The above image is a ruger mini-14 semi-automatic. Tell me, boys ‘n’ girls, does that look like something that would be required to shoot ducks and other game? I didn’t think so neither. Well, proud owners of those machines will no longer have to register them under the new Harpercon legislation, scrapping the long gun registry.
The powerful Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle used in the 1989 Montreal massacre and this summer’s Norway bloodbath.
Sniper rifles that can pierce light armour from a distance of up to 1.5 kilometres.
Or one that can drop a target two kilometres away.
Who knew that deer and ducks wore body armour?
Those guns are not for hunting game–they’re for killing people. Yep, so much for ‘tough on crime’. Where’s the logic in that? Or is this just another diabolical ploy to fill Super Toews’ new mega-prisons?
They are all weapons that will soon be declassified under the Conservatives’ bill to kill the long-gun registry and freed from binding controls that now see them listed with the RCMP-run database.
They fall under the class of “non-restricted” weapons and they are about to become unregistered.
Naturally! The gun toting rednecks are indeed celebrating. However, those delightful folks from the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation think it just doesn’t go far enough:
“Our supporters would have preferred that the government go further, and also eliminate licensing for non-restricted long-guns…
They want to eliminate licensing. No more screening. Nothing! Nada! Zilch! Hell, make ‘em easier to purchase than for an underage kid to purchase a case of beer or pack of cigarrettes.
Furthermore, the Coalition for Gun control argues that without the registry, dangerous and illegal transfers of these firearms to unlicensed and/or dangerous individuals. For those who argued the long gun registry was useless or that stupid argument that ‘criminals never register their weapons’, here’s exactly one aspect of how the long gun registry helped law enforcement. When a gun owner, who did register his weapon, say loaned or gave it to his brother, who is not necessarily as ‘law abiding’. Just one example.
And yes, the NRA is indeed here in Canada, feverishly attempting to change gun control here, by essentially, removing it. Let’s have our very own version of the American’s second amendment.
“Law abiding farmers and hunters”– Ha! I always knew it was never about them. And spare the so-called intrusiveness argument. It just doesn’t wash when we have scanners at airports which can allow any airport flunkie to gawk at you in your unmentionables, sharing all info about passengers who fly on airplanes who so much as fly over US air space, and of course, let’s remember, warrantless internet spying is coming up as part of that whole dumb on crime package. Yeah, spare us the privacy red herring!
Oh, I must ask, is that redneck, Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association related to Paul?
H/T: Pushed Left and Loving it, Scott Tribe and Queer Thoughts