I am totally exhausted today.\u00a0 After work, I drove 30 minutes into Surrey to take the Firearm license training.\u00a0 It is 4 hours of lectures and practice after a long day of work.\u00a0 In Canada, it is required by law to acquire the firearm license in order to own a gun.\u00a0 The license exam is on safety and regulations.\u00a0 It has two parts written exam and partical exam.\u00a0 In the course, we are not allow to discharge any weapon, but there are lots of disactiviated real gun for us to practice proper handling.\u00a0 We are taught all the new terminologies used in firearm and hunting, different parts of guns, types of guns and bullets, shooting and carrying position, etc.\u00a0 Although there are tons of new materials I have to memorize, I found the lecture is very interesting, even the history of guns section.\u00a0 The instructor even perform a small expreiment, show us the difference between lighting black powder and smokeless powder.\u00a0 Now I know the real gun powder doesn’t look like anything they use in the movie.\u00a0 Technically speaking, gun powder is not explosives but propellent, which push the bullet down the bore and shot out from the barrel.<\/p>\n
In the pratical exam, we have to demostrate we can handle 5 types of rifle and 4 types of handguns safely by follow the ACTS and PROVE procedure.\u00a0 So, after the classroom time, the instructor let us play with the guns.\u00a0 We are not really playing with the guns.\u00a0 We are just repeatly unloading every gun, inspect all the check points, then load it back, pretend to fire, unload the gun once again before putting it down.\u00a0 Putting your finger into the trigger or pointing the gun to anyone is an instant fail in the exam.\u00a0 Gun has to handle with great care.<\/p>\n
Contrary to popular beliefs, firearm is actually very safe if you know what you are doing.\u00a0 In Canada, only 1300 death from firmarm, much lower than the toll of death from automobile or cigerrates.\u00a0 As a sport, shooting has a much lower death ate than swimming.\u00a0 Many people’s phobia to guns are unjustified, and it mostly rooted from the myth created by all those Hollywood movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am totally exhausted today.\u00a0 After work, I drove 30 minutes into Surrey to take the Firearm license training.\u00a0 It is 4 hours of lectures and practice after a long day of work.\u00a0 In Canada, it is required by law to acquire the firearm license in order to own a gun.\u00a0 The license exam is … Continue reading Firearm license course<\/span>