OFAH report examines hunting firearms

[mosquito]

Well fear works the other way, 300 million firearms in the USA most purchased out of fear.

Yes Yes, must attack US instead of the LIEbral's and their fiction.... firearms for self defence are bad, pepper spray for self defence is bad, thinking something other than what Libs and CBC say to think is bad .... bad in your opinion. In the UK they have the ban the knife crowd and their creating fear of another inanimate object.. quite ridiculous actually.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=3887145
"guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year. Handguns are the most common firearm employed for self-defense (used in 65.9% of defensive incidents), and in most defensive incidents (81.9%) no shot was fired. Approximately a quarter (25.2%) of defensive incidents occurred within the gun owner's home, and approximately half (53.9%) occurred outside their home, but on their property. About one out of ten (9.1%) defensive gun uses occurred in public, and about one out of twenty (4.8%) occurred at work.
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The average gun owner owns 5 firearms, and handguns are the most common type of firearm owned. 48.0% of gun owners have owned magazines that hold over 10 rounds, and 30.2% of gun owners -- totaling about 24.6 million individuals -- have owned an AR-15 or similarly styled rifle. Demographically, gun owners are diverse. 42.2% are female and 57.8% are male. Approximately 25.4% of Blacks own firearms, 28.3% of Hispanics own firearms, 19.4% of Asians own firearms, and 34.3% of Whites own firearms."


Based on the incidents, the number of women that own firearms we can assume say... 1 in 4 is a woman defending herself... that would be about 400,000 times per year a woman would defend herself and not be the victim of a crime, but hey... self defence is bad (according to Libs).

Now as for bought out of fear, how about looking at how many million deer/duck etc hunters there are in the US, the number of target shooters, competitive shooters... no, not you, just make things up and insult. Sad.

Now back to the types of firearms and uses...
https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/c...-united-states

Heading into fall 2020, there are about 11.4 million deer hunters in the United States. More specifically, there are about 9.4 million people who hunt deer with both gun and bow, and an additional 2 million who hunt deer only with bow (that includes all archery). If you are a casual reader, do not misread these numbers. I’m going to get geeky here, so keep reading for more specific numbers.

Again, there are 11.4 million deer hunters in the U.S. This includes 4.63 million bowhunters. We are just talking deer here; this doesn’t include elk, bears, moose, sheep, turkeys, ducks, geese, other small game, etc.


It very quickly becomes evident to anyone with a functional cerebrum that with 9,000,000+ deer hunters using rifles that there must be a huge variety being used in that purpose. There are many articles and examples of a platform like the AR being used for deer hunting for example.
https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/c...hunting-rifles

and for Coyote etc. too.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/h...oyote-hunting/

So Bill and Justlied and their "facts" are once again shown as lies and fear mongering again.

[Gilroy]

"In the UK they have the ban the knife crowd and their creating fear of another inanimate object.. quite ridiculous actually."

If you were a Doctor or Nurse working in a Glasgow emergency ward every weekend you might think differently. LOL

[mosquito]

"In the UK they have the ban the knife crowd and their creating fear of another inanimate object.. quite ridiculous actually."

If you were a Doctor or Nurse working in a Glasgow emergency ward every weekend you might think differently. LOL

Huh.... never want to talk about facts the thread is talking about.... well they do have a gang problem and gang fighting and about 60% of the murders are with a knife. That much you have right... now let's look at the whole story. The imbeciles with the knife bans etc. are trying to even go after kitchen knives because that is the weapon of choice... even with the restrictions etc. in place. So as the weapons keep changing and now the kitchen knife is most common but with the increase in acid attacks in the UK will they be banning Mr Drano too or just requiring a permit?

Oh wait... the murder rates did go down though, hmmm, why, it took 10 years and the ban didn't work they just changed weapons, well they started going after the gangs and taking a longer term approach of getting kids out of gangs. That is what worked and what did our Liberals do, they spent less than 1/3 the promised amount and many of the programs got no money from the govt and they went after the law abiding firearm owners. Pretty useless bunch of idiots in the Liberal party it seems, that and liars too.

[Gun Nut]

In all seriousness.........I agree with Fox that any firearm can be used for hunting. The issue is the anti gun and/or anti hunting fringe groups that are mis-informing the general public about firearms. What is the difference between a moose gun and a sniper rifle? They can both be black, camo or wood have a scope and have the ability to shoot a large projectile accurately over a long distance. What about the term 'assault rifle'? The definition of 'assault rifle' does not exist in Canadian legal circles, but yet every Canadian thinks they know what one is when they see one. AR's are suddenly bad and need to be banned but I can legally hunt with my Tavor (with pinned mags). This makes no sense to me what so ever.

Even Justin shows his ignorance by stating "why does anyone need an AR to bring down a deer", this is a great example of rampant ignorance of politicians & common Canadians about firearm laws and hunting regulations.

So what would you suggest, educate the rampant ignorant, or simply continue leaving them in the dark, lost in fear and spouting demands to ban guns from civil society, because guns have not other purpose apart from being instruments to kill people with. JT has done a masterful job on selling people on the latter option, and draw upon their fear to achieve the results..

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

[mosquito]

Still saying BUY BACK.... anyone here ever buy a firearm from the government?

Seems ridiculous to turn them in without compensation unless of course you are a card carrying Lib. or they were turned in by a spouse or relative from an estate.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/hardl...the-government
Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government — a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some 90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada.

[greatwhite]

I suspect 99.9% don't even know about the ban these forums represent probably 1%

Out of 2 dozen people who I know that hunt none participate in these types of forums, of everyone I have eve met none are members of any forums or at least that is what they have said.

I know people in their 80's that don't know the FAC was replaced and wouldn't care less and yes they still hunt.

Still saying BUY BACK.... anyone here ever buy a firearm from the government?

Seems ridiculous to turn them in without compensation unless of course you are a card carrying Lib. or they were turned in by a spouse or relative from an estate.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/hardl...the-government
Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government — a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some 90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada.

[mosquito]

I suspect 99.9% don't even know about the ban these forums represent probably 1%

Out of 2 dozen people who I know that hunt none participate in these types of forums, of everyone I have eve met none are members of any forums or at least that is what they have said.

I know people in their 80's that don't know the FAC was replaced and wouldn't care less and yes they still hunt.

Not that high, maybe half I could believe though, especially with over 320 unlisted new reclassified additions, including the Huglu XR7, there are probably a huge number that have no clue their firearm was reclassified.
https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...=1#post1182890