r/canadaguns Mar 10 '26

Shitpost / Memes This has to be a joke right?

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With the Lightweight Command Launch Unit (CLU) costing $240,000 by itself, not including the cost of the missiles.

That’s more so a joke, because it’s not that those numbers actually matter;

Who, the, fuck, is in possession of an FGM-148 Javelin?

This is the actual definition of writing laws based on movies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

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u/Norwest_Shooter on Mar 10 '26

That’s a bit overkill for grouse don’t you think? I typically use a 50mm Japanese knee mortar. Works great if they’re in a group of 3-4.

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u/General-Football-953 Mar 10 '26

Never seen anything Japanese in stores, but did you miss that promo from Norinco when they'd throw in a free Type 69 when you buy a Type 81?

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u/Late_Winner6859 Mar 10 '26

I thought it’s mainly used for bear defense?

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u/tealtalker Mar 10 '26

Nah, don't you know that it'll probably only just make the bear angrier. You need something you can quickly follow up on... Like a mk19

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u/burgers1919 Mar 11 '26

Idk if u could get a quick followup shot with it though

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u/Late_Winner6859 Mar 11 '26

Do these come in a side-by-side configuration?

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u/burgers1919 Mar 11 '26

Banned by OIC ;)

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u/MaintenanceCoalition Mar 10 '26

You can keep it for tribal reasons.... until you find a suitable replacement.

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u/BritBuc-1 Mar 10 '26

I misread this as “House Hunting”…I thought that it was a valid point

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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u/High_rise_guy Mar 12 '26

Imagine thinking that you’re safe in your tank when there are peasants on foot under the protection of Saint Javelin…

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

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u/admin_bait14 Mar 14 '26

HAHAHAHA !!

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u/Charming-Sun-4561 Mar 10 '26

This sub in one sentence

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u/KorporalKarnage Mar 10 '26

Their rationale is that the launcher and (inert only) missiles were legal to own as they weren't prohibited to own previous to the OIC.

I knew of a few RPG's and rockets owned by individuals. They were non-restricted btw.

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u/pahtee_poopa Mar 10 '26

Funny that they needed to go as far as banning RPGs. Because that was such a problem here in Canada to begin with /s

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u/Bergen_is_here Mar 10 '26

“Damn crackheads… always… mugging me with an AT4… Wait a minute what did I just see?”

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u/Bergen_is_here Mar 10 '26

She got his by a bazooka 😕

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u/EnlightenedArt Mar 10 '26

Was she trying to clean it when something went sideways?

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u/Psyex Mar 10 '26

Deactivated ones are still legal and are still legal. Good luck finding one but still

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u/bikerbob420 Mar 10 '26

And they’re still legal

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u/Bone_Donor Mar 10 '26

But are they legal?

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u/Kaelzoroden Mar 10 '26

I don't think anybody ever accused the government of being particularly competent.

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u/Metalock Mar 10 '26

"I use my dad's old .22 gauge to hunt moose and black bears"

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u/EnglishmanInMH Mar 10 '26

Best thing about the .22 gauge, its not even on the FRT never mind the OICs! I'm gonna get six of 'em!

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u/Rogan403 Mar 10 '26

Sure, just not successfully.

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u/Kaelzoroden Mar 10 '26

Plot twist: it's dad's old fully-automatic .22 gauge Vector and actually capable of it xD

Man I wish we had gun laws based on responsible gun owners and not the criminals who will rampage with whatever they can get their hands on, legal or not.

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u/Even-Somewhere-9554 Mar 10 '26

They are paying $2 for a HK416

Check M42/M1942 they are paying for Soviet-era artillery

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u/R4ID on Mar 10 '26

They are paying $2 for a HK416

an HK416 Model D (the .22lr version) just to clarify for anyone unfamiliar with the breakdowns of their models.

