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Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons (www.cbc.ca)
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The federal government announced new gun control measures Thursday, adding several hundred models and variants to its list of banned weapons.

"These firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada," Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters.

The announcement comes one day before the 35th anniversary of the massacre at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Radio-Canada first reported the news earlier Thursday.

The new measures, which are effective immediately, list more than 300 makes and models of assault-style firearms as prohibited weapons.

There will be an amnesty period until Oct. 30 of next year for current owners to comply with the ban. The new models will be part of the government's planned buy-back program — the program still has not collected a single gun.

Edit: According to Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, the list of newly banned guns is currently unavailable and its exact date of release is undefined.

The RCMP stated that the list of banned guns would be available "very shortly". Exactly where the list of banned guns would be available to read was not disclosed.

Edit 2: List of banned guns is at this link

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

As someone who supports strong gun controls but also has an RPAL license, I shake my head at this.

They're mostly banning guns based on looks, not on actual functionality or ease of modification. Worse, they're banning specific make and model, meaning that someone else can make an identical gun and legally sell it, until the next list comes out.

It's showmanship, and it's preventing meaningful improvements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reading the list it looks like they just looked up Call of Duty and Battlefield and copied everything into alphabetical order. I wouldn't be surprised if the next round includes some fictional guns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Fun fact, the H&K G11 is prohibited by name in Canada. Only 1000 prototypes were ever produced, exclusively for military trials in Germany, and the project was mothballed in the early 90s after the Warsaw Pact dissolved.

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