@Ronnie21093 @Kyonko802 Gun licenses in Canada aren't that hard to get, the Canadian Firearms Safety Course was designed so that even someone who's never been to a school and has subsisted off of nature for their entire lives would be able to pass it, there are literally subsistence hunters who have their firearms license fees waived in Canada.
I was barely even paying attention to the class and still passed the exam with a 100%, basically just treat every firearm as if it were loaded until you actually clear the thing, including visually checking the chamber, then you can do whatever it is you want with it.