They just are not needed

Re: PM fires another blank

Have you ever fired an automatic firearm?

I am a small arms instructor and have fired many many automatic weapons and calling the rifle an assault weapon is a rose by any other name, still a rose. We don't need regardless of what you will call the weapon, fully automatic weapons in the hands of anyone and i can assure you Dan, I am quite qualified to fire them.

Your Boss, Erin Otoole an airforce Capt perhaps fired to qualify with the C5 and C7 plus the 9MM while he was a cadet and because he was a Capt in the Air Force, I can assure you he perhaps re-qualified once in his 12 years of service. He like you are no authority in weapons and don't hide behind the fact you are an MP.

Regardless of the nomenclature used to qualify a weapon, fully and semi automatic weapons are designed to inflict the most amount of deaths and damage by the military and since we Canadians do not have the right to bare arms in our constitution, why do we need them? Just ask the groups — these good olde boys — who feel it is their right to look big and tough carrying a big bad weapon. Let me tell, you, a 7.62 mm copper jacket can make quite a hole where it enters the body but a worse hole were it exits.

Same as a 9MM. Or 45mm where the back of our head is missing from the exit of the round. A 45mm will knock you down no matter were it hits you. Some police use mushroom rounds instead of the copper jacket simple because the lead breaks down into smaller parts as it enters the flesh and cause much larger damage.

If there is a need to carry an assault or own an assault weapon, have the firing pin removed by law. You still have the really nice looking weapon but it is inoperative.

Just a thought.

Dale Dirk, 80-year-old Veteran