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Canadian handgun sales surge on new legal threats

Posted by simonov on 9 August 2007

Canadian politicians thought they banned handguns back in 1995, but as usual the law was as poorly written as it was poorly conceived, and now, in the wake of a wave of violence, they are thinking about closing all the “loopholes.”

This, apparently is good news for Canadian gun stores.

“The more that the government talks about banning them, the better sales are. It’s always been that way. I’m sure it’s something they don’t intend,” said Wes Winkel, an owner of Elwood Epps Sporting Goods in Orillia.

“The best I’ve ever seen in handgun sales was last winter when we had our federal election and Paul Martin came on TV and said he was going to ban handguns if elected. Wow – you should have seen the phone ring the next morning and for a month after that,” said Winkel who sells about 2,500 new and used handguns a year.

Echoes of California’s recent .50BMG ban, which saw thousands of the rifles flooding into the state just before the ban became effective.

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