Absolutely! It is the closed minded thinking from within our own group that helped sink us before. We must stand united.. we must not alienate firearms within our own group. The entire sport is at risk.
Black Rifle Reclassification?
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Absolutely! It is the closed minded thinking from within our own group that helped sink us before. We must stand united.. we must not alienate firearms within our own group. The entire sport is at risk.
As long as they don't take away my _###xx_ <-- that's the attitude that we're dealing with on a constant basis
A word about AR15's.
AR15's and variants were first reclassified as Restricted in 1978. They were removed from the Restricted list in 1980, however carbine versions continued to be registered/restricted because of the 18.5" short barreled rifle regs also introduced in 1978.
The AR15 once again went back on the restricted list under the Kim Campbell PC C-17 gun law in 1991.
AR15's were to be prohibited along with all of the other semi automatic rifles then on the restricted list under the Liberal C-68 legislation in 1995, but a last minute intervention by DCRA delayed this.
By the time the Liberals got around to considering an OIC prepared to do it, the controversy over C-68 was in full speed and it was shelved until it subsided. It never did.
AR15 and variants are named in legislation passed by Parliament in 1991 as restricted firearms. This was carried over into the new legislation in 1995.
As such, RCMP cannot reclassify or "properly classify" AR15 and variants as prohibited firearms. They have already been "properly classified" in law - by the Parliament of Canada over twenty years ago.
In order to prohibit AR15 and variants, new legislation must be introduced to do so.
Before everybody breathes a sigh of relief, understand this:
RCMP very much want to ban and confiscate all firearms, but especially the AR15 for what it represents. They cannot do it unilaterally as they have been doing with other firearms, but they can put immense pressure on government to do so and enlist the assistance of the civil disarmament lobby and the opposition parties in Ottawa in this.
Especially if they have another national tragedy as a catalyst, so essentially its fate is dependent on the potential actions of a madman.
Also, RCMP can seize individual AR15's and try and make a case that the firearm is "easily convertible to automatic fire". A registration certificate will not prevent this from happening.
RCMP can seize any firearm, anytime, for any reason and make justification later.
The only way this is going to end is when new legislation is introduced to replace the 1995 C-68 Firearms Act, which is still the law of Canada.
Please make this clear to your Conservative MP, the Minister of Public Safety and the Prime Minister as you communicate on the current Swiss Arms reclassification controversy.
Blair Hagen
Executive Vice President
Canada's National Firearms Association
www.nfa.ca
AR15's and variants were first reclassified as Restricted in 1978. They were removed from the Restricted list in 1980, however carbine versions continued to be registered/restricted because of the 18.5" short barreled rifle regs also introduced in 1978.
The AR15 once again went back on the restricted list under the Kim Campbell PC C-17 gun law in 1991.
AR15's were to be prohibited along with all of the other semi automatic rifles then on the restricted list under the Liberal C-68 legislation in 1995, but a last minute intervention by DCRA delayed this.
By the time the Liberals got around to considering an OIC prepared to do it, the controversy over C-68 was in full speed and it was shelved until it subsided. It never did.
AR15 and variants are named in legislation passed by Parliament in 1991 as restricted firearms. This was carried over into the new legislation in 1995.
As such, RCMP cannot reclassify or "properly classify" AR15 and variants as prohibited firearms. They have already been "properly classified" in law - by the Parliament of Canada over twenty years ago.
In order to prohibit AR15 and variants, new legislation must be introduced to do so.
Before everybody breathes a sigh of relief, understand this:
RCMP very much want to ban and confiscate all firearms, but especially the AR15 for what it represents. They cannot do it unilaterally as they have been doing with other firearms, but they can put immense pressure on government to do so and enlist the assistance of the civil disarmament lobby and the opposition parties in Ottawa in this.
Especially if they have another national tragedy as a catalyst, so essentially its fate is dependent on the potential actions of a madman.
Also, RCMP can seize individual AR15's and try and make a case that the firearm is "easily convertible to automatic fire". A registration certificate will not prevent this from happening.
RCMP can seize any firearm, anytime, for any reason and make justification later.
The only way this is going to end is when new legislation is introduced to replace the 1995 C-68 Firearms Act, which is still the law of Canada.
Please make this clear to your Conservative MP, the Minister of Public Safety and the Prime Minister as you communicate on the current Swiss Arms reclassification controversy.
Blair Hagen
Executive Vice President
Canada's National Firearms Association
www.nfa.ca
