r/canadaguns • u/Neat_Structure1065 • Apr 13 '26

Application / Regulation advice Will the handgun freeze ever go away?

I mean, we need pistols for hunting and self-defence if a bear is running at you and is near.

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u/mississauga145 Apr 13 '26

No, rights will never be given back once they have been removed, while the Conservatives are opposing the OIC gun restriction and grab, when they are returned to power they will not re-permit those weapons, they just won't add more to the list to remove.

Unfortunately that type of change can only come from public will to force change, and with the Urban/Rural divide in Canada there will be no push to allow more weapons in the hands of citizens, but you may soon have legal prostitution so there is that to look forward to.

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u/Lumindan Apr 13 '26

No, rights will never be given back once they have been removed, while the Conservatives are opposing the OIC gun restriction and grab, when they are returned to power they will not re-permit those weapons, they just won't add more to the list to remove.

Telling me you haven't engaged with the conservatives platform at all. They've had undoing the OICs and implementing simplified classification for a while now. They lose nothing by following through with their promises and lose everything by rug pulling.

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u/mississauga145 Apr 13 '26

No, before the guns are removed I'd agree with you, after they have been removed they will not give them back.

They had opportunities to change the laws around restricted and prohibited firearms, did they make that change in the 2010's? No, why?

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u/Lumindan Apr 13 '26

They didn’t change it in the 2010s because the political landscape back then wasn’t even close to what it is now. Trying to apply todays problems to a decade ago isn't really fair.

Under Stephen Harper, the focus was on rolling back things that had broad public support to repeal like ending the long-gun registry not diving headfirst into prohibited firearms, which would’ve been a political minefield at the time. There wasn’t the same level of polarization or urgency around bans, and pushing that issue likely would’ve cost them more than it gained.

Fast forward to now, and you’ve had sweeping reclassifications and a massive proposed buyback under Carney/Trudeau (previously )that’s affecting a much larger group of previously compliant owners. That fundamentally changes the calculus. What wasn’t politically viable then can become viable when the policy impact and the number of affected voters, gets big enough.

No, before the guns are removed I'd agree with you, after they have been removed they will not give them back.

The real question isn’t whether a government reverses a confiscation after it’s complete, it’s whether they stop it, amend it, or prevent it from fully happening in the first place. That’s where elections actually matter and why mass non compliance is so important to us.

And like it or not, politicians respond to incentives. If enough voters make this a priority issue, any party including Conservatives has a reason to act. If they don’t, then yeah, they’ll ignore it, but that seems highly unlikely for them to rug pull it.

Trying to frame the conservatives as not going far enough a decade ago vs now is just silly logic.

Plus here's the reality, who else is going to implement simplified classification?