r/canadaguns • u/Butchi3_To3 • May 18 '26

Application / Regulation advice Handgun ownership of deceased

Hello all,

I have a family member who recently passed away who owns some handguns I was wondering if there is anyway to have the passed down to me? The guns themselves are older cowboy style guns and I recently have been interested in Cowboy Action Shooting but obviously cant buy a revolver for the sport and this would be a great opportunity to not only get one but also keep the collectible in the family.

With the laws in place is this even possible anymore?

Thanks in advance

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

Just inherit, hide it, and don't tell anyone. The social contract is gone since stupid liberals don't understand grand-father clauses. Wait for a conservative government and then re-register them since they will have to consider all the failure of a freeze.

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

I’ve been wondering how feasible this actually is..

Today you claim you don’t know where it is.. it’s lost.

If government repeals the freeze, suddenly tens of thousands of people are trying to register previously unregistered firearms?

Sure if they can’t prove anything then you’re not guilty.. no risk of jail.. but the optics on gun owners sure wouldn’t look good.

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u/OCTS-Toronto May 18 '26

You discovered it was hidden in the corner of the attic. Grandpa musta put it there years ago for safe keeping.

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

Ya. But tens of thousands of people will find it hidden in the corner of the attic.

Like I said, sure you can’t prove it, but it sure makes gun owners look bad.

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u/AdditionalLoss7274 May 18 '26

Worse optics than trying to confiscate them from the most law abiding segment of your society, you think?

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26

In my eyes, no.

In the liberals eyes, yes, absolutely fuel for another gun ban. They will make out all those people as criminals. Can’t prove they knew where the handgun was, but when thousands come out of the woodwork on the same week.. the writing is on the wall… and it will be used against us to paint us aw criminals.

Use your head. Just because you feel like you’re in the right, other people won’t, you still have to play politics.

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u/AdditionalLoss7274 May 18 '26

My head? How well has "taking the high road" worked out for us? I'm not interested in "what will the liberals think" anymore. Stop trying to appease them. They want to take ALL of your guns. YOU use YOUR head.

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26

lol. With that attitude they are going to get them.

You can’t claim to be the most law abiding group in the country while simultaneously advising people to break the law.

Good luck bud.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

most law abiding group in the countr

With properly designed laws THAT MAKE SENSE. Liberals don't make sense.

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u/Kromo30 May 19 '26

Liberals make up a majority of voters.

None of it makes sense. But it also doesn’t matter what makes sense.

What matters is keeping the majority on your side.

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u/R4ID on May 18 '26

Who cares, prove it didnt happen that way is all that matters.

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

And then polytechnic runs a tv campaign “tens of thousands of gun owners claim have lost guns, and then the ban got lifted, and tens of thousands of gun owners mysteriously found and are attempting to register those guns…. Does that sound like a law abiding group of people to you”

You’re giving them fuel for the fire. You still have to play politics.

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u/R4ID on May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Poly is welcome to make itself look stupid I dont mind at all, Again. Prove it didnt happen that way is all that matters.

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LOL user replied and insta blocked so I cant respond, think i found a liberal voter

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

What looks stupid to you, is believed by 55% of Canadians. That’s why we are where we are.

Again, it’s not all the matters. Your attitude is contributing to the gun ban problem. You represent all gun owners. Act like it.

Edit, lol. I didn’t block you bud. Try again.

Edit #2. Double lol. Now he has either blocked me, or posted and deleted his comment. Because I have a notification he replied to me but I can’t see the reply.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

Blockers opinions are irrelevant

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u/Kromo30 May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

You talking about me?

I just replied a second time to his comment. Which I couldn’t have done if he was blocked.

His feelings were hurt so he lied and said I blocked him.

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u/cattabliss bc May 18 '26

if the politics ever reverse, no one will care what poly says, they are an enabler, a validator, nothing more.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

The conservatives would have a reverse amnesty. Forgiveness of you disobeying shitty liberal laws 🤔.

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u/Kromo30 May 19 '26

In your dreams. Conservatives would never throw away fence sitter votes like that.

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u/Impossible-King-435 May 18 '26

It's totally possibly to dive to the bottom of the lake where your boat drowned with your guns, retrieve them and restore them to immaculate condition.

