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/TurbulentEconomist65 Jun 16 '26

You would need a conservative majority most likely to repeal C21 and tbh I doubt the optics of removing a handgun ban is high on their priority list.

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u/Xaxxus Jun 17 '26

Aren’t handguns not actually banned? Just the sale of them frozen?

I don’t recall any changes to my licence to indicate the grandfathering of them.

Couldn’t a new government just make new “acceptable” uses of handguns to circumvent c-21?