Suppressors?
- Thread starter HeadDamage
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- Nova Scotia
Even a suppressed Paintball gun is no no.. It a stupid rule, that even police have no idea about.
I have no problems with that rule...I am shooting my airguns in my outdoors gun club only, takes me 13 minutes d-2-d, and honestly I feel "plinking" more comfortable over there. Also for a semi-retired it feels just priceless stepping out from a house.
Eyes and ears gents.
Eyes and ears gents.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
I have a problem with the rule, as they should be part of health and safety. Quieter is also better for the wild life. I'm only 12mins from a GC and I still like shooting my airguns in my back yard. I'm all for whatever keeps the nosy neighbors from #####ing. But talking to alot of Americans. You be surprised how many don't care about that rule and still uses them on airguns, even if their state says nah. With whatever name they use for them.
I was a member in YCB archery club for almost two decades, but since I started shooting in a gun club = more seriously organized and regulated shooting place.... I am not longer supportive for backyard or around a house "plinking" with PCP or even worst with CO2. I don't want to cut the fun part of it far from that, but I want to point to possible accidents.
You know the Murphy's law?
When you drive your car in some smaller streets and you see the kids riding bikes on left side incoming against you...Have you ever wonder that we leave in a society where parents/adults (nor the schools) don't even bother teaching the kids to ride the bike on Right Side...
Now you telling me these same kids shall be allowed to shoot airguns in backyards...with silencers to keep them "hidden" from neighbours watch...
There are many countries around a globe where selling or owning airguns is prohibited, there must be a reason for that. Napoleon himself brought it to a law whoever was cut with an airgun to be hanged right there on the spot...So from that standpoint we still can call our-selfs lucky.
We lacking basic education and starting from diapers and I don't think we can recover that in our lifetime.
My take on Canada laws and gun control is this:
Not watching youtube, but learn it in a proper way
12-13-14 years of age - first grade High School - mandatory boot camp for all the kids, not in home town but in closest army base. To learn some basics in disciplinary behaving and feeling responsibility.
18 years of age - finished High School - mandatory army service 12 or 15 or 18 months, not in home town but diagonally somewhere across the country.
As in EU countries, Izrael....for example.
When all these finished, you all ready for life on next level, you have learned some values to take care of.
And only than you can buy guns+silencers+howitzers whatever you like.
How is this sounds?
Not watching youtube, but learn it in a proper way
12-13-14 years of age - first grade High School - mandatory boot camp for all the kids, not in home town but in closest army base. To learn some basics in disciplinary behaving and feeling responsibility.
18 years of age - finished High School - mandatory army service 12 or 15 or 18 months, not in home town but diagonally somewhere across the country.
As in EU countries, Izrael....for example.
When all these finished, you all ready for life on next level, you have learned some values to take care of.
And only than you can buy guns+silencers+howitzers whatever you like.
How is this sounds?
- Location
- Nova Scotia
My take on Canada laws and gun control is this:
Not watching youtube, but learn it in a proper way
12-13-14 years of age - first grade High School - mandatory boot camp for all the kids, not in home town but in closest army base. To learn some basics in disciplinary behaving and feeling responsibility.
18 years of age - finished High School - mandatory army service 12 or 15 or 18 months, not in home town but diagonally somewhere across the country.
As in EU countries, Izrael....for example.
When all these finished, you all ready for life on next level, you have learned some values to take care of.
And only than you can buy guns+silencers+howitzers whatever you like.
How is this sounds?
Glad you are not making the laws. Just because someone does mandatory service, doesn't make them experts in firearms. As there are plenty of goof balls in the military. I stopped taking co workers to the range, because as soon as there wasnt someone with a stick ready to crack them in the helmet. They became idiots, honestly you wouldnt think they were Infantry by trade.
It's off topic from the real question. They should be allowed.
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Same here.
- Maybe I'm getting too old and pragmatic. But I have issues with rules that no-one in the gov. can explain... other than by saying: Because we said so...
- Location
- SE corner Sk
Wish we were allowed suppressors.
But if we where, in the leftist mind we'd all become snipers like in the movies :-[
But if we where, in the leftist mind we'd all become snipers like in the movies :-[
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I'd bet you a double-double and a donut that 99.9999% of all the leftist going berserk about suppressors being too-darn-dangerous-to-own... never actually saw a real one being used.
