Posted on 09/20/2019 9:31:10 PM PDT by KC_Lion
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged a ban on “military-grade” semiautomatic rifles in an attempt to redirect his campaign after his blackface controversy. City News reports that Trudeau announced the rifle ban on Friday in Greektown, Toronto, the area of the city in which a gunman shot 15 people, killing two, last year.
Trudeau said, “We know you do not need a military-grade assault weapon – one designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time – to take down a deer.”
His ban includes a two-year amnesty for current owners of the rifles. He also wants a buyback so the government can pay owners when they hand their rifles over.
CBC quoted Trudeau saying, “People are dying. Families are grieving. Communities are suffering. So we’re going to do more and we’re going to do better. Thoughts and prayers are just not going to cut it. The choice could not be clearer: Liberals are for tougher gun laws, Conservatives are for weaker gun laws.
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What about hunting rifles in blackface?
Semiautomatic rifles went out of the military when the M1 Garande was retired.
In blackface? these white privileged pr####
The news of the epic rise in Canadian mass murders with Military style rifles was overshadowed by the crisis of massive flooding of Canadian cities and melting of people’s faces by the sudden onslaught of global warming
Barak Obama perfected the art of the manufactured crisis
Justin is building on that foundation to perfect the art of fictional crisis
Last year, more people were murdered with clubs. About 450 people were murdered. I suppose we will have to eliminate golf clubs and baseball bats. Justin Trudeau will cry a river when we come to take his golf clubs away and his Montreal Expos get sent kicking horse puckies.
If I'm not mistaken, M1 Carbines were still used by the IDF and FFL through the 1960s and in to the 70s.
Those may have been selector enhanced M2 carbines with full auto capability.
Anyway, Justina seeks distraction from his current PC crisis, and will anger the rest of gun owning Canada to do so.
Anything to please his little world of far left Toronto.
In some cases perhaps M2s, but mostly M1s (semi only). In fact, ROK soldiers fighting in VN carried M1s, and the CMP has been trying to get them back to be put on the American market.
In Canada, fully automatics have been legally prohibited (via grandfathering) since January 1 1978. You would have already had to have registered such a firearm by that date with the appropriate restricted weapons permit(s).
Another thing to note is that states like Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho have very little or no firearms controls (constitutional carry among other things) and also have homicide rates that are about the same as the neighbouring Canadian province(s).
“We know you do not need a military-grade assault weapon – one designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time – to take down a deer.”
Justin channels Andrew Cuomo.
The Australians, British and Canadians were using semiautomatic rifles as standard issue (the L1A1/C1A1 version of the FAL) into the 1980s.
That said, those are on the “Prohibited” list already under Canadian law. If you had an appropriate permit before the law, you can keep your rifle (or buy and sell them among fellow permiteers) but you can’t really do anything with it, even shoot it at a range.
Doing a heck of a job, Brownie.
The idiots don’t realize that there is not a country in the world that uses the AR15 in their military?
“We know you do not need a military-grade assault weapon – one designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time – to take down a deer.”
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I know he is talking about Canada, eh, and they have different rules but down here in the USA the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting........or the NEED for a gun.
“Military grade”? I wonder if it was “Military grade” boot polish on his face? Deflection denied!!
“What’s this ‘we’ shit, Paleface?”
A few million ‘Browning A5’ owners agree.....
What about your Second Amendment? Oh wait - forgot - that is the American Constitution.
Lol that must have been why I missed the gun violence news. I was underwater and my face had melted.
He also wants a buyback so the government can pay owners when they hand their rifles over.
I love these marxist ideas.
I buy an asset for $500.
The Government taxes me $600, so that they can give me $500 when they steal my asset
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