ballz
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Greymatters said:I think the issue here isnt your comfort level but competence level. You may have experience and wisdom with your weapon, but you know as well as I do that there are many out there who would be comfortable carrying, but would overestimate their own competence in weapons handling.
You're right, and my solution would be this as a minimum to maintain a CCW. Annual renewal of your CCW via handling test and range test, paid for by user fees and adminstered by an RSO at firing ranges (anyone who has a handgun registered right now MUST be a member of a range anyway, unless they are registered as a collector in which case they wouldn't want to carry their weapon anyway). It *should* take very little red tape, and most of the work delegated to competent people (RSOs at legit firearm ranges), all paid for by the people that want a CCW, not taxpayers. This, of course, is in addition to having to have a PAL-Restricted, etc which is already in place.
I don't honestly care if it's concealed or not concealed, being able to carry it would be nice. I probably wouldn't carry, but if we get to the point that I can carry, then that probably means I don't have to have a Restricted firearm at home double-locked and stored seperate from ammo, therefore rendering it useless in the case that I need it.
See when it comes to gun control in Canada, you've pretty much got to argue for the most extreme things (CCW) to accomplish anything (being able to store it in a matter that actually makes it useful...).