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u/HanzG May 18 '26

Basically you're in a can't lose situation. You physically have them, and they were registered. They're NOT in a criminals hands. They're not going to hurt anyone if they're with you. So you contact a lawyer and get a consultation for a couple hundred bucks. "This is what's up, this is what I want to do. What's your advice?".

And hopefully when these fucking morons pull their heads out of their asses and acknowledge we're not the problem and reverse it all. I'm really hoping they recognize that Poly doesn't have 2M votes.

I'll tell ya; If the Libs delivered a balanced budget and dropped the ban, I don't know who I'd vote for. Love PP's attitude in the HoC but he's not getting traction with the fence sitters.

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u/HatchingCougar May 20 '26

They’d get a super majority 100%

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u/HatchingCougar May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Up until the freeze

People were occasionally still registering (or registering) guns brought back from WW2

There’s also a pretty wild amount of guns that come off the books as they are loaned out (aka gifted / given) by someone who knows their end is imminent and the executor isn’t told about it, nor did the deceased ever mention where it went.  Even 12.2 & 12.3 stuff 

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u/waitwhatnothing May 19 '26

Before the handgun freeze it was possible to register an unregistered handgun. It makes sense to make it easy/possible to bring something into compliance with the law. 

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u/Kromo30 May 19 '26

Congratulations for entirely missing what was said.

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u/bandersnatching May 18 '26

The fantasy Conservative government is not going to indulge the return-of-Harper-era-firearms-laws fantasy.

You need to let go of that.

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u/Nautaloid Black Powder Enjoyer May 18 '26

It’s the only thing we have left to hope for. They’re the only party that has said anything pro-gun recently and they remain the only viable option for potentially fixing this country’s shitty gun laws.

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u/RodgerWolf311 May 18 '26

It’s the only thing we have left to hope for. 

Doing things based on hope is stupid. Lets be realistic instead. Look at all the recent bills the government has introduced. It makes it 100% clear that they do not want Canadians to have rights, freedoms, and most definitely dont want citizens having firearms.

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw May 19 '26

The fantasy Conservative government is not going to indulge the return-of-Harper-era-firearms-laws fantasy.

then you lose 2.4 million voters that largely make up the core of your base to some other upstart party that will respect them. eventually in the rush to the center you alienate your core base and the floor falls out from under you. the mulroney conservatives pushing gun control in the late 80s is part of what did in on the old pc party. the UK is having it happen now ironically also with a party called reform.

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u/Kromo30 May 19 '26

Who are those 2.4m voters going to vote for? The liberals?

When you live in a two party system, you pander to the fence sitters, not the 2.4m that are going to vote for you no matter what.

A tiny fraction of those 2.4m will vote for that upstart party, the rest will understand that voting for this fantasy upstart party is no different than voting for the Green Party. Their options are blue or red.

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw May 19 '26

they will vote for it when the current party gives them next to no reason to vote for them. 30% of the voters in the UK migrated to reform and polls have them forming government. by your logic conservatives in the UK should just vote for the tories over there forever and somehow expect things to change.

the main conservative option in canada would have been more anti-gun had the old PCs stayed around and conservatives in canada didnt largely instead tell them to pound sand and move to mannings party.

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u/BlandRusk06 May 27 '26

When a restricted firearm owner dies, does the government automatically know that there are 'unowned' guns out there? Do they follow up on it? If OP just held onto them and stayed quiet, would anyone find out? Asking honestly.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 27 '26

Maybe, maybe, and no.

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u/TheNinjaJedi nb May 18 '26

Stupid advice

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

property rights and grandfathering are serious society functions. Grow a spine.

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u/TheNinjaJedi nb May 18 '26

I think the current laws are stupid just like all of us here, but I’m not risking jail time for my hobby. My family is more important to me. If that means I don’t have a spine in your eyes, so be it.

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u/Pristine-Alps-426 May 18 '26

Governments not getting something I or a family member bought legally with legally acquired money. They can go after drug dealers and thieves. I’m keeping my stuff

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer May 18 '26

I was exactly speaking of a situation where you would never get caught and could deny responsibility.

If convicted killers on visa don't get deported from Canada you aren't getting jailtime.

Stop being an NPC.