doing a school project on gun laws in Canada. i have some question could you guys help

[kennymo]

1) I would prefer not, the previous system required a person to be 16 years old, and a quick visit to your neighbourhood cop shop for a background check. Accomplishes basically the same thing as our current license at far less cost to the taxpayer. There was (and still is) a safety course you must also take if you wish to purchase a hunting permit. Exact details on that vary by province.

2) As previously stated, anything that can discharge a projectile over 500 FPS. Also, the receiver of any unassembled firearm, or even a deactivated firearm that has not been deactivated as per the current standards on such things. Older government approved deactivations are grandfathered into law.

You will find that the grievances of many are not over the fact that licensing, training, etc...exist in Canada, but that they have been written into law in such a fashion to discourage firearm ownership and give us a legal tightrope to walk to continue owning firearms for hunting and target shooting. What did Allan Rock say about the firearms act? "It has nothing to do with public safety"? He was one of the architects of the Firearms Act, several others of which have said te same. Yet it was sold to the general populace as 'safety'. And we've been stuck fighting that stigma ever since...