SKS Bayonets

Well, I had an interesting SKS buying experience yesterday at the Garden City CT in Winnipeg. Took forever(over 1/2 hour} to get someone to help and then the gun was put in a large garbage bag and escorted to the cashier, seriously..classy. I did not realize they included none of the usual accessories until I got home, very weird experience, at least it had a bayonet.

Unfortunately a result of Years of Social Engineering attempts against Firearm ownership in Canada, I bought a Camo Gun Case in CT a few Months back and you would not believe the dirty looks that I got from other People while standing in line for the Cashier...it was surreal.
 
Ok so a tragic SHOOTING happens, and the orders are to remove the "knife" that is attached to the weapon. I really dont understand this connection. The incident was a shooting, not a stabbing.

FYI, im not down playing the monction incident. It was horrific and tragic and my heart still goes out to ALL my brothers and sisters in law enforcement.
 
Well, I had an interesting SKS buying experience yesterday at the Garden City CT in Winnipeg. Took forever(over 1/2 hour} to get someone to help and then the gun was put in a large garbage bag and escorted to the cashier, seriously..classy. I did not realize they included none of the usual accessories until I got home, very weird experience, at least it had a bayonet.
Sounds like you got one of the unaware staff helping you. The regular gun nuts there must have been off since it was a STAT. The garbage bag is standard practice there to avoid grandma on Leila from seeing the big bad scary rifle being carried in the parking lot and calling WPS. The accessories, again just unaware salesperson syndrome.
 
I was into the local CT store the other day and noticed that the bayonets had been removed from all of the 20 or so SKS's they had in the case. When I asked the guy about it he said "orders from head office after the Moncton shootings"Anyone noticed this in other CT's or other gun shops?

That's BS. I was in my local CT a few months ago and they had removed the bayo's for the Tapco stock SKS's. I asked if they had the original stock, bayo, mag, cleaning kit, etc... the clueless guy got on his radio and asked someone - was told NO. Everything was removed because that's the way they want to sell them, according to the CT guy. Said, "nobody was buying them with the wood stock". I assumed that they were 'beat up' like most of the current SKS's around lately.
 
Here's what you do:

1. Go to the Canadian Tire store
2. Visit the hardware aisle and get a couple of hose clamps
3. Go to the kitchen aisle and get the largest, pointiest chef's knife you can find.
4. Go to the firearms department and buy an SKS, making sure to point out that you're planning to attach the knife to the barrel, since the bayonet is missing.

I mean, you want it to be as close to original as possible, right?
 
Why the SKS abuse? Didn't the guy have an M305? A CBC article mentioned he had a Mossberg shotgun and an M1A but was pointed out that if he's got a cheap mossberg, he likely has the M305 because he can't afford a Springfield M1A. His M305 didn't even have a bayonet....

I find that a little offensive. I like 870's and I own an M305 but I also own rifles that are $3000-$12000 each. I think that CBC article was intended to criminalize sport shooters that can only "barely afford" to shoot. Elitist mofos. Someone please tell me JR Cox' quote was taken out of context.

Here's the CBC article I am referring to.

J.R. Cox, owner of The Shooting Edge in Calgary, Alta., and Target Sports in Stouffville, Ont. said that the rifle looks like an M305, a knock-off of the M14.

“The M14 is actually a fully-automatic…the civilian version is the M1 or M1A made by Springfield, but the guy who bought the cheap Mossberg isn’t buying a $3000 M1A,” said Cox. “He’s buying the Norinco M305 copy.”
 
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maybe you got the last one and that is why you got the dirty looks..lol
seriously though it is retarded the way we get treated.
 
Why the SKS abuse? Didn't the guy have an M305? A CBC article mentioned he had a Mossberg shotgun and an M1A but was pointed out that if he's got a cheap mossberg, he likely has the M305 because he can't afford a Springfield M1A. His M305 didn't even have a bayonet....

I find that a little offensive. I like 870's and I own an M305 but I also own rifles that are $3000-$12000 each. I think that CBC article was intended to criminalize sport shooters that can only "barely afford" to shoot. Elitist mofos. Someone please tell me JR Cox' quote was taken out of context.

Here's the CBC article I am referring to.

No, that's classic JR. Someone needs to tell him to stop talking to the press. The CBC keeps calling him, because he opens his mouth to switch feet and make gun owners look bad. He's too self absorbed to realize it.
 
I wish Cambodian Tire in the lower mainland sold firearms, I can't remember when the last time I saw anything other than air rifles at the ones in the gvrd.
 
I wish Cambodian Tire in the lower mainland sold firearms, I can't remember when the last time I saw anything other than air rifles at the ones in the gvrd.
Here on Vancouver Island in BC my local CT has firearms. I think it is up to each CT franchisee to decide if they want
To deal with guns, and there may also be local bylaw issues. I wonder if your CT removed the bayos as a service
to all the tacticool stock conversion fans? ;-)
 
I was into the local CT store the other day and noticed that the bayonets had been removed from all of the 20 or so SKS's they had in the case. When I asked the guy about it he said "orders from head office after the Moncton shootings"

Anyone noticed this in other CT's or other gun shops?

Boys, it goes like this, California.... no bayonet lugs are allowed on firearms. Jesse Ventura`s comment to this was, "When was the last time you have heard of a 'Drive-By-Bayoneting'?"

The inmates are running the insane asylum! Just remember that.
 
When he said "Head Office" he must have meant just that store's office because I was in the other CT store in town today and all the SKS stock on display still had bayonets.
 
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and play devils advocate. Unfortunately the gun debate has been and always will be a constant P.R. war to see who can most effectively control the opinions of the proles. As such novel concepts like fact are all but irrelevant. Could it not be possible that in the case of a retailer like ct where the vast majority of patrons are not gun owners and will not take the time to rationally contemplate the reality that prescents of a bayonet does nothing to change the nature of the firearms being sold are less likely to arbitrarily thrown their support behind the antis if bayos are atleast removed for the purpose of in store display? The sad facts are that most people don't want to be educated and if temporarily removing bayos from guns on display in ct while the fall out of the Moncton tragity dies down that's seems to me like a small price to pay. Nothing has changed it's not like ct is no longer selling the Sks, they are merely making apear more "friendly" to the ignorant masses. All this based on the assumption that the bayo and mounting hardware was given to you should you decide to purchase the rifle.
Just my 2 cents.
 
Stopped in at Cambodian tire on grandview this morning, buy behind the counter said they have crates of them in the back. The ones in the showcase were pretty beat in regards to the stocks, one 52 lamintate stock had a big crack by the bayonet and another birch had some big chunks out of the wood. All had bayonets though, $229 for laminates and $189 for solid birch.
 
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