First of all I do not hunt or own a gun. Now here goes, our canadian gun laws suck big time!! The only people here that have guns are the crooks. We have had very strict gun laws for all handguns and "non sporting" type weapons for many years. It is only because some idiot decided to kill a group of women in montreal that we now have crazy rules against shotguns and hunting rifles. The gun registry has a 1 billion dollar cost overrun. Our country is as screwed up has yours , only in a different way. Crooks are crooks, thieves are thieves, American vs Canadian crap is just that, I thought we all just wanted to go out fishing . Hope some of you guys still come up and enjoy our salmon fishing (we have almost no steelhead now), just not near me (I hate crowds)