Sorry about the mispelling of “firearm.”
I do not believe Canadian law abiding firearm owners will comply with this ban.
New Zealand had to walk their ban back.Canada is apparently following the New Zealand model of buy back.
I have spoken to several AR-15 owners here in Canada. None of us will voluntarily comply with this “ban” without a court hearubg or a court order. This ban is “retroactive legislation,” and according to Canadian jurisprudence, a law or regulation cannot extinguish property rights already granted. They can change current and future rights to acquire such firearms, but hey can’t make people give them up, other than voluntarily.
Huge Civil Disobedience coming in Canada.
No need to apologize. Once I checked the QWERTY keyboard and verified that “I” and “O” were side by side on the layout, it was obviously just a typo. But it did cause me to pause and wonder if the bureaucrats had screwed up in drafting the regulation; sort of like inadvertently criminalizing breathing in a poorly drafted anti-pollution law or some such.
Yes, I would expect Canadian firearms owners are not going to stand for it. The only concern I would have is that it would become very difficult to engage in any recreational use of the banned weapons without being subject to the attention of law enforcement. It might take the form of direct confrontation at the range or in parking areas or it might be observation in those areas followed up by home visits by armed teams with seizure warrants.
For the latter, I’ll just point to the experience of California firearms owners being visited after making perfectly legal firearms-related purchases in Nevada and other bordering states. Turned out that California law enforcement officers were taking down vehicle license plate numbers outside gun shops and gun shows to ID owners for investigation and possible enforcement action.