Does anyone ever have police just show up at their doors for no other reason then to inspect their storage measures?? Or does this occur when something else happens, police are called and, as a precaution, they inspect where and how the guns are stored?
Storing Handguns
- Thread starter jackrabbit000
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Please post the relevant NRCAN section that dictates this mythical 50,000 round limit. The only sections I have seen say a person may have a "reasonable amount" for personal use and that businesses may have 225kg NXQ (net explosive quantity), which is the powder and primer compounds.
225kg NXQ works out to around 77,000 rounds of .308 or well over 500,000 rounds of 9mm (based on 45gr and 6gr of powder, respectively). From what I have seen, the "reasonable amount" has never been defined in court.
Mark
That's the way i do it too. No problem when storing it or moving it to your vehicle when going to range.
There is a provision in the firearms act for inspections (at your convenience), but it's seldom carried out. They can't "just show up".
I'm not positive, but I believe owners of special classes like automatic firearms get periodic inspections. Someone can correct me on that one.
Don't worry about it, but store properly.
No, because it's a gun cabinet and not a gun safe. Don't expect this to make any sense- it's just reality as we currently experience it.
It's still a bad idea to store your guns in foam lined cases or worse, those fake fur/short pile lined soft cases. They attract and hold moisture, and in no time flat your guns are starting to rust.
Let's see
:It sounds like 6(b)(i) would require both a lock on the case, as well as on the firearm....
...unless your "cabinet" is a safe ? 
I would rather not trigger lock, but I do.
The regs are about safety of your family. If anyone on my family is resourceful enough and driven enough to bust through my safe, a trigger lock certainly won't stop them either.
As far as the criminal element is concerned, there are plenty of vids showing guys busting those $1200 safes as if they were nothing at all. Cabinet, safe, same result plus or minus a few minutes, motivation and some elbow grease. At the end of the day, make sure you are insured.
My only added security outside of the regulation mandated stuff is a camera system. At least if they steal my ####, I'll have em on video doing it.
The regs are about safety of your family. If anyone on my family is resourceful enough and driven enough to bust through my safe, a trigger lock certainly won't stop them either.
As far as the criminal element is concerned, there are plenty of vids showing guys busting those $1200 safes as if they were nothing at all. Cabinet, safe, same result plus or minus a few minutes, motivation and some elbow grease. At the end of the day, make sure you are insured.
My only added security outside of the regulation mandated stuff is a camera system. At least if they steal my ####, I'll have em on video doing it.
tactical870
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mags and speedloaders next to my un-triggerlocked handguns in the safe.
I would thank the State to defer to me on the safety of my family
Bu bu bu...I thought without laws we would be an extinct species by now! Whatever would we do without someone telling us how to protect ourselves!
Mine's not bolted to anything.
Oh hell, triggered lock, in a locked container, locked in a gun cabinet that is inside a locked house.
Don't worry. If they bust open your locked house. Another 2-3 locks will definitely stop them.
For being crooked, the government really doesn't know a f**king thing about criminals.
It says trigger lock the gun and lock them in a container, cabinet or room that is difficult to break into.
So being trigger locked and stored on my coffee table, with the house doors locked. Would be considered a locked container that is difficult to break into?
What is difficult to the RCMP? They like to machine new pieces and do other complicated things to make guns full auto and then ban them. So to them, would taking a tank to break into a container be not difficult to them?
Don't worry. If they bust open your locked house. Another 2-3 locks will definitely stop them.
For being crooked, the government really doesn't know a f**king thing about criminals.
It says trigger lock the gun and lock them in a container, cabinet or room that is difficult to break into.
So being trigger locked and stored on my coffee table, with the house doors locked. Would be considered a locked container that is difficult to break into?
What is difficult to the RCMP? They like to machine new pieces and do other complicated things to make guns full auto and then ban them. So to them, would taking a tank to break into a container be not difficult to them?
You'd think so, right? No. A house is not considered a locked container. I don't have time to prove it right now, but rest assured it's been hashed out here before, and a solid legal opinion was given based on cases in court.
- Location
- Edmonton, Alberta
I'm the same as most.. Locked storage room, in gun cabinet with trigger locks. Ammo is always stored in another locked room in the house.
The way I figure it.. Its all about time.. I know if someone wants them, they will get them. Hopefully I can slow them down enough to get spooked before they get them.
The way I figure it.. Its all about time.. I know if someone wants them, they will get them. Hopefully I can slow them down enough to get spooked before they get them.
Yet again, storage regulations are about safety, not preventing theft.
