r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Feb 06 '23

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u/floydsmoot Feb 07 '23

I just hope that if PP wins a majority in the next election he does something in his promised re-write of the Firearms Act that would make it impossible to change because I guarantee you that people will get sick of him and the LPC will again run on banning everything they possibly can to gain brownie points with a naive public.

I don't know much about constitutional law, but he needs to do something like entrench private property rights and/or let the provinces set their own gun laws or we're going to go through this all again. Gun owners have been the LPC's whipping boys as far back as I can remember (and I'm old) and they certainly aren't about to give that "milch cow" up.

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u/floydsmoot Feb 07 '23

he only wins a minority

I wouldn't count on the NDP and definitely not the Bloc to support him on these reversals.

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u/BelmontKing Feb 08 '23

OIC’s are executive orders, only takes the stroke of a pen from cabinet to revoke them.

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u/floydsmoot Feb 09 '23

Then the NDP/Bloc will try to defeat them first chance they get. The NDP and especially the Bloc will never allow "scary rifles" and/or handguns in this country.

I'll even wager PP will make a deal with them not to change the OIC just to stay in government.