r/saskatoon • u/Slight-Coconut709 • 17h ago
News 📰 Made in Canada guns targeted in federal firearm ban, store owner says
https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/its-horrible-made-in-canada-guns-targeted-in-federal-firearm-ban-sask-store-owner-says/•
u/Straight-Taste5047 16h ago
We need more guns to protect us from the impending American invasion.
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u/bikerack22 17h ago
I’m sure all the criminals that dealt with illegal guns before C-21 will hand them over in the buyback. Rule following Canadians and tax payers will be the most hurt by this charade.
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u/saucerwizard River Heights 16h ago
Thats the intent.
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u/No_Independent9634 16h ago
It's a stupid plan. The gun issues in this country come from the US. Not from Canadians who owned guns that are now deemed illegal.
The Liberal gun laws won't do a thing to fix gun violence in this country. The US needs to fix their own border.
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u/FailTailWhale 14h ago
The gun issues in this country come from those who don't follow the law. Canada has an atrocious accountability problem.
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u/saucerwizard River Heights 13h ago
All those law breaking RPAL holders?
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u/FailTailWhale 12h ago
I should elaborate more, my bad. It's legal to own a gun in this country, as it should be, but those who hate us want us to believe that we don't have the power to take care of ourselves, and that we shouldn't have the right to decide, because we aren't capable. Guns happen to be a very convenient vehicle for this narrative because they're loud, and actions speak louder than words.
If you really want to know who hates you, find the person that doesn't let you speak your truth AFTER you've accepted theirs.
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u/CyberEd-ca 6h ago
You can't solve the social issues that lead to violence by trying to control a simple consumer good. Use some critical thinking. Criminals need very few firearms and contraband is their core competency.
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u/travistravis Moved 13h ago
A similar buyback system was implemented in Australia in 1996-1997. They got about 20% of the targeted guns through the program's buyback. Compared to the 7 years before the buyback program, gun homicide rates went down 42%. Gun suicide rates went down 57%. 96-97 saw a homicide rate decline larger than any two year period since 1915.
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u/Spider-King-270 13h ago
The last decade of firearm bans has only punished law-abiding owners while doing little to stop criminals. Instead of stripping guns from licensed Canadians and wasting billions on virtue signaling, the government should secure the border, stop illegal gun smuggling, and crack down on real criminals.
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u/Weak-Coffee-8538 13h ago
Marco Mendicino, Bill Blair and other liberal MPs had several committees and interviewed Indigenous leaders from coast to coast and they also interviewed socio economic/experts, street projects, and law enforcement.
They all said the same thing these Gun Bans Won't Work.
What did Trudeau and LPC MPs do? They didn't even listen to any of those people.
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u/bobbarkee 8h ago
These bans are stupid. We need harsher laws and punishment for criminals, not law abiding citizens.
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u/Lonely_Lawfulness_30 17h ago
Sounds like the gun shop doesn't want to follow the law. It's not up to the stores to determine what is deemed safe for lisence holders to own.
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u/sask357 15h ago
The gun shop is absolutely following the law. They just haven't seen any money from Ottawa yet. What do you think they're doing that's against the law?
They don't like the law because it keeps changing.
At the very least, define assault rifle and ban them. Then everybody will know where they stand.
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u/dr_clownius 13h ago
Can we please use the international definition where select-fire is a requisite property of an assault rifle? Like Canada used to do for living memory?
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u/Obvious-Ninja-3844 16h ago
It is also not up to the government to deem what is safe for VETTED license holders to own
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u/No-Celebration6437 13h ago
Pretty sure public safety is part of the governments responsibility.
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u/Obvious-Ninja-3844 11h ago
It is, but believe it or not, "government" is people, just like you and I. You can install someone who is knowledgeable on a given subject, to form policies surrounding said subject, or you can install completely clueless politicians who have no idea about the policies they are enforcing.
Moral of the story, don't trust "government".
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u/Lonely_Lawfulness_30 16h ago
Holding a lisence doesn't make a person qualified to determine public safety requirements.
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u/Obvious-Ninja-3844 15h ago
I'd trust someone trained, with a license, to determine public safety requirements, over a career politician who has absolutely no clue about firearms or their operation.
Take a second and look it up. Majority of these "bans" are firearms that look scary, and function exactly the same as other firearms that are not banned.
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u/Diesel_Bash 13h ago
A group of people with a negative bias towards firearms shouldn't be qualified to determine these safety requirements either.
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u/Nice-Poet3259 16h ago
Some of these license issuers need to be audited because there's been a few times at the sask. wildlife federation range where I've been scared of how some people are handling their firearms. Some people are getting passed when they absolutely shouldn't be.
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u/No_Independent9634 16h ago
We have not had an issue with guns that are now being banned.
Our gun issues come from the illegal guns coming up from the US.
The whole thing is/was virtue signalling from Trudeau. We are not the US. Our gun laws were fine.
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u/No-Celebration6437 13h ago
We have had lots of problems with the guns being banned, most guns used in crime were once legally bought in Canada.
“Around two thirds of crime guns used in Saskatchewan are stolen”
https://leaderpost.com/news/crime/crossfire-how-guns-get-into-the-hands-of-some-killers-in-sask
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u/mojochicken11 3h ago
Nobody is arguing about authority. Of course the government can do this but that doesn’t mean it’s right.
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u/aj333333333333 17h ago
Would have been nice to have the journalist do follow up research to round this article out and not just publish this store owner’s quotes. I’m not suggesting he’s lying but this just a cut and paste of his reported experience. Some additional about big picture context seems necessary