"Get it before it's banned!"

[u/Trilobyte83]

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.

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

The biggest reason is its a political statement.

I will gladly waste my money just so the LPC and Polysesouvient have to contend with the fact that these rifles are still being sold and a large unknown number are in circulation.

For all the tough talk, the LPC has a massive problem on their hands. There is not ever going to be an end to the amnesty because they don't have the political capital, resources, money or even a plan to confiscate the 2+ million firearms that are now prohibited in Canada. Even with out compensation its going to cost billions and that only grows if they have to ban the SKS.

The other reason is FOMO. Everyday someone make a comment on here about how they missed the handgun ban and regret it. I can almost guarantee that the SKS is not getting banned, the sale and import of it might. Even the media acknowledges the popularity and number of these guns and they have generally followed the LPCs bullshit numbers since 2020.

Lastly, its not getting banned, people are freaking out about it, but they have been trying for years and theres just no political will. Beyond Polysesouvient I don't see anyone demanding it. Progressive are worried about misogynistic violence and mental health, actual issues, and i haven't seen guns mentioned in the media except for Poly throwing their bi annual baby fit.

Also, if your a Canadian gun owner you shoukd have an SKS, its that simple. Its part of Canada's culture and identity, whether the Laurentian Elite agree with that or not.

Buy an SKS.

[u/Goliad1990 → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

Lastly, its not getting banned

It is absolutely getting banned. It does not survive the the next gun control bill/"classification review".

That's not a reason not to buy one though.

[u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 → u/Goliad1990]

I think at most it gets band for sale and import.

I know the LPC and Polysesouvient like to pretend they have the ability to send judge dredd out to confiscate these guns and will throw everyone in jail but they just don't. Our system is compliance based, not enforcement based and it will fall apart very quickly when they show their hand and people realize the consequences of non compliance are minimal.

The "solution" to all of this in the end with be indefinite amnesty, grand fathering or some other bullshit where the LPC can claim victory, appease Polysesouvient (if thats even possible) and save face. It will be far from ideal but I'm pretty skeptical that they are going to keep banning guns when they can't collect them or show results for it.

I know that hard to believe with the LPC because they historically can't let this go and have doubled down over and over for 35 years, but i do think this was always political grand standing and they create a mess for themselves that they will find away out of and it likely won't mean making criminals out of 2.5 million people. They had an opportunity in 2020, they fucked it up and the window has passed.

I just don't have faith that our government is capable of something as expensive, resource intensive, logistically and politically complicated as this. Lol seeing Carney respond to the media the other day, and polys hissy fits the last few weeks, I think the writing is on the wall. 6 years ago that Montreal shooting would have captured the headlines with calls for bans and confiscation and diffinitive bold promises from the LPC. Instead we got a lack luster response from the government, a few angery zealots in Montreal throwing a fit, and the media giving the CCFR and other people actual opportunity to speak on the issue, with most of the discussion and debate surrounding ideology and how to deal with it.

Or I'm wrong and there will be a lot of comm bloc iron buried in peoples back yards lol.

[u/Xyzzics → u/Remarkable_Vanilla34]

I would never advocate such a thing but I will provide the free information that cosmoline, a vacuum sealer and pvc pipe are plentiful, legal, and when combined lend themselves well to being buried for long periods of time.