> Legal or not there is no need in Canada for a person to own a semi-automatic rifle. I struggle with statements like this. I’m in the prairies. You know what

> Legal or not there is no need in Canada for a person to own a semi-automatic rifle. I struggle with statements like this. I’m in the prairies. You know what semi-automatic rifles are great for? Predator control. As an easy example from two weeks ago, a pack of coyotes came into my in-laws farm yard and started attacking the sheep. Would a bolt action rifle work? Sure, but significantly less effectively. > Even with the guns there is no need for supersonic bullets and large grain/large mass bullets. Are you referring to the 10kJ rule? Or just in general? It’s always tough to tell where someone’s actual understanding of these things is, versus misconceptions. Supersonic bullets are absolutely necessary for hunting game, as are “large mass” bullets (although 10kJ is not generally necessary for the game you’ll encounter around here). The vast majority of the rifles that were recently prohibited fired low-mass high-velocity bullets. In many provinces, those bullets were not allowed for hunting because they did not have sufficient energy to reliably kill wild game. > If anything would help it would be heavily restricting access to ammo. I don't understand how people with illegal handguns can even find the ammo for them. You’re talking about people who are already in possession of a smuggled handgun, and you can’t conjure up a way for them to get ammunition? Ammunition is currently regulated the same way firearms are: you have to have a firearms license, after having taken a course and been vetted by the RCMP. The people who are causing the vast majority of (non-suicide) firearms death in this country are not people who give a crap about the firearms licensing regime.