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u/RyukoT72 on Mar 10 '26

How much for a ZiS-3?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

I only use my Javelin for hunting

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u/RelativeFox1 Mar 10 '26

If it saves one life it will all be worth it.

ignores thousands of drug overdoses

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u/Olive-Drab-Green Nyet! Rifle is Fine Mar 10 '26

East Hastings is a historic part of the Canadian Identity, we must continue its traditions of overdosing for generations to come! ~Libs

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u/RelativeFox1 Mar 11 '26

No it will never be reversed. Reversing it will cause Quebec and urban Ontario to not like them and cost votes in the following election.

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u/Barbarian_818 Mar 10 '26

If it's in the FRT, someone somewhere has asked the firearms program to classify it. It's possible someone had an inert trainer or the expended launcher. It's also possible that at some point, some enlisted tried to take his work home with him and got busted.

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u/Backway_proffession Mar 10 '26

The CAF does not operate Javelins.

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u/FV_AverageJoe97 Mar 10 '26

We might actually be getting them soon though.

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u/BespokeLawLeather Mar 10 '26

It depends how many get turned in for the buyback, though

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u/FeeOrganic4216 Mar 10 '26

Are not they getting Spike?

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u/Barbarian_818 Mar 10 '26

True. But our forces do train alongside other forces that do. During joint exercises there are plenty of chances to play around with allied equipment.

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u/NullPointx Mar 10 '26

That definitely makes sense. Still absolutely ridiculous haha.

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u/Aether_rite Mar 10 '26

how are u suppose to revolt against the government if you can't out gun the police and/or army lmao

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u/KorporalKarnage Mar 10 '26

How are you supposed to revolt against the government when the majority of your countrymen either work for them or actively cheering them on in an theta-wave TV induced hypnosis?

Happy Cake Day btw!

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u/Aether_rite Mar 10 '26

*muah*

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u/KorporalKarnage Mar 10 '26

...soon to be biped muah

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u/pahtee_poopa Mar 10 '26

Even our army didn’t get some of these weapons on that list lol

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u/AikiRonin Mar 10 '26

You just do what the gangs do and buy illegal, modified guns from America.

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u/Flat-Dark-Earth Big Bore Specialist Mar 10 '26

I’ve seen deactivated rocket launchers in gun shops selling for ~$2000.

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u/Scary-Detail-3206 Mar 10 '26

Holy smokes that’s expensive. My uncle picked up a whole whack of deactivated military equipment from an auction in the late 80s for like $100. It was pretty sweet playing with legit mortar tubes and rocket launchers as a kid.

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u/NullPointx Mar 10 '26

As a collection item that’s actually really cool!

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u/Psyex Mar 10 '26

Now you know they are ripping you off

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u/Psynapse55 Mar 10 '26

The reason it is on the list is because if anyone opposes it...

"So you think Canadians should be allowed to have Javelin Missile Launchers then?" - Liberal Nonsense

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u/F-nDiabolical Mar 10 '26

A joke? Always has been.

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u/swift_gilford Mar 10 '26

When the list first dropped, wasn't there a whole thing that they pretty much carbon copied from some legislation that some anti-gun US-states were trying to do and that's why the list is so padded with items that we simply wouldn't have here?

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u/Imaginary-Text4690 Mar 10 '26

I would say most the gun ban states as we call them here in USA do have a list of prohibited guns but it’s not very large and you can still get pretty much any variant that isn’t named. Where it differs is the number of features like threaded barrel and pistol grip a semi auto rifle has. That’s where it’s starts getting real retarded

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u/LLSWSIF Mar 10 '26

This along with the AK were on the list so that when they showed it to the Ukranians they could reasonably say "ya we will use some of this if you give it to us"

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u/AssistantInternal450 Mar 10 '26

This is how they got the Ukrainians to agree, on paper, with their plan to ship them our banned guns. Now since we haven't actually collected anything useful to them, they've refused to take anything.

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u/General-Football-953 Mar 10 '26

The new plan is to send all the GSG-16s to the Russians. Carney is a genius

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u/Rogan403 Mar 10 '26

To be fair, considering the kinds of "body armor", or lack there of, that has been found on many Russian soldiers, at least at the beginning of the war, 22lr would've probably done just fine lol.

