Posted on 05/01/2020 6:00:48 PM PDT by Candor7
Move comes after murder of 22 people in worst mass shooting in Canada’s history Canada has banned assault-style weapons following the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, Justin Trudeau announced on Friday. “These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada,” said the prime minister. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.”
......................At present, the Firearms Act does not make a distinction between “military-style” weapons and other type of long guns – meaning the government would also need to add amend the law. Trudeau had also previously promised to ban the Ruger Mini-14 rifle, the weapon used in the 1989 École Polytechnique shooting in Montreal, in which 14 women were murdered. The move to heavily restrict access to certain firearms will probably prompt anger from the opposition Conservative party and Canada’s gun lobby – but a ban of certain weapons can be carried out through cabinet, bypassing the need for legislation.
“Justin Trudeau is using the current pandemic and the immediate emotion of the horrific attack in Nova Scotia to push the Liberals’ ideological agenda to make major firearms policy changes,” said the Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, following Trudeau’s comments. “Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop dangerous criminals who obtain their guns illegally.” ...
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Trudeau is too liberal to know that a wood-stock Remingtom .223 hunting rifle is equal to the AR-15. Same bullet, 10 or more round magazine. So, ban the “mean-looking assault-style” AR-15 because it looks threatening. Makes no sense but, then, overreacting liberals never do.
yeah this just happened to be written up and ready to go
I read a good portion of that publication. All I kept saying, while perusing the extensive list of prohibited guns, was “F*** you!” No mention of protecting yourself or your family, just what the govt. thinks is a reasonable weapon to use for hunting. And everyone knows that govt. is smarter than the little ppl. /s
“We will all orderly go to the gas chamber like the jews!”
Your remark is something I think of every time I see a Holocaust related movie. Just why did they peacefully go to the shower houses or shooting areas to be slaughtered?
The countless thousands of them could have overpowered their guards. Yes, most would be mowed down, but I’d rather go down fighting a tyrant than willfully obeying one.
Thank God for the 2A.
Slowly, yes. Especially in big cities.
Owning a car will be on par, legalities-wise, with owning fully automatic weapons.
As there is no gun registry in Canada you can be assured they will be recovering very few of the guns that are in the general population.
“The 1500 gun list is an astounding confiscation of the guns of law abiding citizens.”
Any body in Canada have anything to say about it?
Q up the photo of armed AMERICAN’s on the steps of the Mich. Capitol building the other day.
Take notes and be ready. Also this should plus up the available firearms in the USA and drive down prices temporarily.
Stock up further.
Quebec is their Kalifornia, polluting the rest of the country with liberal values. They should have let Quebec go way back when De Gaulle stirred them all up.
The French people, regardless of country, are liberal by nature. One thing about the French is they know how to multitask their rifles as they are often used to raise their battle flag. The flag being solid white.
***At present, the Firearms Act does not make a distinction between “military-style” weapons***
WE in the US went through this nonsense back in 1968 when Dems banned the import of 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles because they were “Military”. The same rifle off the same assembly line with the same markings but issued to a “Police Force” were legal to import.
This nonsense finally stopped back in 1984 and the army surplus rifles were again legal to import.
But in 1984, the Dems had a new target, Rifles!
Something the anti-gun people said they would NEVER legislate against. Then they made a grab for them.
If they ever get an AW ban to stick in the US, rest assured they will be back for their original target from 1962-1984, HANDGUNS!
I thought that Quebec was more left wing than the rest of the country.
Few people (if any) are going to comply.
Mortars and anti-tank rifles , I’ve never heard of most of the weapons , what kind of sicko made up this list
You’re forgetting Vancouver, eh?
I think we’ve found where all democrats can be deported to and have all the gun control they want. They just have to stay indoors for 8 months a year.
Yes; the perfect place for them to destroy themselves while not bothering the good Americans in the lower 48.
Michigan is just across the lake. The Canadiens can take their cue from the protesters in Michigan...
***In the USA we are citizens.***
ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
In old Britain, a man armed with a bow was considered a FREE MAN even though a subject to the Crown!
In France, they preferred Genoese Crossbowmen mercenaries as they found when you took a French serf and trained him with a bow, he suddenly considered himself a FREE MAN.
When the wars were over, those armed Frenchmen were not willing to give up their arms and return to serfdom slavery.
When the first Englishmen came ashore armed with matchlocks and wheel locks in the Americas, they found no “Lards or Ladies” to give deference to and realized they were truly FREE MEN, and have never backed down.
Dred Scott vs Sandford case recognized that citizens had the rights to “keep and carry arms wherever they went. (Therefore Blacks were not citizens)
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased....
and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
So began attempts to redefine of the 2nd Amendment.
Wonder if they will ban THIS hunting rifle from 114 years ago. The Remington Model 8.
https://news.guns.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/model8ranger3.jpg
The Aussies rolled over for confiscation.
If Trudeau is trying to lecture the USA, then he is missing the whole point of our 2nd amendment:
Any weapons the military or law enforcement has access to, private citizens should have access to them as well.
Otherwise, we are not a truly free and self-governing people.
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