Single pistol safe legal in Canada?

[gdawg]

the point he is making is that there is no safe standard

No you didn't,

You implied that some how this being small and only weighing 3.7kg might some how make this not meet the mythical "safe standard" the you claim exists. And then in a later post you post the ruling of a single case in Ont provincial court which holds no weight any where but there, in reference to advertising.

So go head post it up

Shawn

 

[josquin]

Personally, I wouldn't be happy with any storage that isn't solid steel and bolted down (and preferably hidden, as long as I could access it.) The reason isn't just because the Firearms Act doesn't specify the "nuts and bolts" of storage- which, as noted, means you're at the mercy of a judge's interpretation - on principle I'd also want to ensure it's as difficult to steal as possible, and to protect my investment.

I had been thinking at one point of a Fort Knox pistol safe (about 22 lbs. of cold-rolled steel & a Simplex lock, as I recall) but with the Cdn. dollar having tanked it would be even more expensive than it already is (and I even have an alternate US address to ship to.) If I were to get serious about this now I'd probably get a metal shop to cut me up some 3/16" steel plate, buy a Simplex mechanism, and weld one up myself, and bolt it into both a stud and the floor if possible.

YMMV, of course, but I'd want to leave little chance of being accused of "unsafe storage." Plus, I like over-building things

 

[capp325]

the point he is making is that there is no safe standard

Exactly. Because "safe" is not defined in the Firearms Act, judges have to rely on dictionaries, expert's testimony, etc. I can easily see some judge, somewhere deciding that a box small and light enough to be carried in a briefcase is not a safe. I can also see the cops and the Crown being more than happy to have you as a test case. Even if you win, it's not necessarily a fight that you want to have.

 

[shawn]

the point he is making is that there is no safe standard

And my point is, that is not what he said. If that is what he meant fine, what he said was something else.

Shawn