My new hobby

[sphelps]

Nothing makes you a bigger target than posting your restricted and prohibited gun inventory on a public site, just saying.

I have my restricted but never bought anything, would like to get into it but the gun laws here make it pretty pointless for me right now.

[kien]

Originally Posted by sphelps

I have my restricted but never bought anything, would like to get into it but the gun laws here make it pretty pointless for me right now.

Excuse my ignorance of the law with regards to guns, but why does it make it pointless ? Also, did you get the licenses intending to buy restricted firearms but just never got around to it or did you discover after you got the license that the hurdles in actually owning guns was greater than anticipated ? Just curious.

[lastlight]

My kids want one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4k148YcDU

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by lastlight

My kids want one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4k148YcDU

Haha so do i

[msjboy]

Aren't guns an expensive hobby too? The cost of a hi calibre bullet is a buck a shot? I remember shooting a shot gun at target clay pidgeons, your semi-auto 22 rifle & a 303 - boy that 303 was ever loud. Certainly fun and beats pellet guns and paint ball.

I assume you go to the burnaby range.

msjboy

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by msjboy

Aren't guns an expensive hobby too? The cost of a hi calibre bullet is a buck a shot? I remember shooting a shot gun at target clay pidgeons, your semi-auto 22 rifle & a 303 - boy that 303 was ever loud. Certainly fun and beats pellet guns and paint ball.

I assume you go to the burnaby range.

msjboy

I hit up dvc and Burc mountain for my restricted and stave lake with my non restricted but it gets pretty hairy up there, guys go up there with their restricted all the time and some times you hear full auto going off, that's when I pack up my $hit and bounce.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by kien

Excuse my ignorance of the law with regards to guns, but why does it make it pointless ? Also, did you get the licenses intending to buy restricted firearms but just never got around to it or did you discover after you got the license that the hurdles in actually owning guns was greater than anticipated ? Just curious.

With restricted firearms you're first of all limited to only being able to use them at a range which is fine. However you can only transport said firearm directly to the range and then directly back home. You can't for example throw it in your truck and drive to work if you think you might hit a range at lunch or after work. You also need to maintain range memberships and records to prove you use such firearms for such purpose, so even just keeping one locked up and never using it is actually not allowed. So for me the laws are too restrictive to my current needs, I can't commit to being able to frequently visit the range and do so by only going directly there and back home considering I live out of town, too much hassle if you know what I mean. Now I'm aware many violate this but that's not something I really want to do.

[kien]

Originally Posted by sphelps

With restricted firearms you're first of all limited to only being able to use them at a range which is fine. However you can only transport said firearm directly to the range and then directly back home. You can't for example throw it in your truck and drive to work if you think you might hit a range at lunch or after work. You also need to maintain range memberships and records to prove you use such firearms for such purpose, so even just keeping one locked up and never using it is actually not allowed. So for me the laws are too restrictive to my current needs, I can't commit to being able to frequently visit the range and do so by only going directly there and back home considering I live out of town, too much hassle if you know what I mean. Now I'm aware many violate this but that's not something I really want to do.

Thanks for the info. That does sound kinda annoying.

[intarsiabox]

I used to shoot 105mm howitzers, does that count? The C7 and C9 machine guns were a lot fun too, especially at night with tracer rounds in the mag.

[scubadawg]

Originally Posted by intarsiabox

I used to shoot 105mm howitzers, does that count? The C7 and C9 machine guns were a lot fun too, especially at night with tracer rounds in the mag.

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