Quinte West firearms bylaw.

[brent]

Everyone needs to check this out. If passed, it could easily happen in your area.


https://www.facebook.com/quintewestf...sbilaw?fref=nf

[Angus]

Easily the most important post I have seen on these boards for a while. Get in there folks because they are coming for you next.

[MikePal]

If this is in response to this article I don't see the panic that 'sky is falling'

http://www.intelligencer.ca/2015/06/...ing-considered

Almost every township in Ontario has a firearm discharge law now and lots still have a no discharge on Sunday rule. Nothing new .

[brent]

Actually it would be new. And a whole lot of safe hunting opportunities would be lost. It is not about safety, it is about noise. This would be a big step backwards for hunters. Maybe your ignorance doesn't allow you to see it.

[Angus]

It was about noise here too and we sent them packing. For now.
And if it is about noise on the surface you can expect the anti hunting anti gun trash to be tooting in behind.

[welsh]

This is why I hate urban sprawl. It's probably the single biggest threat to hunting & sports shooting.

Forget dedicated antihunters. The biggest enemy is suburban homeowners.

[trimmer21]

This is why I hate urban sprawl. It's probably the single biggest threat to hunting & sports shooting.

Forget dedicated antihunters. The biggest enemy is suburban homeowners.

As long as the Ontario Municipal Board is in the pocket of the big development corporations,urban sprawl will continue unabated. That's where the issues lay,not with indivdual suburban home owners.

[welsh]

Sure, but it isn't developers who complain to council that they need discharge by-laws to preserve their Sunday morning peace.

[MikePal]

And a whole lot of safe hunting opportunities would be lost. It is not about safety, it is about noise.

A firearm discharge law will restrict the use of firearms in and around the new subdivisions and town limits...that's not a bad thing...that is a safety issue. Urban growth/sprawl means more restrictions. No one wants some kid with a crossbow shooting at targets in his back yard 50' from their back deck or a bunch of kids shooting there pellet guns near the school/playground or buddy shooting squirrels out of the tree across the street from their house. Due to the lack of common sense, by-laws are needed.

That's why almost every community has a Firearm Discharge regulation and Quinty West is right to be looking to have one developed in consultation with the MNR and OPP.

Now if the proposed discharge by-law also includes the implementation of a 'Lord Days' clause (no noise on Sunday) in responce to the demand by the residents, which by the way is their right via a petition etc, that can be fought with a good campaign put together with the help of the OFAH.

https://www.ofah.org/programs/sunday-gun-hunting/

Welsh is right "the biggest enemy is Urban Sprawl" because it comes with the need to make it safer for the all residents.

It's rather selfish to condemn the process because it means you may lose a few 'hunting opportunities" because they are deemed to be to close to the population...the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or something like that

[Angus]

http://www.napaneeguide.com/2013/06/...in-town-limits

Our local Rod and Gun club got involved and there was broad based rejection of any restriction on the discharge of firearms.
If these whiners had gotten what they wanted it would have made me a bow only hunter and may have ended my trap shooting on my property.
We let the council know just how idiotic and unworkable their proposed bylaw was. Sometimes not too subtlety.
Nothing changed outside of the town proper and it will be more than a few years before they try again.
If you don't fight you deserve what you get.