While this would be great for hunters and I am 100% behind it, realistically I don't see this taking off. We have a hard enough time getting politicians on-board with Sunday gun hunting. It wasn't that long ago around here that the City of Hamilton re did it's discharge bylaw. In the original draft of the bylaw, the area out near Stoney Creek was deemed a non weapon discharge area despite it being a bow discharge area for years under the previous bylaw (even comparing the new bylaw to the old one, Hamilton hunters lost a lot of space to discharge firearms due to the addition of terminology) because the average politician does not understand firearms or the responsibilities we firearm owners and operators have under the law.
Asking politicians to give us the ability to discharge centre-fire rifles should be a reasonable ask when you look at the numbers of the calibers involved but when the politicians realize that it would be high powered rifles involved, I think the logic would get thrown out the window and the rallying cry of the soccar moms (Won't someone please think of the children!) would be sounding off.
