Legault of the BQ has already said his party will be supporting the libs.
That would give the libs the votes for whatever they need to pass and anything the BQ wants in return.
What will you buy when the ban ends?
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That would give the libs the votes for whatever they need to pass and anything the BQ wants in return.
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Yup... we live in a socialist dictatorship flirting with communism.
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Way back when the possibility of an atomic attack from the USSR over Canada and into the U.S. was real, I often thought if it could get knocked down and take out all our politicians we would be better off... when you see Parliament operating, yelling and heckling and acting like school kids... that thought really has not changed.
I don't think he necessarily said that they'd be supporting them. I think he said that they'd maintain the status quo for now, with respect to dealing with the trade issues. It doesn't serve the bloc or NDP to align with the Liberals too closely lest they go the way of the Singh-led NDP. Their voters are gonna want to see some backbone and differentiation from the liberals. Not to mention, asking parties in Canadian parliament to cooperate is likely as difficult as asking two strange tomcats to share the same porch. Ain't gonna happen without fighting, and if it does it'll be a VERY temporary situation.
I had one for many years, until 1990 when they stopped giving transport permits. Put it into a Museum along with some other stuff I had and moved to Mexico. Trying to over-restrict guns and yap about confiscating property has it's effects but the Canadian Government obviously doesn't care. It was a really nice Savage made 1928/A1, English contract gun with the crown proof marks and marked "TOMMY GUN" behind the cocking slot.
It came in the trumpet case (see "Road to Perdition") with the 50-round drum, 5 20-round stick magazines and the finger-foregrip as well as the straight Army-type foregrip. Classic piece.
Unlike many people, I always knew that what I had in that gun was something that I would not be able to have forever, so I gave it all the love and attention a person could give his Thompson and I shot it a lot. I loved shooting Pin and Plate on full-auto with it. Obviously, something best done when you had the range to yourself, or just you and a good friend because everyone always wanted to shoot it but didn't have any ammo. Of course.
It was a great gun to have watching Chris George on the Rat Patrol with his. I would have to say the 1928 Thompson is my favorite SMG.
I shot mine so much, I could kiss the buttstock on full-auto. I did a demonstration of that once to some Army buddies, and then one of them tried it in front of his daughters with a full-auto C7. Yes, I heard about that. Split lips. Some of us still chuckle over that one.
I had an M1/A1 as well, but it was not as much fun -- but still, a perfectly functional Thompson, don't think it isn't. It's just that the 1928 has panache. I mean, it just really does. You've chosen well in your desire to have one. I am sure happy I got to shoot the living stuffing out of two Thompsons over a decade and a few more years of rockin' fun.
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Buyback will be expensive and it’s been 5 years and they still have no real idea how they’re going to do it. They come up with a plan then realize it’s not going to work and go back to the drawing board. The best we can hope for now is a grandfather clause is added and carney can spin it as saving money. Or the oic guns just sit in limbo for another 1-4 years, which would be the best case since it would leave an issue that needs attention for the next government
There is still a really good chance that an election is called early, before the buyback is figured out
There is still a really good chance that an election is called early, before the buyback is figured out
I had one for many years, until 1990 when they stopped giving transport permits. Put it into a Museum along with some other stuff I had and moved to Mexico. Trying to over-restrict guns and yap about confiscating property has it's effects but the Canadian Government obviously doesn't care. It was a really nice Savage made 1928/A1, English contract gun with the crown proof marks and marked "TOMMY GUN" behind the cocking slot.
It came in the trumpet case (see "Road to Perdition") with the 50-round drum, 5 20-round stick magazines and the finger-foregrip as well as the straight Army-type foregrip. Classic piece.
Unlike many people, I always knew that what I had in that gun was something that I would not be able to have forever, so I gave it all the love and attention a person could give his Thompson and I shot it a lot. I loved shooting Pin and Plate on full-auto with it. Obviously, something best done when you had the range to yourself, or just you and a good friend because everyone always wanted to shoot it but didn't have any ammo. Of course.
It was a great gun to have watching Chris George on the Rat Patrol with his. I would have to say the 1928 Thompson is my favorite SMG.
