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submitted 2 months ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

A program intended to replace the entire stock of the Canadian military’s aging assault rifles is being sped up, CBC News has learned.

An internal Department of National Defence presentation references a move to quickly order the first tranche of weapons under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program.

A Defence Department equipment briefing, dated July 2025, says the plan is to order up to 65,401 modern rifles with the possibility being left open to increase the delivery up to 300,000 should the government proceed with a plan to drastically scale up the size of the military supplementary reserve.

The Canadian Modular Assault Rifle is intended to replace the current stock of C7 and C8 rifles, which date from the Afghan war almost two decades ago.

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[-] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Dude, have you been paying attention to the gun ban situation? The past 5 years have seen almost all rifles being banned and now they are turning their eyes on shotguns.

Eventually the old 'a bolt action rifle with 5 rounds and a double barreled shotgun fowling piece' claim this is all civilians should have won't exist. Because they will ban almost all bolt guns (because now they are targeting all rifles with detachable magazines, and most bolt action rifles have those. They won't let ww2 bolt guns or recreations thereof be around since those are 'military' guns). For shotguns I guarantee you they will look at a double barrel and also realize it automatically extracts/ejects the shells after opening and say this reloads too fast. They will insist on single barrel guns that would be primitive by 1880s standards.

They are declaring war on sport shootings and despite them using hunting as a baseline most of rhe experts have no fucking idea how hunting works for different game types. And don't get me started on dangerous game. I am not a hunter, but I talk to them. Sport shooting is my game and this fucking sucks. They want to make the sport as hard as possible to get into and as unpleasant as possible to actually do.

Banning guns by action or by name is stupid.

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