r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • May 23 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

Please post all your Politics or Ban-related ideas, initiatives, comments, suggestions, news articles, and recommendations in this thread. Unless new information is published in the media, recurring articles related to the gov'ts ***possible*** legislation are to be posted here. These threads will be weekly, until it's necessary for another per-week.

Previous politics threads can be found here. Previous threads can be found here.

We understand that politics is a touchy subject, and at times things can get heated. A reminder of the subreddit rules, when commenting, where subreddit users are expected to abide.

22 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

704 comments sorted by

View all comments

12

u/[deleted] May 27 '22

[deleted]

15

u/akwerring May 27 '22

Dude Toronto CTV reporting that the rifle recovered was a fucking BB gun

3

u/Kaffarov .40 Salt&Walnuts May 27 '22

Then who was saying they heard a machine gun?

15

u/SnickIefritzz May 27 '22

See you haven't talked to many inner city folks, every 2 days in my city someone comments on "gun shots" or "machine gun fire" that turns out to be a car backfiring, train cars colliding with each other at a loading yard, or something innocuous.

6

u/ADrunkMexican May 27 '22

Or fireworks

5

u/Newfoundgunner nf May 27 '22

Or a nail gun

7

u/Fine-Mine-3281 May 27 '22

My lawnmower was burning off some bad fuel from winter storage, was popping, sputtering, backfiring. Thought the tac unit would be rolling in any minute.

Have to admit as a firearms owner I was freaking out a bit, kept running all these scenarios in my head of neighbours reporting gunfire and my house swarmed by ERT over a stupid backfiring lawnmower.

I ended up parking the mower in the middle of the yard away from the house so people would track the sound out in yard and see the lawnmower instead of hearing Pop! Pop! Pop! Coming from garage.

This is our sad new reality I’m afraid.