Going back to my post on Canuckistan’s gun confiscation plan, there’s this headline:
Alberta and Saskatchewan Have a Message for
Ottawa on Gun Confiscation: GFY
Of course, if said two entities were to become U.S. States #51 and #52, this would be less of an issue… just sayin’.
Reader Clarence R. offers a mild correction to my earlier rant about gun confiscation in Canuckistan:
Kim:
In Canada not all guns are registered, only (legally owned) restricted and prohibited firearms are in the RCMP database and cannot be sold without notifying the RCMP. Hunting rifles and shotguns are non-restricted and therefore not registered to the owner and can be sold to other PAL holders without notifying the RCMP.
In 2022 the govt created a list of 2,500 rifle models that were previously unrestricted, declared them prohibited and now wants owners to self report that they possess them so they can be confiscated. Those who report first may receive financial compensation if the money doesn’t run out first.
I have an M1 Carbine which was restricted when I purchased it because one bank robber in Montreal in the ’60s had the habit of concealing a paratrooper M1 under his parka. As of 2022 it is a prohibited weapon, I can’t sell it or take it to a gun range.
I chose to self report because I knew that the RCMP database listed my M1. If the Liberals were to win the next provincial election and wanted to “take guns off the streets” it would be a simple matter of comparing two datasets, the restricted firearm database and the list of self reported firearms. My name would pop up and I would be guilty of a firearms-related crime. At this point the police would have cause to arrest me and confiscate all my guns after which the govt would show all my rifles and pistols (I think I have [lots more]) spread out on some tables and falsely claim the streets were safer. So I made the decision to give up one low powered gun in order to not risk losing all my guns.
When I went to the govt website and punched in my RPAL (Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licence) it immediately brought up my M1 complete with serial number and a buy-back value of $650Cdn.
Needless to say I didn’t volunteer any information about any other guns in my possession that may or may not be on the list of “assault style rifles”. The general consensus at the local gun shop counter is that no one is reporting “assault style rifles” that the RCMP doesn’t know about.
Thankee for the clarification [sic]. (Yeah, I took out the actual number of guns he owns because Good Reasons, given the Canucki gummint’s penchant for spying on their citizens subjects.
Just the very fact of the RPAL’s existence sets my teeth on edge.
As for my U.S. Readers: never forget that the above rigmarole is precisely what our local Socialists want to do to us… or worse.
So… it looks very much as though the Canucki government wants to go on a gun-confiscation expedition:
Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.
“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”
And the response:
“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection.”
Remind me again how they know where to do these collections confiscations, and from whom?
Oh yeah, that’s right: guns and gun owners are “registered” up there in the Great White Empty Space.
So the next time some Leftoid asswipe suggests registering guns and gun owners here in the U.S., please remember the above proposed action by the Canucki gummint.
Afterthought: Canuckis being the milder version of the North American tribe, I’m kinda curious to see to what degree they’ll resist this foul confiscation drive. I’m also very curious to see how many Mounties (active or retired) will actually show up to perform it.
…and yet the National Firearms Act (NFA) is still with us, becoming evermore ridiculous, evermore illogical, and always (still) un-Constitutional.
Here’s the best history of the disgusting thing I’ve ever seen which — as with so many of the bullshit laws and bureaucracies that still bedevil us to this very day — stemmed from the diseased liberal New York mind of the sainted Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And the Act’s very vagueness of terminology makes it almost unique among our forest of laws in its ability to turn any gun owner into an instant felon without him knowing about it until the AT-fucking-F agency thugs drag him away in chains. And said feature alone should make it legal poison, except that the Department of (alleged) Justice is too busy fucking around with irrelevancies like the Epstein files.
Kill the NFA. Kill it stone dead, and then abolish the ATF in toto, because the government has no business in the alcohol, tobacco and (especially) the firearms business. I might make a teeny exception for the oft-elided “E” — explosives — part of the agency’s nomenclature, but those first three initials? X marks the spot in the back of the neck, for each of them.
Otherwise? Line ’em up.
Gotta say that I never thought I’d see the day when Virginia turned into Illinois:
A bill banning AR-15s and other popular semiautomatic rifles, as well as magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition, cleared the Virginia legislature Monday and is headed to Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D) desk.
The legislation, SB 749, states that “importing, selling, purchasing, or transferring a prohibited firearm would be a Class 1 misdemeanor,” Ammoland News noted.
It also “restricts the sale or transfer of certain large-capacity magazines defined in the statute.”
WRIC reported that SB 749 also bans a number of semiautomatic shotguns and certain semiautomatic, centerfire pistols.
SB 749 takes effect July 1, 2026.
So to sum up: the party of Thomas Jefferson has passed an un-Constitutional gun control law in Jefferson’s home state.
Note that this does not effect existing owners of said Eeeevil Implements Of Death:
If you have an assault rifle, you can keep it. If you have an assault pistol, if you have one of these pistols with a silencer on it and a pistol grip in the front. A really big, big pistol…you want to have one with a telescope on it or lasers or whatever else you want, that’s okay. You just can’t buy a new one and you can’t sell it to anybody. If you want to have a magazine with more than 15 bullets, you can keep that, too. You just can’t buy a new one. — Virginia Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell
…but I bet that whatever the numbers of those AR owners are at present, there are going to be quite a few more before July 1, 2026.
And in the future, there’s going to be some serious traffic congestion every time there’s a gun show in West Virginia or North Carolina.
Hey, it’s the Will Of The People, right? After all, Virginians voted this bunch of scumbags into office.
Other gun-friendly states need to take note, especially the ones recently infested with refugees from California, Illinois and New York.
Normally, I say something very rude at this point, but I’m off to the range. I think I’ll shoot off some “high-capacity” mags with my AR-15, just for the hell of it.
As y’all know, it was with considerable misgivings that I got the poodleshooter; but as more and more people seem to want to ban them, I’m kinda glad that I did. if for no other reason than:
Ammo’s cheap, too.
…or trying to do that, anyway:
Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced Friday their re-introduction of legislation to limit the online sale of ammunition.
A press release from Mfume’s office indicates the bill, called the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act, “would require federally licensed ammunition dealers to confirm the identity of individuals who arrange to purchase ammunition over the internet by verifying a photo I.D. in person.”
The legislation would “also require ammunition vendors to report any sales of more than 1,000 rounds within five consecutive days to the U.S. Attorney General, if the person purchasing ammunition is not a licensed dealer.”
At least they’re being honest, for once, about their goal: “Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act” and not some “Protect Citizens From Violence” and such twaddle.
And they trot out the tired old arguments about “mass shootings” and all the other bogeymen, not one of which have stopped, or would / could stop any such Bad Things from happening in the future.
Which of course just makes me want to post a few links:
Ammo.com, Ammunition Depot, Bulk Ammo, Lucky Gunner, etc… you have your own favorites, no doubt.