Canada has banned so-called assault weapons, right? It's something many here in the United States would like to see us do as well. The problem, even in a country without Second Amendment protections, is that there's always going to be a downside to any measure you care to pass. It's either so loose that anyone can get around it, or it's so strict that it's going to do other things you may not intend for it to do.
One Canadian gun owner shared what the law is trying to take from him, recently.
That's quite an interesting piece. Everything matches, and it's an IBM M1 carbine? That's pretty rare, from my understanding, meaning that it's a piece of history that's rather unusual.
So, his choices are to hand it over and let the government destroy a piece of history, have it rendered inoperable, which is still destroying a piece of history in my book, or he could spend 10 years in prison.
The history buff in me is outraged that this is even a thing, to say nothing of the gun nut in me. This should never be the case. No one should have to decide between preserving a piece of history that was perfectly legal a short time ago and prison. Everything about this is wrong.
And some people would love to see us in that exact same situation.
I've got an SKS that my father brought back from Vietnam. It's fully functional, but it's a piece of family history because my father, a Navy Seabee, actually went out on patrol with a group of Marines specifically to shoot a Viet Cong sniper to get that rifle for my uncle. When my uncle passed, it came to me. That's history.
And while there are a lot of so-called assault weapon bans that gun would survive, I'd hate to be in a position this guy is in with his M1 carbine.
This guy has never hurt a soul with that gun. I've never hurt anyone with my SKS. You out there have never hurt anyone with any historic firearms you might own.
Yet we're also expected to pay for the tiny number of vile criminals who seem to think the rules shouldn't apply to them.
While the cost to history is far from the worst thing that could happen here in the event Congress somehow passed a ban similar to Canada's, it's still one of the many hidden costs that anti-gunners will never address. They don't want people thinking of the loss of history, of how the weapons that were used to fight one of the greatest evils in history were then later placed in the hands of American citizens for their own personal use, and many of these laws will take them out of those same hands, despite no threat to anyone.
History isn't just what's in museums. It's what's in our homes and our lives.
I'm sad to see any history destroyed, especially for politics, but far too few seem to grok that history should remain, for good or ill, and not covered up because it makes you feel icky.
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