Different strokes for different folks in different places

[pricedo]

This is the gun I've been hunting grouse with in Ontario, Canada for the past few days. The USA seems to have a paranoia with short barreled firearms (especially shotguns) requiring a stack of NFA paperwork & a $200 tax stamp. It is an 12 gauge 870 with a 12.5" barrel. Compact, handy, quick pointing firearm with Williams style shrouded "ghost ring" aperture sights which are perfect for old eyes. Great deer gun and very accurate with rifled slugs.

Of course Canada has an equally ridiculous paranoia with handguns which can be possessed (by the ordinary plebes aka "the great unwashed") only on government approved firing ranges unless you have an ATC (authorization to carry) which you have to be a high level bureaucrat or politically connected to get.

I wish gun laws were based on the type of person rather than the type of firearm which is an inanimate
object.

Good for birds and deer in Canada.
Good for 10 years in a federal hoosegow in the USA.

[Conman]

Thank you for the posting.

No one ever said America was always right. Paranoid politicians after the 1920's - yep. And then they found a way to bring is a small amount of revenue and it just keeps adding up.

Ways of quieting down firearms so peoples don't lose their hearing are in the same category...........can't buy or own a "silencer" because the politicians 'think' a 1924 gangster may have used one once.

Happy to Canada has some sane rules for firearms.

[pricedo]

Just popped a couple of grouse.
Not a great ruffed grouse season.
Had a wet spring & summer which causes diseases and fungus to take a toll of the hatchlings.
Will post a picture of the birds.
About a pound of delicious meat on each one.

[akuser47]

I agree I think it is funny that people complain about how loud guns are and the same people are the ones that are against silencers. I agree on the SBS and SBR issues as well100%

[pricedo]

A felon will just hacksaw the barrel of a legal 870 to get what I got.
The silliness of making laws to regulate those who by definition don't obey laws.
If you have the intent to blow someone in half with a sbs is a gun law going to deter you in the least?
Now we have the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces trying to scapegoat us because the pathetically weak security protocols on his bases on his watch allowed a lunatic to enter and kill the people working there.
Those weak security protocols happened on his watch and he should be hanging his head in shame rather than pointing fingers at law abiding gun owners.

[pricedo]

Today's harvest (with the short barreled 870) of ruffed grouse (in the feather) & dressed out & ready for the stew pot/frying pan. The locals called the ruffed grouse "partridge" but that is a misnomer.
That little gun has shot me many a delicious meal of ruffed grouse.
The two objects in the middle are the birds gizzards which are a delicacy.
I saw several more birds today but I'm not greedy.
Two pounds of very delicious eating.

[akuser47]

agreed and also nice fowl Looks like good eating.

[Ranch Dog]

Well done pricedo!

[Tuco Ramirez]

So when are we coming up for supper......