Bill S-231 to be retabled - BYE BYE semi's

[mosquito]

Senator Celine Hervieux-Payette is at it again...

I will re-table my bill on firearms to promote better control for recreational shooting and a better definition of hunting firearms #cdnpoli

http://nncfb.ca/bill-s-231-retabled-...vieux-payette/

Titled “Strengthening Canadians’ Security and Promotion Hunting and Recreational Shooting” seeks to create a definition for “hunting firearms”, amend the definition of “prohibited firearms” and to replace “restricted firearms” with “circumscribed firearms”, defined as all previous restricted firearms and all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns so that they can only be used at an approved range:

Definition 1

A hunting firearm is defined as any firearm with a smoothbore or striated barrel that is more than 470 mm long, in other words a shotgun or rifle. Semi-automatic weapons are not included in the definition of hunting firearm, with the exception of 22 calibre rim-fire semi-automatic rifles.

Definition 2

A circumscribed firearm is any firearm, other than a prohibited firearm, that has a barrel equal to or less than 470 millimetres, such as handguns or firearms that are capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner.

• redefine two of the three existing classes of firearms by making only hunting firearms legal and localizing the prohibition of restricted firearms;
  
  
  Looks like I might get to keep my Dad's old 22 after all and the pump seems safe.... for now.

[B Wilson]

Not enough liberals in the senate to do it.

[mosquito]

Not enough liberals in the senate to do it.

7 more added today and 10 more empty seats... once Justin fills those seats.. and he will... can't stop the gravy train you know! Then you look at the independants and I am betting she can count... she might have to borrow some others fingers and toes to get there.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/seven...n-in-1.2855795

http://sen.parl.gc.ca/portal/home-e.htm

[mbhunter]

The attack on Parliament hill was with a lever - she going to take them too?

[trimmer21]

As a private member's bill,this thing will never see the light of day. She's just another goof Quebec Liberal trying to make a big noise.

[sambo]

As a private member's bill,this thing will never see the light of day. She's just another goof Quebec Liberal trying to make a big noise.

I hope so

[Fox]

As a private member's bill,this thing will never see the light of day. She's just another goof Quebec Liberal trying to make a big noise.

If it did and they decided to pass it there is nothing anyone here could do about it.

Remember, we only have a democracy until the party gets in, this goes in both directions.

[bowj]

just my luck. I avoid buying a semi for years, finally get one and if this passes I wont be able to sell it or use it....

lets hope it doesn't get anywhere. when I took my gun course about 9 years ago, the instructor warned us this might happen, but I figured they were just trying to fill the seats in the restricted course...

[terrym]

I have sold my BAR for this reason. I still own a semi .22 which I inherited from my father and a semi shotgun I use for ducks and turkey. Im going to hang on to them as long as I can but yes the Senate will soon be liberal controlled. This would lead to more backlash than this uninformed imbecile knows though as clearly she knows nothing about hunting firearms and trades on baseless rhetoric but then again governments rise and fall on not much more.
If this idiot had researched this properly she would have found that thousands of people who voted liberal are hunters and that semis are very common.

[pinepointer]

Remember the pushback on retaining the gun registry in Quebec from Liberal MNA's who got an earful from their constituents. I suspect an even bigger national pushback would happen for this proposal. She is lumping hunting semi's together with 'black' tactical semi's.