PJ The Belt - June 30, 2026


Canada's DISARMING its Citizens in 2026!!

Topics
SKS firearm controversy
Mentioned
Se Souviens Bill C-63 Wilson
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8 minutes

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1,232

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59

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The Canadian federal government is gearing up for another gun ban, and this time they re targeting the SKS. They re not doing it with a big announcement on the 5 o'clock news or a straight-up public ban, they re doing it quietly through a so-called expert panel with a full rewrite of the firearms classification system and constant pressure from a Quebec anti-gun group that has been demanding the rifle be banned for years.

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00:00:00.000 With respect to arms control and firearm decisions around specifics,
00:00:07.200 we are in the process of moving towards an expert-led system, specifically by the RCMP.
00:00:15.200 Pauli Se Souviens, the gun rights group founded by survivors of the École Polytechnique massacre,
00:00:21.020 is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt sales of the SKS and to ultimately make it a prohibited weapon.
00:00:28.440 Here we go again.
00:00:30.000 The Canadian federal government is gearing up for another gun ban, and this time they're targeting the SKS.
00:00:36.660 They're not doing it with a big announcement on the 5 o'clock news or a straight-up public ban.
00:00:41.840 They're doing it quietly through a so-called expert panel with a full rewrite of the firearms classification system
00:00:49.220 and constant pressure from a Quebec anti-gun group that has been demanding the SKS be prohibited for years now.
00:00:56.940 The SKS isn't some high-tech, tactical rifle.
00:01:00.920 It's an old, simple, mid-century semi-auto with a fixed five-round magazine.
00:01:06.180 It's been in Canada for decades. It's cheap. It's reliable.
00:01:10.140 And that's exactly why regular hunters, rural families, and northern communities use it.
00:01:15.280 A prominent gun control group is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt sales of the type of gun
00:01:21.160 that was used in the recent deadly shooting in Montreal's Côte d'Ineges neighbourhood.
00:01:26.100 a police officer a civilian and the suspect all died in the shooting and radio canada has
00:01:31.940 confirmed with police sources the gun used by the suspect was a russian-made semi-automatic sks
00:01:38.980 rifle that firearm is currently unrestricted and legally available for purchase in canada
00:01:45.300 experts estimate there are hundreds of thousands in circulation across the country basically if
00:01:51.060 If you're a gun owner in Canada and you own rifles, you've probably got an SKS.
00:01:55.740 The SKS is most commonly used by Indigenous Canadians for hunting.
00:02:00.220 And the reason for that, it is a fairly inexpensive firearm.
00:02:04.120 Even the federal government's own panel must admit that Indigenous hunters rely on it because it's affordable, rugged, it works in the cold, and the ammo is easy to find.
00:02:16.140 That right there is why the SKS has survived earlier bans.
00:02:20.040 If the government tried to prohibit it years ago, they would have been in a direct fight with indigenous communities who depend on that rifle in particular for sustenance hunting.
00:02:31.100 The government knew it. That's why in 2020, when they banned over 1,500 so-called assault-style weapons, the SKS wasn't on that list.
00:02:40.640 Later, when they tried to slip the SKS into Bill C-21 through a last-minute amendment, indigenous leaders pushed back hard.
00:02:48.880 and the government had to back off and that right there is the big red flag if a gun is really too
00:02:55.560 dangerous then it should be too dangerous for everyone but the government tiptoes around the
00:03:01.460 sks only because of the politics that tells you this isn't about public safety it's about optics
00:03:08.220 gun control experts say the qualities that make the sks so popular among hunters also make it
00:03:14.460 popular among murderers. 0.54
00:03:16.960 It's the weapon that's most used in Canada in mass shootings
00:03:22.060 and in shootings and murders of police officers in recent years.
00:03:27.820 Police Souviens, the gun rights group founded by survivors
00:03:31.220 of the École Polytechnique massacre, is calling on Ottawa
00:03:34.460 to immediately halt sales of the SKS and to ultimately make it
00:03:38.860 a prohibited weapon.
