Last chance to sign AR15 petition e-111

May 4, 2016 Brian News, Politics 5

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AR15 Petition e-111 on the Government of Canada website will be officially closed to signatures on Saturday, May 7 at 3:39 PM (EDT)

 

After four months of being open to signatures, petition e-111 is set to close on Saturday at 3:39 PM EDT (12:39 PM Pacific). The petition, which was started by Marc Bennett of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and is sponsored by the Conservative MP for Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies (Bob Zimmer), calls upon the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to reclassify the Armalite AR15 rifle back to non-restricted status. The current number of signatures sits at just over 24,000 (and the most signed on the website) the next few days are the last chance to sign it before it can be presented in the House of Commons.

The petition can be found found here: https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-111

 

Petition to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Whereas:
  • The current firearm legislation classifies the semi-auto Armalite Rifle – 15 and variants as restricted when there is no inherent difference between it and that of hundreds or thousands of other firearms in Canada which have been, in due process, classified as non-restricted;
  • The restriction on the AR-15 and its variants prohibits the use of this semi-automatic modern sporting rifle from being used for lawful purposes such as hunting;
  • This rifle has been ultimately restricted purely because of cosmetic appearance of the rifle which does not make the rifle more dangerous. It has been assembled with modern day materials (plastic & aluminium) and that shouldn’t be the merit to base a rifle for restricted classification as there are thousands of other rifles like it used on a day to day basis for legitimate purposes;
  • This rifle is the most versatile hunting rifle in the world. The calibre can easily be changed to meet lawful provincial hunting requirements from small game to big game animals without the need to purchase multiple gaming rifles; and
  • The Armalite Rifle – 15 was in fact legal to hunt with before the mid 1990’s firearm classification changes and we hunters would like that opportunity restored.
We, the undersigned, Lawful Firearm Owners of Canada, request (or call upon) the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to Re-classify the Armalite Rifle – 15 back to non-restricted status so we can once again use this rifle to lawfully participate in the Canadian cultural practices of hunting.