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Stinky The Clown

(68,952 posts) Tue May 31, 2022, 12:24 PM May 2022

Canada is doing it

Banning gunz.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102084025/canada-bill-freeze-handgun-sales-imports

Not certain of the details but this sounds like it is similar to what Australia did.

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Canada is doing it (Original Post) Stinky The Clown May 2022 OP

Canada doesn't have the Constitutional restrictions we do. brooklynite May 2022 #1

Maybe they don't have the gun deniers we do in America? Or maybe walkingman May 2022 #2

Gotta love our neighbors to the south! bif May 2022 #3

Now the gunners will have to learn all of their abtruse nomenclature in French. MineralMan May 2022 #4

My cousin in Ontario is going to go ape shit. He lost his mind when Trudeau was elected and started Floyd R. Turbo May 2022 #5

brooklynite

(96,882 posts)

1. Canada doesn't have the Constitutional restrictions we do.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2022, 12:25 PM

May 2022

walkingman

(10,865 posts)

2. Maybe they don't have the gun deniers we do in America? Or maybe

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #1)

Tue May 31, 2022, 01:58 PM

May 2022

they aren't as anti-government and feel they need to be able to overthrow the government if they choose to?

bif

(27,000 posts)

3. Gotta love our neighbors to the south!

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2022, 02:04 PM

May 2022

MineralMan

(151,269 posts)

4. Now the gunners will have to learn all of their abtruse nomenclature in French.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2022, 02:08 PM

May 2022

Floyd R. Turbo

(32,913 posts)

5. My cousin in Ontario is going to go ape shit. He lost his mind when Trudeau was elected and started

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2022, 03:05 PM

May 2022

buying guns. His arsenal would be the envy of any gun lover south of the 49th parallel. He has a substantial retirement income thanks to 40 years with one of the largest oil companies in the world. To his wife’s chagrin, every month when his cheque hits his account he buys another firearm.

He and I haven’t spoken in more than a year but his wife stays in touch with mine.

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