More Gun Guy Nonsense: Deer Hunting and the AR15 in Canada

This deer is not impressed with your bullshit.

Sigh. Soooo much bullshit about the gun thing. I know – most people don’t care. I don’t even care about guns all that much (seriously, I don’t) I am really just taking a hard stance on lying and misinformation. It’s appallingly bad on this subject.

Latest one on my nerves: mocking Trudeau for his comment about not “needing an AR15 to bring down a deer”. Because, you know, it’s illegal here dumbass. A number also like to point out that you can’t hunt deer with one anyway so it’s, like, double dumb.

Beyond the fact that it was a preamble — likely meant to reference the common gun-guy stance that these are all just good ol’ boy guns — and not a policy statement, and strictly speaking, it is true that the AR15 is not legal for hunting here in Canada. That is because it is restricted, and has been since 1977 – largely at the request of the Association of Chiefs of Police apparently.

Oh, but wait – the AR15 is just one of the (literally billions) of versions you can build on the AR platform. It’s like gun Lego. Because of the open-source nature of the AR platform you can buy non-restricted versions in Canada. There is just one pictured below – they were quite proud it apparently. So um yeah – bullshit.

Or perhaps he meant to say the AR10?

Easy mistake - it's functionally the same gun, just in a different caliber (most of the time). Oh yeah - it also has multiple parts that are interchangeable with the AR15, so perhaps that confused him? Can't use an AR for hunting deer though? More bullshit.

Apparently the kid above didn't get that memo - or the many others you can see with .5 second of Googling "AR15 and deer hunting".

It's a thing. Lot of people say they shouldn't, but lots of people do. Hard to say how often in Canada - because non-restricted assault rifles are no longer on a registry so it's anybody's guess really.This is just like the people laughing about the government banning coffee until a few days ago. Who is looking incompetent, exactly?

Come on gun peeps - make your case to own your assault rifles in a responsible manner. Stop lying, especially the silly ones, and people might be more inclined to listen.

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