The Canadian federal government continues taking a page from the Chinese Communist Handbook and banning guns left and right, while basically making criminals out of law-abiding citizens. A country where lawful gun owners are harassed and disarmed by their own government, while the criminals are the only ones with the weapons.
00:00:00.000The idea that Canadians are going to give back their guns and they're supposed to do it through Canada Post and they would be housed at Canada Post offices across the country.
00:00:08.260The Mounties recently prohibited the gun, which makes it illegal to own.
00:00:13.340This caught us completely off guard because we were quite confident because, I mean, we built this thing specifically to be non-restricted.
00:00:20.980Today, our government is finishing the job, adding a further 179 unique makes and models of assault-style weapons to the list of prohibited firearms here in Canada.
00:00:39.040Look, I don't know if it's because I'm kind of a paranoid guy, but something I've noticed over the years is that there isn't or hasn't been a single government
00:00:49.460that genuinely cares for its people and has the best interest of its people at heart, its citizens,
00:00:56.560that wants to damage, take away, diminish their ability to defend themselves.
00:01:03.980You guys south of the border will understand that.
00:01:06.520You have the God-given right enshrined in the Constitution known as the Second Amendment,
00:01:12.140the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
00:01:14.440You see here, just north of the border, we don't have that right.
00:01:20.620We have the ability to get a weapon if we, you know, satisfy the government's desire to know whether we're entitled or not to get it.
00:02:16.320A Calgary-based firearms company says the RCMP has thrown it into crisis mode.
00:02:21.920That's the head of Sterling Arms International, J.R. Cox, is holding a rifle his company makes.
00:02:28.340And Cox says the Mounties recently prohibited the gun, which makes it illegal to own.
00:02:33.740This caught us completely off guard, because we were quite confident, because, I mean, we built this thing specifically to be non-restricted.
00:02:41.980The RCMP told CBC News it received the firearm in June and completed a technical inspection.
00:02:48.200And that inspection determined that it was a variant of a prohibited firearm.
00:02:53.040The Canadian Shooting Sports Association said in a post on X that the classification means owners of that rifle can no longer use it at the range or in the field.
00:03:04.300And Canada's National Firearms Association said it was, quote,
00:03:08.100the last remaining pistol caliber carbine still eligible for competitive use in Canada.
00:03:14.280Browse online Canadian gun forums like the Canada Guns subreddit, and you'll see plenty of strong reactions over this move.
00:03:22.240With concern from gun owners about what would happen should they be using newly prohibited rifles without knowing it.
00:03:29.740Gun control advocates, meanwhile, say industry misclassifications pose a huge public safety concern, as well as inconvenience.
00:03:38.360And they're continuing to push for the process to be changed so that the RCMP vets and classifies new models before they hit the market.
00:03:47.700So the Canadian federal government continues taking a page from the Chinese Communist Handbook.
00:03:53.880Banning guns left and right while basically making criminals out of law-abiding citizens.
00:03:58.620Because they suddenly find themselves in possession of what the government just designated as an illegal firearm.
00:04:05.740You know what actually poses a huge safety concern?
00:04:08.300A country where lawful gun owners are harassed and disarmed by their own government, while the criminals are the only ones with the weapons.
00:04:16.820Especially in a country where crime has increased to the point of overwhelming police resources.
00:04:22.480Those pushing for gun control should face the reality that regardless of their sensationalism and manipulation,
00:04:29.700gun permit holders are the population who is least likely to commit an offense with a firearm.
00:04:35.200Their idea of a so-called safe society is for law-abiding citizens to be completely unarmed and at the mercy of those who don't obey the law and have all the guns, whether prohibited or not.
00:04:59.580You can imagine something like this, pointed at an officer or seen by a member of the public in a dark alley in the middle of the night.
00:05:07.740We're going to think this is a gun and we're going to treat it as if it's real.
00:05:11.180Late last month in this East Van neighborhood, police responded to reports of a man with a gun in his home.
00:05:16.980It prompted a large response and took several hours, but turns out it was one of those gun look-alike lighters.
00:05:23.340Anecdotally, I can tell you we're receiving multiple calls each week.
00:05:27.100Sergeant Steve Addison says each call can deploy a dozen officers or more, tying up valuable resources.
00:05:34.220Gun sheep layers are frankly, they're a bit of a menace.
00:05:36.920City Councilor Mike Classen is pushing a new bylaw to ban the sale of these novelty lighters in Vancouver stores.
00:05:43.360They don't serve any real purpose and they create a huge amount of risk where police come out in big numbers because they think they're real weapons and potentially somebody could get hurt.
00:05:53.960Well, the whole thing is just so silly and so immature.
00:05:56.460This firearms advocate calls the bylaw impractical and a waste of time.
00:06:03.180Are you, you know, somebody that has a gun-shaped lighter, maybe that walked in from Burnaby that gets caught with it, you know, is lighting a cigarette or something?
00:06:12.040Are they going to face a firearm charge?
00:06:14.160Are they going to just face confiscation?