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/bumsaxk 27d ago

Might need it

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u/Trilobyte83 27d ago

In what conceivable situation would you absolutely need a scary looking semi auto, where a similar, but non-scary looking, non-banned, *functionally identical* semi auto, that won't potentially get you a life time ban on owning guns, just won't do?

That's where my head is.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have it, or the siren song of gun control "why do you need it!!!" but rather asking, since the arguments like "better to have it and not need it", boil down to an argument on function - and as we're all obviously aware, this ban had nothing to do with function - which is why gun ban advocates say it's stupid (easy to get around), and while gun advocates also say it's stupid (what's the point?).

So to say "in case I need it" as an argument falls flat.

I also don't get the animosity here. "Fudd!" "Tourist!" "If you don't know, you'll never get it!". It seems like the firearms community is maligned as it is, seems silly to attack someone who is wholly on the side of more firearms rights, but isn't willing to gamble my entire livelihood and a firearms criminal record so I can plink with a particular rifle vs a functionally identical one in a different colour.