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Trudeau announces Canada is banning assault-style weapons
The Guardian ^ | Fri 1 May 2020 16.40 BST Last modified on Fri 1 May 2020 19.39 BST | Leyland Cecco

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 1500; ban; banglist; buyback; massshooting; novascotia; trudeau; tyrant
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Trudeau also has mentioned a New Zealand style "buy back" program. Meanwhile Canadians are made further vulnerable to criminals with guns, by taking guns from law abiding Canadians.
1 posted on 05/01/2020 6:00:48 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Candor7

So when terrorists start using vehicles as weapons those will be banned as well??


2 posted on 05/01/2020 6:04:03 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Candor7

Time for Canucks to overthrow the tyrants.

This shiite needs to be stopped while it still can be stopped.


3 posted on 05/01/2020 6:04:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Candor7

Calls for an independant Quebec will ruffle their feathers.


4 posted on 05/01/2020 6:05:11 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Candor7

Canada is simply too large, land-wise. The country needs to split into thirds.


5 posted on 05/01/2020 6:05:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Candor7
Dance, hoser!
6 posted on 05/01/2020 6:05:22 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: coaster123

Northern Territories would make a good penal colony.


7 posted on 05/01/2020 6:08:01 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Candor7

Politicians keep creeping farther and farther toward dictatorship....sooner or later the pushback will be epic!

8 posted on 05/01/2020 6:08:43 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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This is literally a shameless politician using the deaths and pain of the surviving families as cover for pushing a policy completely unrelated to the event (assault weapons were never used in the mass shooting, just handguns and shotguns) as dishonest justification.

I really, really dispise Mr. Trudeau.

9 posted on 05/01/2020 6:09:22 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: Candor7

Canadians are subjects.

In the USA we are citizens.

Big difference.


10 posted on 05/01/2020 6:10:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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They’ll never answer this simple question:

“How do you plan to make criminals obey these new laws when they didn’t obey the current laws?”


11 posted on 05/01/2020 6:15:22 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


12 posted on 05/01/2020 6:15:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

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.


13 posted on 05/01/2020 6:16:16 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Candor7

Because who cares about being able to defend yourself.


14 posted on 05/01/2020 6:20:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: adorno

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.


15 posted on 05/01/2020 6:22:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Using his logic, maybe he will shut the US-Canadian border permanently.


16 posted on 05/01/2020 6:27:58 PM PDT by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: RasterMaster

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.


17 posted on 05/01/2020 6:27:59 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Candor7

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.


18 posted on 05/01/2020 6:29:28 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Candor7

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.


19 posted on 05/01/2020 6:35:13 PM PDT by oldplayer
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Islam is a war plan.


20 posted on 05/01/2020 6:35:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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