Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged a ban on “military-grade” semiautomatic rifles in an attempt to redirect his campaign after his blackface controversy.I'm sure the bought & paid for Canadian media is all over this. Of course, not a single Canadian shooting has been perpetrated with an AR15. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
City News reports that Trudeau announced the rifle ban on Friday in Greektown, Toronto, the area of the city in which a gunman shot 15 people, killing two, last year.
To paraphrase the late, great Jeff Cooper...
"It's a complicated and expensive solution to a problem that doesn't even exist."The semi-automatic (one bullet at a time) AR15 is classified as a "restricted rifle" which already means Canadians with a regular firearms license have to go an extra step to acquire one. In Canada rifles are also restricted to five round magazines and you can only use this particular gun on a "restricted rifle" range.
In stark contrast, a "military grade" assault rifle is a fully automatic machine gun with 20 & 30 round magazines used by soldiers & SWAT teams.
Unlike, say... the Arab Middle East, where tossing rice at weddings has largely been supplanted by firing AK47s into the air, the Canadian public does not get to lay eyes - never mind hands - on machine guns. Ever.
Note that the AR15 is the same calibre and capacity as, for instance, Ruger's Mini-14... which can be purchased in any gun store in Canada. Trudeau's announcement is meaningless posturing of the worst sort.
The AR15 doesn't begin to approach the lethality & capability of the .762 Remington M700, a much-loved staple of the Canadian deer-hunting community... and the US Marines Combat-Hunter program.And FWIW... the Beaches shooter was a disaffected Muslim whose criminal brother (currently and for the forseeable future in a self-induced opioid coma at taxpayer expense) was tied to the guy arrested for Canada's largest-ever fentanyl seizure.
The salient point here, is that the gun used in the Beaches shooting spree, as in virtually all Canadian criminal shootings was an illegal, unregistered handgun.Trudeau's latest "solution" is the equivalent of solving drunk driving by banning automobiles.
Wake up and smell the misdirection.
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