Drivers licenses are easy to get, good for 5 years and allow the motor vehicle to be taken anywhere in Canada by the driver. Concealed weapons permits are not available to Canadian citizens. Motor vehicles are not required to be stored with empty fuel tanks and disabled engines in locked garages. Number of firearms related accidental deaths in Canada in 1990, 186. Canadians fire millions of rounds of ammunition every year while hunting, plinking, target practise, and competitive shooting.
Target shooting is one of the safest of the outdoor sports.
Canada and Britain have both increased the restrictions on firearms owners in the last 15 years, and have seen dramatic increases in violent crime and the use of illegal firearms. Prior to January 1978 when Bill C-51 came into effect, Canada had very liberal gun laws. The individuals that the CfGC claims are experts, are not experts on gun control. Some are merely more politicians, some are experts in unrelated fields, some are bureaucrats that have admitted to their lack of knowledge, and are simply following the line put forward by their political masters. Experts who have actually studied the effects of gun control have found that gun control does not reduce violent crime.