r/canadaguns • u/Individual_Dare_2722 • Jun 16 '26

Application / Regulation advice Handgun Ban & SCC

I am seeing mixed messaging on here and wanted to get some clarification. Would the handgun freeze be lifted if CCFR wins at the Supreme Court of Canada? I thought the handgun freeze was a law now, and so that would be unaffected if the OICs were overturned?

Therefore the only way to actually acquire handguns in the future would be if a new government came in and removed the law.

Please correct me wherever necessary here

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u/IAMURBUNKLE Jun 16 '26

Hand gun ban is in law. Need a new government to repeal c-21. 

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u/Barbarian_818 Jun 16 '26

Not just a new executive administration though. You'd need a majority in Parliament and the Senate. A majority that actually cares enough to do it.

Right, Left or Centrist, governments have a very poor track record for repealing legislation. Doubly so when the legislation in question is perceived to only affect a minority.

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u/The_King_of_Canada mb Jun 16 '26

Yea typically if a law survives a supreme court challenge theres little reason to repeal it.