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Actually if you look up the British North America Act there was a clause about Protection of Personal Firearms Rights. So until PET constitutionalized Canada there was protection.
Canadian Laws have gotten stupider and stupider since 1979. Machine Guns where restricted weapons like handguns then, no one was causing crimes with them, but after all the US had the 68 gun control act with no more foreign machine gun imports, so Canada HAD to do something. (like the '35 act that followed the US NFA, which required registration of handguns and machine guns in Canada and made them restricted weapons).
Here in Virigina, I can open carry weapons, I don't as I prefer to conceal handguns. Now why you may ask? Well if I carry a weapon, its for defense, something I am constitutionally allowed to do, and if I advertise by open carry, then my chances are rather limited.
I can own Machine Guns in this state, along with suppressors and standard capacity magazines. This state is also a "shall issue" concealed carry state - like Fl is (I now work out of Va for the most part).
Interestingly enough here in the US, the 2nd Amendment technically only covers Military Style weapons for protection of ownership rights.
Thus in theory I should be able to buy a M4A1, but I cannot due to the 86 Machine Gun Ban - which froze transferable machine guns.
Interestingly enough there is ONLY one case of a Legal MachineGun being used for unlawful purposes, and that was by a POLICE OFFICER (shot his wife).
I have several weapons, as does my wife. All but one are semi-automatic weapons. Weapons that some here feel are no use for the public.
I can shoot groups smaller than .5" at 100m with my SR-25, and I shoot it in competitions and use it for hunting.
Its not just gun control that people want, when they want to take away weapons, it all about control of the population. Look to the genocides of the past, the populations where unarmed, and while it may have started out as "its for the children" or "if it saves only one life" however in the end an unarmed population is a police state, and that my friends is not where you want to be.
Too many Canadians have given their lives (including friends of many of us) so that Canada can be free and an example to the world, do not allow it to become what it should not be.
Canadian Laws have gotten stupider and stupider since 1979. Machine Guns where restricted weapons like handguns then, no one was causing crimes with them, but after all the US had the 68 gun control act with no more foreign machine gun imports, so Canada HAD to do something. (like the '35 act that followed the US NFA, which required registration of handguns and machine guns in Canada and made them restricted weapons).
Here in Virigina, I can open carry weapons, I don't as I prefer to conceal handguns. Now why you may ask? Well if I carry a weapon, its for defense, something I am constitutionally allowed to do, and if I advertise by open carry, then my chances are rather limited.
I can own Machine Guns in this state, along with suppressors and standard capacity magazines. This state is also a "shall issue" concealed carry state - like Fl is (I now work out of Va for the most part).
Interestingly enough here in the US, the 2nd Amendment technically only covers Military Style weapons for protection of ownership rights.
Thus in theory I should be able to buy a M4A1, but I cannot due to the 86 Machine Gun Ban - which froze transferable machine guns.
Interestingly enough there is ONLY one case of a Legal MachineGun being used for unlawful purposes, and that was by a POLICE OFFICER (shot his wife).
I have several weapons, as does my wife. All but one are semi-automatic weapons. Weapons that some here feel are no use for the public.
I can shoot groups smaller than .5" at 100m with my SR-25, and I shoot it in competitions and use it for hunting.
Its not just gun control that people want, when they want to take away weapons, it all about control of the population. Look to the genocides of the past, the populations where unarmed, and while it may have started out as "its for the children" or "if it saves only one life" however in the end an unarmed population is a police state, and that my friends is not where you want to be.
Too many Canadians have given their lives (including friends of many of us) so that Canada can be free and an example to the world, do not allow it to become what it should not be.
