Katrina of the Great White North

 

1. Actually Drew the long-gun registry is dead as of April 2012. Somehow the federal government spent over $2B dollars over 18 years on a computerized registry that was inaccurate, unusable, incomplete and could not be proven to have aided in helping to solve one crime. I was wondering why no-one in the USA mentioned that during your recent gun-control debate.

   Currently handguns have to be registered, that law was instituted in 1934 and certain semi-automatic assault rifle types are prohibited. I have a pair of FN-FALs that were just hunting rifles one day and with the passing of a law became prohibited, ie I can own them until I die but I cannot legally shoot them, even on an approved range. As for selling them, unless you owned firearms of that class when the law was passed and were ‘grandfathered’ you cannot buy them so the market value is pretty low.

   Al_in_Ottawa

   Posted by Al_in_Ottawa       06/29/2013  at  10:17 PM  



2. Thanks for the update Al.

   Maybe you could bring the FNs to the USA “on a hunting trip” and sell them here. Guaranteed you’d find a buyer ASAP.

   Yes, very restrictive laws from our perspective (especially the NYC/DC-like rules for storage in your own home!!), but what the RCMP is doing seems WAY over the top. The whole town is evacuated and ringed off. There won’t be any looting. So, what gives?

   Posted by Drew458       06/30/2013  at  06:03 AM  



3. Dear Canadians,
   next time you have to evacuate leave your houses full of cages with rabid badgers and stink bombs wired to the doors and windows.  Oh and a big banner out front:
   WELCOME RCMP!!

   Posted by grayjohn       06/30/2013  at  11:19 AM  



4. The RCMP has been very evasive. The Army was assisting the RCMP in the search and rescue and their only statement was ‘don’t look at us, the soldiers had nothing to do with removing any guns’.

   I did look into exporting the FNs to the USA and it was no go as they are military weapons. That was during the assault weapons ban so maybe I’ll look into it again. I eventually want to retire to Alabama or Georgia so maybe I’ll bring them with me.

   Funny thing is, my newest rifle is in the mail, it will cross four provincial borders, from a private seller to a private buyer with no paperwork or going through an FFL. Why do you guys south of the border have to go through an FFL?

   Al_in_Ottawa

   Posted by Al_in_Ottawa       06/30/2013  at  11:32 AM  

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