00:03:40.360 Gun owners groups say doing that won't prevent incidents
00:03:43.760 like the one in Cote d'Aenege.
00:03:45.380 You would have to believe that if he couldn't buy that firearm,
00:03:49.260 but it could only buy every other firearm,
00:03:51.520 that this wouldn't have happened.
00:03:52.780 And that's completely false.
00:03:54.680 Wilson says focusing on mental health
00:03:56.880 and the root causes of such shootings
00:03:58.960 would be much more effective.
00:04:00.480 Meanwhile, Canada's own crime data
00:04:03.080 tells a completely different story.
00:04:06.020 Handguns, mostly illegal ones smuggled across the border,
00:04:10.300 are the ones showing up in the majority 0.99
00:04:12.800 shootings and homicides in this country rifles like the sks make up a tiny fraction of gun crime 0.89
00:04:19.280 here but instead of dealing with that instead of going after the illegal market ottawa is spending 0.78
00:04:25.360 its energy trying to ban a rifle sitting peacefully in the safe of a licensed gun owner
00:04:30.240 who passed all the background checks and that is exactly what the quebec anti-gun group has been
00:04:35.680 demanding for years they've been pushing the government to ban the sks they call it a military
00:04:43.280 rifle they say the government's ban is incomplete until the sks is off the market they want new
00:04:50.640 sales banned they want a buyback program they want registration basically they want the sks gone
00:04:57.120 for good in december 2025 an expert advisory panel released a report that suddenly treats the sks
00:05:04.640 like some kind of modern combat gun they talk about newer versions detachable mags and tactical
00:05:12.160 conversions even though most canadians who own an sks have the same old wooden stocked rifle
00:05:20.080 that has been around since the mid 1900s they painted as dangerous even though canada's own
00:05:25.120 crime stats say otherwise the next day the public safety minister announced a full classification
00:05:31.440 review. And he didn't just say they're looking at everything. He specifically mentioned DSKS.
00:05:38.940 He said they will be consulting indigenous communities about its future. Translation,
00:05:45.460 they want to ban it, but they're trying to figure out how to do it without an uproar in the north
00:05:51.660 with northern communities. The Quebec anti-gun group is celebrating this. They're pushing harder
00:05:57.800 than ever saying Canada doesn't have a real ban until they get rid of the SKS. They're asking for 0.95
00:06:04.360 a full ban on any new SKS sales and a buyback for the ones that are already out there.
00:06:11.420 Hundreds of firearms are now banned in Canada but not this one. Basically if you're a gun owner in
00:06:18.000 Canada and you own rifles you probably got an SKS. They're just that common. Originally a Soviet
00:06:23.800 combat weapon thousands of semi-automatic SKS's found their way into Canada after the fall of
00:06:29.520 the Soviet Union. They were extremely inexpensive and you had rifles coming over from former Soviet
00:06:36.480 republics and you could buy them by the crate. In 2020 the federal government banned 1,500 assault
00:06:42.220 weapons. This gun expert suspects the SKS didn't make the cut because of its older design and it
00:06:48.160 takes longer to reload. But if you're shot before somebody has to reload the result is going to
00:06:53.780 be the same regardless. So when you step back, you see a pattern clear as day. They banned
00:06:59.480 thousands of rifles since 2020. They froze handgun sales. They keep adding more guns to the prohibited
00:07:06.820 list. And now they're going after the last affordable semi-auto that regular Canadians
00:07:11.940 can still buy. The SKS isn't being targeted because it's a threat. It's being targeted
00:07:17.600 because it's accessible, because it's popular, because it's one of the few non-restricted
00:07:23.040 semi-autos left in Canada. And once the SKS goes, that's basically it. There aren't many options
00:07:29.640 left for average people. You'll have expensive, restricted, government-approved rifles that are
00:07:35.600 hard to get and hard to use. And you'll have illegal guns in the hands of criminals who never
00:07:41.760 cared about the law to begin with. A comprehensive ban is possible and just within reach. We are so
00:07:52.500 happy and i'm feeling relieved that it might be done before the next election this isn't about
00:08:01.300 safety it's about control and about slowly quietly choking out civilian firearms ownership
00:08:08.020 until nothing is left in canada