Are Canadians allowed to keep an SKS....and shoot the gun?

[Ignition Override]

Maybe that's a very naiive question.
We all (?) know about the recent draconian, nightmarish changes to gun laws up there.

Despite losing their Czech VZ-858 (our 58) and about 1499 other various types of guns, can they still:

1) keep/use their beautiful Russian etc SKS, or even
2) a semi-auto .22LR rifle or any other semi-auto rifle?
Their magazines have been restricted to 5 rds. capacity for quite a while along with many other weird limitations.

I just skimmed over a crude summary of the wildly different laws which could soon exist between, or even inside a given province.

Many guns will be able to be kept - but Not Used - after insane registrations, securing provisions etc.

 

[herrwalther]

According to a few news articles I found, SKS is still legal in Canada. Which draws ire from antis because it was the firearm used in a shooting in British Columbia.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/opinion/assault-rifle-ban-canada-sks-2320909

This article says they are banned, then not banned.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-shooting-firearms-1.5552773

Straining my eyes at the actual regulation text, I didn't find SKS or their clones listed.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/fulltext.html

Looking through that same list I typed in a few common 22LR rifles like Marlin 60 and Ruger 10/22. No 22LR rifles are on that list that I can identify. So it looks like those are allowed for now.

 

[Terry G]

M-1 Garand is still OK. Exemption for the eight round bloc clip.

 

[Ignition Override]

Nice to see that such.22s, SKS and Garands can still be used.

Did that crap begin with your apparatchik "protectors" at the RCMP, Prime Minister Poof.... or Parliament?

 

[Martin248]

All the above, resulting in a bill getting passed that recategorized many firearms as "prohibited", a class that used to only include fully automatic firearms and concealable handguns (short barrel).

 

[Neo-Luddite]

M-1 Garand is still OK. Exemption for the eight round bloc clip.

A long-standing exemption that seems to have squeaked by...for now. Too bad NO ONE in the US can lawfully import an M-1 they might purchase in its designer's homeland---unless it is demilled. Thanks Bill Clinton!

 

[MaverickDMD]

So what's your point??

 

[AlexanderA]

Too bad NO ONE in the US can lawfully import an M-1 they might purchase in its designer's homeland---unless it is demilled.

That would be like "shipping coals to Newcastle." The U.S. is probably the easiest place in the world to get guns, especially U.S-manufactured guns.

 

[Terry G]

No problem.

 

[dh1633pm]

When I visit customers north of the border, they always brag about all the cheap Chinese ammo for their cheap SKS rifles. Used to visit twice a year until Covid.

 

[MaverickDMD]

Again, what's your point?

 

[DukeConnor]

Again, what's your point?

What's your point ?

 

[Frank Ettin]

This is going nowhere.