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 With respect to arms control and firearm decisions around specifics,
00:00:07 we are in the process of moving towards an expert-led system, specifically by the RCMP.
00:00:15 Pauli Se Souviens, the gun rights group founded by survivors of the École Polytechnique massacre,
00:00:21 is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt sales of the SKS and to ultimately make it a prohibited weapon.
00:00:28 Here we go again.
00:00:30 The Canadian federal government is gearing up for another gun ban, and this time they're targeting the SKS.
00:00:36 They're not doing it with a big announcement on the 5 o'clock news or a straight-up public ban.
00:00:41 They're doing it quietly through a so-called expert panel with a full rewrite of the firearms classification system
00:00:49 and constant pressure from a Quebec anti-gun group that has been demanding the SKS be prohibited for years now.
00:00:56 The SKS isn't some high-tech, tactical rifle.
00:01:00 It's an old, simple, mid-century semi-auto with a fixed five-round magazine.
00:01:06 It's been in Canada for decades. It's cheap. It's reliable.
00:01:10 And that's exactly why regular hunters, rural families, and northern communities use it.
00:01:15 A prominent gun control group is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt sales of the type of gun
00:01:21 that was used in the recent deadly shooting in Montreal's CĂ´te d'Ineges neighbourhood.
00:01:26 a police officer a civilian and the suspect all died in the shooting and radio canada has
00:01:31 confirmed with police sources the gun used by the suspect was a russian-made semi-automatic sks
00:01:38 rifle that firearm is currently unrestricted and legally available for purchase in canada
00:01:45 experts estimate there are hundreds of thousands in circulation across the country basically if
00:01:51 If you're a gun owner in Canada and you own rifles, you've probably got an SKS.
00:01:55 The SKS is most commonly used by Indigenous Canadians for hunting.
00:02:00 And the reason for that, it is a fairly inexpensive firearm.
00:02:04 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 That right there is why the SKS has survived earlier bans.
00:02:20 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 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 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 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 dangerous then it should be too dangerous for everyone but the government tiptoes around the
00:03:01 sks only because of the politics that tells you this isn't about public safety it's about optics
00:03:08 gun control experts say the qualities that make the sks so popular among hunters also make it
00:03:14 popular among murderers. 0.54
00:03:16 It's the weapon that's most used in Canada in mass shootings
00:03:22 and in shootings and murders of police officers in recent years.
00:03:27 Police Souviens, the gun rights group founded by survivors
00:03:31 of the École Polytechnique massacre, is calling on Ottawa
00:03:34 to immediately halt sales of the SKS and to ultimately make it
00:03:38 a prohibited weapon.
00:03:40 Gun owners groups say doing that won't prevent incidents
00:03:43 like the one in Cote d'Aenege.
00:03:45 You would have to believe that if he couldn't buy that firearm,
00:03:49 but it could only buy every other firearm,
00:03:51 that this wouldn't have happened.
00:03:52 And that's completely false.
00:03:54 Wilson says focusing on mental health
00:03:56 and the root causes of such shootings
00:03:58 would be much more effective.
00:04:00 Meanwhile, Canada's own crime data
00:04:03 tells a completely different story.
00:04:06 Handguns, mostly illegal ones smuggled across the border,
00:04:10 are the ones showing up in the majority 0.99
00:04:12 shootings and homicides in this country rifles like the sks make up a tiny fraction of gun crime 0.89
00:04:19 here but instead of dealing with that instead of going after the illegal market ottawa is spending 0.78
00:04:25 its energy trying to ban a rifle sitting peacefully in the safe of a licensed gun owner
00:04:30 who passed all the background checks and that is exactly what the quebec anti-gun group has been
00:04:35 demanding for years they've been pushing the government to ban the sks they call it a military
00:04:43 rifle they say the government's ban is incomplete until the sks is off the market they want new
00:04:50 sales banned they want a buyback program they want registration basically they want the sks gone
00:04:57 for good in december 2025 an expert advisory panel released a report that suddenly treats the sks
00:05:04 like some kind of modern combat gun they talk about newer versions detachable mags and tactical
00:05:12 conversions even though most canadians who own an sks have the same old wooden stocked rifle
00:05:20 that has been around since the mid 1900s they painted as dangerous even though canada's own
00:05:25 crime stats say otherwise the next day the public safety minister announced a full classification
00:05:31 review. And he didn't just say they're looking at everything. He specifically mentioned DSKS.
00:05:38 He said they will be consulting indigenous communities about its future. Translation,
00:05:45 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 with northern communities. The Quebec anti-gun group is celebrating this. They're pushing harder
00:05:57 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 a full ban on any new SKS sales and a buyback for the ones that are already out there.
00:06:11 Hundreds of firearms are now banned in Canada but not this one. Basically if you're a gun owner in
00:06:18 Canada and you own rifles you probably got an SKS. They're just that common. Originally a Soviet
00:06:23 combat weapon thousands of semi-automatic SKS's found their way into Canada after the fall of
00:06:29 the Soviet Union. They were extremely inexpensive and you had rifles coming over from former Soviet
00:06:36 republics and you could buy them by the crate. In 2020 the federal government banned 1,500 assault
00:06:42 weapons. This gun expert suspects the SKS didn't make the cut because of its older design and it
00:06:48 takes longer to reload. But if you're shot before somebody has to reload the result is going to
00:06:53 be the same regardless. So when you step back, you see a pattern clear as day. They banned
00:06:59 thousands of rifles since 2020. They froze handgun sales. They keep adding more guns to the prohibited
00:07:06 list. And now they're going after the last affordable semi-auto that regular Canadians
00:07:11 can still buy. The SKS isn't being targeted because it's a threat. It's being targeted
00:07:17 because it's accessible, because it's popular, because it's one of the few non-restricted
00:07:23 semi-autos left in Canada. And once the SKS goes, that's basically it. There aren't many options
00:07:29 left for average people. You'll have expensive, restricted, government-approved rifles that are
00:07:35 hard to get and hard to use. And you'll have illegal guns in the hands of criminals who never
00:07:41 cared about the law to begin with. A comprehensive ban is possible and just within reach. We are so
00:07:52 happy and i'm feeling relieved that it might be done before the next election this isn't about
00:08:01 safety it's about control and about slowly quietly choking out civilian firearms ownership
00:08:08 until nothing is left in canada