r/canadaguns • u/JETRUG • May 15 '26

News / Politics / Activism Where Are Canada's Undeclared Firearms? | The Rundown (YouTube - TVO Today)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVpEFqTyjg
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u/JETRUG May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Some fun facts from the video:

  • These guns are not suitable for hunting

  • Grandfathered AKs are floating around

  • A massive gang shootout happens in Toronto involving unlicensed criminals using smuggled US firearms...so the obvious solution is to confiscate property from vetted, law-abiding PAL holders.

  • These guns are used in school shootings, banning them will prevent them from being used in school shootings because we say so

  • Legally owned handguns are "frequently diverted to illegal markets" despite police forces openly admitting that the vast majority of crime guns are black market imports smuggled across the border.

Seems like the goal is to frame highly regulated, background checked (daily) citizens as the main threat to public safety. Good on the host for asking questions and pushing the failure angle but too bad he wasn't ready with actual statistics and facts to call out the obvious BS.

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u/Infinite_Price_3550 May 15 '26

Ugh I watched this when it aired. Just awful! The only reason I give TVO a pass on this is because they had our side on a couple months ago and didn’t push the governments narrative on the guests. They ask questions and listened to what they had to say.

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl May 15 '26

This is where I land on it. The TVO host asked his questions and got answers. He wasn't adding any editorial spin, just handling who he had on air.

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u/JETRUG May 15 '26

I'll have to watch their counterpart video, didn't know they had done that.

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u/Standard_Custard2338 May 15 '26

I watched this and was absolutely unimpressed by the entire production. They had one buricrat giving obviously vague replies that frame things as 'getting any firearm out of the publics hands is a good thing but the real issues are elsewhere and I just can't come out and drive that point home for reasons of optics' and the other person an obviously well spoken absolute anti gun crusader full of notions that every person with a firearm is an atrocity waiting to happen.

There was no person from the firearms community. God forbid a 'NEWS' program would allow open dialog between the two opposing sides in this country. Can't do that because the anti gunners would be made to look the fools they tend to be. The guy asking questions didn't even have a remote clue as to how many firearms are wrapped up in this debacle and seemed to have no clue that most are unrestricted. He didn't really push on anything, just kind of threw it out there and forgot about it.

It's also funny and telling when she uses possible political violence as another reason to disarm people. Sounds kinda totalitarian to me.

On a side note, I really don't think we need governments trying to protect me from myself. That bs about using suicides as a reason to ban firearms. Governments need to protect me from you and you from me. It's so sad to constantly see the push for more power over the people all In an effort to 'protect them from themselves '. To be clear, suicide is tragic and we need mental health supports but it's no excuse for collective punishment.

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u/Infinite_Price_3550 May 15 '26

TVO also interviewed our side as well earlier this year.

https://youtu.be/NV9WAyWCtpc?si=GtUTQpb0HH6TMzoO

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u/Standard_Custard2338 May 16 '26

Thanks. I'll check it out

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u/julienjj May 16 '26

They're basically impossible in canada.

Common in the US tho.

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u/sl33plessnites May 15 '26

Yeah that part about the handguns.. like I'm sure people are diverting handguns registered to them and their name to criminals.. what a bunch of bullshit.

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u/julienjj May 16 '26

Yup. Failling to report the restricted theft is a pretty solid offense on it's own.

Pretty sure if you get a few stollen quickly they're almost guarantee to hit you with improper storage infractions... then bye bye rpal.

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u/sl33plessnites May 16 '26

Right ? I suspect this is virtual zero or extremely rare. The only circumstance I could see is theft of firearms where a legal handgun ends up on the streets.