r/canadaguns • u/PhantomNomad al • Jun 09 '26

Misc Found the RCMP firearms licensing place

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Found where our licenses are processed. Right next door to the dollararma.

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u/terrorxtattoos Jun 09 '26

As an American I check into this subreddit once in a while and feel really bad for you guys man hold strong man the 2A should be for all even my Canadian brothers

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u/Vintage_Pieces_10 Jun 09 '26

Thanks for the solidarity man. One day hopefully our laws will return to some semblance of normalcy

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u/snasna102 Jun 09 '26

I’m okay with guns being a privilege over a right up here, it keeps the guns out of the hands that shouldn’t have them; my problem is they go after the responsible owners and run on the advantage our public doesn’t know much about guns so all they know is “AR bad”

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u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx Jun 09 '26

I’m okay with guns being a privilege over a right up here, it keeps the guns out of the hands that shouldn’t have them

I understand rationally this is the most sensible approach. I like the fact that the guy next to me at the range has undergone some screening and a safety course.

But I have become totally sympathetic to the American maximalist position ("shall not be infringed"). They can see what happened in the UK, and NZ, and Australia, and here. There is no social contract to be had with anti-gun people. There is no "compromise"; every measure, including licensing, is just an incremental step toward their actual goal of total prohibition.

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u/SlowDebate3165 Jun 09 '26

Unfortunately, that’s a direct consequence of it not being treated as a right.

You can’t have it both ways. As long as something isn’t recognized as a right, someone will always have an easier time taking it away from you.

At this, it’s just a matter of time until most of it is gone, with only narrow carve-outs left for rural landowners and privileged exceptions (indigenous).

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u/ADrunkMexican Jun 09 '26

People in BC got lucky and almost found out the hard way lol

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u/rangedehinc Jun 09 '26

Dont bother... Canada has too much of a serf mentality to have that much personal responsibility.  Out of all the commonwealth countries we are the most cucked. Heck, even the british put on a good protest almost every year.

We dont even have basic property rights... heck, we dont even have basic rights. Our own charter is designed with the sole purpose of defining our rights as nothing more than priviligies. 

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u/classicfroger420 Jun 09 '26

Now you can get why are we losing our guns after seeing those replies lol.

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u/givemehellll al Jun 09 '26

Strongly disagree on that one. Same as a drivers licence, no one should have a right to own firearms. Our government just needs to cut all the BS from over the last decade, and actually take illegal guns serious.

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u/Spot_E Jun 09 '26

Don't hold your breath with that mindset

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u/No_Heat_6072 Jun 09 '26

We don't really need it. We all thank you for thinking of us, but enshrining firearms so broadly into our Constitution would lead to a lot of unnecessary fights and safety concerns. IMO.

We just need our Government to be willing to learn more about guns so that when they make the laws, they don't mess up. We don't need a law that ages poorly to muddy the waters. Most laws, like the 2A, age poorly and lack context once they get into the future.

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u/Azules023 Jun 09 '26

Clearly our approach isn’t working though. Anytime our politicians on the left need a cheap political tool, they just add more random guns to the ban list to distract voters. Numbers or logic don’t matter to them so learning about firearms won’t make a difference because it’s not about firearms, it’s about culture war politics.

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u/Krazee9 on Jun 09 '26

We just need our Government to be willing to learn more about guns

They know about guns, they don't care. Trudeau has a PAL, he knows about guns. The adage "Don't attribute to malice what can be equally explained by stupidity," doesn't apply to the gun bans because they know how guns work. They are doing it maliciously, and without some kind of protection that is untouchable by the government, like a right, then we will always be under attack from the Liberals.

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u/SlowDebate3165 Jun 09 '26

That’s a deluded liberalized fantasy.

Either firearm ownership has serious legal protection, or it exists only for as long as the government feels like allowing it.
“We just need the government to learn more about guns” is not a solution. It’s wishful thinking. Governments do not need to understand guns to ban them. They only need the legal power to do it, and right now they have it.

So pick one.

Either you support 2A-style protections, or you accept that firearms can be slowly banned out of existence. But don’t pretend there’s some magical third option where gun ownership stays secure because politicians suddenly become informed and reasonable.

If you’d rather have no guns than constitutional protection for them, then say that with your full chest. It's unironically a more respectable take.

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u/Hopeful_Relation_441 Jun 09 '26

thanks for the kind words.. tbh i would prefer some sort of 2a up here but not universally.. the guy i drove by this morning arguing with a mailbox doesnt need a right to a rifle and most canadians are cool with a license, background checks and laws reverting back to harper era gun laws

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u/Onepackfatness Jun 09 '26

With all due respect, maybe leave Canadian matters to Canadians. Worry about your own country.