Anyone got the specific reference showing it's legal to carry on a trapline and DISCHARGE it there? The comparison may shed some light on this. Does it explicitly say they can be discharged in a trapline or just carried there and imply discharge is permitted?
IMO, our firearms laws are confusing - and this is a feature, not a bug. Nobody here is trying to break the law, just the opposite in fact, this thread started to confirm one reasonable interpretation of the legislation AS WRITTEN is that you could discharge your restricted firearms at home if it is otherwise legal and safe to do so. Not having a clear consensus after 7 pages says more about how our laws are written than the community here. And since it only takes one LEO who doesn't interpret it the way you do to charge you... and, since they no longer go through the training to get their PAL during depot in Regina, this is a real possibility.
OTOH, it was covered in my firearms courses that the only legal place to discharge a restricted is at the range and is something I've heard many times from other RPAL holders. The prudent thing to do is to realize that such an action could lead to charges and even if you are eventually exonerated - the process is the punishment. Absent a statement from a firearms lawyer, the RCMP, or in the PAL education books, I plan on NOT being a test case. We all have too much to lose.
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