It's rather odd to hear one speak of the "Canadian Gun Culture" after hearing Canadians decry the American Gun Culture for decades. I've spent 47 years in Canada and 10 in the U.S. and I'll take the freedoms I've enjoyed in Texas any day over the repressive and outright silly rules and regulations in Canada. I was there in the forefront of the battle with the likes of Kim Campbell and Alan Rock (both former Justice Ministers) who kept telling we in the nascent RFOC that they knew what was best for Canada. There are far more live historical firearms here in the U.S. than any Canadian politician could dream of in their worst, liberal nightmare.
Derek
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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh
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.
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