Own a gun? license fees on the way.

[Guest Derek L]

The feds are going to be charging gun owners fees for their license. I'm not a gun owner but one fee with be $80. and another is $60 and they say they need the money to help pay off the deficit and since there's over 394,000 gun owners, they couldn't help themselves not too. http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/28/gun-license-fees-reloaded

$ 80 dollars every five years when I renew my RPAL……………Last weekend spent $ 300 for ammo for an afternoon shooting with my son and nephew…….I’d guesstimate my firearms and optics to be worth between $50k-60k………See where I’m going with this?

[Guest Derek L]

I wonder what gun owners would have preferred:

a) Paying higher licensing fees, but having no gun registry

or

Having a gun registry, but paying no licensing fees.

A.

[Guest Derek L]

I assume that the demise of the registry will mean police will no longer kick down your door with their pistols drawn shouting "WHERE ARE THE GUNS? WHERE ARE THE GUNS?" when they arrive at your home for a routine noise complaint. So I am guessing option B.

-k

What we’ll save in ALCAN for our hats over five years without the registry will cover the 80 bucks

[Guest Derek L]

Assume that once a license is issued, your info is recorded into a database of some sort.

It sure is.

[Guest Derek L]

You mean like....a registry?

Nope, nothing like the registry...."They" know I have a Licence to own firearms, not what I own.

[Guest Derek L]

That already happens. Gun shops and provincial governments already track that kind of thing.

Perhaps in Ontario, not here.

[Guest Derek L]

BTW, if they aren't licensed, they aren't legal

You Don’t licence your guns.

[Guest Derek L]

Oh yes you will. Harper's going to make you register them...and pay for it too now

At least now we know the real reason Harper wanted to kill off the Liberal's gun registry...Harper wanted to implement a new way to tax you.

And how is he going to do that?

[waldo]

Last weekend spent $ 300 for ammo for an afternoon shooting with my son and nephew…….I’d guesstimate my firearms and optics to be worth between $50k-60k………See where I’m going with this?

here?

[Guest Derek L]

here?

Not quite…..20mm Cannons fall under the Prohibited class, but if we end up retiring to Arizona as planned…….But not allowed a mullet though

[waldo]

Not quite…..20mm Cannons fall under the Prohibited class, but if we end up retiring to Arizona as planned…….But not allowed a mullet though

are you sure that's not a 50mm? ... and here I thought you already had a mullet!

[westguy]

My driver's license should be free too!

and fishing...

and boating...

Ahhh, to live in a libertarian paradise without any regulation.

the only consequence of the gun registry was to piss away billions of tax dollars and to make farmers and hunters criminals

[Guest Derek L]

are you sure that's not a 50mm? ... and here I thought you already had a mullet!

You mean 50 Cal…….50 mm would be a tank barrel………It could be, but the heat shield, barrel length and flash suppressor look waaaay to large (Think the Movie the Jackal and what popped Jack Black= 20mm)……..If it were 50 Cal though, it would fall under the non-restricted class and be quite legal like the rest of target rifles here in Canada.

[bush_cheney2004]

You mean 50 Cal…….50 mm would be a tank barrel………

Don't hurt 'em too bad...being metric and all. It's fun to watch!

Guess which one is 20mm...esteemed MLW member Derek L already knows.

http://www.hightech-edge.com/wp-content/uploads/50-browning-and-20mm-cannon-rounds.jpg

Edited June 3, 2012 by bush_cheney2004

[Guest Derek L]

Don't hurt 'em too bad...being metric and all. It's fun to watch!

Guess which one is 20mm...esteemed MLW member Derek L already knows.

http://www.hightech-edge.com/wp-content/uploads/50-browning-and-20mm-cannon-rounds.jpg

Indeed, for when esteemed Member Derek L and his wife move to Scottsdale, he’ll have quite a debate with his wife over the purchase investment in a M2.…….For some reason, she doesn’t think 20k for a crew serviced weapon is the greatest idea…..

[waldo]

You mean 50 Cal…….50 mm would be a tank barrel………It could be, but the heat shield, barrel length and flash suppressor look waaaay to large (Think the Movie the Jackal and what popped Jack Black= 20mm)……..If it were 50 Cal though, it would fall under the non-restricted class and be quite legal like the rest of target rifles here in Canada.

yuk, yuk... that was a 'go big or go home' jab in line with the mullet. The site that sent me to that endearing redneck shot had actually identified the gun as a WWII 'Finish Lahti-39 20mm'... while also highlighting it lasted only as long as it took for the development of reinforced thick tank armour... which in turn brought on/back a shifted reliance on the 50mm 'cannons'.