Bye Bye semi automatic rifles

[rick_iles]

Let's try and stay on point here.

So from what I can see. Centerfire - Semi Auto, with detachable box type mags that can exceed 5 rounds.

Most shotguns don't qualify, except for some of the Derya etc.

Most hunting rifles don't qualify ( Remington 740, Browning BAR). In fact most of the centerfire rifles that fall under the new amendment were already specified in the original OIC. Possibly changing the language so industry can't pivot and produce "new" models with different names?

A stock SKS likely wouldn't qualify, as stock, production rifles do not have a detachable mag.

Rimfire isn't included.

If the firearm is of a design that will accept a mag greater than 5 rounds, they will be prohibited, as it’s written now. There are 10 round mags out there that will fit into a 740, as an example. I’m glad I held off buying a Benelli MR1, which will take a 10 round LAR mag….they are on the prohib list…

[Gilroy]

It may include your hunting rifle if it passes. Unfortunately I was kayaking across a pond last week and my boat tipped, I sadly was not able to recover my gear. Unfortunately I no longer have a semi auto rifle l . I promise

LOL That sounds like a good ploy if your going to place your gun in a safe and leave it there, if your going afield the first OPP spot check or CO encounter and you might have a problem.

[Gilroy]

Have never found a bottom to that pond have sunk a 18 foot tamarack pole and not found a solid bottom.

The OPP dive team might help you after all you have obeyed the law and reported that firearm missing as required?

[Badenoch]

The amendment is silent with respect to compensation. I suspect that will cause some concern.

Then it gets settled in court. There is long and well established legal precedent in Canada that while government can take your property in the public interest it can't do so without fair compensation.

[greatwhite]

There will be many Police and CO's that will not enforce it, I know there are many in NS.

The OPP dive team might help you after all you have obeyed the law and reported that firearm missing as required?

[Gilroy]

Then it gets settled in court. There is long and well established legal precedent in Canada that while government can take your property in the public interest it can't do so without fair compensation.

I hope so, I have a hankering for a new bolt action rifle and if the government wants to chip in for it I,am good.

[Gilroy]

There will be many Police and CO's that will not enforce it, I know there are many in NS.

Well GW we aint in NS and even under a Conservative Provincial Government we now have this requirement to carry out firearms license that we did not have to do under the past Liberal Provincial Governments and that would be the same Provincial Government that re instated the Spring bear Hunt after the previous Conservative Government took it away from us.

[Birdbuff]

What’s all the hoopla about? Why get all worked up over something the next government in power will tear down and reverse. Nothing ever really gets accomplished.

Bad guys will get guns anyway possible. Crimes will be committed and the uneducated public will fuss. Government will overreact to make it look like they’re doing something. Good guys (us) will continue to complain without results. Once all the legal guns are taken away, who will be left to blame for gun crimes? Maybe then people will wake up.

[trky chsr]

[QUOTE=Birdbuff;1206087]What’s all the hoopla about? Why get all worked up over something the next government in power will tear down and reverse. Nothing ever really gets accomplished.

The problem these day's is the next government in power won't be able to tear down and reverse this as the Liberal media won't let them. If they reverse any gun laws when the next shooting occurs the media will be all over it saying "look what they did" and that government will be overthrown. TC

[trky chsr]

Let's try and stay on point here.

So from what I can see. Centerfire - Semi Auto, with detachable box type mags that can exceed 5 rounds.

Most shotguns don't qualify, except for some of the Derya etc.

Most hunting rifles don't qualify ( Remington 740, Browning BAR). In fact most of the centerfire rifles that fall under the new amendment were already specified in the original OIC. Possibly changing the language so industry can't pivot and produce "new" models with different names?

A stock SKS likely wouldn't qualify, as stock, production rifles do not have a detachable mag.

Rimfire isn't included.

First of all they named the SKS specifically along with (apparently) 22 other firearms. Secondly according to this new definition of a "Prohibited Firearm" rimfires will definitely be included.

The definition of “Prohibited Firearm” will be legislatively expanded to include any firearm “capable of discharging a projectile with a muzzle energy exceeding 10 000 Joules”, “a firearm with a bore diameter of 20 mm or greater” as well as all semi-automatic long guns with detachable magazines. TC