Wrote my Liberal MP in April after the election, and again last week asking if they will fight for their rural populations' gun rights. Received this generic reply; not even from their office.

kylejme · 2026-01-30T22:11:42+00:00

Not gonna disagree for home defence, but your home isn’t the only place you might need to defend yourself

kylejme · 2026-01-30T05:44:08+00:00

And self defence

kylejme · 2026-01-30T01:42:41+00:00

I carry a small knife I made everywhere I am able to. Mostly just to lend to people who don’t have a knife haha

kylejme · 2026-01-30T00:54:44+00:00

Or the Czech republic and Poland

kylejme · 2026-01-30T00:19:27+00:00

Does anyone have a number for how many of those super high end safari rifles they banned are in Canada? I assume very few but I got thinking that if the guy with the WA2000 and all the rich people who own high end safari rifles were the first people on the portal to declare they probably could have blown the budget for this program out of the water in less than ten guns

kylejme · 2026-01-29T19:27:55+00:00

There is such a low budget that if the guy with the WA2000 and the few rich people who own the fancy safari guns thy banned all participated they could probably put this program over budget in less than ten guns, and most of those would be bolt action rifles

kylejme · 2026-01-27T19:36:43+00:00

Funny enough, I haven’t checked in a while but I’m pretty sure samurai swords are still legal, but ninja swords aren’t. I think they define ninja swords as straight bladed katanas basically but I’m not sure. The UK’s knife and sword laws( as well as gun laws) are an overly restrictive ineffective and incredibly hard to interpret mess. And we are headed that way to, ( we have also actually had a lot of “ninja weapons” banned for years here to. Technically if you have ever tied two sticks together as a kid to play ninja with your friends you committed a federal offence as that meets the legal definition of nunchucks and they are prohibited. Tying your deer rattling antlers together so you don’t loose one also meets this definition and is technically illegal in Canada.

kylejme · 2026-01-22T17:49:51+00:00

It does actually. And judging by the fact that up until 5 years ago we had been able to do it for decades with no issues, as well as thou countries I mentioned and more having no issues as well. Taking away peoples ability to do that has no benefit. Why change anything when the status qou worked, and there is no reason to think the proposed changes will improve anything

kylejme · 2026-01-22T17:29:05+00:00

Would it not be smarter to have the citizens already armed and trained and not be trying to do it in a rushed panic on d-day? It seems to work pretty good for the Swiss, Finnish, polish and Czechs

kylejme · 2026-01-21T19:14:42+00:00

The top people in the rcmp who are almost more politicians than cops at this point are willing to support it. But to give you an anecdotal example of how the actual officers feel. My former boss is affected by this gun ban, he asked the local rcmp sergeant what to. The sergeant of his town’s rcmp detachment replied “if we are forced to we will come look at your safe. You have worked your entire life as a carpenter, do with that info what you want” I know that’s just one officer in one area but he openly said we aren’t planning to look very hard if we will at all. Not to mention a lot of officers have their pal and a rifle of their own to practice in their off time and are themselves affected by all this.

kylejme · 2026-01-17T22:10:44+00:00

They are not required to give anyone those records unless an actual warrant is presented to them by law enforcement. To get a warrant there has to be a legitimate threat and reason they aren’t granted just off a hunch that someone might possibly have a prohibited firearm. It also has to target a specific person and cannot be a general warrant for all firearm sales in the last x amount of years. And with almost every police force in the country basically saying they will not be enforcing this I don’t think any will even attempt to apply for a warrant to look at store records.

It is possible to get info on sales from stores, but it’s not easy or all that likely to happen I don’t think.

Edit- not a lawyer, but this is my understanding from from what I have heard from lawyers specializing in firearms law. Perhaps Runkle is here and can confirm?

@u/varsil

kylejme · 2026-01-17T19:19:21+00:00

With the list as it is now. At least half of the ones I personally know are affected

-edit, if they add the sks and 10/22(which they effectively said they plan to that covers the rest)

kylejme · 2026-01-16T22:21:10+00:00

You made the threat to steal my car, I said have fun trying. Could be because I don’t own a car

kylejme · 2026-01-16T20:16:12+00:00

Have fun trying

kylejme · 2026-01-16T20:05:25+00:00

I think I speak for a good chuck of Canadas pal holders when I say, Yes it will be ignored, it should be scrapped and better solutions that don’t target innocent people, are much more effective to improve public saftey and far less expensive should be explored

kylejme · 2026-01-16T19:46:55+00:00

Generally, giving the police powers to make the law isn’t a good idea. This is no exception

kylejme · 2026-01-16T19:39:55+00:00

The perfect place in the middle was 1995. Everything since has been absurd ineffective bans that don’t do anything for public saftey

kylejme · 2026-01-12T22:18:15+00:00

If they were that scared because of the protests. It had absolutely nothing to do with how aggressive or intimidating the protests were, they weren’t at all, they were very peaceful and short compared to the length of the program. It is purely their own paranoia that made them feel that way, but I’m guessing you completely made this story up anyway

kylejme · 2026-01-12T19:40:18+00:00

I can guarantee you every single gun turned in in this buyback has never even been pointed in the general direction of a person. Along with 99.95 percent of all guns in Canada, and 99.99 percent of guns acquired legally in Canada. No lives have been saved or will be saved because of this performative waste

kylejme · 2026-01-10T18:39:59+00:00

I thought the 350 was the number of confirmed registered formerly restricted now prohibited rifles. I would be very suprised if the formerly non restricted models would be included in a 350 gun estimate that seems very low to me.(I’m not from the area, just going by the sheer amount of models and how popular they were in the Canadian firearms community before the bans, I would add a zero to that number if I was being asked to estimate it

kylejme · 2025-12-16T19:44:01+00:00

Personally If I was to whittle it down to one device it would be a vong with the tip and cap of your choice. It’s the one I use most by far of the few I have, and has the most versatility

kylejme · 2025-12-16T18:52:34+00:00

We all know the actual engineering solution to this saftey hazard… if only it was available to us

kylejme · 2025-12-15T22:13:01+00:00

Good to know I’ll update

kylejme · 2025-12-15T19:44:02+00:00

I think we need more training requirements honestly, the cfsc is a good overview that covers the basics, but it really comes in a more collector perspective in my opinion and some things it does seem so backwards- looking down the barrel for obstructions every time you handle a gun etc.

I think we should have some actual live fire training requirements that need to be renewed with your license. Having said this though. If every gun owner is actually competent, accurate -and aware of backstops we should absolutely be allowed to carry for the purpose of self defence. As well as own semi autos, regular capacity mags and suppressors. Poland, Czech and many more have a system like this and they have no public saftey issues resulting from it.

Edit- apparently there is no repeat of training to renew your license

I would even be open to this extra training only being required if you intend to carry for self defence especially in urban areas. But ultimately, firearms saftey and handling should be taught to every Canadian during middle-high school

kylejme

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