Posted on 06/03/2018 4:42:23 AM PDT by mkleesma
The Trudeau government is looking into whether it should regulate imitation firearms following three Toronto incidents which saw police shoot and kill men brandishing relatively harmless guns.
Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario's chief coroner, alerted federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and her officials to the cases, which led three coroner juries to recommend Ottawa revise the Criminal Code to help prevent such fatalities.
The minister confirmed in a letter last month to Huyer that the department is reviewing proposals to tighten controls on look-alike weapons that police often have no choice but to treat as genuine.
A spokesman for the minister, Simon Rivet, told CBC News that officials are "examining the recommendations" and consulting on them with Public Safety Canada, which also helps set Ottawa's gun policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Come and get them, Mountie!
>> relatively harmless
I guess like on the Superman tv show of the 50s, after the criminal fires all of his bullets at Superman’s bulletproof chest, the crooks may throw the toy gun at you!
Since all guns are banned, aren’t they all toys anyway? Just don’t shoot. /s
My brothers have AR-15’s in Ontario and they don’t have Cuomo mags either.
If regulation is the cure, maybe they should make it a felony to endanger oneself by removing the orange identifying ring on many imitation CO2 guns. /S
More seriously, what kind of idiot points a BB gun at a cop?
So these criminals are using faux guns, hoping to fool their robbery victims, but then the faux gun fools the police and it’s lights out. Sounds like herd thinning.
Is Obama and that other dude, brandishing a relatively harmless gun? 😁👍
These guns don’t have orange tips.
Even stupider to brandish them, then.
I didn’t read where any of them pointed a gun at the cop. Just brandishing a fake gun is now a death sentence?
A quote from the article, about halfway down:
"Pryce, suffering from paranoia, pointed a pellet gun at police, who fired back at him in response."
More generally, police may sometimes be a bit trigger happy, but if you brandish what looks like an illegal gun when they are interacting with you (this is Canada, where many handguns are illegal or restricted), they may perceive a threat and react with deadly force.
Probably.
There's no telling where that Obama finger has been.
Don’t shoot ! It’s a toy gun!
Can’t be. Trudeau made those illegal.
BAM!
“These guns don’t have orange tips.”..
Orange “tips” are removable. I’d propose any imitation handgun be made entirely of some bright, non-black colored plastic. Having any BLACK colored imitation would get you arrested and gun confiscated including already existing imitations. If you brandish or show ANY black guns they will be considered “real”, so take your chances.
Well, SOMEBODY has to do SOMETHING!
It seems that bad guys pointing a fake gun at a cop or an armed citizen is a kin to trying to pet a grizzly bear. It might look like a good idea at first, but in the end the stupid are removed from the gene pool.
Canadian law limits AR magazines to 10 rounds.
https://www.huntinggearguy.com/tips/lar-15-magazines-canada/
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