither of us were involved in the shooting community at that time (principally because there wasn't one where we lived)! If the politicos (Alan Rock in particular) hadn't been so underhanded, I would be a 12(6) authorized owner, now; but, you all know that, and I can stop whining about it.

I don't have a .380 Savage; but, I do have a .250 Savage... not sure I'd want to sell it though, as it was my grand-dad's favourite deer rifle... I'd like to take up HUNTING because my wife's allergies are getting so bad that store-bought meat is starting to give her serious health issues.

 

[jetrefueller]

Hi NRA4LIFE welcome back to Canukstan. I understand how you feel having just got back into the firearms field myself a few years ago. I couldn't believe the changes the Gestapo had made since the seventies when I had several guns that are now 12-6 which I cant have anymore. Thses government clowns really suck, what difference a quarter inch makes in a gun barrel to make it prohib doesnt make sense to me but I guess they have to start somewhere to eventually take away all our guns, if we let them. Anyway enough ranting.

 

[tiina]

Welcome aboard.

 

[NRA4Life]

Thanks!

Welcome aboard.

That's a nice family you've got there... I had to smile at the origin story of Mao-Tse-Tung ;-) I'm sure your husband was just doing his part to rescue a young maiden in distress.

I've never really been part of the shooting community before, even though I joined the NRA as a Life-Member before I could drink in Colorado. I went to school there.

I believe that the problems in our society are the products of misinformation and reactionary hype. I think it is time that Canadians 'get-a-grip' and replace the Criminal Code with something that every citizen can read, understand, and live by, without resorting to Double-think.

I'm not constricting my views merely to the topic of firearms ownership; but, a ground-shift in policy that would produce a "Just Society".