- And no, watching a Hollywood action-movie or playing Call-of-Duty doesn't qualify as having experience.
- And no, watching a Hollywood action-movie or playing Call-of-Duty doesn't qualify as having experience.
- Location
- SE corner Sk
Yup. But remember, lots of lefties get info from movies. AR style rifle so dangerious because I saw them shoot up a bunch of peoplekind in a movie!
- Location
- Nova Scotia
Not everybody lives in the city or suburbs, but even I did it and I did it safely and no neighbours complained.
You know people ruin it for others whem they do stuff unsafe, that how new rules get made. Plus alot of airgunners are stupid when it comes firearm laws. We were telling them we better stand up and wasnt till Bill C21 was put on the table, that when they finally woke up. Kinda too late.
But now I live in the country, where I legally can. But I got most neighbours that will rubber neck once I open the door. Btw they're called suppressors as they silence ####. Am I saying that the kids should? No I'll be okay with US rules and paying a tax stamp and must be 18. There throws your conserned out of the window.
So in your world you might be okay with the current laws, but majority are not. So stop throwing others under the bus. Airguns are gate way guns.
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Yeah, reminds of a range-demo-day for some higher-ups
- Last gun fired was the Browning HP... the guy shooting was aiming at some old truck about 600M-800M away. Commentator going how the HP was only carried by officers... Blabbing about the ballistic of the 9mm and how it would take about 2 seconds for the bullet to travel to the target...
- After some major fired the pistol, the old truck (that was packed with barrels of fuel and C4) blew up... to great cheer from the crowd.
As we're cleaning up: They knew it was a joke... right?
- Last gun fired was the Browning HP... the guy shooting was aiming at some old truck about 600M-800M away. Commentator going how the HP was only carried by officers... Blabbing about the ballistic of the 9mm and how it would take about 2 seconds for the bullet to travel to the target...
- After some major fired the pistol, the old truck (that was packed with barrels of fuel and C4) blew up... to great cheer from the crowd.
As we're cleaning up: They knew it was a joke... right?
- Location
- Nova Scotia
I'll call your bet and raise you an apple fritter. I heard a suppressed 50 BMG in was few hundred meters away. Def wasn't silent.
Even in police. My buddy tried to educate a fellow officer about using suppressor over silencer. Many dont clue in suppressor is like wearing foam ear plugs. Do they silence the noise? No just slightly reduced it. As this is what you get by using incorrect terms and they stick.
Funny we legally require a .muffler for a vehicle because it's too loud without.
Also suppressors would be good for neighbouring noise pollution as many gun clubs are in legal battles over noise with neighbours.
I didn't say that I am OK with the current law. I said whatever is today most of it is upside down and most likely for a reason things happened in the past.
They putting a blanket speed limit 20KM on the street instead of the parents shall educate the kids not to run across the asphalt or how to ride a bike...No, you would need to educate those parents first...when they were in diapers.
Guns, or airguns...find a way to educate for responsibilities starting from from young age...I don't know...but shall be an established program....mandatory boot camps or whatever. I didn't meant to cut your freedom...
But watching youtube and get a gun = airgun, and you go shooting/plinking/having fun...that is not right neither.
Lots of people drive for hrs to even find a range, so your comment on a short drive ,just make you sound like a Lib.
My range for yrs was open a door, but that has nothing to do with suppressers.
BTW back in the day there where some Gamo 1200f/s with "suppressor" , sort of on the end, that made it into the country, before the RCMP sent out some bulletins.
It was a piss poor gun, too fast, and still quite loud.
It had a bunch of plastic pellets in the business end, no baffles . Over all the poorest air gun I ever shot.
I have a Crossman pump up air pistol that I could do just as good with.
My range for yrs was open a door, but that has nothing to do with suppressers.
BTW back in the day there where some Gamo 1200f/s with "suppressor" , sort of on the end, that made it into the country, before the RCMP sent out some bulletins.
It was a piss poor gun, too fast, and still quite loud.
It had a bunch of plastic pellets in the business end, no baffles . Over all the poorest air gun I ever shot.
I have a Crossman pump up air pistol that I could do just as good with.
