Ontario, was estimated to have roughly 16 million people in 2024. This means 4300 pal per 100k. Quebec had roughly 9 million people. This means 5500 pal per 100k. As much as people say Quebec is anti-gun, it is a very very loud minority. If you leave the big cities (Montreal and Quebec), there are quite a lot of guns in Quebec!
Gets even more depressing when you look at just the GTHA area: about half of Ontario's population and just under 18% of the entire population of Canada.
Gat damn NB, proud of ya. I guess the gun owners around these parts rightfully understand this place is basically the wild west with little to no RCMP presence haha
Clearly there are more gun nuts in Ontario and Quebec than Alberta. Do better Alberta. How are you supposed to be "Texas of the North" with those numbers?
I'd also be interested in a headcount, instead of only counting firearms. How many people have actually gone through with a declaration? Again, comparing that to PAL holders.
Exactly this. The number of firearms doesn't interest me. I would've preferred that none were declared but here we are. I would like to know how many PAL holders did declare out of the total number of PAL holders. Such a waste of time and money, I'd care less about the budget deficit if it was actually put towards helpful things (the border perhaps?). I suppose the numbers don't really tell us anything important though because we all know that none of the declared firearms are getting turned in by criminals to help make Canada safer.
It’s gotta be much lower if they’re sticking to “number of firearms declared” versus “number of participants” especially non-businesses that had to sell/rid of useless inventory
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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 Mar 20 '26
It would be interesting to see per capita of PAL holders how many firearms are reported by province.