Welcome back to part 3 in our series on Canadian Firearms Control, steps through the years that have brought us to the current controls for Canadian citizens and their firearms. You might remember in the end of our last post we said how in 1990 Bill C-80 was introduced and shut down, but that most […]
Welcome back to part two of the Canadian firearms control walk through history. Last post we made it from pre 1892 the whole way into 1934, let’s continue on throughout history. In 1938 handgun owners had to re-register their weapons every five years. At this point in time guns did not require serial numbers, […]
Firearm control has been in place almost as long as firearms have been around, firearm controls are necessary to a point to ensure safety and security to all citizens whether or not they own firearms. Join me as we take a walk through history and explore the Canadian fire arms control laws through the years. […]
This rifle is the one which made me finally realize the time had come. Inherited rifles are fine and when a dear friend suggested that I should try the Tikka T-3 Lite, that was the day I decided that my father’s 1960 WINCHESTER Model 770 had to go. Sentimentality is fine but the Tikka T-3 […]
Everybody – and all of you, gun-lovers, in particular – knows that “God made men but Sam Colt made them equal”. It’s quite a praise to be named under the same breath with the Creator himself but Colt deserves every ounce of this praise and more. A 19th-century man, he managed to live a truly […]
Long before missiles and James Bond gadgets, our ancestors had to be truly creative to defend their homes and lives. On their quest for protection our ancestors showed quite a knack for creating cruel and inventive ways to kill. Many of our modern weapons are merely a more sophisticated variation of these originals. Without further […]
When picturing warfare of time’s long passed, it’s easy to imagine people using crude and unsophisticated weaponry. But, looking back at various era’s, it’s plain to see that some weapons were more complicated than we imagined and advanced for the times they were in. Here are the top 3weapons ahead of their time in history: […]
A sleeve- gun is an apparatus which conceals a small firearm under a long sleeve. A triggering mechanism causes the weapon to extend out of the sleeve quickly enough for the user to grab hold and fire. Initially used in military contexts, the device has become popularized in various media; Christolph Waltz uses one on […]
It is 1861. A man named Dr. Richard J. Gatling is inventing a complex engine of ballistic destruction ironically, Gatling claimed, to reduce the size of armies and therefore reduce the deaths in combat and to show how futile war was. And so, during the civil war and many times from then on, people actually […]
Could prohibition era gangsters take over Canada? The simple answer is no. As everyone knows, the secret weapon of prohibition era gangsters was the Thompson Sub-machine Gun, or “Tommy Gun” as it is known and popularized in various media. Originally intended by its creator, John T. Thompson, as a military technology for “sweeping” trenches, The […]
People have been improvising weapons for a long time. Even before guns, savages were tying rocks to sticks to bonk other savages with. Later on, they would invent tying a stick to itself in order to make a bow, and well, you get the picture. Thousands of years later it’s World War 2, and the […]
Just a couple hundreds of years ago, they didn’t have laser injectors, tractor beams, and shock-wave cannons. In history, you were lucky to get your hands on a crappy, single-shot rifle. But throughout most of human history, the ancient weaponry you usually found yourself with in battle was maybe a sword or a bow.
