Cassy Parker owns many guns.
One that is near and dear to her heart is her Ruger Mini-14 Ranch rifle, a lightweight, semi-automatic gun, which her husband and five kids got her a couple of years ago for Mother’s Day.
Parker, who co-owns a gun shop called K.K.S. Tactical Supplies in a small strip mall in Prince George in northern British Columbia, says she has used her Ruger both for recreation and as part of her community-sanctioned “predator-management” efforts — killing some of the wolves and coyotes that prey on livestock animals, such as calves, and wildlife, including caribou, deer and moose.
