What are the guns you regret NOT buying before the OIC?

Colin L said:
I take it you made a type-o and meant to say that you think I assume PIERRE P WILL WIN A MAJORITY government and

IMPLEMENT A SIMPLIFIED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.

How many AKs will you buy?
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I'd love to hear anyone who is a cheer leader for the Conservative's idiotic and flawed simplified classification system justify on what basis we should even have classification at all.
 
Wiskey1 said:
"the sticks" as you put it,PUTS FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH,,maybe think about that before you spew your big shot condescending crap.and rural is NOT declining,hell,the last few years people are leaving big cities in droves, and criminals move in,ya,you can keep your big city,
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100% regarding big city moves. My lady friend lives in very small rural town Ontario and she (and I when I visit) have noticed fairly significant development on the outskirts of town due to its proximity to 2 highways. Due to covid and working remote which I think will continue, a lot people are flocking to not just smaller towns, but very small towns like hers where nothing is open after 8PM (except for the local watering hole establishment). The people are, invariably for the most part, from the larger cities.
 
Barrett M99
BCM MK12 (OIC came out just before I had the cash)
AR15 with a 8”ish barrel (just because)
AR10 with a 12” barrel (again just because)
Swiss Arms CQB or the Sniper (still wanna cry lol F@$k…)
Cadex in either 375 or 408 Cheytac
Custom 550 Magnum
Weatherby Mark V Dangerous Game 460 Weatherby
Custom 585 Nyati
CZ 550 in 600 Overkill
 
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I wish i had bought an X95, XCR, Bergarra in 6.5Crm, maybe a shotgun and a VZ 58.
Here's to hoping things change, but im imagining they'll be coming for my AR lower and my pistols in the future.
Will have to buy my dream guns in Airsoft form......until they ban those too.
 
I still have regrets not getting a Steyr AUG in the 90s.
I was a dumb young guy and the old dudes at the range were telling me to get something to secure a 12.6 licence when the new laws rolled out.
There were cheap pistols for $20 back then that could’ve got me in that game.

Did I listen?

No.

Never ignore the advice of your elders.
 
Bartok5 said:
Not all of us can afford to live in a one-street town. Nor do most of us choose to. Opportunity is why the cities are still growing and the true rural lifestyle (not "cottaging" by the wealthy minority) is on the decline with abandonned prairie towns dotting Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Firearms are important to me, but they are far from the most important aspect of my life and are certainly not a good enough reason to relocate my family to the sticks. I enjoy visiting the great Canadian hinterland but not necessarily dwelling there. Pity me if you must, I could care less...
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You are absolutely right brother, there's nothing but tumbleweeds, roadrunners and coyotes out in the sticks. I can't recall a day when a 10,000 pound boulder on a gigantic rubber band didn't slam into my yard somewhere.

I regret SO MUCH leaving the safety, security and loving embrace of the city last year. Oh IF ONLY I could move back!

Can you believe there isn't ONE gender studies major out here? These peasants still believe there's only TWO genders!
I mean they don't even have guard rails on all the roads, what if I'm on my phone texting and not paying attention? I could be killed!
I asked for double pumpkin spice in my latte at some corn-cob cafe yesterday....can you believe they don't even HAVE LATTE? OUTRAGEOUS!
There's a fella in my neighbourhood that not only has chickens, but thinks he can eggs to people by just leaving a sign by the road! WHERE ARE THE INSPECTORS TO SHUT HIM DOWN!?!?!
I even saw....now get this...I saw a truck with not one but TWO Canadian flags on it. Of course I waited until that dirty hillabilly pulled in somewhere, and I snatched them. How DARE he express his patriotism. White supremacists like him should learn a lesson. We sure wouldn't put up with that sort of thing in the city. I seriously wanted to find a war horse and just trample him! Disgusting racist!!!
Someone up the valley was shooting yesterday, and I don't mean with a dangerous BB gun, they were blasting away with real bullets, and :gasp: I believe I heard tannerite!! Get this, when I called the sheriff, he said "what do you want me to do, search the mountains?". Well I assure you, I immediately asked to speak to his supervisor, and get this he WAS the supervisor! It was a MAN! I mean, what century do we live in where a MAN can just make decisions and keep me from escalating my outrage! His toxic masculinity really triggered me and I fled to the safe space I made for myself in the basement next to the cocktail olives.
I tell you, as a frightened sheep-like person, I very much miss the security of the herd. I mean when the next for real pandemic comes along, just how far will they have to drive out in order to collect me and put me in a containment facility for my protection? I mean, they might well just miss me altogether, and I'll for sure die of the variants. It's like public safety doesn't supersede personal freedoms out here.
Oh and for the love of god, there are BEARS out here! They aren't tagged or kept in pens or anything, and they think they can just wander up and eat your garbage! don't they know that trespassing is against the law? who trains these things? It's like frikkin anarchy out here.
Oh, and GET THIS...people think they actually OWN their property. I was letting my labadoodle relieve himself on the yard of the farmer down the road, and he came after me with a shotgun. A real to life shotgun!!! Oh I almost piddled myself. I scooped up my fur baby, and hightailed it out of there. Obviously he's some sort of nazi!!!

