Corrections

How to request a correction on Holdover and how material factual errors are handled.

Last updated: May 19, 2026

Holdover aims to be precise, especially on Canadian firearms law, policy, ownership rules, tools, and technical shooting subjects. If something is wrong, unclear, outdated, or missing important context, send it in.

How To Request A Correction

Email: steve@holdover.ca

Please include:

  • The page URL
  • The sentence, claim, figure, or passage that needs review
  • The best source or evidence you have
  • A short explanation of the problem

What Happens Next

Holdover will review the request against the underlying source material. If the article is wrong in a way that changes the meaning, the page should be corrected and, where appropriate, a correction note should be added.

If a request is really a difference of interpretation, the article may be updated for clarity or left as-is. Either way, strong source material is useful.

What Counts As Material

A correction is material when it changes what a careful reader would take away from the page. Examples include a wrong date, a wrong legal status, a misquoted official source, a broken calculation, a mistaken model name, a misleading figure, or a missing update that changes the practical meaning of the article.

For legal and policy subjects, Holdover tries to check against the strongest available source first. That usually means current statutes, regulations, Orders in Council, Canada Gazette material, Public Safety Canada pages, RCMP Canadian Firearms Program material, court records, Parliament, Statistics Canada, or another original record.

For gear, ballistics, and reloading subjects, the strongest source may be a current manufacturer manual, published specification, load manual, direct measurement, or clearly described field note.

Minor Edits

Small fixes such as typos, broken links, formatting issues, and wording improvements may be made without a public correction note when they do not change the substance of the page.

Holdover may also update a page to improve clarity, add a newer source, repair formatting, or make a reference page easier to use. Those updates are not always corrections, but material changes should still be clear to readers.