🚀 go-pugleaf

fmdavis@bnr.ca (Fred Davis  VA3FD) writes:

> In article <Roger_Walker.2xsv@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA>,
> Roger_Walker@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA (C U E Here Sysop) wrote:
> [major snipping]
>  
> > When you have someone with the power to ban high capacity magazines as
> > prohibited weapons (magazines are only a part of a firearm), then they
> > clearly do not have a good grasp of any concepts.
> 
> And don't forget the epitome of idiocy in C-17, the banning of
> bull-pup stocks!!  A chunk of wood, even with no firearm attached
> to it, is now a "prohibited weapon".
> 
> Truly unbelievable that some idiots put this piece of sh*t together
> and then passed it into "law"!



  Yup.  And you can get *ten years* for possessing either of these 
items...even without a working action and barrel.  You can only get 
*five* years for illegal possession of a complete, working handgun (!).

  Just goes to show you what happens when laws are passed for the sake of 
political expediency rather than any constructive, useful purpose.