James, I have a Ruger Mark II bull-barrel .22, registered for target shooting, now restricted to the club. Has there been a change in regulations concerning handguns? Isn't Ottawa polling to ban handguns? I can't find enthusiasm to take on Ottawa; seems most have given up, including local gunshops. Opinion, please.
It's not restricted to storage at your club unless you want it that way King.
Ottawa is not polling to ban hand guns, they are conniving to. All the more reason to kick up a fuss, rather than roll over and take it up the a$$.
2.2 million licensed gun owners in Canada, King. That's a pretty large special interest group if we didn't have FUDDS trying to throw hand gun and black gun enthusiasts under the bus. 30,000 new PAL licensees in Ontario in the last 6 month. Over a third are restricted. At $300 for the PAL and over $400 for the RPAL, I 'd call that healthy.
Don't forget, all those RPAL holders then need to go buy a gun, 2 strong boxes and join a club, which will be a minimum of $500 in Ontario. We are talking well over $1500 at a minimum.
Is interest in gun use and ownership dying? Hell no. Although there is a concerted effort to kill it.
If your local gunshop is dying, I would suggest that has more to do with his retailing skills than anything else. As you know, I'm pretty familiar with retail.....it's tougher and tougher for every kind of mom and pop operation to survive no matter what the product category is.
