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/Relevant_Diver_3228 28d ago

It's better to have it and be able to use it if you need to then to not have it and need to use it

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u/Trilobyte83 28d ago

That’s part of the issue. Guns weren’t banned on function, but appearance. So for the same reason it’s stupid, it easily worked around if your true concern is function.

If you want to fire 5.56 lead down range in a semi automatic fashion when SHTF, does it particularly matter from my/your perspective if it’s coming from a banned weapon or a functionally equivalent gun? Especially if that latter one won’t cost you 20k in legal fees, a criminal record, and perhaps a life time ban on owning guns?

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u/yolo_swagdaddy 27d ago

If SHTF everything becomes NR…