Posted on 05/01/2020 6:00:48 PM PDT by Candor7
Move comes after murder of 22 people in worst mass shooting in Canadas history Canada has banned assault-style weapons following the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the countrys 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 Canadas 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 Trudeaus comments. Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop dangerous criminals who obtain their guns illegally. ...
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So when terrorists start using vehicles as weapons those will be banned as well??
Time for Canucks to overthrow the tyrants.
This shiite needs to be stopped while it still can be stopped.
Calls for an independant Quebec will ruffle their feathers.
Canada is simply too large, land-wise. The country needs to split into thirds.
Northern Territories would make a good penal colony.
Politicians keep creeping farther and farther toward dictatorship....sooner or later the pushback will be epic!
I really, really dispise Mr. Trudeau.
Canadians are subjects.
In the USA we are citizens.
Big difference.
Theyll never answer this simple question:
How do you plan to make criminals obey these new laws when they didnt obey the current laws?
Cnada Gazette list of banned fire arms banned by executive order:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6880974-Canada-Gazette-May-1-2020-Part-II.html
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Includes all AR-15s, AR-10s, and Ruger mini 14 rifles.
The 1500 gun list is an astounding confiscation of the guns of law abiding citizens.
Must be a lot of mass-shootings in Canada by people using assault weapons. That would be the only reason that justifies Trudeau banning those weapons.
Or, is Trudeau using the single mass-shooting to justify him doing what he wanted to do in the first place? Take a single-event crisis and use it to justify the action. Just like democrats in the U.S. want to use ANY use of a gun in a murder to ban them.
Because who cares about being able to defend yourself.
You are right.
But maybe Canadians will rise up demand an election to get rid of the minority Liberal government.
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians will be very ugly.
Using his logic, maybe he will shut the US-Canadian border permanently.
Politicians keep creeping farther and farther toward dictatorship....sooner or later the pushback will be epic!
It doesnt happen. Canadians are too polite. They are sheep like us. We have badass AR-15 owners with a crap load of guns in VA. Yet Sic Semper Tyrannis has zero meaning when it does come to a tyrant. We will all orderly go to the gas chamber like the jews! The freedom so many died for has no meaning.
AND...the very small number of gun owners that registered their guns with Canada during the recent “Long Gun Registry” debacle...can kiss their weapons goodbye.
22 deaths is not the REASON Trudeau wants to ban assault guns,. It is his EXCUSE to do it. He must have been torn upon hearing the news of the shooting - part weepy and part cheery.
Islam is a war plan.
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