[CurlyDave]

Having the requirement of a firearms license to purchase guns and ammo isn’t a completely unreasonable requirement for the government. Additionally requiring that anyone wanting such a license pass a basic firearms safety handling test also isn’t completely outrageous.

I hope you are from Canada.

IMHO both requirements are outrageous.

[world weary]

I am, but why would that make a difference.

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“I hope you are from Canada.

IMHO both requirements are outrageous.”

From your perspective as an American with your historic Second Ammendment rights, I can see why you would feel that way. As a Canadian I agree with the poster that this doesn’t seem like an unreasonable requirement (for Canadians). In any case, at least this (more or less) scrapping of the gun registry is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately Canada’s population distribution is dominated with big cities, and in general big city people seem to have trouble comprehending certain basic facts, such as that criminals are for the most part not using legal long guns; the handguns that criminals use are almost certainly all illegaly owned, and that not everyone lives in a big city like they do and in some places rifles and shotguns are actually necessary tools.