The 4 Rules of Handling Firearms:

SKS rounds are famously corrosive. What makes them corrosive and how is that different from regular ammunition?

I asked the instructor while I was taking the course and she didn't seem to understand the question.

I'm gonna be picking up a carry case from cabelas tmrw, the range Maxx tactical gun case combo. It's a 40" bag and I wanted to put a long gun and my benelli super nova in it. My super nova is over 40" so I was wondering if it would be bad for the gun/bad for shooting straight afterwards if i took the barrel off while in transit/storage and put it together whenever I went shooting? Or should I keep it in one piece and just buy a bigger bag?

TIA

Happy weekend get out n shoot

So I picked one up over Christmas and finally got around to cleaning it the last couple days. Man it was a pain in the ass. Anyway, what's the quickest, most efficient way of cleaning these puppies to ensure there's no rust after shooting corrosive?

Also, how soon after should I be cleaning it? And is there a shortcut way of cleaning it that I could use if I'm in a rush? Obviously the most important is the bore and gas tube, but i feel like if im using hot water on them then I'll end up getting water over everything then get paranoid about moisture absorbing into the wood and possibly causing more rust. So is the best way really to completely disassemble, clean and re oil?

How do you do it?

Trave

Hey guys looking for some Canadian companies to support in regard to firearms and all other items related to it, over American owned ones. I’m not here to get into politics I’d just like to support local/country. Any, small or big companies. Maybe you could help suggest a new company to someone. 🤠🇨🇦

I purchased a certain rifle that made its way to the “List” in December 2024. It was not transferred fully, but it was initiated with the note “We tried and hopefully it goes through”. Well fast forward to yesterday when I get attached to an email from the CFP with a bunch of verbiage about it being a newly prohibited firearm, but here is what I found a little hopeful about the email:

This firearm can only be transferred to an individual if you have proof that you sold this firearm to the individual prior to or on December 5, 2024. In order to process your request, we require proof of sale before the due date.

So things are looking up to get them shipped to us, even if they can only sit in our safes. Just wanted to pass the excitement on!

Anyone else experienced this before? I haven’t bought a gun in quite a few years and I don’t think they did any of this stuff last time, but I recently won a crypto and the transfer number didn’t auto go through for some reason. I had to call the firearms program and they need to send it to the registry and manually do it which could be anywhere from a few days to weeks. Just curious how common this is and possible reasons because I can’t really think of any.

Hello everyone,

As the title suggest, I am looking for a rifle that meets some specific needs.

My mother recently obtained her pal and is looking for a sub 16 inch rimfire rifle.

She would prefer that it would be semi automatic (but open to levers as well) and chambered in 17 HMR (again open to other options).

This will be pretty much a buy once, cry once type rifle so price point isn’t overly an issue within reason.

Bonus points for any recommended rifles that may become legal if OIC’s are rescinded and AR platforms become available.

Alright, I’m entering the lever action zone… and I am heavily confused.

What’s a good buy? What’s gonna be fun to cycle and just work and worth the price?

What the hell Caliber do I want!?

Any help with an experience of the space gun would be much appreciated.

🙏

Tight space in this girl but making it work! ;)

What separates an AR15 from a rifle like the Lockhart tactical raven?

January marks a whole 365 since getting my pal... shame so much has been banned since then.

Good day everyone,

Everyone always asks what kind of calibre to choose when picking out a rifle. But I havent seen anyone mention on which bullet to pick. I have a 7mm remm mag use it only for big game, bear and moose, no deer as the wmu's i hunt only allow shotgun or bows for deer and don't need to make week trip for deer.

When I went to buy ammo for the gun they only had federal Barnes tsx. From what I have read you should try and keep the same grain as I have zeroed with that weight.

However, looking online they're are numerous heavy grain bullets. What's the difference between bonded or fusion tipped or vital shok or the terminal ascent.

I'm able to buy the Barnes tsx again as that's what I zeroed the rifle at plus it's for what I hunt with. No idea if it matters of xyz does this or that.

Any guidance is appreciated.

Thank you

What's 7.62*39 non-restricted rifles available in canada?

Hey everyone! Just wondering what I can expect from the milsurp market is going to look like in the coming months with the impending hard times financially. From the experience of the more seasoned gun owners, do military rifles stay consistent in value, or do they, like most things, tend to take a hit when the dollar is struggling?

The best mod I've made to get better at shooting handguns. I am a righty but left eye dominant. I initially started with closing my left eye but realized I HAD to work on keeping both eyes open. After using this contraption I have almost fully switched over to right eye dominant. Every once in a while, stupid lefty takes over. 2 bucks at the dollar store was so worth it.

