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

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Jun 09 '22

While I think this is a possibility, wouldn't that need a written change in the Firearms Act?

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u/throwa37 Jun 09 '22

Yeah, he said it would come in a future amendment to the bill.

I'm sure they initially intended to table the bill with the feature ban already in place. They obviously dropped this thing half-baked to leverage Uvalde. Same reason none of the accompanying regs are available yet, I'm sure.

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Jun 09 '22

As much as a feature ban sucks, if it's anything like California I'll take it over ban by name. They are ugly as fuck, but they are still functionally identical.

I have two worries with what they could do. 1: They ban all semi-auto centre-fire rifles. 2: They extend the feature ban to manual action arms.

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u/Apples_and_Overtones Your feet suck and so do you Jun 10 '22

The thing with a potential feature ban is, IMO, that it would just be in addition to what is currently prohibited. All the name bans from the past, and then also "any centerfire, semi-auto" for example. No way in hell they'd apply a feature ban retroactively to clear some previously prohibited things.