Canada's Gun Grab Just Got A LOT WORSE - More Rifles Banned!
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Summary
The Canadian Federal Government is gearing up for another gun ban and this time they re targeting a semi-automatic rifle that is non-restricted, affordable, and actually functions well in this incredibly cold weather of ours. They ve been wanting to ban the SKS for years and now they re finally going after it.
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all right so it looks like they're finally doing it the canadian government has decided to go after
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the very last semi-automatic rifle that is non-restricted affordable and actually functions
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well in this incredibly cold weather of ours they're finally going after the sks and unfortunately
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it was only a matter of time they've been wanting to go after that rifle for a while now but they've
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stopped before because it's commonly used by native canadians for hunting and sustenance and
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it wasn't convenient politically for the liberals go figure so here we go again the canadian federal
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government is gearing up for another gun ban and this time they're targeting the sks they're not
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doing it with a big announcement on the five o'clock news or a straight-up public ban they're doing it
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quietly through a so-called expert panel with a full rewrite of the firearms classification system
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and constant pressure from a quebec anti-gun group that has been demanding the sks be prohibited
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for years now the sks is in some high-tech tactical rifle it's an old simple mid-century semi-auto
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with a fixed five round magazine it's been in canada for decades it's cheap it's reliable and that's
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exactly why regular hunters rural families and northern communities use it even the federal government's
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own panel must admit that indigenous hunters rely on it because it's affordable rugged it works in the
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cold and the ammo is easy to find that right there is why the sks has survived earlier bans if the
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government tried to prohibit it years ago they would have been in a direct fight with indigenous communities
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who depend on that rifle in particular for substance hunting the government knew it that's why in 2020
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when they banned over 1500 so-called assault style weapons the sks wasn't on that list later when they
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tried to slip the sks into bill c21 through a last minute amendment indigenous leaders pushed back hard
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and the government had to back off and that right there is the big red flag if a gun is really too
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dangerous then it should be too dangerous for everyone but the government tiptoes around the sks only
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because of the politics that tells you this isn't about public safety it's about optics meanwhile canada's
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own crime data tells a completely different story handguns mostly illegal ones smuggled across the border
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are the ones showing up in the majority of shootings and homicides in this country rifles like the sks make
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up a tiny fraction of gun crime here but instead of dealing with that instead of going after the illegal
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market ottawa is spending its energy trying to ban a rifle sitting peacefully in the safe of a licensed
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gun owner who passed all the background checks and that is exactly what the quebec anti-gun group has
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been demanding for years they've been pushing the government to ban the sks they call it a military
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rifle they say the government's ban is incomplete until the sks is off the market they want new sales
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banned they want a buyback program they want registration basically they want the sks gone for good
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in december 2025 an expert advisory panel released a report that suddenly treats the sks like some kind
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of modern combat gun they talk about newer versions detachable mags and tactical conversions even though
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most canadians who own an sks have the same old wooden stocked rifle that has been around since the
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mid 1900s they painted as dangerous even though canada's own crime stats say otherwise the next day the
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public safety minister announced a full classification review and he didn't just say they're looking at
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everything he specifically mentioned the sks he said they will be consulting indigenous communities about
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its future translation they want to ban it but they're trying to figure out how to do it without an
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uproar in the north with northern communities the quebec anti-gun group is celebrating this they're pushing
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harder than ever saying canada doesn't have a real ban until they get rid of the sks they're asking for a
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full ban on any new sks sales and a buyback for the ones that are already out there hundreds of firearms
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are now banned in canada but not this one basically if you're a gun owner in canada and you own rifles
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you probably got an sks they're just that common originally a soviet combat weapon thousands of
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semi-automatic sks's found their way into canada after the fall of the soviet union they were
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extremely inexpensive and you had rifles coming over from former soviet republics and you could
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buy them by the crate in 2020 the federal government banned 1500 assault weapons this gun expert suspects
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the sks didn't make the cut because of its older design and it takes longer to reload but if you're
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shot before somebody has to reload the result is going to be the same regardless so when you step back
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you see a pattern clear as day they banned thousands of rifles since 2020 they froze handgun sales they
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keep adding more guns to the prohibited list and now they're going after the last affordable semi-auto
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that regular canadians can still buy the sks isn't being targeted because it's a threat
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it's being targeted because it's accessible because it's popular because it's one of the few
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non-restricted semi-autos left in canada and once the sks goes that's basically it there aren't many
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options left for average people you'll have expensive restricted government approved rifles that are hard
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to get and hard to use and you'll have illegal guns in the hands of criminals who never cared about the law
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to begin with a comprehensive ban is possible and just within reach we are so happy and i'm feeling
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relieved that it might be done before the next election this isn't about safety it's about control
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and about slowly quietly choking out civilian firearms ownership until nothing is left in canada and that's
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why the sks matters it's not just a rifle it's a line in the sand it's the last domino in a long list
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of bands once they take this one they know they've essentially closed the book on semi-auto ownership
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