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If the Court quashes the 2020 regulation, the 2024 and 2025 regulations stay in force. All three amnesties end on the 90th day after the appeals end. Full comparison: silvercore.ca/blog/canada-fi…
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To check yours, the RCMP Firearms Reference Table page offers three lists, one per Order in Council. The list your make and model is on tells you which regulation the RCMP places it under. A model on two lists, such as the GM6 Lynx, is placed under both.
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March 2025, SOR/2025-86: 179 makes and models in 40 families, including the US Carbine M1 and the Tokarev SVT 1940. Items 201 to 240 of Part 1. Not part of the Supreme Court appeals.
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December 2024, SOR/2024-248: 324 makes and models in 104 families, including the FN SCAR, the CZ Bren and the Tavor X95. Items 97 to 200 of Part 1. Not part of the Supreme Court appeals.
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May 2020, SOR/2020-96: approximately 1,500 models, including the AR-15, the Ruger Mini-14 and the US Rifle M14. Paragraphs 83(a) to (p) and items 87 to 96 of Part 1. Before the Supreme Court on 9 and 10 November.
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Canada has three firearms bans: May 2020, December 2024 and March 2025. The Supreme Court case covers only the 2020 one. Silvercore compares all three: silvercore.ca/blog/canada-fi…
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The amnesty ends on the 90th day after the last of the four appeals ends. There is no fixed calendar date. Every party, every intervener, every outcome: silvercore.ca/blog/supreme-c…
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Eleven interveners: the Attorneys General of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, plus eight others, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Coalition for Gun Control.
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The Attorney General of Canada asks the Court to dismiss all four appeals: cabinet may weigh public safety, and the regulation itself prohibits the variants. The Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal both sided with the government.
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The precision question: SOR/2020-96 prohibits "any variants or modified versions" of the named firearms. The Court decides whether those words are precise enough to carry criminal consequences.
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The authority question: s. 117.15(2) of the Criminal Code bars cabinet from prohibiting a firearm it considers reasonable for hunting or sporting use. The appellants say cabinet weighed public safety when the statute told it to ask about hunting and sport.
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Four appeals against Canada's May 2020 firearms ban reach the Supreme Court on 9 and 10 November. Silvercore's full explainer, every claim linked to its source: silvercore.ca/blog/supreme-c…
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The full guide, with the forms, fees and checklist: silvercore.ca/pal-canada?utm…
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Your gun licence in Canada, start to finish.
Four steps, two to four months: the safety course, the restricted course if you want it, the RCMP application, then a 28-day minimum wait.
Save this for when you book.
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