True story: I moved to Edmonton as a new branch manager from BC (transfer with the same company). Day one, I went out together with a veteran sales rep to meet some customers. Got into his Impala, looked for a place to plug in the seat belt. No visible connector. Dug around a bit. He asked me what I was doing, and I told him I was planning to use the seatbelt. He wasn't using his. He gave me a lecture on how no company policy or government was going to tell him to wear a seatbelt, where to smoke, or to register his guns. I wondered how we got on to firearms from seatbelts, but he was quoting the phrase about prying his cold dead fingers off them, and he was crossing in between guns, seatbelts, no-smoking areas, and then he got to the NEP. It was a classic rant. I guess I never forgot it.

I lived in Alberta twice, three years each time. Great place, I still have lots of friends in GP, Edmonton, Fort Mac, and Calgary. I have a daughter living in Calgary. I visit regularly. I agree that it isn't all of Alberta, but it seems to me there is still some of the Texas North philosophy there.

Apologies for the generalization. So I gather you don't have quite that many guns in the back of your X5?

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2007 X3 3.0si, 6 MT, Premium, White

Retired:
2008 535i, 6 MT, M Sport, Premium, Space Grey
2003 X5 3.0 Steptronic, Premium, Titanium Silver
2002 325xi 5 MT, Steel Grey
2004 Z4 3.0 Premium, Sport, SMG, Maldives Blue