Interesting. So it's like the Australia model more or less. Sad its come to this, but its nice for people to get a chance to play around with handguns. To be fair, with them being registered and all, its not like you ever fully owned them anyway.
What do you mean Australian model? I own and keep at home my CZ SP-01 in Australia our licensing of handguns was very similar to Canada before you guys changed it.
I thought yours was way more onerous. Like you have to attend a certain amount of shoots and pretty much qualify to keep it on a yearly basis. Whereas up here before you didnt need to be in competitions or ever even shoot the gun. Some provinces required a range membership and others didnt.
So the way we could get one was the same in terms of licensing but yes you have to do a certain amount of comps per year to keep it and that changed based on state in my state its 6 comps and 4 practices a year (comp and prac are the same its just what you mark it down as) but in Qld its 6 comps and what they do is called a rolling comp where you shoot 6 bowling pins with an RO as fast as you can and that gets scored with everyone else that same week. While it sounds like a fuck around you would pretty much go and shoot 10 times a year anyway so its not a massive deal for me but it still deters people which I guess the point. You can also get exemptions to the comp requirements but that's a year by year exemption which was the case all throughout covid due to the fucked lock downs we had here.
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u/WeightedDips95 May 15 '26
Interesting. So it's like the Australia model more or less. Sad its come to this, but its nice for people to get a chance to play around with handguns. To be fair, with them being registered and all, its not like you ever fully owned them anyway.