r/canadaguns • u/ThatRedMachinist • 11d ago

Milsurps / Prohib First Nation Hunting Exemption in OIC

Since there's an exemption in the OIC that allows natives to hunt with their prohibited firearms, would I be allowed to take said firearm to the range to "sight it in" for hunting in the fall?

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 11d ago

This is great info! Thanks! I'm Indigenous as well and very much feeling the precarity here as well.

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u/varsil Firearms Lawyer (Verified) 11d ago

I have a video on this, but among other things the exception is only until another firearm can be obtained.

So if you take a prohibited firearm out, you're going to have to explain how it was impossible for you to pick up a used Savage for $300 or whatever.

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 11d ago edited 11d ago

"Cost of living ain't great officer and the buyback cash was never guaranteed"...?

Or

"There was no replacement because everything else was banned officer. Reasonably,this was it!"

Joking (sort of). Thanks again! It's a really stupid way they went about this exemption stuff on top of the existing stupidity of the whole ban project.

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u/varsil Firearms Lawyer (Verified) 11d ago

Even if you can establish that you fall within the exemption, it's going to be expensive as hell getting there.

Like, expect to need experts on the cost of firearms, availability, etc.

And then you'll get asked, "Well, you could afford the experts for this trial, and a lawyer. You couldn't afford a $300-500 gun?"

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 11d ago

Yeah, hence why your original advice stands lol. Best not take any risks in this area.