There is a difference between the rural west, the urban west, and then Southern Ontario. Whereas I can carry my unrestricted guns to and from the house to the shop, or into my vehicles, or transport them visible to the range, I know guys in Southern Ontario who have to almost sneak their firearms into their vehicles as if it were something as untoward as child porn. Vancouver is becoming almost as bad.....I think it was a year or so ago that the police there did a high risk take down of some guys heading to the range because a neighbor saw them loading their guns into the jeep.
The guy putting his club on his vehicle in Winnipeg, then having the swat team at his door arresting everyone a couple days ago show just how far this hysteria has gone. This was not in the crime infested part of Winnipeg either, but in a nice middle class neighborhood.
Even if you are right, you will lose something to prove it, be it your time, your reputation, or your toys. The newspapers will plaster your name and address, along with what you are presumed to be charged with on the front page of the paper, while the NWEST will lie through their teeth at the press information session. Your welded dewats will be described as appearing functional, and your obviously hollow inert ordnance will blow up when combined with some C4 at the ordnance dump. Your lawyer will warn you not to talk to the press. A year later when you are exonerated, the press will not say a word about it as they will deem that not newsworthy.
Anyone here know how those guys fared in the end when they drove the ferret with the dewat GPMG mounted on top up the driveway to parliament hill?
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