r/canadaguns • u/Trilobyte83 • 28d ago

News / Politics / Activism "Get it before it's banned!"

Ever since the bans started coming down 6 years ago, people were saying "buy so and before it's banned", as they (correctly) speculated that May 2020 was just the first step of many, and progressively the most scary unbanned gun would get added to the list until none are left.

What's the point though?

I don't understand the idea of buying a gun while you still can (currently the SKS), just to get ahead of the ban, use it for a while, then be stuck with it. Seems like you're paying an inflated price, to enjoy it for maybe a year, but then be stuck with it.

Although I don't have any, my friends have some of the banned rifles and they've just become white elephants. Can't do anything with them, tying up capital, can't sell, can't use, but, still have to store and have all the legal downside in case anything goes wrong.

So what's the logic of trying to buy something ahead of it being banned? Either it gets banned and you can never use it, or it doesn't and there's no issue picking it up in the future.

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u/mr_hog232323 28d ago edited 28d ago

It sucks that the main responses are either "to own the liberals" or "just commit crimes"

Why are we promoting crimes when we are trying to prove that legal gun owners should be trusted with these?

Shit like this doesn't help us

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u/IcySkyDream 28d ago

Civil disobedience is the only option we have, because our democracy is a farce.

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u/mr_hog232323 28d ago

I feel like if it was we wouldn't have these guns in the first place.

If the government really hated our guts they could just say "every gun we dont like is now illegal to own and we will search the home of every registered gun owner to seize them." It would be a lot cheaper and more effective than a buyback program.

The current approach is a stupid waste of time and and doesn't achive anything for anti gun people and pro gun people.

Acting like Neanderthals is just going to make the anti gun Neanderthals less trusting of us and they are currently the ones in power.

Rest assured this will probably all be reversed the moment the cons get back in, only difference will be higher prices and bullshit in Quebec. No need to make asses of ourselves.

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u/Dependent_Border7961 28d ago

IF the cons ever get back in. Not when, if.