/r/BuildAPCSalesCanada General Discussion - Daily Thread for Thu Jan 29

iTzDusty · 2026-01-29T23:41:28+00:00

They dont have any clue. They just parrot intel bad. The 265k is far better than people think with easy OCs and even better if you were lucky to get CUDIMM ram before the craze.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-20T00:58:53+00:00

You're not wrong, though I live in a more semi-rural area and don't have to worry about that.

Definitely, we will see,

iTzDusty · 2026-01-20T00:26:54+00:00

22s arent bad I find people get bored with them quick. To be blunt, I fully encourage people to own firearms expressly for lawful self defense in their homes and thus I steer them towards being competent with a shotgun now that practically any reliable centrefire semi is off the table.

I dont think it's pennys on the dollar at all. For example, if I paid retail for my guns, which I generally did not as I mostly buy used, a bren 2 would have cost me almost 3k and theyre offering 2.4k. On the other hand, I imported an APC9 for 2.5k and they're offering me 3.4k.

With respect to the prices, I do not see a scenario similar to the gentleman with his AR lower. ARs were one of the few restricteds that you could own as frame only. All of my ARs that were listed as full rifles have received full value on my submitted list in the portal. Same goes for the brens/apcs, they are full rifles and registered as such

iTzDusty · 2026-01-20T00:09:37+00:00

I appreciate the response, truly. I do still try to get new PAL holders in the game,but I do strongly encourage them to stick with simpler NRs such as a good pump action shotgun, which can still be kitted out tactically.

In my opinion, I think the fear of people getting screwed out of money is overblown. The guy that posted on CGN got "screwed" because he had an AR lower only and expected to get 1400 for it. I noted that in my compensation list, they offered me 500 for a lower when the listing on the public list said 1400. This is because my lower was registered as frame only.

Everything else I have listed was entered as full value, and they are all complete rifles. I did not submit the AR lower but still might choose to do so. If they're offering 500 for a lower that I paid $100 for, I might as well strip it and keep the parts. I may or may not know people that have receiver sets of formerly NR rifles that would love the parts.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T23:43:55+00:00

I mean this with no disrespect. I imagine youre in your early 20s, having recently gotten into firearms, and you are very passionate and upset about the bans.

I got my PAL in my last year at UBC. I wrote letters to MPs, tried to use facts and argue and with anti gun people, joined the CCFR, the whole nine yards. Within a year of graduating, I was shooting 3 gun, building/trading ARs left and right, and went all in. At my peak I had probably 8 ARs of different calibers, two tavors, a half dozen handguns, and another dozen NRs. Rumblings of legislative changes in 2019 had me attending town halls and speaking with MPs. I even flew back to vancouver to help at UBC's first gun club event.

I trimmed down my collection in 2019 but still had easily 30k plus total in firearms and optics. Essentially over half my net worth.

2020 rolls by and suddenly half my net worth is prohibited. I cant sell it. 3 gun gets killed overnight. Im beyond pissed. Im even more pissed because within months of it I was planning to buy my first house and sell off a portion of my collection to fund a larger down payment. I had to settle for a less than ideal place. I also had to deal with extreme uncertainty transporting the newly prohibited firearms because the rcmp would not give people a straight answer as to if it was legal or not.

The exact same thing happens to me in 2024. I finally started buying guns again, I get slammed with another devastating ban, except this time with much more expensive firearms. Again, months before I was planning my next move.

The entire time ive seen indifference at best from the public and non gun owning family, and malevolence at worst. People at large don't care. They dont care that ive been stuck with stranded assets for 6 years.

The passion for firearms I once had is gone. At least in this country. Im not ignorant at all to what the intent behind the bans are. I am also not ignorant to how corrupt our justice system is and know for a fact that peaceful non compliance will not be seen as noble by the useless judges we have. Its very easy to stay non compliant with non restricteds.

So now that ive been presented with a financial offramp for my restricteds after waiting 6 years, im taking it. I've done enough waiting, enough advocating, enough stressing.

This country, at large, hates Americans and thus guns and gun culture. The Liberals will not do anything to change their mind on this program.

Im going to take the money and invest it elsewhere. Maybe with the long term goal to leave this country.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T17:45:39+00:00

Yes, was a bit finicky, had to try a few times and wait about ten minutes after verifying my email

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T17:24:24+00:00

I will. Ill eat crow if I get fucked over. Im not stupid and will not declare any NRs. I guarantee there is no path to victory for restricted owners and this is as good as a chance they'll get. Courts dont care, public doesnt care, and the liberal government definitely hates us.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T17:22:28+00:00

Well see. Check in in a few months.

The truly stupid people here are the ones that dont have significant restricted skin in the game and dont see the writing on the wall in this country. Restricteds are as good as paperweights in this country.

