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Originally Posted by accyman
as far as i am aware laws were brought in years ago that a fire arm had to be kept in a locker at a gun club and can no longer been kept in the house
i think farmers are allowed shot guns and folk who do hunting are usualy equipped with high powered air rifels and not automatic pistols or revolvers
its a bit late to be googleing about but im pretty sure anyone with a gun in their house is doing so illigally no matter what licence they say they have unless of course your a farmer
gamekeepers are probably allowed guns as well but only on the land they tend
basicly i cant see any excuse for having a fire arm in the house but they are definatly out there in the hands of teenagers as was shown when that little boy was shot dead last year in broad day light
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Don't think guns per se are really that much of a problem ... it's the gun "mentality" and the gun "culture" that are problems. In "Bowling for Columbine" Moore had some observations about the difference between Canadians and Americans, using as a convenient example the cities of Windsor (it's in Canada by the way) and Detroit, just across the bridge from Windsor ... In any given year Detroit has around 700 murders, most of them commited with guns, and Windsor, a city of comparable size, has maybe one or two. And in general, he observed that while Canadians have about as many guns per capita as the Americans, they don't get into shooting people very much. I have eight guns ... well, if you count the three Lee Enfield .303s that I am attempting to restore ... all legal, all legally stored .... and, to the best of my knowledge, I've never shot anyone
I didn't buy any of them for personal protection .... I have a shotgun in order to shoot my xmas dinner, for example. Of course certain kinds of guns are illegal in Canada, fully automactic weapons and assault rifles of course, and others, hand guns for example, are very difficult to obtain and can be stored and transported under strict conditions. But if you are a hunter, getting a gun is not much of a problem.