Posted on 04/30/2020 7:51:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Ottawa is set to ban a number of assault-style firearms and weapons involved in mass shootings in Canada and abroad, including the Ruger Mini-14 that was used during the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, federal officials say.
The formal announcement of the gun ban is expected by the end of the week, but the key measures have already been approved by cabinet, the officials said. In addition to the gun ban, according to officials, the government will be putting forward further gun control measures in a coming legislative package.
Along with the Ruger Mini-14, the government will ban the AR-15 and similar types of firearms that have been used in a number of mass shootings in the United States, officials said. They added that the ban will also include the CZ Scorpion, the Swiss Arms Classic Green, the Beretta Cx4 Storm, the Robinson Armament XCR and the Sig Sauer SIG MCX, among others, as well as firearms that use the same platforms.
The Globe and Mail is not disclosing the names of the officials because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to act on gun control in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, in which a gunman killed 22 people on April 18 and 19 in Nova Scotia.
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Well it’s about dang time they made canaDUH safer. Now the ‘moms’ have a place to relocate to. And all the follywood anti-gunner. Duhlissa milano, you listening?
They still don’t get it that styles change as products improve...and if it was up to them, we’d all be owning muskets.
Same pattern in every filthy liberal controlled country.
Fixed.
The semi-auto ban is yet another fraud, based on lies.
Are they going to take all of the cops semi-autos?????
They need to ban this virus as that will save many, many more lives. I hope they have a bill soon...
They will use this to justify banning bolt action rifles. Cuz that’s what Charles Whitman used in the Texas bell tower mass shooting and what Oswald used to assassinate a President.
How much damage do you think a guy with a .30-30 could do in a hostage situation?
I believe the RCMP put the weapons on restricted and non-restricted lists
I remember both of those, well.
Mass-shootings are terrible, but the victims each year are in the hundreds.
Guns are used by ordinary citizens millions of times per year to prevent violent crimes, 99% of the time without a shot being fired.
Guns save far more lives than are lost to mass-shooters.
And if everybody had guns mass-shooters would have less mass.
My son pulled that in a scrabble game...some weapon from Dungeons & Dragons....I said no way....and he grabbed the dictionary.
The guns used by the Canadian police imposter nutcake have not been described so far as I’ve heard. If he did use an “assault” style weapon he may have got one from the female RCMP he killed early in his killings.
This new list of banned guns is a laundry list of what the anti-gun crowd wants to ban in every western nation. Canada’s PM is using the killings to pursue the anti-gun/freedom agenda.
Strike while the crisis is hot!
Canadian losers - bump for later...
Three lists:
Unrestricted: most bolt action and rimfire long guns
Restricted: most centerfire and handguns
Prohibited: automatic weapons, handguns with barrel under 4”, and other “scary” looking firearms.
Thus is a rough generalization, NOT a definitive listing. To see that, go to the RCMP’s site.
It’s a real thing, not D&D fiction.
The one in D&D was real, too.
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