The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

[Colin Parkinson]

When you're being threatened by people driving up to you and waving around guns, you don't have time to do an in depth analysis to determine if it's airsoft or a real gun. So, criminals use them to intimidate, and when stopped by police they don't have real guns on them.

BC's new laws seem to be target at that sort of behaviours, though I suspect people doing innocent things will also get caught-up in the mess as well.

This act also puts a big chill on getting kids to handle air rifles and such. I don't see gangs using churches to much, but it may make it more difficult for Cadet programs to run air rifle ranges in churches and schools which they rent space from.

 

[Eaglelord17]

This act also puts a big chill on getting kids to handle air rifles and such. I don't see gangs using churches to much, but it may make it more difficult for Cadet programs to run air rifle ranges in churches and schools which they rent space from.

The ‘and property used to provide child care for which a licence is required under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act’ part is a large red flag for me.

Doing a very quick google search anyone running a home daycare with more than two kids not your own needs to be a part of that. So if my wife runs a daycare out of our home for say 3 kids I can’t own firearms, no matter how well secured and far away from the situation they are.

Replica firearms are already illegal, however even just reading my local police beat airsoft or bb pistols are very common for criminals to hold and threaten with, and since they are firearms they can look like firearms, they aren’t ‘replicas’.

That all being said it doesn’t change the criminals in any way. This same government is the one who fueled the drug crisis in the province with their ‘legalization experiment’. I don’t trust they have a single clue as to what is needed to actually deal with crime in the province.

 

[Haggis]

I didn't take a detailed look at this legislation yet, but at first blush there appears to be come overlap with existing Crim Code offences such as using an imitation firearm (s. 85) and possession for a dangerous purpose (s. 88). More later after work.