Gear
$900 needs a *price check*
A fresh Canadian price-check thread shows the smartest first move in the used market: split the rifle from the ammo, ask the community, and make the listing survive the math.
Opinion
Holdover opinion pieces on firearms policy, ownership, gear, culture, and the Canadian debate around lawful shooters.
Advocacy
June 6 answers the *speech*
The Prime Minister's June 5 statement told one firearms story. National Range Day shows the licensed Canadian community the speech leaves out.
Advocacy
Gun shops got the *error screen*
The buyback's business portal turned retailers into deadline managers, inventory clerks, and support-ticket writers. That is not background admin. It is the policy.
Advocacy
10,353 signatures chose the harder *target*
E-petition e-7232 closed with 10,353 validated signatures and a better public-safety instinct: stop processing licensed owners and fund the harder problems.
Advocacy
Ottawa found the owners, then lost the *who*
Q-1053 shows the buyback can find licensed owners well enough to process them, but not readily describe who is actually in the program.
Precision
June 6 should teach the first *zero*
National Range Day is strongest when it gives new Canadian shooters one useful piece of competence: an honest first zero.
Handloading
Reloading starts with a *press*, then eats the bench
Reloading starts with a press, then quietly eats the bench. The real lesson is not cheaper ammo. It is learning how many small variables live between brass and trigger pull.
Gear
Make the first rifle *boring*
Canadian shooters are hungry for new semi-auto rifles. New PAL holders should still make the first serious rifle boring on purpose.
Gear
Bad weather makes your *gear* honest
One cold, wet, windy Canadian range day can teach a newer shooter more about their gear than another sunny review or accessory purchase.
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.
Advocacy
The Army Says *Assault Rifle*
Opinion. On April 17, the Canadian Army released a promotional video for a new service rifle: the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle. Six years of civilian buyback rhetoric has rested on that word. The Army just claimed it, from the same Kitchener factory.
Opinion
Why I sold my *Canadian Starter Kit*.
The Canadian Starter Kit - 10/22, SKS, pump 12-gauge - is what every new PAL holder gets told to buy. It cost me close to $1,800, taught me a few genuinely useful things, and sold before I bought the 338 Lapua that actually fits.