Traduction de «Carabine à chargement par la culasse » (Français → Anglais) :

breechload carbine

Yet they were fitted with often obsolete breech guns, castoffs, antiquities better suited for military museums than defending the lives of Canadians at sea.

In fact, I can show you a page from the loading manual for the Enfield rifle.

Hunters in the Rockies of Western Canada, farmers protecting their crops on the Prairies, and Aboriginal people sustaining their traditional way of life across the country will soon feel the heavy hand of government lifted from the breeches of their rifles.

Here is a short list of the errors I uncovered and made public today: there were 300,000 unclaimed guns in the old handgun registry; the gun registry lost track of more than 38,000 licensed gun owners; 832 duplicate firearms licences were issued; 28 duplicate firearms registration certificates were issued; there were 57 registration certificates for 16 guns; re-registration of 10 handguns resulted in a 50% error rate; a muzzleloader was registered as a single-shot machine gun; 3 rifles were registered to the wrong man; a handgun was registered to the wrong man; 2 rifles were registered as shotguns; 6 identical registration cert ...[+++]ificates were issued for 1 handgun; registration forms were sent to a wrong address; there was a woman's photo on a man's firearms licence and a man's photo on a woman's firearms licence; and 3 Winnipegers got the wrong photo on their firearms licences.