If so, what is the process?

I can help answer that, in Canada you’re required to take what is called the Canadian Firearms Safety Course (CFSC) it’s typically a single 10 hour long class for your Possession & Acquisition License and another 10 hour class for your Restricted Possession & Acquisition License, for you to pass the CFSC you must achieve at least 80% on both the written form and safe handling tests. Once you complete it you submit it to your provincial Canadian Firearms Office (CFO) including an Image of yourself (which goes on the license) and two references who you’ve known for 2 years an then several months of background checks ensue, if you pass you get your license in the mail.

Edit: In my experience the PAL holders I know opted to purchase safes or cabinets prior to purchasing any firearms.

Edit 2: better links.

So I assume you want Canada to be the same gun crazy shit show as the USA is, now?

With all due respect nobody here is calling for a Canadian version of the second amendment, it is rare for an average Canadian to see, hear or hold a firearm in this country, our government is using that to insight fear into those who don’t understand our licensing laws. I have yet to hear any PAL holder argue against the need of the Canadian Firearm Safety Course or the background checks issued by the RCMP & CFO.

What we are calling for is proper judicial due-process when it comes to outright banning firearms, the Trudeau government bypassed the House of Commons and Parliament with his OIC because of one unlicensed individual committed a mass shooting in Nova Scotia 2020 with an unregistered firearm, his action should not have reflected on licensed firearms owners.

I’m perfectly fine with a complete ban on guns because we don’t need guns

Sport shooting is a sport like any other, we don’t see the government banning football because it causes too many head injuries, Hunting is still apart of indigenous culture and is quite important if you’re camping far outside your typical civilization with no cellular connection.

Majority of Canadians view on firearms is skewed because of our neighbours down south, with the right roadblocks in place, which our government already has done so for 20+ years, it is absolutely possible to safely posses and acquire a firearm.

Edit - Going to leave this article here.

Valve is out there to make money by any means necessary

That is quite literally the point of owning and operating a business, income that is profitable is what every well developed business strives for.

It’s quite baffling to see our government completely disregard 2.2 million licensed PAL holders and continue with this confiscation. In the last 5 years there has been absolutely no evidence of a registered firearm being involved in a criminal act let alone one of the firearms that are banned, nothing about this is program factual.

I found these two articles. (A1 & A2) - Article one discusses about a few provinces opinions on the program, however it should be noted that is from 2021, and article two has a quote from the National Police Federation voicing their opinions stating essentially the same thing as the provinces from article one.

I’ll look around and link any other articles that can be relevant but it seems without the provinces support the RCMP may have trouble doing it themselves.

Afternoon /u/T00l_shed, while I understand your political position in regard to Alberta’s current Premier she does make a valid point in this video.

This is a very rough transcript to what I’m referring to;

Proper use of the criminal code power is the way the feds will regulate around for instance vehicular homicide like there are ways that you can use your car to kill people and they look at that as a criminal penalty and they charge you but you know what they don’t do. They don’t come in and say red cars have a disproportionate number of accidents therefore we’re going to ban red cars and confiscate them right they’re able to see that there is one use of that particular piece of property that is criminal and they let us regulate who gets a drivers license and who registers a car so I’m just gonna take that analogy a little bit further they can regulate the criminal use of firearms they can go after the bad guys who are breaking into people’s houses with crossbows and we will then regulate the legal use of firearms so you can continue to own them collect them use them for sport shooting use them for hunting.

While I must agree on your sentiment about the USA we honestly aren’t equipped for any sort of rebellion, bill C-17 already prohibits private ownership of military & paramilitary firearms and if this ban does go through we essentially lose all semi-automatic rifles except for the Derya an SKS.

Respectfully, this is a stepping stone to banning private ownership of firearms outright which will kill the sport an hobby in our country, our government is wasting all this money on people who were approved by the RCMP to own these firearms and in the last 5 years they have no record of any licensed firearm that was banned being involved in any criminal act so for them to call this public safety issue is absurd in my opinion.

Frankly i think they should however, I’m biased simply because the first rifle I purchased was banned and I was only able to take it out to the range one time, thing is basically brand new.

Firearm accessories are not cheap, a new fore-end, stock, choke/muzzle-brake and optic can easily add an additional 1-2k onto any rifle.

This post might as well encourage people to go and harass them, it genuinely isn’t a good look for Lemmy as a whole.

Personal take:

How can they call this program voluntary when they fully intend to criminalize citizens who don’t intend to participate? I sure as hell would love to take my .22lr rifle to the range for a second time, nothing about this confiscation is fair for firearms owners!

it sounds like you have to be in a public lobby first, then hop into private for them to get your id. Can they get your id without ever being in the lobby or any contact at all?

This is not true, if you knew a persons social-club username you could search for the ID associated with it. I can’t find many tools online except for this one no idea of this works or not, I’m sure there are guides to obtain R*ID’s elsewhere.

While private lobbies certainly help weed out the bullshit, if a modder was determined enough they could copy your Rockstar ID and use that to follow you from lobby to lobby regardless of its privacy restrictions.

Logging someones Rockstar ID might as well make them your friend, depending on the mod menu they could receive notifications on when you’re online/offline.

Here is a common mod menu that was popular prior to the anti-cheat update, I think they have shutdown now.

Linux application this time? Still waiting for native support on Proton Drive.

Rockstar botched that system, I can attest as I used numerous different mod menus on GTA V Online, most well developed menus will let you alter yours (and others) in-game reputation by spamming the commend/report functions.

Spawning in UFO’s an such was the highlight of GTA V Online for me, haven’t touched the game since I moved to Linux, I hear it’s broken due to the new anti-cheat.

When I first started using Linux I only knew of SMB file sharing, if I remember correctly it was relatively easy to setup but eventually ran into permission issues so I then switched over to SSHFS, which sucked to install, but setup is easy.

https://invidious.io/

Sheesh, you’re whipped.

My “whining” is because of people like /u/dickalan@lemmy.world. This is what makes Lemmy mentally draining, they’re hellbent on their political ideology and if you don’t conform you get ousted, fed to the fishes so to speak.

You do realize you just proved me right.

god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.