The Liberal government is moving ahead with efforts to keep assault-style firearms out of the hands of Canadians, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Monday.
I just wish that the general public and the government were educated on existing firearms laws and regulations in Canada. Assault weapons and high capacity magazines have been illegal here for a very long time. I don’t like politicians trying to score points on issues that aren’t actually issues, the public just isn’t informed about them.
I’m not too sure how banning “scary looking” guns helps anything, when people will still buy the exact same guns that just, don’t look scary? They can still shoot the same.
That and the fact it doesn’t do anything to stop criminals from killing anyone, or take their guns away. This is just a political stunt that wont do anything but cost the country money.
I don’t like politicians trying to score points on issues that aren’t actually issues, the public just isn’t informed about them.
If the pro-gun community would put forward actual actionable ideas, then yes sure. The issue is all we ever hear is “You are idiots for banning (whatever.)” with no follow up. Going by data, banning handguns was a good idea, but not one pro-gun person I know likes it.
(Just to be clear on my own bias, I have my own PAL, but I don’t have firearms in my house.)
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I’m not sure what handgun data you’re talking about, but it’s common for Canadians to misunderstand the state of firearms in Canada. Since handguns are restricted firearms, they’re registered. This means we know every time one of them turns up at a crime scene and the registered owner is charged. And this simply doesn’t happen. These handguns are not being used in crimes. So banning legal sale of handguns will change nothing regarding crime.
I want to do something about violence in our country too. I just want us to do something that will actually work because those involved are actually educated on the issue.
I’m in before the gun-clutchers woke up! Yay!
It’s funny: we never had our C7s into the Moar Pew mode; just Pew and occasionally Pew-pew-pew. It was cheaper to send us to the range and learn how to shoot better!
Probably a sensible piece of legislation, definitely a highly divisive piece of legislation.
The only people making this divisive are 2A lobbyists from the states and Canadians who would rather be American. Guns aren’t part of culture in Canada like it is in the states. The only people I know with a PAL are those with an air rifle or who go moose and deer hunting. No one is using an AR rifle for hunting here.
People in other countries do use AR rifles for hunting all the time. Canada doesn’t allow them to be used for hunting or they would have been.
I had a gun enthusiast explain to me that AR15s are not suitable for hunting deer because the caliber is too small. Ie the deer suffers unduly.
Interesting opinion.
AR-15 are typically 5.56mm or .223, not ideal for much beyond plinking varmints. People do use it, but it might take a couple of shots and you have to watch your range.
For deer or elk, you’d want something like .30-06 or .30/30 or 7mm Rem mag, or even .300 Win mag, but that’s a bit much.
People use .223 for hunting deer all the time using hunting rifles. I’d recommend.243 and higher but a .223 does work.
