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I have only been to one gun show in Canada, but strange as it might seem, I think prices in Canada are a bit cheaper than in the US. Just a bit.

Rifles, and shotguns, not ammo.

What do Canadian shooters think?

Firearms here cost quite a bit more than in the US.

I should have been more clear Jordan, I was talking about used. Then the kick abouts I was looking at would be cheaper than newer arms.

The used market might be different in NW Ontario than BC?

A gun show in Canada Richard? Where? Never heard of such a thing. Not in this part of Canada anyway. Jordan is right -guns around here are way more expensive than in Minnesota or Wisconsin both new and used.

That said there are lot of guns possessed by unlicensed people. Many people are unaware of the liscensing requirements and when they do become aware they let those guns go pretty cheap.

kkahmann, Last August at a gun show in Dryden, I bought a Cooey 840 for $160Can. The dealer was from Thunder Bay.

I showed my PAL, and he gave me a recite.

A fairly large show, as big a many in Iowa.

I surly don't want to get into it with any friends, just what I see.

Of course importing, or exporting firearms is not allowed.

My experience, living in Calgary 2004 - 2009, was that USA stuff cost more and the harder to find non-US imports cost less. Hence had me selling/buying a fair bit and importing a half dozen or so when I left for the US.

Of course, I use the two dollar's exchange rate when making that comparison.

Yes you can import and export legal rifles and shotguns.....I've exported several.....

https://www.irunguns.us/page.php?name=import-process

Power to you wacker, I'm not going to that much trouble.

wabigoon;
Good morning to you sir, I'll try to be brief as I'm almost late to slither off to the salt mine for daily toil.

I've not studied US pricing regionally, so can't comment intelligently on that aspect of say collector arms.

Up here it's really "nichey" with pricing - so I'd try to sell a shotgun anywhere other than southern BC where the bird hunting is limited, but there's quite a few ranges so handgun prices are strong and the older demographic means stuff like Winchesters get higher prices here than other areas.

Canadian stuff - so Cooey's, Lakefield Mossberg and Lakefield Arms and the still vast amounts of various Lee Enfield surplus arms seem like they are worth less up here than in US auction sites though. Thus maybe what you paid for your Cooey shotgun?

I have a good friend who is collecting fine specimens and his Holy Grail is a 28 gauge - which are known to exist but we've yet to see one in the flesh.

At one time in the darkest days of the registry I sold a nice Winchester 95 - rifle in .30-40 Krag for $400 and had it for a good long while before I did. Same with a very nice Savage 99 Takedown in .250 - maybe got $300 for it. Then again I could have bought a 4" Python for under $500 Cdn - because I can buy that classification of restricted but many of my fellow Canucks can't because they didn't get grandfathered in.

Anyway the clock tells me I must go, so Hi Ho, Hi Ho....

Have a good weekend sir.

Dwayne

Hey Richard--I continually suprize myself with how little I know.
I talked to some buddies of mine and they all knew about the Dryden Gun Show--they claimed it had some smoking good deals on firearms.

I had a lot typed here, then poof! it was all gone.

I'll start over. kkahmann, do you have an easier name to type?

If ironbender will, maybe he could list Ontario shows coming up? I see the Fort Frances club has a show on May 6, at the curling rink.

Most folks call me Karl

Thanks Karl, I'll try to remember that. I do forget a lot!

I know all about that poof thing Richard.

I suspect you and I both come from a different era. Like you guns around the farm were as common as hammers and shovels.

I owned a gas station in Nipigon in the early '70s and of course I sold fishing tackle bait and a fair number of firearms. Dealt with a lot of Americans on firearms--mostly shotguns and rifles but a few pistols too. Nobody cared--not the border guards, not the OPP, not the Mounties.

Along came 1979 and the first gun control act and its been all downhill since. Nowadays young shooters need to know more about regulations than they do the guns themselves.

That's for sure Karl, the times they have changed.

A few years back I think you said you were in the US Army, if I'm remembering right, what part, and where did you serve?
I spent basic at Fort Leonard Wood, and then to Fort Sill training in artillery.

The gun act you refer to in 1979 was Canadian, not the US?

1Bn 61st Reg 5th Inf Div (mech) RSVN
Went thru basic with 6th Infantry at Fort Lewis, Wash

1979 was when all the regs started for gun shops in Canada--record all sales--lock up all guns etc. It just got more and more eventually the gun registry--which did nothing but create more and more paperwork for non-criminals. They've done away with the gun registry but managed to keep most of the paperwork.