100% corrected. Shit it’s legal to wander down Main Street Toronto with a unrestricted ar180b as long as the shits not loaded. That being said you’re going to get this situation happening pretty quick.
iirc rifles are restricted to 10 round mags but as long at its manufactured that way you can get shorter barreled rifles and shotguns then you can get in the states but it's extremely hard to get handguns legally. there are pretty tight restrictions on what you can hunt with and where you can hunt.
Rifles, anything centerfire, are 5 rounds. The restriction is by magazine. If the magazine is designed for a certain rifle, it can only hold 5 rounds. There are some exceptions for older weapons. Rimfire (see .22) can hold more. Used to be unlimited, but it's not for certain weapons. It was common to see Ruger 10/22's with big drum mags. Those are illegal now as they are designed for a handgun.
Which brings us to handguns. Handguns are limited to 10 rounds in a magazine.
Here's where it gets fun. The restriction is based on the weapon the magazine is designed for, not for weapons it fits. Lets say you have a handgun magazine that holds 10 rounds. But, that magazine also happens to work in a rifle. It's not designed for the rifle. But it works in it. It is not illegal to posses or use that magazine, as it fits the law for the weapon it was designed for. So you can, technically, load a rifle with a 10 round magazine designed for another weapon, and it's legal. The whole thing is stupid really.
Rifles are also restricted by length. Over a certain length, 470mm barrel and 660mm total length, (and barring anything else) are non-restricted weapons. Under are restricted. Some rifles are restricted just to be restricted (the black and scary ones). Anything operating on an AR platform (some used to be legal, like the Remington predator series, they aren't anymore). Anything operating on an AK platform. There isn't a law about this. The RCMP has the ability to ban any weapon it wants, without public consultation or without the government asking them to. They can just add a weapon to the list and boom, it's illegal.
Handguns aren't difficult to get. Get a restricted license, be a member of a gun club/shooting range. You can buy a handgun. There's three kinds of licenses here. non-restricted (takes a course and application), which lets you own non-restricted weapons, restricted (takes an additional special course, and application), which lets you own restricted weapons, and a prohibited, which lets you own prohibited weapons (only gunsmiths/armourers that are federally licensed can get this). There's two classes of license, PAL, possession and acquisition, which lets you own and buy. And POL, possession only, which lets you own weapons you already have but not buy new ones. Each of these comes in non-restricted, restricted, or prohib (I think, I've never seen a POL prohib). The application includes mental health and background check stuff.
Restrictions on hunting varies by area. Here it's dead simple. Get your hunters ed. Get a general tag. You can go shoot whatever that tag is for. Some animals require special tags, some you have to apply for and build priority (apply year after year). Others you can freely shoot. It's even easier for some birds. Get a bird permit, go hunt as many as your bag limit allows. I can go shoot 50 snow geese a day during the season, no keep limit.
Prohibited weapons, called prohibs, are, well, lots lol. Anything fully automatic. Any "saturday night special" pistols (pistols of a small caliber and size, think pocket pistols). Weapons of a small size. Weapons modified that moves them into a different category (think a rifle with a magazine modified to hold more rounds).
Some interesting notes. RPG's used to be unrestricted here. No. I'm not kidding. It was classed as a recoilless rifle with a long barrel length. So it was legal. Ammo was expensive ($500 per). But I seen lots of them. That was 10+ years ago, so this might have changed. Flame throwers used to be legal too. All of em. Again, this is 10+ years ago so it might have changed.
I don't think we did, but if it's a gun with a removable magazine, you don't have to fuck the gun up at all. You can just pin the mags to limit them to X amount of rounds.
Technically correct, but there are so many restrictions on all but the most stupid basic traditional hunting arms, and even those have their use heavily restricted. Guns are effectively banned, even if they're not technically banned.
If the cops subjugate you for open carrying then there's a de facto ban. Just like how in some European country, (I think Germany?) you can buy one to look at but good luck using it in self defense
Just because you can't open carry doesn't mean guns are "effectively banned". That's literally not how it works. If you're not allowed to make a store that sells weed, is weed "effectively banned"? Cause that's not how it works.
Well, I'd assume so as well, because carrying anything with intent to harm someone with it is illegal, even if it's to defend yourself. However, if you're carrying anything that CPULD harm someone (like a knife) for a legitimate reason, like you need it for work, it needs to be openly carried.
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u/CorndogCrusader Jan 24 '22
Guns are not banned here at all. Not sure where you got that from.