r/canadaguns • u/Nervous-Thing6573 • Jul 31 '26

Buy recommendations Online shopping

What is/are your trusted websites to purchase guns and accessories ?

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u/number75 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Any store or retailer listed on AlmostProhibited is legitimate. I find their search engine sometimes doesn't find everything that might be in the stores, but it does let you know which shops are real and which shops aren't.

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u/_Armpit AlmostProhibited.ca Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Is it some of the Shopify retailers that are missing items?

Shopify has adopted some of the Web Bot Auth drafts that require bot crawlers to sign requests, so those retailers have been failing recently. A fix for that is in progress.

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u/number75 Jul 31 '26

Hey, dev answer, awesome! Yeah, I think quite a few of them are shopify? I noticed it mostly with Reliable though since I use them to price check. They don't use shopify afaik but I noticed that the search doesn't catch a lot of their stuff for some reason.

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u/_Armpit AlmostProhibited.ca Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Reliable is often flaky (ironic), but they've been tweaking some of their own stuff in the background to try to counter bots. Looking at options for them as well.

Everyone is being slammed by AI crawlers, so that impacts other "normal" bots as well :(

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u/number75 Jul 31 '26

Ah that sucks. Still, thanks for your work in creating the website! Hopefully you figure out a solution to these issues.