The comments the Member is making are quite accurate. If you look at the Canadian firearms safety course that was supposed to be provided to Members in the last few days, you'll see in section one for instance, that it refers to the history of firearms and how cannons and old muskets were designed. You're expected to know what kind of design evolved in the 14th century, when certain loading procedures were required, the type of parts that these old muzzle loaders had, what a match lock is, a wheel
lock, a flint lock, they talk about percussion caps, how you tell a calibre of rifle, the measurement within the barrel of a rifle is how to tell the difference between a 270 and a 243, the difference between a 12 gauge, a 10 gauge, a 20 gauge. Much of this stuff is not relevant nor has it ever been of interest to most people in the Northwest Territories who hunt for a living.
For instance, section two talks about firearms safety. That's a good section. Section three talks about ammunition. There again, who cares about black powder? We don't use the stuff. You're expected to learn about trajectory, all of a sudden, for different rifles; what type of rifle shoots the farthest and what doesn't; and how a bullet travels. This is good but I don't know that you want to get into being so specific.
There are different parts of this book that are good. For instance, in section four it talks about muzzle loading and antique firearms -- the dos and don'ts of muzzle loading.