r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Aug 31 '26

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u/GoGetInvolved Sep 12 '26

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher was also at the ceremony. In his new role as president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Dagher said tackling long guns, including the SKS rifle, will be a key priority.

“We can’t afford that in Canada, not in the community we live in,” Dagher said. “So you can count on me. This is going to be a major priority for me.”

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/09/11/dawson-college-remembers-20th-anniversary-fatal-shooting/

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Sep 12 '26

I sure do love how the chief of police decided to grave dance at a remembrance event but that’s par for the course in Canada. Wild how he name drops the SKS as well. Like is bro so out of touch with reality that he doesn’t understand just how common the SKS is in Canada? Like does he seriously not realize that even on a lower estimate there are easily 100,000s of SKS rifles in Canada? That there is probably closer to over a million? You don’t need to answer that. Those are rhetorical questions. Truly though it’s quite something how they are still trying to go after a rifle that they have kept on avoiding because it’s used by indigenous people way to much. Like my honest take with the SKS is they somehow make it that for a SKS to be legal you have to permeantly have the box magazine welded into place and no more detachable magazines. But like even that would be impossible to enforce. Then again the gun bans are also largely impossible to enforce. These people though don’t live in reality. They live in a la la land of we have unlimited resources to enforce whatever laws they want. When we struggle to even imprison actively violet criminals in Canada. It’s by definition paper tiger laws.

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u/GoGetInvolved Sep 12 '26

Doubt he gives a shit its all about politics or ideology or both. He also said tackling long guns not just the SKS so get ready. Poly shared it too just in case you think they wont try to come for everything.

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Sep 12 '26

They can try to come for everything but it’s getting to a point they physically are incapable of doing it. They already were before. They could ban every gun tommrow and it would be a utter shit show.

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u/GoGetInvolved Sep 12 '26

You're right but it won't be a total ban all at once. It will be a slow creep for the next thing to try and kill the culture one step at a time.

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Sep 12 '26

They sure are doing it nice and slow if it’s been going on 7 year and they haven’t even finished with these bans lol. Like if anything I would be a little stressed if I was trying to do this as the only thing that’s happened is a increase in pal holders.

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u/GoGetInvolved Sep 12 '26

I hope they fail but they're going to keep trying.

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Sep 12 '26

They can keep trying all they like but so far all it’s done is the opposite of what they wanted. In fact most things they try to do don’t work out. Just look at them trying to increase the number of RCMP in Canada. It’s pathetic.