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I think the police (and I used to be one) can come to your house without notice, but they have to give you reasonable notice of the onspection. Never done one, and never heard of any of my colleagues here doing one in the last ten years or more. Also never been asked to show proof of registration, or even a firearms licence. Maybe I live a charmed life.

"Maybe I live a charmed life."

Or, Blessed!

Jim

Ain't denyin' that.

Most guys I know only have registered the guns they have bought since C-68.

And most of them continue to hunt with them, take them to the range, etc.

I'm sure there will be a few chuckles about all the fuss, when the registry is done!

Ingwe it is because of the "collector" status. And as I said never yet inspected. Hope it stays that way. Clean nose helps that out.

Randy

I am glad to see progress in removal of the long gun registry in Canada. Nice to see some reversal of some of the idiotic and costly registration schemes. You still have places like Toronto that are rabidly anti-gun though. I go back and forth to Canada all the time and have to be careful all the time what may sneak in my luggage and get me in trouble. Hell, you can't even carry pepper spray in Canada. In Texas we can carry a fully loaded assault rifle in a pickup truck and have a concealed pistol in our pocket. In fact it is easier for Canadians to conceal carry in the US than it is in their own country. Different worlds.

Larry

In Texas, you probably need it.

Ingwe - it's interesting you bring this up. I have a very good friend who is a native Texan and came up to Canada to live after he married a Canadian girl - was here 10 years or so. Within the last year, however, he moved south of the 49th again - to northern Idaho.

The other day on the phone, he said something to the effect of "Wow, I feel like an enlightened person here amongst the people I work with. My time in Canada really showed me that these people down here don't have a clue about how a government should operate. They all simply accept the fact that it is hopelessly useless and don't expect anything of it. My experience in Canada has really shown me that there is better, a lot better government. The government actually does things in Canada!"

On his experience, I expect it is a great deal more efficient than yours, in this respect. But I also do trust that things will return to unregistered state in short order. I believe that our current conservative government will continue to keep it's word on it's promises. I've never been able to say that of any other elected Canadian government.

The word government and the word efficient cannot be used in the same sentence in ANY country. They do not fit. I like our Harper government, and think it is good as far as governments go, but efficient??? I doubt it!

Keith,

Just to change topics slightly about 1.5 months ago I sent an e-mail to my local MPP (Jerry Ouellette) concerning the way the application system is set up for the processing of moose hunt tags. i.e. if you want to apply for code 99Z the fact you must send in a paper application rather than being able to do it over the phone the same as other applications. I suggested this shouldn't be a big deal to accommodate over the phone also.

Anyway after 4 or 5 weeks and no response I dropped into the office to learn the status of my suggestion since no acknowledgment had been received. After a day or so of checking I was informed there was no record of an e-mail being received. This in spite of the fact my computer had not indicated a failure for the message to be sent.

This is enough to make me wonder how many other things get "lost" in the system i.e. how efficient is the system? In the end the staffer I dealt with (who I learned is also a moose hunter) forwarded the proposal to the Ministry for consideration. They claim a change in the computer systems under consideration should accommodate this. I hope so, as they lost my 2011 application in which I asked to be placed in the first pool in 2012.

I dealt with Ouellette's office rather than directly with the Ministry since he is a former Minister of Natural Resources and should still have contacts within the ministry. I am also known to Jerry since, in his initial run for provincial government in 1994, I ran his door to door canvassing for the last two weeks of the campaign. At that time he won by a plurality of about 20,000 votes. He has never come close to doing so well since.

This story is just given to support your doubt about efficiency in government. And this from a guy who worked in municipal government for over 39 years.

Jim

We all need to be careful about what we wish for when it comes to
"Government Efficiency" !

There is only one type of truley efficient government....

A Dictatorship !

Rabbitdog

It's because we have it, that we don't need it.

AKA, deterence.

Pete

back to topic ,,yes some will show up but THEN it won,t matter

Actually if you have a curio & relics license they can not come unannounced. The BATFE has to notify you first and set up an appointment and you can either choose to have them come to you or you can meet at their office.