Canada's Trudeau announces plan for national freeze on handguns

[mountaineer]

Canada's Trudeau announces plan for national freeze on handguns
May 30, 2022 6:18 PM EDT
Reuters

OTTAWA, May 30 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government was introducing new legislation to implement a "national freeze" on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country.

"The day this legislation goes into effect it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns in Canada," Trudeau told reporters.

If passed, the freeze on handguns is expected to come into force in the autumn. Canada's public safety minister has tabled regulatory amendments in parliament to ensure it can be implemented swiftly, according to a ministry statement. ...

The government will also require long-gun magazines to be permanently altered so they can never hold more than five rounds, and will ban the sale and transfer of large capacity magazines. ...

[mountaineer]

BREAKING: Trudeau Announces National Plan to Freeze Importing, Buying or Selling Handguns (VIDEO)
Published: May 30, 2022
  |   By Cassandra Fairbanks

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new legislation to enact a “national freeze” on importing, buying, or selling handguns.

The legislation will stop just short of banning guns altogether.

“We recognize that the vast majority of gun owners use them safely, and in accordance with the law,” Trudeau said during a press briefing on Monday. “But other than using firearms for sport shooting and for hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives.” ...  Full story at Timcast

[mountaineer]

It isn't just AR-15s. It's all guns. Coming to the USA.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino doesn't rule out a national ban on handguns: "We're always going to be prepared to look at all options, but today was a significant stride in that direction."

https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1531408745858990080

[mountaineer]

Canada's 'Incoherent' Gun Ban Includes Bolt-Action Rifles, Excludes Some Semi-Automatics
 By Kipp Jones 
May 14, 2020 at 1:54pm

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ban on certain firearms has many in the country’s gun industry scratching their heads and wondering if their government has even a basic grasp of the characteristics of firearms.

The Liberal government has outlawed so-called “assault weapons” and other guns in a sudden power grab to limit the kinds of firearms Canadians can possess.

Canada’s National Post reported on May 6 that the ban, which one activist called “incoherent,” even outlaws some bolt-action rifles that rural citizens use for hunting in order to sustain their families. ...

The National Post reported that Canadian lawmakers have bungled their gun grab in ignorant fashion by announcing completely inconsistent regulations on legal firearm ownership.

“The ban, announced late last week, does not include the Chinese-made Norinco Type 97, for example, a semi-automatic version of the standard-issued rifles used by the People’s Liberation Army of China. Nor does it include the Russian-designed SKS rifle, the precursor to the popular AK-47; the Israeli-made Tavor .223, a semi-automatic rifle developed with the aid of the Israeli Defense Force, or the Canadian-made WK180-C, which gun publication CalibreMag said ‘functions much like an AR-15,’ a firearm Justin Trudeau was at pains to highlight,” the newspaper reported. ...

More at Western Journal

[andy58-in-nh]

Convincing one's intended subjects that they must be willling to sacrifice some freedoms, lest they threaten their own peace and security is a historically effective path to power for tyrants.

[roamer_1]

“We recognize that the vast majority of gun owners use them safely, and in accordance with the law,” Trudeau said during a press briefing on Monday. “But other than using firearms for sport shooting and for hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives.” ...  Full story at Timcast

Only city folks would make such an absurd statement. From self defense to the protection of farm animals - anywhere the cops are far away... Rural folks know better.

[cato potatoe]

This should make it easier for him to lock people in their homes. 

[sneakypete]

Only city folks would make such an absurd statement. From self defense to the protection of farm animals - anywhere the cops are far away... Rural folks know better.

@roamer_1

The cities are where the heavy population numbers are,and that is one of the problems. City people live totally different lives than rural people,and they honestly don't have a clue about things like guns,other than what they hear on their nightly news,as some thug shoots up another thug.

Thugs generally don't last long or cause much trouble in rural areas,and this has nothing to do with race,as thugs come in all colors.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

The cities are where the heavy population numbers are,and that is one of the problems. City people live totally different lives than rural people,and they honestly don't have a clue about things like guns,other than what they hear on their nightly news,as some thug shoots up another thug.

Thugs generally don't last long or cause much trouble in rural areas,and this has nothing to do with race,as thugs come in all colors.

@sneakypete

As far as cities go, Let em. They want to live that way, that's their business. Leave me and mine alone.

That's where the rub will come.

[txradioguy]

And this is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

[mountaineer]

Thinking back to Trudeau's fondness for dressing up like a Nazi, it all makes sense now.

[Smokin Joe]

Not one mention of Self-defense.

Nothing like broadcasting to the Russians that your northern border is only defended by the weather.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1531385100394446849

[sneakypete]

And this is why we have the 2nd Amendment.

@txradioguy

And why Canadians should have insisted on having one of the own while this was still possible.

[Kamaji]

@txradioguy

And why Canadians should have insisted on having one of the own while this was still possible.

Same goes for the Australians. 

[sneakypete]

Not one mention of Self-defense.

Nothing like broadcasting to the Russians that your northern border is only defended by the weather.

@Smokin Joe

Not really. Everybody knows,even if they won't talk about it,that Canada's borders are really protected by the US.

[txradioguy]

@txradioguy

And why Canadians should have insisted on having one of the own while this was still possible.

Yup.  Too late to close the bard door now that the horse has escaped.

Trudeau...with only 33% of the vote...is doing his best to turn Canada into the next Socialist/Communist Utopia.

[txradioguy]

Same goes for the Australians.

No right of the citizens to keep and bear arms seems to be a recurring theme through the Commonwealth countries.

[Kamaji]

No right of the citizens to keep and bear arms seems to be a recurring theme through the Commonwealth countries.

It goes beyond the Second Amendment to the entire Bill of Rights.  The Australian constitution was intentionally modelled on the U.S. constitution, but they intentionally chose not to include a version of the Bill of Rights, mostly on the theory that the concept of responsible government would provide adequate protection for the rights of citizens, and that a written Bill of Rights would unduly hamstring the government's ability to act.

[sneakypete]

Yup.  Too late to close the bard door now that the horse has escaped.

Trudeau...with only 33% of the vote...is doing his best to turn Canada into the next Socialist/Communist Utopia.

@txradioguy

Unfortunately,politics in Canada,just like politics in America,are controlled by the urban population center,where most of the votes are located. Damn near none of these people have ever gone hunting,or even held an actual gun in their lives,so they see no problem with the goobermint confiscating all of them. After all,all they know is what they see on their teebees and read in their newspapers,both of which are controlled by billionaire One World Order leftists.

[mountaineer]

Trudeau says that his handgun freeze is not punishing legal handgun owners, and anyone who says so is pushing “misinformation and disinformation.”

https://twitter.com/Robertopedia/status/1531637140563668992

Gee, I did nazi that coming ... 

[txradioguy]

@txradioguy

Unfortunately,politics in Canada,just like politics in America,are controlled by the urban population center,where most of the votes are located. Damn near none of these people have ever gone hunting,or even held an actual gun in their lives,so they see no problem with the goobermint confiscating all of them. After all,all they know is what they see on their teebees and read in their newspapers,both of which are controlled by billionaire One World Order leftists.

@sneakypete

The end state for the One World Leftist types is for the elites like themselves and their security teams to have the guns...and poors like you and me are left helpless to defend ourselves from what they want to impose on us.

It's really gonna suck for them when they try that.

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Wingnut]

Youda thunk after his failure with Freedom convoy Canadians would have booted his butt out as PM.  But no. 

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Not really. Everybody knows,even if they won't talk about it,that Canada's borders are really protected by the US.

Okay, First Nations, here's your chance to get it all back...