:sigh: if only I had forseen just how much I would regret moving out of the wonderful, wonderful city. If only I could wake up and find my car broken into and used needles under my porch again.

Ah well, just know that YOU are making the right choice. No wonder everyplace is a ghost town and only the cities are growing.
 
Colin L said:
I'd rather talk about what we're going to be able to buy once the Simplified Classification System is implemented in about 4 years from now.

Lookin forward to my newly imported AK.
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Nothing. You will not be able to buy anything Non Restricted because the simplified classification system is fatally flawed as written, and no one who has been involved in the writing of those three lines of text will admit that they screwed it up.

Further, the classification system on the whole is stupid, because classification is stupid. And no one who wrote that classification system has ever presented a valid argument as to why we should be classifying firearms in the first place.
 
Somerset Bar said:
You are absolutely right brother, there's nothing but tumbleweeds, roadrunners and coyotes out in the sticks. I can't recall a day when a 10,000 pound boulder on a gigantic rubber band didn't slam into my yard somewhere.

I regret SO MUCH leaving the safety, security and loving embrace of the city last year. Oh IF ONLY I could move back!

Can you believe there isn't ONE gender studies major out here? These peasants still believe there's only TWO genders!
I mean they don't even have guard rails on all the roads, what if I'm on my phone texting and not paying attention? I could be killed!
I asked for double pumpkin spice in my latte at some corn-cob cafe yesterday....can you believe they don't even HAVE LATTE? OUTRAGEOUS!
There's a fella in my neighbourhood that not only has chickens, but thinks he can eggs to people by just leaving a sign by the road! WHERE ARE THE INSPECTORS TO SHUT HIM DOWN!?!?!
I even saw....now get this...I saw a truck with not one but TWO Canadian flags on it. Of course I waited until that dirty hillabilly pulled in somewhere, and I snatched them. How DARE he express his patriotism. White supremacists like him should learn a lesson. We sure wouldn't put up with that sort of thing in the city. I seriously wanted to find a war horse and just trample him! Disgusting racist!!!
Someone up the valley was shooting yesterday, and I don't mean with a dangerous BB gun, they were blasting away with real bullets, and :gasp: I believe I heard tannerite!! Get this, when I called the sheriff, he said "what do you want me to do, search the mountains?". Well I assure you, I immediately asked to speak to his supervisor, and get this he WAS the supervisor! It was a MAN! I mean, what century do we live in where a MAN can just make decisions and keep me from escalating my outrage! His toxic masculinity really triggered me and I fled to the safe space I made for myself in the basement next to the cocktail olives.
I tell you, as a frightened sheep-like person, I very much miss the security of the herd. I mean when the next for real pandemic comes along, just how far will they have to drive out in order to collect me and put me in a containment facility for my protection? I mean, they might well just miss me altogether, and I'll for sure die of the variants. It's like public safety doesn't supersede personal freedoms out here.
Oh and for the love of god, there are BEARS out here! They aren't tagged or kept in pens or anything, and they think they can just wander up and eat your garbage! don't they know that trespassing is against the law? who trains these things? It's like frikkin anarchy out here.
Oh, and GET THIS...people think they actually OWN their property. I was letting my labadoodle relieve himself on the yard of the farmer down the road, and he came after me with a shotgun. A real to life shotgun!!! Oh I almost piddled myself. I scooped up my fur baby, and hightailed it out of there. Obviously he's some sort of nazi!!!

