r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 06 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/Apples_and_Overtones Your feet suck and so do you Jun 07 '22

If I'm not mistaken or misremembering, there was a plan to shutter a lot of ranges/gun shops in the Toronto area as part of some sort of "safety" movement or something. I think that happened to some extent (again, IIRC (I'm not from the area)) so that could be partially why accessibility in that area sucks.

Obviously, that of course had great impact (read: zero) on crime in the region.

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u/MajorCocknBalls Jun 07 '22

They banned handgun sales inside the city and then grandfathered the only store in the city that sold handguns. Fucking politicians just jerking themselves off.

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u/FourDoors-MoreWhores Jun 07 '22

They also shutdown the one or two ranges that were operating in the city

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u/MajorCocknBalls Jun 07 '22

because somehow removing places to shoot legally and safely reduces crime.