Buying a Mexican Handgun.... The Saga of Wally and Calmex

Claven2 said:
great posts - so in Mexico can you just blaze away with your handgun on your property? (I hope yes).
Click to expand...

If nobody complains, you are cool. If they do complain but your property is sufficiently large, you'll probably be told to "keep it down", which doesn't mean stop shooting but might imply you should build some berms and maybe a "shootin' shack" to at least help contain some of the sound. Obviously, if you're buzzing rounds down on top of someone else's house, then you'll be stopped and told not to start up again.

But being armed while on your property is totally fine. It can be open, or it can be concealed. It's your property. You're not in Canada. And if you're shooting on your property and nobody is complaining, you're good too. The law permits it. Canada is extremely anal about this sort of thing, and it's because their agenda is total disarmament so they can't think clearly when it comes to firearms -- except to take them away from everyone.

I find it sickening, actually.
 
Last edited:
calmex said:
... being armed while on your property is totally fine. It can be open, or it can be concealed. It's your property. You're not in Canada. And if you're shooting on your property and nobody is complaining, you're good too. The law permits it. Canada is extremely anal about this sort of thing, and it's because their agenda is total disarmament so they can't think clearly when it comes to firearms -- except to take them away from everyone.
Click to expand...

Total disarmement ? Yes, for ordinary "civilians".

Taking away firearms - all firearms - from everyone ? No. Some gubmint people, being more equal than ordinary "civilian" people, will always have access to gubmint firearms to defend themselves against the very same so called ordinary "civilians". And those more-equal-gubmint-people will always be able to requisition (read steal) and keep for themselves the very best firearms of the ordinary "civilians". Those more-equal-gubmint-people are minions of the Law in Canada.

Obviously and naturally, the very best firearms formely owned by ordinary "civilians" will never be destroyed - after requisition. Obviously.
 
Last edited:
SIG FAN said:
Loved the story! Sure put's my life into perspective, and makes me feel like a boring choir boy.

Thanks for sharing!
Click to expand...

Any and all of the time I have to still spend here in Canada makes me feel the same way. I know what's happening in Mexico and it drives me crazy to be here in this back-water country cooling my heels and working just to get by while all the action a person would ever want or could ever handle is just a 5-hour AeroMexico flight away. But it is what it is, I have to stay focused here and stick to the damned plan so I can go back in a bit of style. Still, it's frustrating because, yes, Canada has become a back-water country. Maybe if Pierre can get in, this can be fixed, but the people that put Trudeau and the Liberals in power as well as the Max fans are still out there and there is no indications they've grown a collective brain so the odds of things just continuing to sewer are pretty high. Let's hope that's not the case.

This weekend some friends had a practice match on a "Ranch Range" sort of like Wally and I are discussing. It's on a ranch (a big one) and they just shoot into a hillside. They've got a set of plates and a mover and some barricades. All anyone could ask for on a Mexican Ranch Range. (Lots of Canadian Gun Club ranges don't have this stuff.) And of course, they've got a BBQ pit. Man, it just looks like so much fun...and of course, I'm stuck here.

Anyway, this is what a ranch range can aspire to. Here, a friend's wife with no equipment trys a run-through before they got started using a Model 27 with an 8 3/8-inch barrel. In heels. I post this more to show off the range structures and toys than any actual impressive shooting skill -- although she's probably better than a lot on here.


Of course, they can't take a proper video. So it's cut into two parts. Oh, look, they've got an Action Target Mover. Damn, those are so much fun to play with. They are playing with these things on Ranch Ranges, and then there's some of the Clubs up here still arguing about whether steel should be shot or not. Okay, maybe I'm just being too critical. A problem I sometimes have.


And of course, just to really piss me off, they sent a photo of the BBQ. So I post it here so everyone can see what we're missing up here in Canada. Or as Wally calls it: Kanaduh.

jR3sCXP.jpg
 
Snowy Owl said:
Learning a second or third or whatever number language WELL is never easy. The easier way for 998/1000 of people is simply not to learn it. And after not learning it, telling loudly that the language to be learned is not really needed. Nah ... not needed. Generally, English speaking people do not learn any other language. You see, they don't have to because they don't need to.

....
Click to expand...

I was on a course recently and although there were several Quebec francos whose English was very good, there was a recent arrival from France whose English was zero. I found myself stepping up to be his simultaneous translator. It helped me remember the right way of saying things in Canada's other official language, and he was able to contribute to the course easily - and he made good jokes with the pretty young woman attending.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom