Advocacy
The prize list is the *point*
CCFR's Raining Guns contest worked because it made lawful Canadian firearms ownership visible as regulated property, business support, and ordinary gear culture.
Steve Coppola
Steve Coppola is the editor of Holdover, a Canadian publication covering precision shooting, firearms policy, handloading, tools, and lawful firearms ownership.
Advocacy
The exemption is the *warning light*
B.C.'s new FVPA sells itself as gang law. The warning for lawful shooters is the exemption: if ordinary range activity needs carving out, the law was wider than advertised.
Advocacy
Saskatchewan put a receipt on the *ban*
Saskatchewan's new appraisal service turns the federal buyback fight back into property, storage, receipts, and the lawful owners Ottawa keeps finding first.
Advocacy
The gun show is not a *loophole*
A busy May 2 gun show listing in Ontario is a useful reminder: in Canada, the gun show is not a loophole. It is one of the last human places where new shooters can learn gear, law, and culture at the same table.
Advocacy
A hundred guns, and the *point* Ottawa misses
The CCFR's 100-gun contest is loud, cheeky, and legally mundane. That is why it works: it shows new shooters a community refusing to let Ottawa turn lawful ownership into something shameful.
Advocacy
The breach they won't *pay* for.
On April 27, the federal government confirmed in writing: no compensation was ever paid to the 2.2 million firearm owners exposed in the 2021 Canadian Firearms Program breach. The vendor still has the contract.
Handloading
The free *upgrade*.
Vihtavuori quietly updated its Reloading Data Center this week. For a Canadian handloader working on a powder that is actually stocked here, it is now the most usable free tool in the hobby. The upgrade costs nothing, and that is rare in this hobby.
The little *.308* that behaves
The Black Creek Labs TRX Bronco Howitzer looks like a bad idea someone had near a bandsaw. Then you shoot it. Compact, loud, controlled, and far more accurate than a 9.5-inch .308 has any right to be.
Precision
The *data* book.
Components are up, rimfire matches are filling, and the thing separating winners from also-rans at Canadian precision matches is often a notebook, not another rifle part.
Gear
The Cadex CDX-300 TAC makes *.300 PRC* make sense
The Cadex CDX-300 TAC is too heavy, too expensive, and too specific to flatter casual ownership. Good. In .300 PRC, those are not sins. They are the point.
Precision
The .22 *moment*.
Centrefire components are up 250 per cent. The prohibited list keeps growing. Half the buyback was returned. None of that has slowed the fastest-growing precision discipline in Canada. For new PAL holders, the path in is rimfire.
Advocacy
Don't *walk* into the detachment
Opinion. The RCMP had to warn Canadians not to walk banned rifles into a detachment. A federal buyback six years in the making still has no clear compliance path that does not risk criminal charges for vetted owners trying to follow it.