Hey, let's all go over to Fugawi's place and beat the crap outta him. After all, he dewatted a restricted-double-prohib to keep it from the shredder, EXACTLY THE WAY THE LIBDIPPERS INTENDED WHEN THEY MADE THE LAWS.
We live in Kanada, which is a civilised country. The only people here who need guns are the military (as few as possible) and the Polizei (whatever and as many as they want: we know who The Enemy really is). That's what Alan Rock told us. That's what the LAW was made to do: disarm US completely, one stage at a time, until there was nothing left.
This beautiful little piece was Restricted because it is a handgun.
It was Prohibited for barrel length.
It was Prohibited again because of calibre.
To make it LEGAL under our insane laws would have required it being converted into a rifle (forward hand-grip and 25-inch barrel to get the right over-all length: a .32 RIFLE is legal). The OTHER way to legalise it would have been a permanent conversion to a .22 with a 105mm barrel: difficult and expensive.
You must understand this: THE FLAW IS THE LAW.
Of course it doesn't make sense. It wasn't designed to make sense.
It was designed to destroy as many firearms as possible which were not part of the Government's own arsenal. Remember, the Government exempted itself from this one, same as they do with any restrictive, insane or stupid laws.
Fugawi did the only thing possible to save this piece: he dewatted it.
The Americans have a category of firearms called C&R: Curios and Relics. It applies to original pre-1946 pieces and designs. It will NEVER apply to the plastic crap so beloved of your friendly neighbourhood gangbanger; it CAN'T, simply because of date of design. This little gun would have fit perfectly into the C&R category: age, date, design, historical significance, the works.
As an interim measure, if nothing else, we need to copy the American C&R law. I said this previously, but it was ignored. This would prevent any more travesties such as this one.
And getting a C&R classification into Canadian law would be a lot easier than scrapping the whole system...... which is something which likely will never fly in this country.
Copying the C&R well COULD be done relatively quickly and with a minimum of fuss and bother, simply by selling it to the public as 'international harmonisation of restrictions on portable weapons'.... which likely WOULD fly politically if it were sold the right way.
But it has to be done quickly, before all of us Old Farts who are HOARDING these lovely old things drop dead.
So have at it, gentlemen, if you really CARE what is being done.
But remember always: THE LAW IS THE FLAW.
And CHANGE IT to something sane.
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