r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • May 11 '26

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u/gamercast1337 May 17 '26

Carney is having a lot of issues, from being called out for doing fuckall, and with his caucus right now, potentially another one leaving. I suspect we will be having somr gun bans/gun law changes coming to help distract the people from his failures and to unify the party on something. Mag bans maybe? More semi auto bans? Other gun bans?

"Ough but they can't even do the current gun bans how will they handle the new ones!?" Doesn't matter, thats a future issue he needs something now.

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u/FunkyFrunkle May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

I could always be wrong, but I don’t think we’re staring at any more gun bans in the near future. Parliament is about to break for summer, and this whole thing is a mess. A mess that’s headed to the Supreme Court.

I expect them to make announcements on things that are actively gripping public attention which orbits around the economy because so far that’s where the most positive press is coming from for the government, with “trade deals” and expediting reviews for national projects.

Gun bans don’t offer that release valve anymore, and they haven’t for a while because nobody cares anymore. This whole thing is ballooning in cost to the point where even the media doesn’t even fluff it anymore.

I’m not really expecting anything to get announced.

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u/Goliad1990 May 19 '26

I could always be wrong, but I don’t think we’re staring at any more gun bans in the near future

The Makasi and Carmel are 100% getting the banhammer in the near future, that's not in question.

But Wendy Cukier, in that interview with TVO that people are rage-sharing, did say that she thinks the laws are fine now when asked about what should come next. If the anti-gun lobbyists are now shifting from "we need new laws" to "the laws are now good and we need to focus on enforcement", then yeah, I agree we probably won't see anything large-scale anytime soon.

Gun bans don’t offer that release valve anymore, and they haven’t for a while because nobody cares anymore.

I think it's a bit beyond "nobody cares". They've made such a fuckup of the confiscation program, and caught so much controversy for it, that they're probably going to be actively avoiding gun control as a wedge issue for the forseeable future. Gary did say as much in his leaked tape.

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u/FunkyFrunkle May 19 '26

Yeah, I forgot to add the caveat that anything new that’s semi-auto cope guns are probably going to get banned. If not by OIC, I’d expect it to be captured by the new legislation aimed at streamlining the Firearms Act or FRT update.

This whole thing has gone from political showboating to an actively corrosive policy that has compounded into a biblical logistical and legal nightmare that has been opposed by nearly every province and territory save for two. Combined with massive deficits and infrastructure projects that command more money, I really believe that the appetite for more gun control has evaporated, and the focus has shifted to trying to get this thing off the books.