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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Who is putting 100's of rounds down range a week?
In another like I put a lot of rounds down range wearing and not wearing "ear muff"
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Were those rounds indoors or outdoors? Go shoot a few hundred rounds from a compensated .223 or .308 in a range and you'll want more than top of the line electronic muffs, even standing near it, it's a big hit on the ears. How many people in the CF now have irreversible hearing damage from shooting unprotected?
A range trip for a lot of people, especially people practicing for competitions or looking to improve their skills, is easily hundreds of rounds.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Please explain how a silencer is a piece of safety equipment.
This is just my personal feeling, and I'm aware this is not held by a great many people. But I can't think of a single non-hunting situation where a civilian needs to be in possession of a firearm.
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The sound produced by a gunshot is instantly damaging to hearing if nothing is used to dampen the sound. This is why most who shoot will use hearing protection. A suppressor will further drop the noise of the gunshot ~30db, even further out of the instantly damaging zone. Some of the countries with firearms laws that surpass Canada's recognize how a suppressor can benefit those participating in and observing the shooting sports. Unlike the movies, a suppressed firearm is still around 130db when fired.
As to your second point. There are many uses for civilian owned firearms outside hunting and it's a multi-billion dollar industry that trickles down to multiple areas of the economy. You have recreational target shooters, competition shooters such a IPSC or IDPA, defense of life, collecting, pest/predator control etc..., all of which are legal and allowed uses. Aside from directly purchasing firearms and ammunition, there are firearm accessories, clothing, hotel costs, flight costs, people who work in gun stores, organize events, conduct training, property taxes paid to municipalities, money paid to local contractors for renos.
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Originally Posted by DuffMan
It improves safety for anyone on the wrong end of a mass shooting.
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How does inserting a (easily drilled out) rivet into the side of a magazine improve safety? The person committing the crime is already breaking the law, they are not going to stop short of turning a pinned mag into a prohibited device.
Assuming they do keep the rivet for some reason, you're not accounting for their ability to change magazines (about 1 second) or the fact that they might bring additional magazines with them.
Limiting magazine capacity is one of the laws that sounds great to anyone who has no experience with firearms, but really does absolutely nothing for safety.