:sigh: if only I had forseen just how much I would regret moving out of the wonderful, wonderful city. If only I could wake up and find my car broken into and used needles under my porch again.

Ah well, just know that YOU are making the right choice. No wonder everyplace is a ghost town and only the cities are growing.
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Epic. Rural communities in Manitoba are 100% growing at an exponential rate which will now probably be slowed down thanks to gas prices designed to do so.
Cities are dumps.
 
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richmyster said:
Epic. Rural communities in Manitoba are 100% growing at an exponential rate which will now probably be slowed down thanks to gas prices designed to do so.
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Good to hear. The deserted towns with weed-grown Cenotaphs I used to pass through in Western MB Goose hunting back in the early 1990s were downright depressing. It is nice to think that they might some day be repopulated!

I agree with your assessment of the cities, which is why I rarely visit (D)Edmonton or even it's Bedroom Communities such as St Albert or Sherwood Park. I NEVER go into downtown Edmonton unless I have to visit Service Canada in person for administrative purposes. I live in a pleasant non-gated "rural residental" development with acre-sized (and smaller) lots. Not exactly "country living", but it works for me!
 
richmyster said:
Epic. Rural communities in Manitoba are 100% growing at an exponential rate which will now probably be slowed down thanks to gas prices designed to do so.
Cities are dumps.
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52 years I lived in a big city. We DON'T want those people out here. Let them think it's just ghost towns and one toothed hillbillies as far as the eye can see. I've met more awesome people in 6 months than I met in all those years since I got out here, and the population is a fraction. City mentality is a disease, and those afflicted with it don't even know it.
 
Anything that was banned tbh. Especially what precious few N/R's semi auto AR's there were in 5.56 or .308. Most were R's but some were N/R's.
 
Somerset Bar said:
52 years I lived in a big city. We DON'T want those people out here. Let them think it's just ghost towns and one toothed hillbillies as far as the eye can see. I've met more awesome people in 6 months than I met in all those years since I got out here, and the population is a fraction. City mentality is a disease, and those afflicted with it don't even know it.
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I understand where you're coming from but I'm also of the mind that cities are slave camps and having the population non centralized is a good thing. Having city folk move to the country may also make converts out of them.

On the other hand... when you have city slickers moving out to the country who start trying to change laws to make the country more city like... I could do without those individuals.
 
I don't know about not buying before the OIC but I am pretty pissed off about my single shot bolt action 50bmg.
No only are they going to force me to sell it to them I have been storing it free for the government for the last 2 years. All my ammo and accessories for that gun are useless too but they won't compensate me for that either.
 
richmyster said:
I understand where you're coming from but I'm also of the mind that cities are slave camps and having the population non centralized is a good thing. Having city folk move to the country may also make converts out of them.

On the other hand... when you have city slickers moving out to the country who start trying to change laws to make the country more city like... I could do without those individuals.
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It takes a different kind of person to go from city life, to real rural life. Just as I imagine it would take a different kind of person to move from ultra-rural to the city.
My mother for instance...always votes liberal/ndp/progressive, whatever the farthest left thing she can. Now she wants to move out of the city because the druggies and crime in her area are horrible. It's HER politics that made where she lived horrible, yet she doesn't accept that, she just wants to move "out of the city to get away from all that". If she does move, she'll be a nightmare for anyone around her, because she's a anti-meat-anti-everything activist sort of person, and if she has neighbours with livestock, she'll make their lives miserable. Generally speaking, city people just have no clue that they are their own worst enemies, and they can't help but bring that with them. I'd say 1/10 people might be able to move out to the sticks, and try to adapt themselves to the environment, instead of the opposite. Everyone I've ever known has been city folk, and when I think about each person one by one, there's only a handful that you might ever possibly want as rural neighbours.
 
Bartok5 said:
Good to hear. The deserted towns with weed-grown Cenotaphs I used to pass through in Western MB Goose hunting back in the early 1990s were downright depressing. It is nice to think that they might some day be repopulated!

I agree with your assessment of the cities, which is why I rarely visit (D)Edmonton or even it's Bedroom Communities such as St Albert or Sherwood Park. I NEVER go into downtown Edmonton unless I have to visit Service Canada in person for administrative purposes. I live in a pleasant non-gated "rural residental" development with acre-sized (and smaller) lots. Not exactly "country living", but it works for me!
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the most important: what works for you.
 
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