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/Focus_Visible Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

This was likely a legally purchased gun at some point, and has a transfer number tied to the serial. So if the guy busted wasn't a licensed holder, they will atleast find the idiot that sold it to them. Sux cuz I just ordered the adler sbr that i may never get to use ( which was shipped a thousand miles away from it's destination, thanks canada post you do such a great job, cough cough).

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u/Scott-YYC Feb 26 '26

Transfer #s aren't actually associated with the serial #s of guns, and if the gun was purchased privately, there's not really an easy way to trace that gun back to a legal owner.

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u/Focus_Visible Feb 27 '26

Non-Restricted Firearms (Rifles and Shotguns):

The Store's Records: Under Bill C-71, retailers are legally required to keep a record of the transfer reference number and the firearm's serial number, make, and model for at least 20 years. Back door gun registry, they can look up the serial ifs its not striped off. It will be tied to a transfer number issued by the rcmp and the pal holder and the store that initiated the transfer. It's not a gun registry "per say" but anything sold after 2024 they know where to find it.

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u/Scott-YYC Feb 27 '26

As someone who worked at a gun store I can confirm you are correct, but it doesn't change the fact that serial #s are not shared with the CFO, and with private sales, it's almost a non-starter.

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u/HapGil Feb 27 '26

The law states that any firearm store that closes must transmit those records to the CFP. It also states that a warrant is required for police to access a store's record. How long after the pretense of "buyback" is ended and they start demanding confiscation without compensation do you think it's going to take for that warrant to be issued nation wide and all firearm stores must transmit their records to whatever brownshirt bullies they've hired to kick in your doors?

There is specific information that stores are required to keep, it won't take a lot for that to get imported into a DB and create a list of doors to be kicked. A few parameters and an OCR reader and they can get AI to start chugging away on any paper records, electronic format will take 1 person and a couple of import rules to align columns.

They also have the complete long gun registry (fuck you RCMP and Quebec) to add even more doors to kick.