Powder registers- a city in alberta

[mrspeel]

If the NRCAN regs requires that vendors are supposed to record and hold the personal address details of people buying powder and primers for two years why do the two major sporting goods chains in the city have different polices? One collects the information and one does not. It creates confusion for the public on the rules and regulations and it creates unnecessary debates at the cash register when the information is requested. It's even more confusing when the one that requests it will still sell the Item if you refuse to write out the personal information which was a test to gauge whether it is really a manditory government requirement or a store policy.

I only hope that when that information is collected it is properly managed and stored and that there is consistent application of the regs across all the vendors

 

[LUTNIT]

When a law is not enforced, different people (or businesses) choose to do different things. Some will follow an unenforced law, others will not until forced to do so.

The police not even being aware of firearms laws in many cases just makes the problem even worse. I suppose it could be a good thing that the police have so few encounters with legal gun owners that they don't see a need to learn the firearms laws. I've had local Ottawa police completely unaware that the LGR was shut down 3 years ago and seemed confused when I said my rifles and shotguns were all unregistered. I have friends who have been pulled over, police saw ammo on the back seat, asked to inspect the firearms, and when offered the ATT's to prove they have them the police had no idea what an ATT was or that it was required to transport restricted firearms.

It is confusing, but that's how it is. The law is generally unenforced so there is zero application of the regs across all vendors. Vendors that choose to follow the regs do, those who don't, don't, and there doesn't seem to be any consequences.

As for properly managed and stored data, many places just keep it in a drawer at the cash. There were several internet stories about people stealing the ammo sales books from Canadian Tire's and Walmart's so they knew which houses to break into to steal guns.