I shot mine so much, I could kiss the buttstock on full-auto. I did a demonstration of that once to some Army buddies, and then one of them tried it in front of his daughters with a full-auto C7. Yes, I heard about that. Split lips. Some of us still chuckle over that one.
I had an M1/A1 as well, but it was not as much fun -- but still, a perfectly functional Thompson, don't think it isn't. It's just that the 1928 has panache. I mean, it just really does. You've chosen well in your desire to have one. I am sure happy I got to shoot the living stuffing out of two Thompsons over a decade and a few more years of rockin' fun.
Why didn't you get the grandfathered license, so you could keep it?
Well it was originally Grandfathering when Blair and Trudeau first announced it. Then Trudeau didn't get invited to the Dec. 6 Ecole Polytechnique event in 2021, he flip flopped to a gun buyback.
I don’t like carney but I will say I don’t think he gives a f1ck about those guys. He was there a few weeks ago and pronounced it wrong. Forgot provosts name too. barely even speaks French at all. I think he wants the whole issue to go away. He will put provost and Blair on it, they will come up with a highly controversial plan, he will probably say some thing like “look…….we….look…we want to deescalate this…”
I sure hope your right, he does have bigger fish to fry at the moment. Given the current environment I think he's smart enough to not piss off everyone at the same time. Last thing he wants is a protest like the last one. He thrives on stability not chaos which will mean undoing some of the bad choices of the last 10 years.
Oh ya, not sure I'd buy anything right away but I would get an rpal.
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When I was 40 (I'm 67 now) I grabbed a pretty girl who was about to be gored by a bull during the Running of the Bulls in San Miguel, and pulled her behind me and told her to not friggin' move. The bull stared at me as I stared back into it's dead, unexpressionless eyes, and then turned and ran horns first at a group of boys with capes playing matador in the street. Bulls attack movement, and she had been doing a lot of hand-wringing as the bull came towards her. Now she was safe enough. She was also the Guess Jeans Girl of the moment: 1998. And she had just turned 18. This started a two-year topsy-turvy relationship that I ended myself just before her 20th birthday. I still think of her fondly, and when I do, I smile. Although our last parting was tearful, I think she understood because any of the limited communication between us since has been friendly, if not inviting. Our "song" had always been Wild World by Cat Stevens, although in the end it was me that broke it off.
Friends who knew us at the time often still ask: "Why did you leave her? Were you just nuts?" My only answer has always been: "Have you ever been 41, going out with a 19-year-old with her whole life ahead of her, realizing that you struggle every day to just keep up and it's only going to get worse?" I guess I grew up. If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours. A corny saying someone once told me about. I would paraphrase that as: If you love something, but it or you having it is holding your life back, let it go as kindly as you can and get on with it.
The Cat and I on her 19th Birthday in Puerto Valharta, just after her first parachute ride. I went up first to make sure it would be a safe ride, and then after all that they landed her in the surf. But she was fine. And another shot of her and the Batmobile while we explore Mexican Ghost Towns in the mountains of Guanajuato.
I had seen the Cat in my Ice Cream Store several times already that year, followed around by her entourage of prospective suitors. Running into her alone, during the Running of the Bulls -- which in the 1990's was a dangerous 'rite of passage' for young people in San Miguel that was impossible to ignore if you like the action and the women, just like in Pamplona Spain -- happened perhaps only a half hour after this photo was taken. I went with the "black shirt team" (of course, I would be the leader of the "Black Shirts") while friends of ours went as the "white shirt team". Here the leader of the white shirts and I wish each other luck before the action starts. His team had that hot chick on it, damn, I was on the wrong team (or so I thought until I met the Cat).
The Thompson is a gun. The one I had was a real classic, the absolute "one you want" in my opinion. By leaving it in that Museum, other people can see it but I am free of it's shackles. Letting go of it -- and some of the other pieces I had that I could not sell first -- by placing it in a safe place allowed me to get out into the world and see and do the things I wanted to see and do. And I am still doing them, with my wife whom I would never had met if I had stayed in what I felt was a doomed relationship with the Cat.
