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You suck.
Sold all restricteds and I am out of the game.
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Sc**w Them
I wouldn't get rid of all my restricted, or prohibs because of the pressure of owning them.
I have owned just about everything on the prohib list and I would buy or trade more just to P*ss the Liberals off.
I have an FN FAL in Ottawa for the past 14 months but I am not going to roll over and get Sc**wed by the system.
You may have sold all your restricted guns but you have long guns, and you have a PAL the system has you in their sights.
If you want to keep restricted guns but not shoot them become a collector don't have to pay range fees.
It only becomes complicated if you let it, but if you can't afford the cost of range memberships, don't use complicated as an excuse.
I wouldn't get rid of all my restricted, or prohibs because of the pressure of owning them.
I have owned just about everything on the prohib list and I would buy or trade more just to P*ss the Liberals off.
I have an FN FAL in Ottawa for the past 14 months but I am not going to roll over and get Sc**wed by the system.
You may have sold all your restricted guns but you have long guns, and you have a PAL the system has you in their sights.
If you want to keep restricted guns but not shoot them become a collector don't have to pay range fees.
It only becomes complicated if you let it, but if you can't afford the cost of range memberships, don't use complicated as an excuse.
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I considered the same , why? simple reason the shooting community doesn't seem to want more people or too eager to get people evolved
The OP did not post this to cause a sheet storm. It is everyone else who posts that creates a sheet storm. He made a decision to step away from restricted and decided to share just like everyone else who shares about there NEW build.
It is unfortunate but it is reality. What good are the restricted's in Canada. Only one place to shoot them legally.
I will never get rid of mine but wonder why I have money tied up in them. We choose to make choices and he did. Not everyone is a fighter of the Government.
It is unfortunate but it is reality. What good are the restricted's in Canada. Only one place to shoot them legally.
I will never get rid of mine but wonder why I have money tied up in them. We choose to make choices and he did. Not everyone is a fighter of the Government.
I'm probably going to get an infringement for this post but....
Sorry, I'm going to disagree. The OP has been on here long enough to know that starting threads like this WILL ultimately lead to a sh!tfest. That's just as silly as folks who start a public thread asking "How do I delete my account?" or "That's it boys, I'm not longer going to be part of this forum" then they periodically sign in on the board days after they post that message. I see it nothing more than a scream for attention.
OP sold his restricteds 'cause he felt it was a burden and caused him mental anguish with all the red tape involved. Well, all the power to him. I got no issues with that and wish he'd reconsider but it is he free will to do as he pleases and I respect his decision. Personally I don't see what "weight" could be lifted off anyone's shoulders since he still owns firearms and an RPAL license holder. It's not like you have to go through a screening process once a year, have your home/guns inspected at random, go through a security checkpoint and show your papers or any other inconvenience other than join a club and only limited to using the restricted guns at the range.
I totally get selling them off if the OP doesn't want to join a club and they are just occupying space in the safe but don't say it's a relief not having them.
I just don't see the reason to start this thread unless he wants folks to pat him on the back and say "Well done son, it's okay to cry."
Sorry, I'm going to disagree. The OP has been on here long enough to know that starting threads like this WILL ultimately lead to a sh!tfest. That's just as silly as folks who start a public thread asking "How do I delete my account?" or "That's it boys, I'm not longer going to be part of this forum" then they periodically sign in on the board days after they post that message. I see it nothing more than a scream for attention.
OP sold his restricteds 'cause he felt it was a burden and caused him mental anguish with all the red tape involved. Well, all the power to him. I got no issues with that and wish he'd reconsider but it is he free will to do as he pleases and I respect his decision. Personally I don't see what "weight" could be lifted off anyone's shoulders since he still owns firearms and an RPAL license holder. It's not like you have to go through a screening process once a year, have your home/guns inspected at random, go through a security checkpoint and show your papers or any other inconvenience other than join a club and only limited to using the restricted guns at the range.
I totally get selling them off if the OP doesn't want to join a club and they are just occupying space in the safe but don't say it's a relief not having them.
I just don't see the reason to start this thread unless he wants folks to pat him on the back and say "Well done son, it's okay to cry."
I don't doubt that you are not a liberal, but in some ways you happen to think like one. If there is a shooting, liberals blame the object (the gun) and they focus on it rather than the individual or their mental health.
If you think that personal responsibility is more important than the object, then maybe you should examine why you experience covetousness and find strategies to better yourself in that sense, rather than getting rid of the *objects* of your covetousness as if they are somehow to blame?
(BTW I respect anyone's right to do as they please. But to post this thread also opens the door for honest comments.)
"Honest comments" - honesty - may let us see ourselves a little - like a reflection. I might be a communist - wait wait wait - ouch - let me explain. As babies, my children are perfectly provided for and protected - is this not socialism? My little children get everything that they need from me - the dictator in my family - not because they work hard, but because they are mine and I love them. As they grow, they gain freedoms - not to do wrong, but to mature and gain good judgement. This is freedom - not to be bad, but to be good - and to love others as they have been loved - to be employed with good intentions - not with greed for gain to fuel vices.
Of course this form of communism - love - cannot be legislated - as someone said about left wing politicians feeling a great debt to society and attempting to pay for it with others money - legislated "love" misses the point. Apparently Conservative folks are better volunteers - givers - than others.
Freedom is a state in which we can freely mature to be inclusive - communist? - and include others in our care-bubble - and I think that any attempt to legislate this as law, ends up corrupting and self-destroying. It could be argued that individual armament maintains that freedom so that a corrupted government cannot overwhelm the freedom of the people - and yet... there is a point where the two - love and *bang* conflict. Trusting our weapons to maintain peace in our house and heart - or country - misses the point and can be a big mistake - I think that such trust is quite misplaced - but legislating anything else opens the door to corruption.
