So does that mean we have more AR15s per capita than the USA ?
Not even close
He mentioned several shootings involving the VZ 58, M305 as well as semi-automatic rifles designed for war as cheap as $300- SKS?
I call bull#### on that claim... lefty media would have been all over that and made a point of mentioning type of rifle used especially if it resembles their non defined definition of an assault rifle ....
Its not bull. Its just disingenuous word play.
Several shootings involving all of those rifles could mean one shooting each.
Moncton was done with the M305.
Quebec Mosque was done with the VZ58 (allegedly)
POly was with with a low cost semi, (mini 14, $300 priced in 1989 dollars).
There you go, several shootings with the above mentioned rifles.
They aren't going to pay fair market value for the whole rifle, they are going to pay fair market value for the lower receiver. The fact that the rest of the rifle is included because people were too stupid not to reregister the rifle as just the receiver is irrelevant. My lower is never a rifle except when it goes to the range.
I don't think it has anything to do with people being stupid. I think it has to do with people not wanting to call the CFO to register their firearm as a whole firearm when they go to the range and re-registering back to a receiver when they get home.
Uh if the piece of paper says a rifle, they expect the whole rifle. If you bought a receiver and slapped a barrel on it, you are supposed to update the registration after 30 days. Fortunately mine are only together when I go to the range and I am lucky to go once a month if that.
And since I suspect that you aren't calling the CFO to register the firearm as being capable of discharging ammo when you put it together and re-registering it as a frame only when you get home, you are committing criminal offences every time you take that rifle to the range.
Read the conditions on your firearms registration certificate, and read the regulations for firearms registration certificates.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-98-201/page-1.html#h-1019122
Specifically section 4.1
4 (1) Subject to section 5, the Registrar shall attach to a registration certificate that is issued in respect of a firearm the condition that the holder of the certificate shall advise the Registrar, within 30 days after the modification, of
(a) any modification to the firearm that results in a change of class of the firearm;
(b) in the case of a firearm registered as a frame or receiver only, any modification that makes it capable of discharging ammunition;
(c) any modification to an altered automatic firearm; and
(d) any modification that results in the firearm ceasing to be a firearm.
You will note that nothing in this section requires the modification to be permanent, or present for more than 30 days.
You can contrast to S. 4.2 of the regulations, which talks about modifications to WHOLE firearms based on barrel length or caliber, IE switching from one upper to another, which DOES require modifications to be intended to be permanent or present for more than 30 days before reporting is required.
So even though you have 30 days to report the change, every time you assemble your receiver only firearm into a whole firearm, you must report it. ANd must report it again when you strip it back down.
Yes, the law is stupid, and yes LE has no way of detecting this victimless paper crime. But as people who lay claim to law abiding gun ownership, that's not the point now is it?
You may want to clarify your post because as it stands now its reads as if you are breaking the law by failing to report modifications to your firearm as required by your firearms registration certificate, which is an offence under S110 of the firearms act. Please feel free to show me where I have misunderstood your post.