And, IIRC, to own a gun in Canada, you’ve got to be a member of a gun club and the weapon must be kept there. Of course, that might only apply to certain parts of Canada, or certain classes of firearms. I don’t know, don’t really care. It’s their country and so long as they don’t decide to pour across our borders and force us all to wear toboggans, drink Molsen, and say “Eh” at the end of every sentence, I pretty much don’t care what they do. If they’re happy with everything, then I’m happy.
Wearing a snow sled would be needlessly cumbersome.
There are certain classes of firearms that are “gun club” only but in general this is not the case. And of course, there’s the registration boondoggle which has cost literally 1,000 times what it was suppossed to and is totally ineffective. We’re not gun crazy here, but it’s not hard to get one.
You don’t have to belong to a gun club to own a rifle or shotgun. You do have to get firearm safety training as a condition of getting your licence, and that’s most easily obtained through a gun club, but membership is not required by law.
You do need to belong to a gun club to own a handgun, but you are prohibited from storing it at the gun club. The owner of a handgun has to keep it at his/her home, and is only allowed to transport it to the gun club for use there, or to a few other places (transfer of residence, to a gun shop for repairs, etc.). See sections 17-20 of the Firearms Act. “Restricted weapon” in those sections means “handguns”.
I also believe some professions, such as cops and soldiers, can provide evidence of their employment instead of getting a gun safety course.
It appears that this thread has been hijacked at gunpoint. 