Replica Enfield 303 rifles

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Mike Timoshyk

If the Senate does not follow through with the recommendations of the voted in members of parliment it may well sound the death nell for an appointed Senate.

My $.02 worth

cheers

Mike Timoshyk

Just as well, Myke.... methinks we're well overdue for an elected senate anyway.

To support subsequent posters, no, even if this goes through it won't affect "replica" guns. It WILL make it easier to own/transfer/deactivate live long guns though. Deactivation regs will remain the same as they always have though, ie barrel blind-pinned to the receiver and a mechanism which can't be replaced by a working one.

Incidentally, the magazine restrictions won't be changed either, even if this does pass.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Incidentally, the magazine restrictions won't be changed either, even if this does pass.

Baby steps Geoff, baby steps. We gun owners are not done asking for fixes yet.

Many MPs have now figured out that in a tight race, they can't afford to have 20% of their riding (gun owners) solidly against them. They had to break party ranks on this vote, especially with the PCs doing an ad campaign in rural ridings where non-conservative MPS sit and the conservatives lost by only 5% or less. Ignatieff finally offerred some minor concessions to his party's view of the registry, but they are way too little and way too late.

It wasn't that long ago that the Liberal (and NDP and Green) parties were calling for a complete ban on handguns and all semi automatic rifles. It is not even in the Liberal platform today, at least not in print.

There are a lot of things that have to be fixed yet before gun owners are happy.