Semi-auto 223 options
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GunsNotPuns
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I've no experience with it but have you considered the Mossberg MMR Hunter? AR-patterned and going for about C$700.
Turkinator
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You may as well get an AR for that money seeing as they're both restricted.
84wh1
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Yes its restricted. Its an AR
GunsNotPuns
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Yeah sorry man, I had a brain freeze on that one.
Why would the NDP have to justify anything? Did the high courts and the government of the UK properly justify their seizure and destroy program when the cops came knocking in the 90ies? Bad laws dont require justification. They require stupidity and arrogance not justification.
You may want to ask some of the guys on here if they got compensated for their SPAS-12s. That practise really only started with the prohibition of the first generation Lever Arms Type 97a rifles a few years ago. No one I have talked to got any compensation for guns taken under C-17's prohibited weapons order# 11.
So even though there is now a precedence for compensation, there is also a precedence for confiscation with no compensation.
And you are assuming my father didn't lose something to that OIC either.
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Since there are complaints on the next page of this thread getting more off topic, I'll keep the rest of my responses in this post, just so I can address a couple of things.
To be fair, my dad lost an Intratec TEC-22 pistol to that OIC, so maybe it was different for them than you claim happened to SPAS-12 owners. But I can recall two CGNers who have stated in the past they weren't compensated for their SPAS-12s, among other guns they lost as well, so either they refused it, or it sounds to me more like the compensation wasn't widely offered. And as far as the TEC-22 went, since it was a registered handgun, they were very easy to track down. The letter dad got stated he had to either turn it over for destruction, or deactivate it, so in the end it was turned over. No mention of compensation.
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I don't know what you guys are smoking. If you think your going to be compensated for unjust prohibited firearms in Canada you had better think again. You have NO property rights. Therefore, the govt owes you nothing. My suggestion, bury it and pray for a gun friendly CPC majority.
when this topic has come up in the past, other owners on here have been very adamant that compensation was offered in the instance of the spas 12 so I am not sure what happened in your fathers case when comparing it to my own experience and others posted on this forum.
many refused the compensation offered so as to not agree with the confiscation but that is another matter
this is true, however your post makes it sound like you think fighting for compensation is a bad idea.
I have had property (land) taken (expropriated) by the government and fought for compensation and won even though we have no property rights in canada. Just because it is firearms you think we should all sit back and let the government do as they please?
then what was your post about if it was not that we have no property rights and that fighting for compensation when property is taken is futile in your opinion?
I have already fought and won against the government to be compensated for property that was taken even though we have no property rights, there is lots of case law that supports the need for the government to pay compensation regardless of our non existent property rights, Including cases regarding firearms.
