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Gun-control group wants Ottawa to ban SKS as assault-style firearm buyback ramps up
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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Isn't it one of the most common rifles hunters use?
Yep. It's not the best hunting rifle, but it is an affordable one.
Not for hunting, it's just a popular plinking rifle with cheap ammo. But there are a fuckton of them out there, this is a stupid bullshit ask. I've never heard of a legally owned SKS used in any sort of violent crime in Canada.
That's because none of this is actually about the type of gun or its uses.
It's about people not wanting to be shot. In the US their complete lack of safety training and licensing requirements mean every moron can own guns.
Canada has better requirements, resulting in fewer problems with legal gun owners and legal guns.
That being said all the "they're coming for our guns" crap is not helping. Canadian gun owners and associations should be driving the narrative that Canada has sound regulations, that Canadian gun owners are safe, and that Canadian police are effectively tackling illegal guns and illegal guns owners (last one is doubtful based on my encounters).
We can't keep our guns without showing Canadians that they will remain safe if we keep them. We don't have a charter right to firearms, so we need to dissociate from the American talking points and switch to ones that show WHY we're already so much better than the worst of American gun owners.
So a guy did not shoot off his AR15 in the air in Vaughan this summer and a 27 year old in Hamilton is not in critical condition from shooting himself?
Do we need to talk about police gun range accidents in Canada?
My father was a competitive trap shooter. I grew up at gun clubs, and accidents, especially by drunk hunters, were extremely common. These clubs expelled nutjobs every month.
The idea that brains grow by crossing a fake line on a map is hilarious. Guns attract paranoid people in fear of everything.
It's still just a request or a question when you're not on the car lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre
I suppose this doesn't count? Or you're not aware of it somehow?
You apparently don't know what an SKS is.
How did i know that would be your argument? Does it fire bullets?
Gun nuts think the gun type matters.