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Many guns seized at Coutts border blockade are used for hunting: defence (globalnews.ca)
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Remember that these are the guys who said that they were preparing to fight UN and/or Chinese troops who might invade Canada?

Now their lawyer says that they were used for hunting? Was she taking about the pipe bomb or the handguns?

I don't see a single trigger or cable lock in that photo. Was the ammunition stored in a separate locked container?

These guys should never be allowed to own a firearm again based solely on the UN/China delusion. These types of violent collective fantasies are extremely dangerous and they absolutely should be disqualifying.

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What the guns might have been used for prior to the blockade, or when not present at the blockade, is not relevant. You can commit murder just as easily with a hunting rifle as with a handgun. It's just more difficult to carry the rifle concealed.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Exactly. These could have been hunting rifles, and used for hunting 100 times. Take them to a blockade and they become weapons.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hunting rifles are much, much easier to commit murder from afar with. They're high powered, they're scoped, and they're made to kill animals much larger than a person. That doesn't mean they should be banned. I can kill someone with a pencil too, but they'll still let me bring one into the courthouse.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And yet mass murders and military and murder fetishists prefer military style weapons. Why is that? Why do those types choose guns based on how they look instead of how they work?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those are better for up close and personal. It also requires less training and practice.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Which is why the government is banning then.