Tomas.

I bought 5 between June and August lol. First 5. Technically 3 are mine and 2 are my wife's.

Definitely not lying down and taking it. Thankfully we have organizations like the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights that are suing the government over this bullshit.

These bans were passed by order in council. So no parliamentary talks and or votes. Basically Liberals pushed it without due process under the guise of public safety. It doesn't help that in Canada we don't have any property rights.

Another issue is that a large majority of Canadian don't have a strong opinion on guns, especially handguns. So they don't give a fuck one way or the other. It is the ole "if it doesn't effect me directly.....".

I know someone who thinks guns are silly unless for hunting but doesn't care for them. I asked him what about his son (9) who is showing an interest in hunting (the 3 of us went out for grouse a couple of weeks ago and the kid loved it), what if he became interested in guns and handguns but was not able to because of the current policies and useless bans. He said he wouldn't be bothered one bit his his kids didn't have the opportunity to get into guns. He would prefer they didn't. Now he has nothing against me or other legal owners and would be the last person who would ever stand for anything politically but he is the large majority of the uninterested and uneducated on the subject voter that is killing the hobby and sport.

I just got this old Coleman heater from my dad. It will light and put out heat but not nearly what it is supposed to. I assume the head or wick is old and dirty but replacements don't exist.

After some looking on Google, I came across a Coleman collectors forum that said to put denatured alcohol (in my case methyl hydrate) on the head and light it apparently lit burns hotter and cleans up the wick. I did that and it made it marginally better. The next thing I seen was to soak it over night in carburetor cleaner then work it in the morning. The wick is behind a screen and I can't get at it. 

Is anyone familiar with these things?

Just now, NaturallyAspirated said:

I dunno you can get a C8 sport, Supra, top end Camaro or Mustang all for the price of a new 2500 pickup…

Neal 

That is definitely a major factor. 

The the prices of old muscle cars are silly.

The old generation spent >$2000 buying old cars before the market got hot, put $10,000-$30,000 (if they were lucky) into them and then sell for $100,000+ and stand and wonder why there are no young people doing it.

I have seen rotted out bare chassis gen 1 Camaro's ask $15,000

Kids these days can't afford to get into them even if they wanted. The boomer's made everything so expensive that those old muscle cars are basically unobtainium for the majority of the people who would would carry the torch. 

Basically drove the market through the roof and wonder why there is no new blood lol.

Also I agree with the op. The laws are pants on head retarded and only getting worse. The reason the wife and I are members of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.

Still time to have fun in Canada. Bought these in June and just bought another CZ P10F to replace the Glock 48 that I will be selling as it sucks lol. It makes way more sense as a concealed carry gun which we can't have up here.

5 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

550 would’ve tried shoving a mag light up the rotties ass. 

Do you think that he does it to himself and loves it so much that he just wants to share his joy and passion with the rest of the world?

Here are my two sneaky neighbor dogs.

Both from shelters. The husky was 2ish when we got her as a discounted dog from the Edmonton humane society as she was a typical female (lots of problems lol). That was a long couple of years. She almost went back a few times when we first got her. Glad we hung on. She still has some flaws so she doesn't get much off leash time lol but at 7ish years old, she is starting to slow down. 

The sheperd we got from a shelter 6 hours north by Peace River at 8ish weeks old now he will be 4 here in a couple of months. He was a part of an abandoned litter. We were hoping he would compliment the husky and at 11lbs when we got him, the husky let him maul her lol. Unfortunately for her, has he reached a year and a half he was pushing 100lbs and she is only 65lbs. Wasn't so fun for her after that lol.

When the husky passes, my other half will be in a world of sadness. When the sheperd passes, I will be on a watch list lol.

Also l, wtf is military style? Made by the lowest bidder? Lol. Never understood that argument.

The average person in the us cannot legally buy full auto with out having some sort of license, as far as I know. In Canada, Full autos have been banned for civilian ownership since 1977. On top of that, .223/5.56 is illegal to hunt deer with in Canada as it seemed not a powerful enough round to ethically kill them.

North America has education, economic, low information voter, lying authorities, and all around inability to to see something from an objective point of view problem.

By law you are not allowed to own a firearm for self-defense in Canada. That does not mean you cannot use one for self-defense under strenuating circumstances. 99.9% of the time if you kill anyone using a gun or not, doesn't matter if it's a clear cut and dry self defense case or not, you will most likely be charged and have to defend yourself in court.

