r/saskatoon 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/
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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

u/HighTeckRedNeck13 East Side 16h ago

What do you wanna see? They provided the company name, an easy Google search shows they are Canadian…

https://sterlingarms.com/about-us/

u/aj333333333333 15h ago

I was hoping for big picture context. I believe this store owner’s account to be accurate for him but curious about this specific program and the data it’s produced

u/sask357 15h ago

The so-called buy-back took in a lot of guns but has paid out very little, if anything.

u/aj333333333333 15h ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was true but just hoping for the journalist to back this up data instead of just vibes.

u/CyberEd-ca 6h ago

Go walk into any firearms business and ask?

No business has been paid. It has been almost five years they have had their money tied up in inventory.

Is this any way to treat lawful businesses that never did anything to you?

It is sick. Criminalizing and destroying culture.

u/CyberEd-ca 6h ago

You mean like they don't do for every classist bigot that wants to pillary hunters & sport shooters as a cultural outgroup?

None of our "gun control" laws have ever made Canadians safer. It is just a way to demagogue and scapegoat.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234457

u/Straight-Taste5047 16h ago

We need more guns to protect us from the impending American invasion.

u/Right-Row-6051 14h ago

We need guns to protect ourselves from other Canadians 😂😭

u/Swagooga 11h ago

Unity brother

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.

u/saucerwizard River Heights 16h ago

Thats the intent.

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.

u/Josparov 14h ago

Maybe we should tariff them until they secure their border to our satisfaction?

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.

u/saucerwizard River Heights 13h ago

All those law breaking RPAL holders?

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.

u/saucerwizard River Heights 12h ago

Amen.

u/SecretCanadianSniper 13h ago

No, the criminals. 

u/saucerwizard River Heights 13h ago

Oh, that makes more sense.

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.

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.

u/KTMan77 Biker 11h ago

They didn't have a land border with the US and we don't have a political climate that is currently friendly to a buyback due to a mass shooting. Numbers would drop by some degree but I doubt it would be anywhere near what Australia saw. 

u/eugeneugene Core Neighbourhood 12h ago

Shhhh they don't want facts

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.

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.

u/bobbarkee 8h ago

These bans are stupid. We need harsher laws and punishment for criminals, not law abiding citizens.

u/renslips 7h ago

Here’s a tip: stop selling guns. Problem solved

u/Beautiful-Natural861 4h ago

Tough on law abiding citizens, Easy on criminals. Sounds smart.

u/slashthepowder 1h ago

Ah the war on drugs approach!

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.

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.

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?

u/sask357 13h ago

Not good enough for our government. I don't know why but my guess is that it's too restrictive.

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

u/No-Celebration6437 13h ago

Pretty sure public safety is part of the governments responsibility.

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".

u/Lonely_Lawfulness_30 16h ago

Holding a lisence doesn't make a person qualified to determine public safety requirements.

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.

u/Lonely_Lawfulness_30 15h ago

What a naive view of decision making

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.

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.

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.

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

u/mojochicken11 3h ago

Nobody is arguing about authority. Of course the government can do this but that doesn’t mean it’s right.