Just Reminiscing- Remember when we could hunt with the AR ?

Great thread! - if I recall, there were no big crime issues at this time and really no rational reason whatsoever that the restrictions/prohibitions were put in place other than the gun control lobby's fanatical and hysterical desire and authortarian wish to control what decent, normal, responsible Canadians could do with their hobby time.
 
For the really old farts on here, is it true that they used to sell guns by the barrel at Army & Navy?
 
HPL said:
For the really old farts on here, is it true that they used to sell guns by the barrel at Army & Navy?
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Remember the Sears catalog with all the guns in it? Guns at all the department stores.

I guess there are some CTs out there that still sell guns.
 
I Rarely, RAREly Recall sotguns being sold at an old CT, but much too young could of been air rifles.

My dad has a Cooey Single shot .22 he bought mail order from sears for $80 back in the 70's
 
The Good 'Ol Days eh?
I guess i'll trot out this old pic again.
$400. brand new at Lever's...no pin in the mag back then either!
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I used to go gopher hunting with my 8mm Bren.

I remember going to the range, and the pile of brass that would accumulate after running through 4 x 20 rds mags of 8mm.

I remember needing to use the spare barrel for my .303 Bren because the first one ate 4 or 5 30 rd mags in a couple of minutes.

Man, do I hate the federal government.
 
Leftent: Thanks for the wonderful walk down memory lane. Lever's back then was on ??? Howe St ? Certainly not Burrard St.

It was so much fun to find AR15 SP1's for $ 600, and all those HK91's and HK93's for under a thousand bones. yuk, yuk, yuk.

I even remember ordering 4 (yes, FOUR) Australian FN L1A1's from them for $ 1000. I sold the other 3 to EX- PPCLI fellas in Edmonton so that we could get the discount. They were not restricted, just had to show my FAC or merely give them my FAC number, since the FAC was merely a piece of flimsy paper. Then I went deer hunting with that L1A1 back in 1982 south of Leduc and Camrose. ha ha ha

Pinned magazines ? We don't need no stinkin' pinned magazines !!

Ah yes, the good old days.
 
OK, you guys ASKED for it... :p
I posted these on the board in other forums... so if you've already seen them, too bad! Look at 'em again! All these were papers I used to subscribe to...

This is from late 1992, Access to Firearms
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This is from the same issue...
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And now the biggy... but from a little bit longer ago, I think it was 1974... I was just a kid, couldn't buy any type of firearm... as I recall, this was the first Gunrunner paper I saw. This dealer was in Halifax, NS. And yes, all these guns were live. And of course up until 1978, "new" registrations of FA firearms were permitted... they were just restricted firearms, that's all.
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Ah memories....

I remember in 1988-89 travelling around in the woods for some shooting fun with a Colt Sp1 with a stack of 20 and 30 round magazines...

Then there was the time with the Poly-Tech Ak47 with side folder, chest rig full of... you guessed it 30 round magazines....

Those were the days..:rolleyes:

Thats one thing that needs to go along with the governement...mag capacity restrictions!
 
AR Fun

Sigger69:

Yeah, IIRC Lever's was just around the corner from Georgia and Granville. I used to take the 15 Cambie bus from my house in Oakridge (49th and Cambie) downtown to drool at the black unrestricted rifles at Lever's. I would get off in front of Hudson Bay at Georgia and Granville. Can't recall if it was Seymour or (okay, just downloaded Vancouver map from Mapquest) Howe, Hornby, certainly not Hamilton.

It would have been between Georgia St and Dunsmuir St. :D

Back then nobody stopped you from riding the buses with a cased AR15. :eek:

That's it ! I'm getting too old to remember !
 
An MG-42 for $350, and a Vickers for $600!

Thats it, no more dreaming, lets just buckle down and invent that time machine we so desparately need.
 
Lever used to have 2 sales a year. Part of Alan Lever's Toys For Men tradition. One in the summer & one after X'mas. 20% off their already low price stock guns (no GST too) & everything else in the store. I used to anxiously await those bargain days to arrive & went shopping like there was no tomorrow.

For the rest of the year, it was the monthly Gunrunners & local gun shows for more toys. Damn those good old days. No wonder I was always broke but happy.
 
Although I do not and have not owned any black rifles. I do have a memory of being a teenager and going into a hardware store in downtown Winnipeg near my parents work (RCMP, D Division) and fondling a Steyr AUG and a Walther PPK, ah the good old days.

I would love to have a Stery AUG today.
 
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