The Federal law requires declaring the use of the restricted firearm, ie. target shooting or collecting.I may be mistaken, but i think as a federal law, not provincial one must be a member of a range to acquire, most stores sell you a range membership right there, or online easily available...
The CFO is tasked with ensuring that the registered firearm is being used in the manner claimed, and they are using registration in a gun club as proxy evidence for target shooting
This went to court in Ontario (provinces have jurisdiction over CFO decisions) a few years back and it was ruled that the CFO had no authority to force people to join a club because you can target shoot at clubs as a guest, or something like that. I can't find the ruling at the moment.
regardless, evidence is I know several people in Ontario without memberships and no problem.
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