Is it worth it to buy a firearm in these times in Canada?
- Thread starter Seekingtruth1984
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Perhaps ammunition might be considered an investment. Haven't seen prices going down.
Your better of joining the liberal party if you do not want to play.
But, if your worried about being known to the police...
The choice is all yours.
Rob
If you end up buying, try to support a smaller store or site sponsor. Times are tough for everyone these days and with the prohibitions I’m sure there’s some lost money with the inability to sell recently prohibited firearms. Local gun stores and sponsoring businesses that are contributing the the fight could the support and business.
If you decide not to for fear of it becoming prohibited in future, perhaps a small (less than the cost of the gun) donation to one of the legal cost fundraising efforts supporting those fighting the OIC in court?
If you decide not to for fear of it becoming prohibited in future, perhaps a small (less than the cost of the gun) donation to one of the legal cost fundraising efforts supporting those fighting the OIC in court?
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I would rather travel to 1980 and load up on certain fruit company ))
This is the only bit of information in this thread with which I have a minor quibble - sadly, the bit about how it's no different right now than six months ago isn't quite right. The OiC initially banned sales of a bit more than 1,500 models, then later quietly expanded this to more than 9,700 named models of rifle and shotgun. The idiots have taken things like the Beretta CX-4 Storm off the market, and the STAG-10. Utterly bewildering, no logic to what was banned and what is left available, which seems to indicate that a further sweeping ban will soon be on the table... if the Liberals are truly interested in banning the actual features/capabilities of firearms which are available to license holders. So selection at gun stores is much more limited, though for the moment there are still many fun firearms still available.
As for me - I'd not been thinking of owning a shotgun before the OiC came into effect. They basically changed my mind and now I have 2. If the government is going to start telling me what sporting goods I'm not supposed to have, somehow this triggers an irrational rebellion in me and I want to have all of them. If they banned basketball tomorrow I might just have to buy myself a ball and some Air Jordans.
Some may feel (and some indeed do, from evidence I see in discussion forums here and in the USA) that the same reaction applies when it comes to putting on a mask when in public, in close proximity to others. I don't see the two as at all parallel. I've doubled my gun collection and increased my ammo store 5-fold this year primarily owing to an irrational edict from our government, which probably goes beyond irrational and into illegal territory, though I am not a lawyer. But masks actually make sense. Look at the 7 deaths so far in Taiwan, and not a single death there since May. Taiwan's government took action as soon as a team of doctors went to Wuhan and saw the effects of this new coronavirus on patients and the efforts of the Chinese government to conceal information. Citizens in Taiwan trust their government and cooperated. Factories were converted to manufacturing masks, protocols for crowd activity were outlined, a tracking app mandated, and the result has been spectacular success. Similarly brilliant results, arrived at a bit differently, but still just 22 deaths and not a new death since May. Very different thing. The danger is real, however invisible the enemy. With firearms purchasing the danger is real also, but the enemy is very visible and we know what it looks like: Justin Trudeau, Bill Blair, and all their crew of merry bandits who want all the sneaky bribes and back door cash for themselves while taking away Canadian's legitimately purchased firearms. If left to continue with their plan I have little doubt a massive ammunition ban will be on the agenda within a year, along with thousands more models of firearms, followed by door-to-door inspections if they're allowed to keep this up.
Various sayings have surfaced which apply... 'When it looks like it's time to bury your guns, it's time to dig up your guns' and 'When a government wants to take your guns it's because they're planning something then know you will not like beyond that.' Along those lines anyway. So by all means, stay within your financial limits as you don't want to go hungry over firearms, but buy what you can while you can, before they close the barn door.
