r/canadaguns • u/Flat-Dark-Earth Big Bore Specialist • 28d ago

News / Politics / Activism Assuming the coming Supreme Court challenge rules in the governments favour, are we expecting OIC #4?

Worst case scenario, the Supreme Court ruling rules in favour of the government, deciding all previous bans were just.

What do we expect? Another OIC wrapping up the remaining semi-autos by model?

New legislation announced banning firearms by newly defined features?

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u/naidacsac 28d ago

The WW2 rifle ban was significant. I thought there was an understood line in the sand before, but it's been kicked away to nothing now.

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u/Flat-Dark-Earth Big Bore Specialist 28d ago

It was also pretty random.

Ban the M1 carbine, leave the M1 Garand.

Ban the AG42 but not the SKS.

Ban the Rasheed but not the G43.

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u/starw24-ps4 28d ago

Seems like for the majority of them the goal was to leave internal mags / tube feds alone. That way they don’t stir up the large hunter crowd. While it’s true some people use mag feds for hunting (I used to), almost all of the 25+ hunters I know use tubes.

I think they’re following Australia’s route if you look at their history of bans. They’re a few steps ahead of us in dearming, down to manual actions primarily now. Each mass shooting is another push forward sad as it is.

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u/Newftube 27d ago

I'm fairly certain theres and old interview in Quebec where Heidi Rathjen is saying their goal is complete bans on firearms. Take it with some salt, because I cant find a link for it at the moment.

But with all that said, they already telegraphed their opinions on airsoft and paintball, which is pretty identical to what they already do in Australia.