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Originally Posted by Ralph Volkert
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But in Canada where we have a plethora of laws in the way we store and handle firearms and can legaly collect/own most firearms, deactivated automatic weapons, (not even considered a firearm) it is extremely difficult to find one let alone in a reasonable condition. And goodness gracious what if it was never a fire arm but looked like one!
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I think that says more about the Canadian gun culture that prefers its guns live and unneutered. There are few deactivated guns because few owners want to defile a good one. Why turn a $$$$ gun into a $$$ deact unless you absolutely have no other choice to own or keep it?
The rules for deactivation in Canada are more about controlling the existing "inventory" of privately owned firearms. Nothing new into the country that isn't already known or registered. The feds must have winced and cringed when the containers of welded and nipped whatevers arrived two decades ago. They knew full well that criminally minded boys would be boys and de-deactivate whatever they could, and use them illegally. Let's not forget the FLQ Crisis was part of the formative experiences of many politicians and police who were in power when the last batch of laws were written. And then the Mohawk Warriors burst on the scene. They raised the national blood pressure with mostly legal guns too.