Make sure you have trigger locks -story time

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well probably the last time i will ever post on here again. i am no longer going to be involved with shooting in any way shape or form. not because i dont want to be, but more less, because of the chaos nightmare that my ex girlfriend caused.

this is a story for everyone , but especially newbies. keep your trigger locks on at all times.

i will keep it quick

last November after i went hunting i decided to make a tutorial video on an sks take down and clean. there was part 1, part 2 , and i was making part 3, which was re assembly .

i posted the videos on facebook but did not know that satan herself was planning some evil skeem against me. about 3 days after i uploaded the video, my sks was still in pieces on my work bench, in my basement. my other rifles were all in the gun safe, locked and stored.

police knocked on my door and immediately started searching my house. i was confused as to what was going on, they had a warrant. i asked what it was about , they asked where my firearms were stored . also the sks that was in pieces and had the trigger assembly REMOVED. the gun was unfireable . but apparently the fact that the trigger assembly was not secured with a trigger lock on it. or locked up itself, was enough to seize all my firearms. even all the ones with locks in the gun safe.

i argued that it wasnt stored that way and that i was currently working on it. they didnt care, since i have a teenager at home. this was enough for them to take everything.

they charged me with unsafe storage because of this.

over a year and a half went by , waiting for this court date. that kept getting put off because of covid, i went into court ready to argue and defend my rights. i thought due to the simple circumstance that i would be in and out with my property in no time.

it was nothing like what i thought it was going to be. i was in and out in about 15 minutes. ordered a 200 dollar fine. and the forfeiture of all my firearms so they could be destroyed.

i found out that my evil ex called the police on me AGAIN and told them that i was dangerous, i haven't seen this woman in years.

so anyways. just thought i would share this story with you all. if you have a toxic ex girlfriend. it might be wise to have trigger locks on your trigger locks, and your gun safe inside a bigger gun safe.

i never knew that a disassembled firearm needed a trigger lock. when you were currently working on it.
 
Sounds like a lawyer was needed. not sure how you could get from point A to B in this story without a number of details being explained.
 
well probably the last time i will ever post on here again. i am no longer going to be involved with shooting in any way shape or form. not because i dont want to be, but more less, because of the chaos nightmare that my ex girlfriend caused.

this is a story for everyone , but especially newbies. keep your trigger locks on at all times.

i will keep it quick

last November after i went hunting i decided to make a tutorial video on an sks take down and clean. there was part 1, part 2 , and i was making part 3, which was re assembly .

i posted the videos on facebook but did not know that satan herself was planning some evil skeem against me. about 3 days after i uploaded the video, my sks was still in pieces on my work bench, in my basement. my other rifles were all in the gun safe, locked and stored.

police knocked on my door and immediately started searching my house. i was confused as to what was going on, they had a warrant. i asked what it was about , they asked where my firearms were stored . also the sks that was in pieces and had the trigger assembly REMOVED. the gun was unfireable . but apparently the fact that the trigger assembly was not secured with a trigger lock on it. or locked up itself, was enough to seize all my firearms. even all the ones with locks in the gun safe.

i argued that it wasnt stored that way and that i was currently working on it. they didnt care, since i have a teenager at home. this was enough for them to take everything.

they charged me with unsafe storage because of this.

over a year and a half went by , waiting for this court date. that kept getting put off because of covid, i went into court ready to argue and defend my rights. i thought due to the simple circumstance that i would be in and out with my property in no time.

it was nothing like what i thought it was going to be. i was in and out in about 15 minutes. ordered a 200 dollar fine. and the forfeiture of all my firearms so they could be destroyed.

i found out that my evil ex called the police on me AGAIN and told them that i was dangerous, i haven't seen this woman in years.

so anyways. just thought i would share this story with you all. if you have a toxic ex girlfriend. it might be wise to have trigger locks on your trigger locks, and your gun safe inside a bigger gun safe.

i never knew that a disassembled firearm needed a trigger lock. when you were currently working on it.

That sucks but I’m willing to bet that even trigger locked and in your safe , if she called the cops and said u were dangerous you were likely gonna lose them anyways
 
Something doesn’t add up here. Only in court 15 minutes. Sounds like a guilty plea plea to me.

Or he had no clue what to say.

He did store it unsafely. Leaving it on the bench for three days is not currently working on it, it's storing it. He probably said more than enough to the cops at the time to sink himself.
 
Yep. You posted on Facebook, and it cost you.

Ask around, borrow someone's five year old if you gotta to ask them, whether posting ANYTHING on Facebook is a good idea!

Second guy that nailed the rest of the story said, wisely, "STFU, say nothing until you talk to a Lawyer!"

A wiser man that me once stated that you cannot talk yourself out of trouble with a cop, only into deeper trouble. STFU, yes sir, no sir, here's my ID, sir, and "I'd like to speak with a lawyer sir!"

Did you have a Lawyer representing you in Court? If not, third strike!
 
The term "trigger lock" does not appear in the law or regulations.

Like as not, a Lawyer would have been on top of that.

If the OP wants to own guns again, and maybe, even, his own, I figure that the pounds of flesh that a Lawyer will cost, are the ones he should spend!

A talk with a competent Lawyer should pretty much sort out the prospects of an appeal.
 
I know a fellow who lost all his guns because his preteen kid threatened another kid in school. Police came in and took everything “out of caution”. He died of cancer before it fully played out but he was a couple years without his guns.

I have been slack in that past about trigger locks etc, but have heard enough stories like this lately and now I am anal about locks, and separation
 
Somehow, the OP believed that the lack of a triggergroup somehow absolved him of his legal obligations under the Regulations. People talk about triggerlocks and cablelocks, but the Firearms Act doesn't use those words at all. I would argue that it is this mistaken focus on words that don't exist in the Regulations which is the root of the problem that led to the OP getting jammed up.

secure locking device means a device

(a) that can only be opened or released by the use of an electronic, magnetic or mechanical key or by setting the device in accordance with an alphabetical or numerical combination; and

(b) that, when applied to a firearm, prevents the firearm from being discharged. (dispositif de verrouillage sécuritaire)


<https://www.laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-98-209/page-1.html#h-1019904>

Storage, Display, Transportation and Handling of Firearms by Individuals Regulations (SOR/98-209)

<https://www.laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/SOR-98-209.pdf>
 
I would argue "I posted this on facebook" is the root cause.

If the 8 million SKS take down videos on other platforms doesn't get you through and you turn to fb for help maybe the SKS is not for you.
 
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