Gun advocates’ changing definition of ‘assault rifles’ is meant to sow confusion GlobeDebate
JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian PressThe decision of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to carry out his 2019 campaign promise to prohibit many semi-automatic rifles has sparked another round in the gun-control debate. Gun lobby groups allege that advocates of stronger firearm laws unfairly label firearms such as the AR-15 “assault rifles.
However, in the 1990s the firearms community suddenly developed an allergy to calling any civilian firearm an assault rifle. This continues today., a prominent gun control opponent, recently offered a very narrow definition of assault rifles, saying they are “military weapons that can fire fully automatically, which means they continue to shoot as long as the trigger is held down.
The Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney responded with a suite of gun control measures that included the prohibition of some semi-automatic rifles. However, other guns, including the Mini-14 and SKS, remained nonrestricted and thus available to anyone with a basic firearm licence .
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