Probably better equipped now though since I haven't heard any reports of plate carriers being found with weighted exercise plates, crudely shaped layered sheet metal, thick layered cardboard, or nothing at all for a while so they got that figured out or Ukraines drone strikes have effectively made body armor irrelevant so they stopped checking.

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u/ptv83 Mar 12 '26

They don't get plates anymore

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u/julienjj Mar 10 '26

Seems like shooting the javelin if you had one would be a lot more fun than turning it in.

Somehow they have not banned the L55A1 120mm smoothbore either ! You can keep your abraham tank at home

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u/leyland1989 Mar 10 '26

Are you sure it's not covered under the 10kJ limit ?

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u/HappyCan7250 Mar 10 '26

It's a smoothbore so it's not a rifle so who knows

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u/NavXIII Mar 10 '26

Most of the "1500 models" banned in the 2020 OIC were like 1000 models of AR-15s and 300 weapons of war like anti tank launchers, mortars, anti aircraft missiles, etc.

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u/canadianmohawk1 Mar 10 '26

Our Army is desperate for arms.

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u/HappyCan7250 Mar 10 '26

These are going straight to African warlords I'm betting. Considering I saw a story a while back about African militias using Canadian Cadex rifles, it wouldn't surprise me if some of the confiscated guns somehow ended up in the hands of bad actors on the other side of the world. 

Maybe that's Carney's plan to get us out of debt. He'll sell all the confiscated guns at 1000x markup to African and middle eastern warlords?

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u/PinkLincoln00 Mar 10 '26

Gary is going to show up at military bases? lol

What civilian would actually have this?

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u/Lurch_902 Mar 10 '26

What I do with my Javelin is my business and my business alone.

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u/PinkLincoln00 Mar 10 '26

I hear it’s the only affective way to hunt roadrunners.

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u/Weak-Coffee-8538 Mar 10 '26

They'll give you $5 for that.

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u/SniperTeamTango Mar 10 '26

Well seeing as our culture seems to love buying stuff for over asking price I'm offering $3,500

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u/Xdust4 Mar 10 '26

Call Of Duty told me they are worth much more

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u/SexiTwink Mar 10 '26

I’m sure ChatGPT made the buyback app.

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u/Cheap_Responses Mar 10 '26

I had one..... In Paris during the Call of Duty Mission Iron Lady

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u/Familiar_Hunt_5164 Mar 11 '26

What a burn! They banned my H&K G11 and my Javelin!

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u/albinoplatyypus Mar 11 '26

Real shame I lost my javelin in a boating accident

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u/soviet_toster Mar 10 '26

Would the government lie to us? Come on now /s

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u/BreakfastNo7687 Mar 10 '26

lol who the hell owns a bloody javelin? This has to be a complete joke. If it isn’t then holy jezz they are more of a joke than I thought.

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u/Markthehare Mar 10 '26

That's about what I paid for mine

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u/IndividualCertain358 Mar 10 '26

Dam, i knew i should have upgraded from the M72 when i had the change

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u/rb778004 Mar 10 '26

I got a shed full of them

Kidding RCMP, don’t come bust my door down

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

I don't think my local indoor range allow this to be used, ceilling damage you know....

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u/vigocarpath Mar 11 '26

I definitely don’t have a Javelin. At least not since an unfortunate canoeing accident 🤷‍♂️

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u/M_R_KLYE Mar 14 '26

They would 100% arrest your ass if you tried to hand one of these in. LMAO

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u/-rifle-is-fine- Mar 11 '26

Who, the, fuck is in possession of an FGM-148 Javelin?

You can buy some really cool shit in Ukraine right now and they are way more chill about what gets mailed.

Crossing our border is where the party becomes pooped on. Thanks GTA! 🤬

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u/megoder Mar 13 '26

Never turning mine in. I’ve had it for 50 years and never once missed a deer or moose.

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u/Background_Average95 Mar 17 '26

Yeah must be a joke... $2700 is way too low.