Hey there I was wondering what are some good ranges or gun clubs in the metro Vancouver area other then the range Langley

If PP reversed the handgun ban, I assume we will all be grabbing one…. Or two… or more…

Question is, do you think they will be very expensive due to high demand? Or relatively affordable due to people who hoarded them pre-ban wanting to liquidate?

These people are SOLID.

I’ve ordered over 6000 rounds from them this month, and they have pulled through.

With adjustments to my order, refunding where I messed up and just being a well rounded, solid service… Go Tenda has pulled through.

Also, free shipping with over $300 purchase on basically everything is also solid!

Sock for added effect since I couldn’t get my toesies in there.

Hello r/Canadaguns

As a young guy, I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I’ve read a lot of things here. I’ve become intimately familiar with the ruling federal party’s general mistreatment of PAL holders, and whilst I am so glad there is somewhere where opposition to this crap is alive and well, I have certainly seen some bad takes from this side as well. I’d like to offer how I view the subject and how I think we should progress together in a digestible manner to the 5 people who might indeed read it.

To preface, I am not some kind of world renowned academic, but I have spoken to some. I am a legal firearms owner, am almost done a university degree in Criminology, and have worked in the Justice System, so I promise I’m not talking entirely out of my ass.

I want to start quick with a discussion of statistics (boring I know). I have seen many times on here people saying that crime rates have gone up since Trudeau took office, essentially blaming him for it. I believe that would be based on this statistic here for StatsCan, showing raising rates since ~2014:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240725/dq240725b-eng.htm

Now, I want you to look at the wording: police reported crime. Police reports could be increasing because crime is on the rise, sure. But have we checked if the population has grown at a similar rate since then? Have we been hiring more and more police since 2014? More police officers is probably going to men’s more crime seen by police officers. Statistics just looked at and taken at face value can be incredibly misleading.

We must also tackle correlation (when A goes up, B goes up too) vs causation (we know for certain A going up causes B to go up) and to do this, I’m going to posit the example I’ve heard in so many sociology and psychology classes: Ice cream sales are correlated with shark attack deaths. When we sell more ice cream, more people get eaten by sharks. Here is where the third variable problem comes in: weather. When it’s hot out in the summer, more people eat ice cream, and more people surf and as a result get eaten by sharks. You have to always look at confounding third variables with things like this.

In some of my classes it was discussed how generally, crime rates seemed to rise after WWII, reaching a peak into the 80s and 90s, and then dropping until recently. The going theory I heard from my professors was that the most likely age for criminal activity is young adulthood. It was simply that large birth rates post-war led to more people being that prime age into the 80s and 90s, and the crime rate dropped as they aged out of it. If that’s true, that’s something the ruling administrations would have no control over.

Trudeau’s government correlates with a rise in police reported violent crime, but that doesn’t mean he caused it. Someone could very well find that internet usage also correlates with these two things, and then people will say that googling things makes you a criminal.

My point is this: when you see statistics, don’t just see “line go up” and run with it. Ask questions. Try and find out why “line go up”.

For my second point I’m going to make a little analogy that should hopefully make the situation clear. I want you to imagine gun usage in this country as a water hose out behind your house, with a leak in it (illegal gun crime). To prevent water getting everywhere, the federal government wants to put a different nozzle on the end of the hose that limits the amount of water coming out (imposing more laws on PAL holders). This is, as I’m sure you all agree, stupid, since the water coming out of the nozzle is already going into the garden where it’s supposed to. A take I hear on here all the time is that we should instead put a piece of duct tape over the hole (stop the illegal guns crossing the border). And that’s great and all, but would it not be easier if we simply shut off the tap first?

In theory, the Justice system sounds great. However reality is not so cheery. Approaches like trying harder to catch border crossers or increasing mandatory minimums sounds appealing to those not in the know. But, for the Justice system to be an effective deterrent, it requires 3 elements: punishment must be swift, certain, and proportionate to the crime. Our Justice system is not swift due to the court process to ensure fairness, our Justice system is not omnipotent and people do escape Justice (I heard a statistic saying the police know about ~1/3 of all crimes committed, I don’t remember the exact original source right now), and punishment must fit the crime, which is possible. But calls for measures like increasingly high mandatory minimums bring that into question. So looking at it, our Justice system scores a 0.5/3 on the deterrence scale, so obviously, it is not stopping people from doing crime.

