Future of the AR15?

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With all the B.S. Going on right now again with our firearm laws what do you all think the future is for this rifle? I've owned Tavors, Xcr's, cx4's exc....but not a Ar15 despite always wanting one....now with all the shooting bans around the lower mainland the range seems to be the most viable option to go shooting. So who cares if it's Restricted I guess....well as long as it doesn't go prohibited right? What do you all think?
 
We're all going to die one day and that doesn't stop me from doing the things I want. Why would you let something like legislation or big government influence what YOU want. Buy the gun you want, enjoy it, and die an old, happy man.
 
If I may...

I wanted a Benelli MR1. Still do, they're cool guns. When I got my restricted license I thought long and hard about it and realized "I'm only going to shoot a .223 rifle at the range anyways, and my money goes a lot father with the AR platform than it does with any other semi auto centerfire rifle" Bought my first stripped lower last August and regret nothing.
 
We got into the AR world within the last year, great fun, don't regret it one bit. Join one of the local ranges and have fun, there is a fantastic network of AR lovers in the lower mainland, and I am progressing to the point of trying a competition shoot asap. There are some awesome local guys who are more than willing to help out. With the price of AR's right now, you cannot go wrong, wish there were deals like this a year ago,lol
 
Before C-68 came into affect the AR was going into the named prohibited category.

It was the work of the DCRA and a number of very influential people who convinced politicians to limit that to restricted status.
We can shoot ARs today largely due to Service Conditions competition.
All of you plinkers, 3-gunners, IPSCers, CQBers, etc. Who enjoy the use of ARs should be supporting those organizations and those shooting disciplines that promote its use.

Sadly, not enough know and more still don't care.
 
beltfed said:
Before C-68 came into affect the AR was going into the named prohibited category.

It was the work of the DCRA and a number of very influential people who convinced politicians to limit that to restricted status.
We can shoot ARs today largely due to Service Conditions competition.
All of you plinkers, 3-gunners, IPSCers, CQBers, etc. Who enjoy the use of ARs should be supporting those organizations and those shooting disciplines that promote its use.

Sadly, not enough know and more still don't care.
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The AR was put back on the restricted list with C-17 which predated C-68. But i guess that doesn't fit the narrative of Conservatives being the saviours of gun owners.

It is the limits on orders-in-council that kept ARs restricted and not prohibited. Yet people continue to credit the DCRA and other groups for "saving" them. The DCRA asked the government during public consultation on C-68 to exempt the AR from the OICs that made all AR variants restricted and the government ignored them. That was their victory?

Commonality is what "saved" the AR platform, something the guns that were shifted to the prohibited list did not have. And ARs have only gotten more popular since the early 90s. They aren't going anywhere.
 
TheOnlyRightAnswer said:
The AR was put back on the restricted list with C-17 which predated C-68. But i guess that doesn't fit the narrative of Conservatives being the saviours of gun owners.

It is the limits on orders-in-council that kept ARs restricted and not prohibited. Yet people continue to credit the DCRA and other groups for "saving" them. The DCRA asked the government during public consultation on C-68 to exempt the AR from the OICs that made all AR variants restricted and the government ignored them. That was their victory?

Commonality is what "saved" the AR platform, something the guns that were shifted to the prohibited list did not have. And ARs have only gotten more popular since the early 90s. They aren't going anywhere.
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If for no other reason than its the number one rifle for competition sports, I don't see the AR going anywhere.

If anyone is going to coordinate a massive push back, it will be the guys who use their ARs weekly or monthly for competing, and have invested loads of time and money into that activity. (Plus they'll have IPSC/IDPA/whatever to get them coordinated)
 
By far some of the most fun shooting ive had was with my AR. One day when they come for them, as some of you have mentioned they will come for the rest of the semi auto's. Might as well join a club, and go restricted as there is no where else to shoot in the lower mainland without trecking hours into the bushes.
 
Taybraith said:
By far some of the most fun shooting ive had was with my AR. One day when they come for them, as some of you have mentioned they will come for the rest of the semi auto's. Might as well join a club, and go restricted as there is no where else to shoot in the lower mainland without trecking hours into the bushes.
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Should that day come, and I am not sure that it will, the difference to consider is that THEY will know all of the registered addresses of the legally owned Restricted semi auto rifles.

The legally owned non registered semi auto rifles? No.

So for me it all comes down to how much do you trust this government and all future governments not to invoke prohibitions against law abiding gun owners?
 
TheOnlyRightAnswer said:
Commonality is what "saved" the AR platform, something the guns that were shifted to the prohibited list did not have. And ARs have only gotten more popular since the early 90s. They aren't going anywhere.
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If memory serves, there were 3 times as many FN-FAL rifles as AR-15s in Canada at the time, yet the AR-15 was spared and the FAL thrown to the wolves of prohibition. Seems like your version of events has some holes in it.
 
BattleRife said:
If memory serves, there were 3 times as many FN-FAL rifles as AR-15s in Canada at the time, yet the AR-15 was spared and the FAL thrown to the wolves of prohibition. Seems like your version of events has some holes in it.
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CForgive me if I'm wrong as this happened when I was a very, very young man, but were FAL's not all full auto?
 
BattleRife said:
If memory serves, there were 3 times as many FN-FAL rifles as AR-15s in Canada at the time, yet the AR-15 was spared and the FAL thrown to the wolves of prohibition. Seems like your version of events has some holes in it.
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I guess your memory failed you when it came to the receiver in those firearms.
 
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