Lets not lose sight of the fact that what we are fighting for with the province right now isn't exactly a free for all with handguns. Even if they were to drop the regulation, we still would need to fight it out with the feds, or at least the CFO's to be allowed to carry for that purpose.
Right now the fight is that the provincial government is actually going to further restrict handguns, by including antique's in the prohibition, simply because they have no idea what truly constitutes an antique, and instead of educating themselves, their knee jerk reaction is to further prohibit. That sort of critical thinking should be questioned and punished by the electorate at every possible moment. As that is exactly what got us prohibitions and registries to start with.
Literally I was told by SRD staff that looking into the historical reasons for the prohibition of handgun hunting with restricted firearms would be too labor instensive to be worthwhile for the little bit of support removing it would have. (Not sure how the AFGA is just a little bit of support). However at the same time they are willing to restrict antiques without any knowledge of their abilities, nor any historical research on why they were not included with the original law. That sort of logic is flawed, and systemic in our systems of government. As long as we allow that sort of beurocratic BS to continue, we will continue to lose freedoms in every facet of our lives!
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