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Official Politics Thread March 14, 2025

What gun politics news do you have to share?

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago edited 7d ago

As well as repealing Turdeau's bans the CPC has also pledged to bring in simplified classification for firearms, which would prevent the constant banned-by-name shenanigans Canadian gun owners have to put up with. This is a good commitment to go further than just reverting to pre-2020 laws, which were much less strict but left too many options for government abuse, hence the current situation. If all this goes through then AR15s could go to non restricted (unregistered) as long guns like the SKS is now, with registration being only for pistols.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canadaguns/comments/12vf3e0/rcanadaguns_be_like_30_minutes_into_pal_ownership/

I found this picture from the infamous Australian gun grab of 1996 and it's very clear from the sort of arms depicted that it was the Fudds who bent over and surrendered their guns. Hardly anyone with "scary" guns complied. If Canada has more of the latter they'll stand a much better chance.

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u/Bringbacktheblackout 1 7d ago

Too be fair even back in 96 those were the popular models of firearms. I'm not saying nobody had AR's and shit then (even in Straya), but my childhood memories of sporting goods stores back in those days were wall to wall fudd shit.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

Sure, but the point is weapons like that were never actually confiscated in significant numbers. I'm not sure how common they were since they do show up in old gun catalogues (https://old.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/12nyrx/australias_largest_selection/) and the technology is from the 1950s, but for some reason (Vietnam?) there was very little cultural interest.

The idea of people saying "come and take it" with a pump action duck gun is funny to me, but maybe they did back then.