I'm just as curious as wvbrady about what reasoning the Canadian Gov. used when coming up with this restriction. Don't make a whole lotta' sense to me, but often these restrictions in any country don't, one need look no further than right here in the U.S. The only thing that comes to mind is that I'd seen something that lead me to believe that often small bore hand guns often give an increase in penetration I don't recall where I say it or what the reasoning was exactly, it seems counter intuitive to me at the time and I didn't study it in great detail just because handguns just aren't my thing, now I wish I would have scrutinized it further!
Hopefully one of our friends from north o' the boarder can clear up the reasons for this ban for some of us.
Posts: 162 | Location: Lincoln, NE U.S.A. | Registered: 07 February 2004
Maybe because little cartridges make for little guns. Little guns are easier to conceal. But what about 22's? Maybe the Canadian govt thinks 22's aren't as deadly as 25 or 32ACP? Good question.
Posts: 8169 | Location: humboldt | Registered: 10 April 2002
I remember back in the '70s when the antis here in the States were pushing against "Saturday Night Specials," the sympathetic news reports always included a bit of boilerplate defining a "Saturday Night Special" as "a cheap, small caliber pistol often used to commit crimes" or something like that.
Posts: 1325 | Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA | Registered: 24 December 2003
Well, the largest urban population congregation in Canada is in Toronto, Ontario. Sort of a New York City north. And like NYC, they never met a gun law they didn't like. Seriously, the Police Chiefs and beaureaucrats got together and decided that 25 and 32 handguns were only used by "gangstas", and should therefore be prohibited. Please note that prohibited does not mean banned. If you owned one before the laws inception date you can still own one, you just can't buy one if you don't already own one. It was only after these dolts passed the law that they "discovered" that the 32 is one of the most commonly used calibers in Olympic handgun competition. Whoops. So now they issue a "permit" to allow competitors to break the law. Yes, very weird gov't BS. Hopefully our upcoming election will put the conservatives in charge and they will remember their election promises. We'll see. - Dan
Posts: 5285 | Location: Alberta | Registered: 05 October 2001
I thought that it was probably the idea that they could be more easily concealed. Good thing that they don't read these forums. They might find out that a P.....WHOOPS!
