Originally Posted By: used_0il
This looks more interesting than engine oil! The rifle in the picture on the front page of the National Post appears to be a .338 Lapua tactal setup worth about $10,000 and costs $4.00 a shot to shoot.
They cost about $3.20 a shot to shoot
And the above tactical rifle was nowhere near $10K (Savage 110BA). Not the same as the one in the picture, but even the Barrett MRAD is only around $6K CDN.
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The journalists, obviously everything Anne Coultier says they are, used that photo to shock the public.
Probably, and it is sad that it works on people who aren't familiar with guns. But it is a predictable and common tactic.
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I've never needed a firearm for self defense. I walk in the forest unarmed all the time. A person can own a firearm for what ever purpose they deem fit in Canada as long as they qualify and follow the rules.
Yes, though what those firearms are has limitations, but generally I find the rules up here, now that the registry has been scrapped, pretty decent
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The gun registry was a pain, was expensive, took away law enforcement resources away from where they were more effective and did not reduce acts of crime that involved firearms. Gen Collin Powell, Sec of State (retired) likely knows a thing or two about firearms. I like his opinion and solutions to the firearms debate that is perpetual in the USA. Not all agree and that is what makes a democracy. People can and do say what they want about the United States of America being the world's police force and so on. What they always seem to leave out is the fact the the USA is and always has been the 1st to respond to natural disasters and human suffering around the world. That is an unselfish act that speaks volumes about the citizens of the USA and their priorities.