You are also allowed to carry a non-restricted firearm (most rifles and shotguns) in wilderness areas for self protection. But you cannot carry them in National or provincial parks. Every single handgun in Canada is it considered a restricted weapon and the only places you can take them are the gun range, gun shop for work, or a place that turned them in. Also in the handgun and all restricted firearm realm, if I wanted to go to the gun range with my handgun I would have to take the most reasonably direct route from my house to the gun range. If I stopped for drive through coffee along the way and they pulled me over and found out I had my restricted weapon even though it was trigger locked unloaded in an opaque case that was also locked out of sight in my car it is a huge problem as that is not the most direct route to the gun range or my house.

When applying for your firearms license and or renewing your firearms license there is no option for self defense. In Canada the only legal reasons to own firearms is to collect, hunt or shooting sports. 

You can't even own a handgun in Canada if you aren't a member of a shooting club (except Ontario although they will eventually hassle you). I have recently purchased three handguns and I had to provide info of  club that I'm a good standing member in before the government would even allow my transfer to take place

I am going to be motorcycle camping in grizzly country at the end of the month. I really wish I was able to carry more than a long rifle. I don't have room for my rifle on my bike and people will loose their shit if they saw me hiking carrying it. A hand gun could be carried in away to not alarm people but still be more protection than aggressive pepper spray.

There needs to be 1000% more unbiased education and for the people who do own, training. 

Unfortunately not everyone can afford training. So does training become government regulated pricing? Who puts on the the training? Competitive shooters, police trainers, military trainers? 

What I do know if if people keeping blaming the object and not the root causes (low income, mental instability, poor parenting, little to no education), things will never change. 

Like here in Canada we don't have the right to bear arms. So if they really wanted to make it about saving lives they'd ban every single firearm and walk through every single house and confiscate every single firearm. But if they removed 100% of the firearms, what would the grand stand about during their campaigns?

Depends, kind of.

If it is a non restricted firearm most rifles and shotguns with at least an 18 1/2" or longer barrel you can go buy and bring home or buy online and do it all right away as long as you are licensed.

When it comes to restricted firearms like all handguns and shorter barrel rifles and some shotguns, there's usually a waiting period to get a registration paper for it due to government bureaucracy. So because a person is licensed to own and buy a restricted firearm they can sometimes bring that firearm home but they can't take it out of their house without the registration papers coming in the mail from the government. 

Some of this has now changed as the government has brought in new laws regarding getting a transfer number when people buy non-restricted firearms that was never required before. You have to get a transaction ID number online through the government website to buy non-restricted firearms now. This law just came out last week. This isn't a waiting period and you could have a number right away providing there isn't issues with the internet server or internet connection

1 minute ago, Tomas. said:

 

5 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

How much is a mint condition Savage Model 99 .308?  Its a 1961 vintage, and probably hasn't had more than 50 rounds fired its whole life?  I'm not a hunter, inherited from dad, and thinking I might want to unload it.  Great deer rifle I'm told.

Lever action 308 is pretty slick!

A quick search shows they are around $750cad, so around $500usd +/-. Edit, it appears they are a bit more expensive down there lol.

It would be awesome to have something like that in the cabinet.

I am wondering if NA is more enthusiastic about war than Europe because NA hasn't been in the middle of an international war where nobody is spared destruction. In both world wars, it really didn't matter if you were neutral or not, chances were you were going to get caught in the crossfire. 

So all those countries know what it is like to have entire cities absolutely leveled. Over here in NA we have the best natural defenses anyone could ask for. We as population have never experienced boots on the ground war in our homes. 

I am not saying we are dumb or we don't have empathy or we don't understand what war is. What I am saying is we have been so far removed from real conflict while remaining on top of the world power shit pile. It is hard for us to have real perspective of what it is like. 

Obviously this doesn't this doesn't apply to every single person who lives in North America but well informed, leveled headed individuals rarely make policy.

1 minute ago, Ez ryder said:

Pretty much sums up the entire music industry of the last 20 yrs . Few exceptions yes must the majority well they can dance I guess 

Lol, I agree with you there. I can't stand most new music from any genre. There are a few select tracks I can get behind but most of newly produced mainstream music is a sad state of affairs lol

I wasn't aware he was a song writer as well. With a little looking it would appear that he also uses professional songwriters to write some of his songs as well as writing some of his own.

I grew up on country music (against my will). As much as I dislike it, I can appreciate the older stuff. This new stuff is just trash. 95% don't write their own music, they are just a voice talent. But that is my heavily biased opinion which means nothing lol.

How ironic that North America welcomed all kinds of 1940's Nazis after WW2 in hopes they would stop the Soviet Union from bringing communism here. Now North America is hoping Russia will eliminate Nazis is other countries. 

With reality like this, who needs fiction lmao.

27 minutes ago, Kivalo said:

Say what now?

It is some trash pop country singer who doesn't write his own songs