r/canadaguns • u/Eoghanwheeler • Mar 20 '26

News / Politics / Activism New Sterling Arms lever action 9mm rifle

https://youtu.be/IUQF3z4C-PI?si=bZZO5g22NJjJTnF1

Obviously this is a cope gun but the idea of a spring assisted lever action seems weird to me

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u/IronSack46 Mar 21 '26

Fuck sterling they sold everyone a gun before getting a FRT number for it then ran away when it got prohibited. Pretty shifty business practice if you ask me. Bragging how they built it specifically for the Canadian market but don’t even check if it’s legal first. Don’t get me wrong this is all a bunch of bull shit but what sterling did with the r9 was just shameful at best.

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u/Scott-YYC Mar 21 '26

Your anger seems misplaced. Shouldn't you be angry at the RCMP, who quietly banned the R9 on a Sunday, without telling anyone? Any Canadian buying a firearm, any firearm, should have an idea that it could literally be banned tomorrow, at the stroke of a pen.

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u/IronSack46 Mar 21 '26

Sterling didn’t submit the proper paperwork to the RCMP before selling it.

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u/Scott-YYC Mar 21 '26

The RCMP classified the R9 as a variant of a 180B, and since one is a direct blowback gun, and the other is a DI gas gun, clearly the RCMP Firearms lab are incompetent, or lying boobs. It has nothing to do with "proper paperwork", which was in fact submitted, and 100% do to with the RCMP doing what their Liberal masters tell them to.

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u/zaphodbssecondhead Mar 22 '26

Maybe but Sterling and JR are still bunch of pricks for about 25 other reasons so who cares little guy.