The RCMP has told owners to turn in what the force is calling fully automatic military surplus firearms after hundreds were misidentified and allowed into Canada for commercial sale.

  • sik0fewl@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Ya, good catch. The firearms in question were manufactured as full auto, but have been converted into semi automatic. That’s not enough to make them legal, I guess.

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      1 year ago

      Because it’s likely trivial to convert them back to fully auto, whereas doing so to a weapon that was never intended to be fully auto is likely more difficult.

      • 2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 year ago

        Because it’s likely trivial to convert them back to fully auto

        Yeah but that would be illegal so no one would do that right