Indoor private handgun shooting range?

[Paul_1982]

Is it legal in Canada to build your own personal private handgun shooting space say in your basement of your home or underground if it was built properly, sound-proofed, ventilated, etc?

Yes, providing you get it approved by the CFO.

Here is from BC:

Permits for indoor shooting ranges
2 (1) Despite
(a) a regulation made under section 108 (2) or (o) of the Wildlife Act, or
(b) a bylaw under section 8 (5) [fundamental powers — firearms] of the Community Charter,
the chief provincial firearms officer may issue a permit authorizing a person to establish and maintain an indoor shooting range and to discharge a firearm in the indoor shooting range.
(2) If a permit is issued under subsection (1), the chief provincial firearms officer may do one or more of the following:
(a) attach conditions;
(b) restrict the kinds of firearms that may be discharged;
(c) restrict the kinds of projectiles that may be discharged;
(d) restrict the operation of the permit to a use ancillary to the trade or calling of the permit holder;
(e) restrict the application of the permit to premises owned or occupied by the permit holder;
(f) extend the application of the permit to other persons when they are on the premises specified in the permit with the consent of the permit holder.

Other provinces have similar legislation.

From FA:

Shooting clubs and shooting ranges

29. (1) No person shall operate a shooting club or shooting range except under an approval of the provincial minister for the province in which the premises of the shooting club or shooting range are located.
Marginal note:Approval

(2) A provincial minister may approve a shooting club or shooting range for the purposes of this Act if
(a) the shooting club or shooting range complies with the regulations made under paragraph 117(e); and
(b) the premises of the shooting club or shooting range are located in that province.

 

[Pure Energy]

Ugh, I can't help but come back here. Paul, you are so far out in the field that you are not even coming close to making sense now. You have gone completely AWOL now that you are referring to ranges. Do you not see that?

 

[Paul_1982]

Wow man did you even read what I quoted? I went back to post 1 to answer the OP question. He asked if he could manufacture a shooting range in his basement.

Do I really need to define shooting range for you that should not be an issue, even the NFA agrees with this:

“shooting range”
“shooting range” means a place that is designed or intended for the safe discharge, on a regular and structured basis, of firearms for the purpose of target practice or target shooting competitions

If you make a range in your basement complete even with ventilation it fits the definition of a shooting range in the Firesrms Act and needs to be approved by the CFO.

From NFA

Shooting Range Approval
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2005
NFA BRIEFING DOCUMENT 3 VERSION 2

UNDER THE OLD ACT, PRE-DEC O1 1998:

Shooting ranges required approval by a provincial minister if and only if "restricted weapons" were used on that range [old CC s. 110(2)(c)].

UNDER THE POST-DEC 01 1998 FIREARMS ACT:

All shooting ranges (including even trap and skeet ranges) require the approval of a provincial/territorial minister (or the federal Minister of Justice if the province/territory has opted out of the administration of the C-68 firearms control system), or they cannot be operated [FA s. 29(1)]. {mosbookmarks:bm=1431;box=2}

 

[shawn]

Go ahead. I must have forgotten it.

Your position is that the only permitted use are the things stipulated in section 28 correct?

Shawn

 

[tiriaq]

This has gone on long enough.