Reply #63: and for those who also bother [View All]

[iverglas]

"Base model not covered by the AWB because: ..."

My posts had absolutely not Thing One to do with the US's assault weapons ban, as I clearly explained. My posts had to do with a document concerning the 1989 killings of 14 women students at a university in Montreal, and my desire to confirm the accuracy of the terminology used in it.

For anyone who really wants to bother pursuing the actual issues that some might see in the situation in question, I've given links to the Canadian firearms law/regulations, which might be used to determine whether this particular individual would still likely be able to purchase this particular firearm and the particular magazines he used in the incident.

I don't know, offhand. I do know that Canada has not experienced a multiple homicide remotely similar to that one, since that one.

I don't think that bayonet lugs and some of those other gadgets figure specifically into Canada's laws/regulations. We seem to have found it perfectly easy to specify what firearms and accessories are restricted or prohibited just by identifying the darned things.

E.g.: http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/c-46/sec84.html

http://www.canlii.org/ca/regu/sor98-462/whole.html

Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited or Restricted
SOR/98-462
Registration 16 September, 1998

5. The components and parts of weapons, accessories, and cartridge magazines listed in Part 4 of the schedule are prohibited devices for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (d) of the definition "prohibited device" in subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code.

Part 4

... 3. (1) Any cartridge magazine

(a) that is capable of containing more than five cartridges of the type for which the magazine was originally designed and that is designed or manufactured for use in

(i) a semi-automatic handgun that is not commonly available in Canada,

(ii) a semi-automatic firearm other than a semi-automatic handgun, ...

Strikes me that the magazines used by Lepine in 1989 would now be "prohibited devices" in Canada. And strikes me as pretty straightforward.