As I’m sure you’re all aware, guns do not have legs. They don’t cross borders on their own. They cross borders because there are people willing to bring them and there is a market on the other side. So if our Justice system is not effectively deterring people from bringing them, then why would we not remove the market for those guns? Things like poverty and mental illness have strong associations with criminal activity and contact with the Criminal Justice system, as can things like poor upbringing and substance abuse issues. If you’re interested about reading further into this here’s two places to start:

https://icclr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mental-Illness-and-the-Criminal-Justice-System-Final-VS.pdf?x12845

https://www.okjusticereform.org/blog/how-poverty-drives-violent-crime

If we can drive down the rates that people get into crime in the first place, then there will be less market for the illegal guns, and they won’t be coming in.

How exactly does one solve the problems with mental health or poverty? Well, obviously that’s a very complicated issue, and would take a lot of different approaches. I think that increasing access to mental health resources, and tackling the unfairnesses created by neo-liberal economics and monopolies would be a good place to start. I’m by no means saying that this would be an easy or quick road, it would take time, money, and patience. But our current system is scoring a 0.5/3, so we have to try a different approach, right?

I took a class a while ago about the communist states who arose post-WWII in Eastern Europe. My professor told us that, despite all the issues those countries did have, the violent crime rates were (as far as we could tell), pretty low, at least early on. Presumably this was helped by the increased access to socialized healthcare and attempts to reduce the wealth gap (I wish I had a paper or book chapter to point you to about it but that class ended a while ago). Now, I’m not going to say we should automatically go emulate Communist Hungary, obviously planned economics and one party rule created their own host of social ills. But we should at least step back and take a look at what they got right, and see if we can’t make some smart decisions of our own.

Once again, I am under no pretence that this would be a fast or cheap solution. Humanity has been trying to come up with a solution to poverty for centuries, and it’s still here. But if crime is Polio, and our Justice system is the iron lung, I think it’s time we look into developing a vaccine.

Of course implementing stuff like this doesn’t mean that we should just completely stop looking at the border right away, obviously the market for illegal guns wouldn’t go away overnight. And I’m not saying there should be no gun control at all, I view guns the same way I view my car: I have to have a license that says I know how to use this properly and I have to respect certain rules to keep myself and others safe. But I am saying that obviously controlling rule following gun owners isn’t working, and attacking gun smugglers isn’t effective, so I think we should be looking at the roots of why people start doing gun crime in the first place. If we did just manage to eliminate all the guns in the country, I’m betting that gang members would just attack each other with machetes instead.

To anyone who actually read all this, I thank you very much. I hope you learned something or found a new way to look at the world around you. If you have something you’d like to add, or would like to know where you might be able further educate yourself, I encourage you to leave a comment and if needed I’d be happy to try and point you in the right direction.

I wish you all a good day, and hope for all our sake the price of ammo starts to come down, I don’t like paying 2$ a pop for 30-06.

Peace out, u/0rangeAliens

Hey Canadguns!,

We are the Simon Fraser Sports Shooting Club, (SFSSC) based out of Burnaby in Beautiful British Columbia. This is a shooting club created by students from Simon Fraser University, (SFU)and we are a student run organization. We are not a university club (not affiliated) but our audience base is SFU students

Our goal is to promote responsible firearm ownership and fun among the younger community, while dabbling in competitive disciplines as well. We currently have a trap&skeet team, and we hope to expand into PRS rimfire and IPSC!

We’d love to connect with the community as we are rapidly growing and could use all the support we can get! If anyone is interested in helping us out please don’t hesitate to reach out! Additionally, if you are a student of any post secondary institution in the lower mainland around Vancouver BC, feel free to come check us out! Our instagram is https://www.instagram.com/simonfrasersportshooting/

Looking forward to building a strong community with y’all!

Cheers,

SFSSC

I have a question about what things you needed to have in order to have a handgun. Do you need a gun range membership? Can you shoot handguns on private property if you get an att?

Went to cabelas to check about the price on a gen 1 Ruger american ranch in 7.62x39 and it's not listed anymore...a lil curious and mildly concerned. I wouldn't mind getting one to have "just incase" the gov does something more with semis chambered in it. They came in 5.56 and 7.62x39. Maybe over thinking,could just be a stocking thing but I just think it's a lil odd. Checked also that it comes in 450 bushmaster but that's not listed. Maybe I'm overthinking 😅 Guess the best thing I could do is speak to someone at Cabelas lol. Happy Thursday though eh.

I've soaked this thing in salts for 24 hours got it warmed up in hot water tried to pop the pin out and still not even budge. Does anyone have other ideas because my next option at this point is goint to a gun smith. 🙃 I'm pretty sure cosmo is just caked inside or something.

Thanks.