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

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/Geddy_Lees_Nose sk May 28 '22

So...is my 10 round magazine for my bolt action going to be illegal? Lmao wtf

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u/Amaterasu127 May 28 '22

Love to have my Enfield from fucking 1917 be retroactively be classified a deadly assault weapon of war or some shit.

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u/CaptainCanuck1917 May 28 '22

How would they even enforce this though there’s literally 100,000s of Lee Enfield in canada lol are they going to make us throw out our original magazines? And buy altered ones?

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u/MacintoshEddie May 28 '22

Remember, government can play the long game. Even if they pass something unenforceable, it doesn't have to be enforced on everyone. They can wait 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, years.

Just the same as how they're happy to arrest you in 2022 if they finally catch you with a gun they prohibited decades ago.

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u/Amaterasu127 May 28 '22

Simple, they’re not going to do shit but if you’re seen with one by police or wildlife officers/reported for having one/have your shit searched for whatever reason by cops, you’re going to prison.

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u/throwa37 May 28 '22 edited May 28 '22

We're going to see soon. We've been speculating on what exactly they mean by that since the election campaign; do they literally mean all magazines, period? Or is this a really simplistic and broad way to say that they want to close the "pistol mag loophole" for semi-auto rifles? It's not like they'd get into technical detail about the laws in their campaign platform, which is where this is taken from.

I'm hoping that the status quo of unlimited mags for manual actions and rimfires remains in place, but I'm very unsure of what to expect.

EDIT: Tell ya one thing though, if it does end up being a total, blanket magazine restriction, I'm not going to pin (or weld or whateverthefuck) my 590A1; I'm gonna sell that bitch and trade up to a Beretta 1301. If I'm stuck at five round, it's going to be the most badass five rounds I can get.

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u/drain-angel BC May 28 '22

I'd wager that it would define a "pistol" magazine to be pistol caliber only. If that's the case, 7.5 FK BRNO PCC when?

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u/throwa37 May 28 '22

Lol.

All I know is my Sub 2000 shares magazines with my Glock, and I'm going to be one dejected camper if I have to block those ten rounders to five.