r/canadaguns • u/contact86m • Feb 26 '26

News / Politics / Activism "assault style" and "extended mag"

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Source: https://www.guelphtoday.com/police/guelph-police-seize-assault-style-rifle-from-downtown-apartment-11923987

Looks cute, I'm not sure I'd want to "assault" anything with it though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

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u/Possible_Jellyfish69 Feb 26 '26

Fuck me, just bought one last month. I'm hoping they don't ban it because the "buyback" declaration deadline is so soon

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u/Possible_Jellyfish69 Feb 26 '26

Just got my pal last month, just before tumbler ridge, rough timing to buy my first guns. As long as they don't come for my sks...

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26

It won't be on the buy back just prohibited, so you just have to destroy it and no you dont not need to provide proof of destruction. But be sure to not have it if they ever come looking.

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u/Luciferwannab Feb 27 '26

Time to go boating

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u/Possible_Jellyfish69 Feb 26 '26

I hope not. I'm a lawyer so I can't risk getting charges if it does get prohibited. Rip

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u/Reasonable_Hall2346 Feb 26 '26

Time to pivot your career to a firearms lawyer :). But i doubt this would be a reason to ban it. They need to throw the book at who ever gave them that firearm (assuming it wasnt stolen).

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u/Possible_Jellyfish69 Feb 26 '26

You may be right. Lots of dooming going on, but hard to blame people for worrying after the previous bans. They should absolutely throw the book at him - I hate that law abiding gun owners get punished for the acts of criminals

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26

All you would have to do is destroy it. You can even send a letter saying such. But you do not need to provide proof. If it happens do this, its away to piss them off and hamper their disarming efforts. They want to account for these guns. They want the headlines, 1 million guns turned in. See everybody its worked. They can't if they physically dont have them and the possibility of them still be out there angers them. But of course they wouldn't be because you are a law abiding citizen and would destroy it.

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u/Reasonable_Hall2346 Feb 26 '26

Just note that if you report it destroyed they record the serial number. If later bans are lifted by some magical being, and you lied (it’s a crime) about the destruction you still cant use it without risking charges. Only destroy on October 31.

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26

Yes this is the way, im not advocating for any one to hide there guns. But do not turn them over. If its a super expensive ar build I get it, get some money if you can. If its a banned non restricted that wasn't that pricey, or is just now a prohib with no money being offered just destroy your self.

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u/BilboBaggSkin Feb 27 '26

ARs you just need to destroy the upper and the lower.

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u/krayzai Feb 26 '26

Isn’t it easier just to turn it in and have them do the destruction work? Sounds like a hassle.

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u/satansnacks Feb 26 '26

Isnt it easier to bend over a table and capitulate?

Sure is Just dont know why you'd wanna do that

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u/krayzai Feb 26 '26

I just mean like if it has to be done anyway, and one wants to be in compliance, why be forced to do the work when you can force them to do it.

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u/burgers1919 Feb 27 '26

Bro are u just rage farming?

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

No…. I just don’t see the reason why if it’s gonna be destroyed anyway, that I would be the one to do it when I didn’t ask for this to begin with. They wasted millions on the program. Plus, once I disable it/make it inert, I can’t really do anything with it.

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u/burgers1919 Feb 27 '26

But do u not pay taxes? U do realize you are paying them to destroy your stuff and then will bolster their numbers when they brag about what they did to you.

We pay for literally everything they do - why pay them to rail you when they didn't even buy you dinner first?

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26

I just don’t wanna get in trouble 🤷‍♂️ there are people that depend on me. Technically they also co-paid half of my public service pension plan contributions to date. About 75,000 of the 150,000. But this isn’t really about that. Whether they took me for dinner or not… I can’t afford to get into trouble man. And if I have a record I’d get released from the reserves too.

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u/satansnacks Feb 26 '26

Because theyd do the work anyway and it contributes to the amount of guns they can say theyve retrieved and "gotten off the streets" contributing to them being able to say "we did what we promised and the program is a success"

I do get where youre coming from though. I just think if enough people go the alternate route and declare their stuff destroyed itll annoy them more, and spite is a helluva drug.

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

This, do not give them the satisfaction, nor fuel for their fires. Or the ability to say it worked so well we will ban even more and every one will comply because they did the last time.

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26

I did not think about this angle of it

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26

Hacksaw and a hammer and 5 minutes of your time. Plus a middle finger to our wonderful overlords.

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26

IVe never decommissioned before. Other than plugging what else needs to be done

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 27 '26

There is decommissioned and destroyed. The first has to be done professionally and approved by the rcmp. Destruction is as you think, cut it in to multiple pieces, smash the piss out of it with a sledgehammer. Make it so that in no way could working parts be put back or things welded back together. Then you can lay it out in a shadow box and hang it on your wall as an ode to tyranny. With a decommissioned one though there is a secondary market for reselling. As time passes, a gun that once sold for a thousand or more may be worth the same even though is basically a wall hanger.

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26

So the directive is decommission or destroy?

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 27 '26

Or if its on the buy back list and was expensive and you need the money, turn it in. Can't fault someone for that. People need money in this bankrupt Country. But if your not going to get anything for it, to hell with good old gov.

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u/krayzai Feb 27 '26

I feel like it’d be better if they offered a buyback for everything, unless they need to be able to have some direct reference for fair market value.

I didn’t get the last part. What did you mean by “But if my not going to get anything for it”?

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 27 '26

As in if its simply now a prohibited gun not on the buy back list (there are a few). Or, was a cheap range toy that wasn't expensive. One can destroy or have deactivated, again ones own prerogative.

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u/Schrodinger_cube Feb 27 '26

Like im at the point of wondering when my assault style air soft will be band so i wouldn't be surprised if new models are added late in the game.

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u/AcanthisittaNo7338 Feb 28 '26

Why, planning on complying?