How Canada's Gun Grab Already Starting Here in US

I do not envy our friends in the Great White North.

At one time, they had gun control laws that were actually kind of tolerable. Yeah, they had stupid ones, but they could also get short-barreled rifles and shotguns over the counter at their local gun store, so there were upsides, too.

But that was before Justin Trudeau had to deflect from a "brown face" scandal and leveraged the media's hatred of gun ownership to do so. Now, things aren't what they used to be, with a literal gun grab set to take place soon.

And the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane argues that not only can it happen here, but it's already happening.

There’s a self-soothing notion that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution keeps the excesses of an overreaching government away from the gun safes of law-abiding gun owners. That notion is just that. It’s veneer-thin, just a wisp away from the shifting political winds that are already blowing across several states that could usher in Canadian-style gun confiscation to the United States.

The fact is that the Second Amendment requires constant vigilance against politicians who would disarm Americans “for their own safety.” That’s why NSSF is battling proposed bans — and even illegal dispossession — of lawfully-owned firearms and magazines in states like Virginia and New Mexico. Legislators there would join California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington and the District of Columbia in banning Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs), the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America. There are over 32 million MSRs in circulation today.

The popularity of these commonly owned and typically possessed firearms and standard capacity magazines doesn’t matter much to politicians bent on banning them. The popularity of these rifles and magazines does matter to the Second Amendment, however.

Those like Virginia’s Democratic Delegate Dan Helmer claim that AR-15-style rifles are “weapons of war — similar to the ones I carried in in Afghanistan.”

But they are not. They’re simply semiautomatic rifles that operate in the same manner as a duck-hunting shotgun. The rifle Delegate Helmer carried in Afghanistan was a machinegun capable of firing automatically, a feature that’s been heavily regulated since 1937 and prohibited for sale in new firearms since 1986.

Delegate Helmer claims the bill he’s sponsoring in Virginia is about preventing violence, saving lives and putting public safety first. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the proposed MSR ban in her state, “will save lives and make our state a better place to raise a family.”

But this is a false narrative. Banning MSRs and magazines is in the name of “preventing violence, saving lives and putting public safety first” will only disarm law-abiding citizens, it will nothing to disarm criminals who are the real problem and who will ignore these laws.

This is the thing we say about every gun control law, but we say it because it's true. These measures don't stop criminals. They don't stop mass killers or gang-bangers. It doesn't stop any of them from the evil they want to inflict on others.

It just stops regular Joes who want an AR-15 or AK-47 for their own personal, lawful use.

But they're scary looking, which is what Helmer is leveraging with his so-called argument. They look like what he carried in Afghanistan, and thus, he's arguing they're similar. They have similarities, to be fair, but where it matters,  though, they couldn't be more different, as Keane notes above.

Let's keep in mind that Canada's gun grab is essentially targeting the same firearms, and with the same arguments.

They're ignoring how many mass killings take place with a handgun. I'm not even talking about the Gun Violence Archive-defined "mass shootings" where no one dies, but mass killings, where three or more people are murdered by a single person or group. Virginia Tech, the worst school shooting in modern American history, involved two handguns in a gun-rationed state. The Luby's Cafeteria shooting in Killeen, Texas, claimed 23 lives and left 27 injured, all with handguns, and was the worst mass shooting in modern American history for more than two decades.

Bans like this don't make anyone safer. They don't stop high-profile shootings, and they don't stop more pedestrian homicides.

But that's not what anyone on the anti-gun side is trying to sell to the American people, either in Canada or in Virginia.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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