Unless you're a trapper or a mining prospector, and I'm working on getting my trapper's licence just so I can legally carry my Colt 45 around in the hinterlands.
Outrageous - nearly as bad as not being allowed to defend yourself in your own home. Good luck with the trappers licence - what do you have to do, show a track record of hunting beaver?
but what do we have? calibrated rifles for gaming? or stuff that is handy when the shit hits the fan.
Both if you're a hunter. The latter if you're not. Neither if you're not bothered or a Buddhist.
tell me, where are we supposed to be on the food chain?
Wherever you earn your right to be. Doesn't mean the outcome is just. I put you at the top of the food chain though, which is why I'm trying to persuade you to carry a useful weapon.