Safe Storage

[Fox]

lol when i went for my saftey course,

the teacher was a retired cop,

he said your guns just need to be behind a locked door in your house and the ammo in another place.

also said you can legally have a gun in your back seat on the floor unloaded with no locks on it driving around? as long as its unloaded?

this didnt seem right to me always have my firearms locked in the truck


as long as the firearm is rendered inoperable that's safe storage i would think

There is a difference between storage and transport, that instructor was telling you that your gun was being transported safely and stored legally but if you put a gun on the floor of your car and go in for the night that gun would not be defined as legally stored, especially if there was ammunition in the vehicle.

You can keep your ammo right beside your gun, if they are in a locked room, that is spelled out in the RCMP storage documentation.

[delmer]

"The Safe Storage regulations in the Firearms Act have nothing to do with the MNR."

What leads you to this conclusion?

I would suspect it is the fact that safe storage regs were drawn up by the federal government and the MNR is provincial. I don't believe the MNR had any input in their creation, although they can enforce them.

[Gilroy]

I know many cottages and camps that have an old shotgun, or .22 that when the owner is not there is stored in the back of a closet, under the mattress or in the rafters - ammo is stored in another location. I am sure that in the event of anything happening to them they would NOT be reported missing.........why would you report a missing shotgun worth $150 or a .22 worth $60. You are not going to recover it and are only opening yourself up to a world of pain my an over zealous cop.

.........what gun........where??

Well smart guy the reason is printed here and is very easy to read.

105 (1) Every person commits an offence who

(a) having lost a prohibited firearm, a restricted firearm, a non-restricted firearm, a prohibited weapon, a restricted weapon, a prohibited device, any prohibited ammunition, an authorization, a licence or a registration certificate, or having had it stolen from the person’s possession, does not with reasonable despatch report the loss to a peace officer, to a firearms officer or a chief firearms officer;

So being a smart ars- you are going to tell the officer who turns up at your cottage a bunch of lies to get out of your tricky situation.Oh you ask how would they know that the gun is from my cottage.
Well the criminal who just got caught with it just told the officer where and when he broke into and stole it from.

Still playing smart guy and lying,well your gun might get fingerprinted and your little prints might show up on that nice oily surface.Or you have pictures of the said gun on social media, I could go on.

So now your looking at offence number 2

129 Every one who

(a) resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer,

[Gilroy]

I would suspect it is the fact that safe storage regs were drawn up by the federal government and the MNR is provincial. I don't believe the MNR had any input in their creation, although they can enforce them.

Exactly.

[rick_iles]

Well smart guy the reason is printed here and is very easy to read.

105 (1) Every person commits an offence who

(a) having lost a prohibited firearm, a restricted firearm, a non-restricted firearm, a prohibited weapon, a restricted weapon, a prohibited device, any prohibited ammunition, an authorization, a licence or a registration certificate, or having had it stolen from the person’s possession, does not with reasonable despatch report the loss to a peace officer, to a firearms officer or a chief firearms officer;

So being a smart ars- you are going to tell the officer who turns up at your cottage a bunch of lies to get out of your tricky situation.Oh you ask how would they know that the gun is from my cottage.
Well the criminal who just got caught with it just told the officer where and when he broke into and stole it from.

Still playing smart guy and lying,well your gun might get fingerprinted and your little prints might show up on that nice oily surface.Or you have pictures of the said gun on social media, I could go on.

So now your looking at offence number 2

129 Every one who

(a) resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer,

Without all the condescension, I agree!! Not a good move to lose a firearm and not report it !

[Bushmoose]

Or hopefully never reaches a court with a LEO MAKING A GOOD DECISION RIGHT ON THE SPOT.

Something tells me that you were the kind of LEO that would get glee from charging someone to cause grief for that person, never mind the common sense factor.

[rick_iles]

Exactly.

COs dont normally enforce the FA. Up until this past year, when the FWCA was amended to include your firearms licence as proof of accreditation, to use a gun, they didn’t have any interest in seeing your firearms licence. Now, not carrying your licence is a provincial offence under the FWCA.
The Criminal Code and Firearms Act are just a couple federal statutes that is normally not their purview.
Actually, unless things have changed, COs are not “Peace Officers” as defined under the CC.

[Gilroy]

Something tells me that you were the kind of LEO that would get glee from charging someone to cause grief for that person, never mind the common sense factor.

Yeh if you were a criminal I would take glee from charging you and causing you grief. No better sound than to hear that cell door slam.

[410001661]

Yeh if you were a criminal I would take glee from charging you and causing you grief. No better sound than to hear that cell door slam.

They have jails in Square One? I thought mall cops just called real cops when stuff happened?

[410001661]

Well smart guy the reason is printed here and is very easy to read.

105 (1) Every person commits an offence who

(a) having lost a prohibited firearm, a restricted firearm, a non-restricted firearm, a prohibited weapon, a restricted weapon, a prohibited device, any prohibited ammunition, an authorization, a licence or a registration certificate, or having had it stolen from the person’s possession, does not with reasonable despatch report the loss to a peace officer, to a firearms officer or a chief firearms officer;

So being a smart ars- you are going to tell the officer who turns up at your cottage a bunch of lies to get out of your tricky situation.Oh you ask how would they know that the gun is from my cottage.
Well the criminal who just got caught with it just told the officer where and when he broke into and stole it from.

Still playing smart guy and lying,well your gun might get fingerprinted and your little prints might show up on that nice oily surface.Or you have pictures of the said gun on social media, I could go on.

So now your looking at offence number 2

129 Every one who

(a) resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer,

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Wow for a mall cop you sure struggle with spelling don't you - but then again you probably went to school in Mississauga or Toronto so par for the course.
I am not saying it is right, wrong, or indifferent I am telling you how it is - that is a FACT. Now in order for your facts to be correct you need a whole lot of things to happen and if one of them does not you have SQUAT. Stick to shoplifters in the mall buddy