Firearm owner numbers rising

https://oodmag.com/firearm-owner-numbers-rising/

The rising number of Canadian firearm owners increased in 2023 to 2,352,504, continuing the trend. Ontario's PAL holders also increased.

Excellent! We will need to continue fighting back against Liberl idiot gun confiscation!!

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Originally Posted by MeghanOOD

https://oodmag.com/firearm-owner-numbers-rising/

The rising number of Canadian firearm owners increased in 2023 to 2,352,504, continuing the trend. Ontario's PAL holders also increased.

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Entirely the wrong conclusion on this headline, the number of PAL issued does not necessarily equate to firearm ownership increase.

I know a number of people who have a PAL and do not own any firearms, they took the course out of general interest. There are others who have PAL,s only because they were needed for work purposes like armed security guards.

A whole bunch more younger generation have PAL,s and never got around to buying a firearms.

We will not know how many firearms are legally in the hands of Canadians and cannot advocate for them because of the past Conservative policies and abolishing the gun registry.

Another case of be careful what you wish for in case you get it.

How can you better the lives of gun owners if you cannot articulate how large a lobby you represent.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

Entirely the wrong conclusion on this headline, the number of PAL issued does not necessarily equate to firearm ownership increase.

I know a number of people who have a PAL and do not own any firearms, they took the course out of general interest. There are others who have PAL,s only because they were needed for work purposes like armed security guards.

A whole bunch more younger generation have PAL,s and never got around to buying a firearms.

We will not know how many firearms are legally in the hands of Canadians and cannot advocate for them because of the past Conservative policies and abolishing the gun registry.

Another case of be careful what you wish for in case you get it.

How can you better the lives of gun owners if you cannot articulate how large a lobby you represent.

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You are sort of right. Though the number of guns owned is a moot point as we all know guns don't elect leaders, people elect Leaders. So to me if there are more pal holders that means there are more gun ownership sympathizers.
In any case post got my spidey sense tingling as I feel its more likely click bait for another con/lib monkey fight. Keep it civil or thread will be shut down faster than a non confidence vote.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

Entirely the wrong conclusion on this headline, the number of PAL issued does not necessarily equate to firearm ownership increase.

I know a number of people who have a PAL and do not own any firearms, they took the course out of general interest. There are others who have PAL,s only because they were needed for work purposes like armed security guards.

A whole bunch more younger generation have PAL,s and never got around to buying a firearms.

We will not know how many firearms are legally in the hands of Canadians and cannot advocate for them because of the past Conservative policies and abolishing the gun registry.

Another case of be careful what you wish for in case you get it.

How can you better the lives of gun owners if you cannot articulate how large a lobby you represent.

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That's a foolish argument - that you can't advocate for them because you don't know who actually has how many guns registered.

There is only one reason for a government to know who has what firearms stored where.

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Originally Posted by werner.reiche

That's a foolish argument - that you can't advocate for them because you don't know who actually has how many guns registered.

There is only one reason for a government to know who has what firearms stored where.

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Because you have now no registry nobody in the pro gun crowd can say with any certainty how big the group is that they represent and in the same manner the anti gun crowd can make any allegation which now cannot be disputed. Lets say they allege that 50 % of gun owners possess those terrible AR15 or other assault type rifles , now undisputed. Even the government of any political stripe cannot come to the defense of the gun owners.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

You are sort of right. Though the number of guns owned is a moot point as we all know guns don't elect leaders, people elect Leaders. So to me if there are more pal holders that means there are more gun ownership sympathizers.
In any case post got my spidey sense tingling as I feel its more likely click bait for another con/lib monkey fight. Keep it civil or thread will be shut down faster than a non confidence vote.

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If you feel this way perhaps you should have shut it down at POST #2 WHERE IT DEFINATELY SEEMED TO TURN CLICK BAIT FOR A CON/LIB MONKEY FIGHT.

If a security guard working for Brinks needs a PAL, that would not imply to me he/she would be a gun ownership sympathizer, they simply need that card for employment.

If governments hammered criminals the same way they uselessly persecute firearm owners,society would be a lot better off. Just sayin'.......

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

If governments hammered criminals the same way they uselessly persecute firearm owners,society would be a lot better off. Just sayin'.......

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I believe for the vast majority of hunters they have in no way been "hammered" by the government, I still have ALL the firearms I have had for the past 50 years or so.

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

If governments hammered criminals the same way they uselessly persecute firearm owners,society would be a lot better off. Just sayin'.......

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True that! I would like to buy a handgun for target shooting with my restricted permit but unfortunately that's too risky for the public... lol