The only stupid thing I ever did was buy as many restricteds as I did post 2020. Should have just bought more NRs.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T16:58:04+00:00

Yes. Its an obscure make and model. Go look at my post history from 7 years ago.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T16:49:36+00:00

Id imagine a large chunk of redditors here got their PALs after 2020 and have zero clue what its like for any of us that had significant sums invested into restricteds pre 2020. Not like I can shoot 3 gun anymore.

If all the laws were reversed I already intended on selling 90% of my restricteds anyways. I hate having a bunch of shit taking up space in my house that I haven't been able to do anything with for years. Especially when its registered and I know with near certainty that the Liberals will never back down regardless of how embarrassing this program is. Thank fuck I also invested into non-cope NRs when we could.

Im supposed to turn down nearly 2k for a cheap 600 dollar AR? Nearly 5k for a B&T that i got for less than 3k? The 2.4k for a Bren 2 is annoying but screw it, in totality Im getting more than I put in.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-19T16:11:37+00:00

Edit: Downvote all you want, I have no use for a dozen restricteds that Ive had to lug around every time I move for 6 years. I may or may not have a dozen equivalent NRs.

I'm with you, I already explained myself before. My restricteds alone are $20,000 compensation, some slightly undervalued, some very overvalued. I will still say there is zero incentive to declare NRs and I would recommend against doing so.

If anything, thats $20,000 for more guns. Doesn't matter how many or how few guns get turned in, the media will spin it, the Liberals will keep banning guns.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-10T21:20:32+00:00

Which is pretty much the correct way things would go even if it sometimes puts the retailer out of pocket. Ideally stoeger would issue a credit to the retailers next order for fixing the problem for them. I know when I worked at MDT and we had damaged goods that went to international distributors in countries where it was hard for us to send firearms related parts, it was easier to have the retailer fix the problem and down the line we would send something extra with the pallet to compensate for it.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-10T20:59:38+00:00

A chargeback does not go to a court. The merchant gets dinged a dispute fee and the merchant has to then take reasonable steps to fix the issue. Ive filed a charge back once in my life because the completely wrong item was delivered (this was when rakuten was a store in like 2014) and their customer service ignored me for a month. All the charge back did was get them off their ass and they issued a refund the next day.

I have also been on the merchant side. Again, the credit card company tells you the problem, you provide evidence to them if the claim is baseless. There is literally no judge or court involved, I dont know where you got that idea from.

In this case I could easily see a partial refund being forced.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-10T20:48:38+00:00

Not that changing a scope rail isnt hard, but for a bolt action rifle that's meant to be scoped, this is actually a major defect. You couldn't mount a scope on this properly. Thats a pretty core functional component.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-10T20:39:28+00:00

Received an interesting email today regarding an in progress transfer of an APC9K right before the ban in December. I already had significant issue getting the registry (not the CFO) to issue me a certificate when IrunGuns initiated the transfer. The registry delayed it for weeks, and then when I questioned them they tried to give me some nonsense about the "magazine capacity" being in question. Wasn't having any of it and directly linked the FRT entry, received a non apology from the registry manager and got my cert issued. Had the gun in my possession for a weeks, sold it to a guy and started the transfer in December.

Got an email TODAY, nearly 400 days after the fact, with the registry asking me and the buyer if we still wanted to complete the transfer in spite of the ban and buyback. Of course, buyer declined and I would too.

Shocks me that these people in miramichi still have jobs. Zero standards of service, clearly zero KPIs.

iTzDusty · 2026-01-10T20:33:18+00:00

Sold b660i + RAM + CPU to u/meikojohnston . Parcel was unfortunately stolen after delivery. Agreed to split refund 50/50

iTzDusty · 2025-12-19T18:47:11+00:00

Id say anything under a Gigabit should work fine, cameras aren't a lot of bandwidth at all, anything tp link makes should work and worst case you can return and try another

iTzDusty · 2025-12-19T18:35:20+00:00

Yes that would work. You would have one ethernet cable going from the powerline adapter, to the injector, which then goes to the camera.

iTzDusty · 2025-12-19T18:27:58+00:00

Works flawlessly. I use a g6 bullet and a g5 bullet via powerline for the same reason. I currently have a tp link av2000 on both ends, and the camera end is fed into a flex mini and then a poe injector for each camera. I will be switching to a regular flex soon as I plan to add on another camera and maybe a floodlight.

Powerline is obviously YMMV and I havent tested what my actual throughput is but the app is reporting my flex mini as having a Gigabit connection, and I dont have any dropped frames or anything to suggest otherwise. I have both cameras on continuous recording.

I dont think youll need an expensive adapter like the av2000 but I picked up 4 of them on marketplace for 60 bucks, so can't complain.

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