I live in Canada, and the federal laws here are ridiculously in favor of the criminal who is breaking into your home and wants to kill you. Here you have to take an official exam just to obtain your firearms license. (It’s called a “PAL,” which means “Purchase and Acquisition License.”) Then you have to store your firearm unloaded and locked/disabled in a securely-locked compartment with the ammunition not within easy access or also stored in a securely-locked compartment. In Canada, firearms can only be used for hunting or target practice, or kept as a collection, but cannot be used for self-defense purposes.
Also, believe it or not, here in Canada any mace products are totally illegal! The only thing you can buy or sell here is a canine repellent spray, which is only about half the strength of mace, or bear spray, which is even stronger than mace but is only for use in bear territory. But any product labeled with the word “mace” is a no-no. And even canine repellent spray cannot be used for self-defense on a person. So if a woman is being threatened and she uses canine spray to defend herself (especially if she is carrying it in an urban setting), she can go to jail! Ridiculous!
I used to own a Browning 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, a S&W .357 magnum revolver with a 2 1/2 inch barrel, a CZ 9 mm semi-auto pistol, a Remington Springfield .30-06 bolt-action rifle, a Marlin .22 long rifle, and an old smoothbore 44-40 rifle a few years ago. At the time my elder father also owned a semi-auto .22 Ruger pistol, an antique .38 revolver, and an over-under 12-gauge shotgun, which he got from his brother-in-law. We only had them for trap shooting (moving clay disks) and target practice. Sort of a little father-son activity.
I currently don’t own any firearms whatsoever. (I sold them to gun stores to slightly improve my financial situation.) However, I am now in the process of obtaining an updated firearms permit because I would like to purchase a good high-powered hunting rifle for target practice at a club. (I’m just waiting for my PAL permit card to arrive.) I really want to be able to show it off to my brother-in-law. He and my sister also are JWs. My brother-in-law has some target and hunting rifles, as well as a 9 mm handgun. They live out in the country, and he does some hunting and target practice. I actually want to get an extremely powerful rifle like a Mark V or Mark XII Weatherby Magnum .460 caliber, or even a .50 BMG just like Jamie and Adam were using in the show “Myth Busters.” I’m one of those fellows who just has to have a “bigger one” than the other guy.