Sometimes you gotta know when to let stuff go and get on with it. It's not about keeping other people happy, or living up to the expectations of others, it's about keeping you happy and living up to your expectations. Owning a gun I am not allowed to take shooting -- to me -- is not owning the gun. It's just being a caretaker. Better to leave the gun where other people can enjoy it and do the caretaking. Hopefully, this answer explains my reasoning as to why I chose to divest myself of my complete firearms collection back in 1990 and move to Mexico rather than becoming some custodian for a Canadian Government that had obviously gone down a different path than I was interested in following.
To get back onto the firearms track, I have done a bit of investigating I never did before since I had actually owned the gun so why would I investigate? It seems that many of the Savage contract guns made specifically to fill the English contract order were stamped "Tommy Gun" along the receiver behind the cocking bolt but just ahead of the Lyman adjustable sight. Also, as seen on some of the photos of mine, they were heat-treated at the chamber area of the receiver, but not any further back thus causing a two-tone effect on the parkerizing. So if you encounter a 1928 that is stamped "Tommy Gun" it might be worth the time to look for the English Crown acceptance proofmarks that would indicate it as being one of the 110,000 or so English Contract Thompsons such as mine was.
Just before placing the 1928 and the M1/A1 into a Museum, I took this final photo of the Tommy Gun with a collection of crap laying on the basement floor that detailed the life of adventure and action I had hoped to find by divesting myself of the ball-and-chain my firearms collection had become, and leaving Canada to head to Bananaland. I had just returned from a 3-month action-packed adventure in Central America (which was suffering a revolutionary war at the time which we all thought was Capitalism vs. Communism but was really a struggle to secure the landing zones in Nicauragua for Pablo's cocaine shipments flying up to the U.S. -- but what did we know, we were just war-zone tourists?). I knew that this was the life I wanted, not some life chasing monetary gain with a nicely groomed front lawn and a fattening wife who had more rights than I had. I chose well, actually, when I think about it. This photo clearly shows the heat-treating line on the parkerizing just behind the chamber area. It does not (stupid, stupid of me) show the "Tommy Gun" engraving just a bit further back. We didn't have digital cameras at the time. There weren't even Cell Phones really, just more like big walkie talkies.
I carried that boot knife all over Central America. Thankfully, I never had to use it, but it gave me cold comfort that I at least had something to use and would go down fighting before they would decapitate me and cut my hands off as they were doing to so many of the "war-zone tourists" at that time before DNA testing could provide positive results as to exactly who's body this or that was. It was a sort of "cringy" time and place, now that I think about it, but it was sure beautiful as well.
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Banning use and transfer is sufficient for their interests and basically free.
The “best” case scenario is they create a half measure “voluntary surrender” process for a few bucks to allow folks who want a bit of cash in exchange for their paper weights to cash in.
The rest can he accomplished by bans, attrition, and occasional door kicks in response to red flags.
There is no practical need to “buy back” anything.
Banning use and transfer is sufficient for their interests and basically free.
The “best” case scenario is they create a half measure “voluntary surrender” process for a few bucks to allow folks who want a bit of cash in exchange for their paper weights to cash in.
The rest can he accomplished by bans, attrition, and occasional door kicks in response to red flags.
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This is the way… Unfortunately.
Grandfathering with no ability to transfer when the registration holder is deceased. Turn them in for destruction.
It costs the government nothing.
The government knows that firearms owners aren’t the problem. (Well, except for Nathalie Provost - to her we ARE the problem.) They know the stats. Firearms are a wedge issue in politics - they don’t come up for discussion unless the government needs to distract from a scandal or if they need a bump in the polls. Confiscation, “buy-back”, collection and destruction all cost money and there’s a risk of firearms going missing. The government really doesn’t want to deal with this headache. If they could wave a magic wand and make gun go away, they certainly would. But if they play the long game, they can accomplish all of their goals with minimal cost. And the risk is on us to store them safely and watch them rust.
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This thread didn't age well.
Pierre is a fake populist.
How is it possible not 1 single MP even mentioned mass replacement immigration
Even my CPC MP said replacement immigration was a conspiracy. Trouble is the UN actually admits it.
Good luck sheep. Everyday your voice is drowned out a bit more by immigrants
Pierre is a fake populist.
How is it possible not 1 single MP even mentioned mass replacement immigration
Even my CPC MP said replacement immigration was a conspiracy. Trouble is the UN actually admits it.
Good luck sheep. Everyday your voice is drowned out a bit more by immigrants
