You have to pass a background check to get a PAL. There's no background check at the time of sale for non restricted guns. "Runs background checks daily" is kind of correct. Your PAL is revoked if you commit a crime that would disqualify you from getting a PAL.
This is distinct from restricted firearms (mostly handguns) where a new background check is performed each time you buy a restricted firearms.
In California, all firearms save for some really old ones are treated like restricted rifles in Canada. You have to get a background check and wait 10 days for every purchase even if you already own a dozen guns. Plus there are a bunch of rules about the shape of the grip, whether it has a for grip, the shape of the muzzle brake, and whether or not the stock folds that can make guns felonies to possess.
All guns (save for the aforementioned muzzle loader) are registered in California. Well, technically not registered because to do so is a violation of Federal law. But the State does log every firearm brought into the state, every firearm bought, and every firearm transferred. So basically a registry in everything but name.
I was replying to the comment implying that you can buy rifle without background check. To be fair no amount of government restrictions and bans will stop the mass shooter who really wants to become one. There are a lot of illegal guns getting to Canada from US.
There is no background check at the time of sale for non restricted rifles or shotguns. This is compares to restricted firearms (handguns and some types of rifles) that do require background checks at the time of sale. The "background check every day" statement is somewhat correct in that someone's PAL is invalidated if the commit a crime, or get divorced. As far as I know that's what's referred to by daily background checks. I am almost certain that background checks are not actually peformed every day, that would be a massive amount of labor.
This in contrast to California where all firearms sales other than black powder muzzle loader have backgry checks run every time someone buys them.
Sorry, but your logic doesn't hold up. You said, "Probably because most guns are illegal so we don’t need them." Since Canada has ready availability of semi-auto long guns, has relatively relaxed gun laws, and even licensing and daily background checks would not have stopped all mass shooters, your logic that such drills are therefore not necessary is empty and illogical.
You cannot prove a negative. I hope for your sake, you're just trolling with deliberately faulty logic.
There are licensing requirements with continuous daily background checks. The results speak for themselves. Throwing up your hands and saying it’ll never work without trying it is tantamount to accepting the status quo. None of that is okay.
There are licensing requirements with continuous daily background checks. The results speak for themselves.
California has pretty much this, and in implementation is much stricter than Canada. The result? There are mass shootings here as well as lots of urban gun violence.
New Zealand already has stricter gun laws than many places in the US.
Throwing up your hands and saying it’ll never work without trying it is tantamount to accepting the status quo. None of that is okay.
The government unilaterally taking away the rights of innocent people shouldn't be okay. If it's okay with someone, then it means they're okay with stomping on the human rights of people they don't like.
I'd rather have individual rights and armed guards in the schools and places of worship.
It’s much easier to bring in illicit firearms across unmonitored state lines than national boundaries.
>>> I'd rather have individual rights and armed guards in the schools and places of worship.
Horrifying.
So taking away everyone’s right to feel safe and secure? Wonderful. And to be alive. That’s the problem, life is always trade offs. I don’t feel comfortable with everyone armed, that infringed on my rights. Any other country that took away guns, gun crime went down, that’s facts. The reality is you don’t need guns. I don’t need guns. I do however want to live. And I want my children to grow up in a country without mass shooter drills and metal detectors so you can pursue your hobby, because 300 years ago a few people thought everyone should have muskets and slaves. Constitutions are amendable for a reason.