It boils down to this - Freedom of Faith.
I try to keep a selection of handguns on hand for the simple reason that I like them and think they're cool. I don't have restricted rifles because they don't interest me, but if someone else does, that's great! If the OP didn't have the desire to continue with or maintain his restricted collection, what's the big deal? I like motorcycles too, and sometimes fear that regulations will change and force them out of existence due to safety nazis, but I don't tell everyone that doesn't have a bike that they are giving up and knuckling under to the "man". The guy made a decision to sell his handguns. I'm all for that if I get some good deals when I'm buying, otherwise it's as interesting to me as someone saying he sold his ford. Some of the responses here go to show how some see everyone that isn't like them 100% as weak, or an enemy. We need to see our common areas and stop focusing on what differences we have. The guy still has guns! His interests have just shifted. It's not like he's telling us all that we have to give up all of ours!
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Besides the most obvious answer being hand loading centrefire pistol ammo, also rimfire handguns and cap and ball revolvers are very very thrifty to shoot.
Personally, I've been "into" restricted's [handguns] for going on 35 yrs now. I don't foresee a time when I won't have at least one.
OP made a decision regarding his. I respect that.
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NAA.
OP made a decision regarding his. I respect that.
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NAA.
too bad. Restricted (I am refering to handguns and pistols only) are a whole lot funner to shoot than NR rifles. My daughter was big on rifles for years and never liked the handguns, then one day she tried my handgun and there in after, rifle... what's that ????
I have a few pistols and Im really loosing interest in them as well. You can't even find a pound of powder to reload for them anymore. Im not selling them.....they will just sit there. Being restricted to shooting at a range isnt my favorite thing in the world. $600 and up range fee's are ridiculous.....glad I live in Sask. I have access to a nice 1000 yard plus range and the fee for a newcomer is $5 for the year.
Cheers!!
Cheers!!
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I support the OP's personal decision. Let's just hope the OP and a few select others here, remember to respect our opposite choice too. And to not let personal emotions or motives lead to throwing others under the bus in the near/distant future, particularly within our two major shooting organizations. Or possible voting positions at the national level to the detriment of fellow shooters.
Some cgn handles surfaced during the whole Swiss arms/rifles debate. Not too pretty good. lol
Cheers!
Some cgn handles surfaced during the whole Swiss arms/rifles debate. Not too pretty good. lol
Cheers!
Many feel the same way but I love my restricted's. Don't care what Joe Public thinks about them either.
I bet that S&W SD9 made you sell everything. I started a thread on that pistol and I saw many of the posters get rid of that gun shortly after...
I bet that S&W SD9 made you sell everything. I started a thread on that pistol and I saw many of the posters get rid of that gun shortly after...
Serioulsy -- what is so complicated about owning restricted firearms? I own maybe a dozen, purchased through stores and online and private sales, and I've never had any issues with paper work. It all happens like magic -- little RCMP fairies working through the night and making things happen. Seriously.
Also -- $400 for a range fees! WTF? I have memberships to two ranges -- an indor range at $175 and an outdoor at $35. I also belong to an IDPA group for $10 a year + $10 per "official" match (we have lots of unofficial matches that cost nothing), and that's more fun and comradery than you can shake a stick at. At the indoor range, if there is no one else around (or if there are other like-minded people around) you can have more fun than just bench shooting by setting up barriers and such. I'm not into all that tacticool stuff, but you can have a great deal of fun with restricted firearms -- not just bench shooting -- at little to no cost.
If you were just to say that your reasons were emotional or financial, then fine. There's no shame in that. However, to claim that the paper work and site restrictions are onerous is just not reality as far as I am concerned. Sure, I think that Canadian laws are a too restrictive, but they're not that restrictive.
Also -- $400 for a range fees! WTF? I have memberships to two ranges -- an indor range at $175 and an outdoor at $35. I also belong to an IDPA group for $10 a year + $10 per "official" match (we have lots of unofficial matches that cost nothing), and that's more fun and comradery than you can shake a stick at. At the indoor range, if there is no one else around (or if there are other like-minded people around) you can have more fun than just bench shooting by setting up barriers and such. I'm not into all that tacticool stuff, but you can have a great deal of fun with restricted firearms -- not just bench shooting -- at little to no cost.
If you were just to say that your reasons were emotional or financial, then fine. There's no shame in that. However, to claim that the paper work and site restrictions are onerous is just not reality as far as I am concerned. Sure, I think that Canadian laws are a too restrictive, but they're not that restrictive.
I actually had the SD9VE in my collection with the 4lb spring kit installed. I really liked that gun for the price. I also had the Mand P22LR and the CZ Shadow alond with about 1000 rds of 9mm, laser, holsters, etc.
Again my motive was more because I was not content and coveted more and more and better and better pistols even when I so rarely got to shoot the ones I had. It was a heart issue that motivated me to get rid of them.
When restricteds won't provoke unbalanced covetous obsession in me, I may go back to them. for now I just needed to shut it down.
I understand his position... $600 a year for a range membership isn't peanuts, sometimes a 30 min+ drive to get there is annoying, or in general the waiting list just to join one, toss in the rest of the red tape and I get that it can be a burden... BUT I also feel like it is the duty of every (R)PAL holder to responsibly own and maintain at least one handgun. Even if it never leaves your safe. Cheers!
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