Recent content by IKnowNothing

Its based on the understanding that they represent a different risk profile to society- handguns via concealment, box fed semis via volume and sustained fire. There's a tonne of double think in this and the Bondi thread acknowledging the capabilty gap then pretzling to justify why it doesnt...

Personal opinion on where classification should be: Largely fine with the post C-21 definition for NR, and pre C21 definition for Prohib. Handguns were fine under the restricted regime and the ban was silly. C21 definition should have moved the no longer NR's (detachable box fed CF SA's) to...

A. Damn- my joke was about DJT's image of himself and being a self insert B. Snooty nose turn- none of the movies do the books justice.

Sauve, principled, outsider who is simultaneously wealthy (self-made of course) and a man of the people, that is successful at everything he touches? The role is clearly cast.

If you're looking from the lens of capability relative to what is available to the military. That's not the only lens. For many (most) the only change in the last 100+ years is in licensing requirement When you say parity, what do you mean? You were previously adamant that the a gun is gun...

You just restated what I said. A gradual rise to a baseline, then divergent factors proliferating for relatively short time periods before being removed.

No- just looking at things over a wider time frame. If you start with said bonanza, sure- you see an inexorable decline. If you start at depression era or before, you see a gradual rise to a baseline, then a multidecade reciprocation as things grow away from that baseline then get taken away...

Pretty blatant omission of a key word there hoss. Sure a tommy gun or colt monitor was "available", but cost a year's wages and essentially no one had them.

As discussed yesterday - beneficial function far from the only measure of social utility

A semi auto .22 and a pump shotgun was used at La Loche, a win 94 .30-30 at Parliament Hill, and Justin Bourque had a pump shotgun in Moncton. We still have knives, axes, the trucks you guys love to point out. It all comes to societal perceptions and the risk-utility curve. Society will accept...

Or its simply a return to pre ~1964 mainstream commercial availability (albeit with modern construction methods) after a temporarily accepted proliferation of something different.

Re- read the post 4621. 65 61 (forgot about the cooey 64) years ago.... I could have the exact same guns in the cabinet. We are not experiencing the same trend line.

History -far, recent, and present- says otherwise.

Next to none. But that's not the point. The point is interacting with the rules as written and societal perceptions / resistance points to leverage the best outcome possible.

Except for the end state is the exact same. Type B licenses can have a non-pump manual action shotgun with up to 5 rounds. the only reason for the "minor reclassification" was that the regulation was initially poorly written for purpose and failed to consider new manual action types coming to...