Steve Coppola - Holdover (Page 4)

An unloaded bolt-action rifle with its bolt removed and trigger lock attached rests in an open hard case beside an anonymous shipping box.

Gear

"Box it up" skips the Canada Post rules

Canada Post requires the right parcel service, Proof of Age, a locking device, a locked case, anonymous outer packaging, and a route that stays on the ground.

A shooter measures the vertical distance between two groups on a tall target at an outdoor range.

Precision

Your turret, measured across thirty MOA

A closed box confirms return-to-zero. The tall-target test measures the turret scale and gives the owner a correction factor for every ballistic solution.

Gear

At $15,000, ask who will tighten the action

Five-figure clay shotguns make sense through fit, volume, and service. Price the people and parts that keep the action working.

A person photographs an unreadable appointment grid on a laptop in a modest apartment.

Advocacy

Book now. Downtown Toronto showed a full calendar.

Public Safety tells approved participants to book collection quickly. One assigned downtown Toronto calendar reportedly had no appointment to offer.

A public-land visitor compares a folded map with a gravel road and narrower recreation trail in the Alberta foothills.

Advocacy

Four hundred metres from the trail tread

In Ghost PLUZ, Alberta's 400-metre trail distance, maintained-road rule, and temporary TransAlta restriction belong to separate map features. The signed restriction notice runs through August 29, 2026.

A shooter checks a handheld weather meter at an outdoor range before a session.

Precision

An August zero carries two temperatures

A cold-season zero changes through the powder and the atmosphere. Write both conditions down before November asks the rifle to prove them.

A sport-pistol competitor holds an unbranded target pistol in a lowered start position on a quiet range.

Precision

Saskatoon put six seconds on the scorecard

Saskatoon's first pistol results show how a two-point lead moved across 150-, 20-, and 10-second stages before Military Rapid reached six seconds.

An adult places a large sealed powder jug beside a smaller sealed bottle on an orderly worktable.

Handloading

In an apartment, an eight-pound jug leaves three pounds

Section 302 gives a non-detached dwelling a 20 kg smokeless-powder limit until any one container holds more than 1 kg. Then the total ceiling is 5 kg.

A retailer employee places an AR-pattern rifle on a padded inventory counter.

Advocacy

From 12,143 to 74,073 firearms claimed

The 187-business ATIP figure belongs to the first compensation phase. Public Safety's current business total is 74,073 firearms claimed across both periods.

An owner reads a statistical table beside a safely supported air pistol.

Advocacy

What the gun-crime number is made of

Statistics Canada counted 14,488 firearm-related violent crimes in 2024. One combined category contains 4,548 of them and supplied about half the ten-year rate increase.

A range volunteer records a round on a clipboard beside a stack of orange clay targets.

Precision

Cookstown's first 75 leave two at 72

The official live skeet sheet lists 44 competitors after three rounds. Two are at 72, with 175 qualification targets still open.

A seller checks a buyer's identity beside a cased bolt-action rifle.

Advocacy

Section 23, from the seller's side of the table

Canada recorded 421,022 reference-number requests in 2025. Firearms Act section 23 puts the request, identity check, and 90-day clock on the seller's side.