Jack Knox: Half of guns seized in Victoria are replicas — but who can tell?
We lived out of town, in a place with a backyard swing that hung from a tall frame built out of eight-by-eight timbers. Come hunting season, my dad’s .303 would come out, the swing would come down and a deer would go up, strung by the heels like Moosolini.
It was an exercise in which media types were asked to see if they could tell real guns apart from replicas. For the record, I failed miserably. The term replica might apply broadly to include many airsoft, BB and pellet guns, as well as those that fire no projectile at all, but the ones on display all resembled something Vin Diesel would blaze away with in Fast and Furious Fifty, as opposed to Ralphie’s “you’ll shoot your eye out” Daisy Red Ryder from A Christmas Story.
News archives document the dilemma. Last week, we read about West Shore RCMP seizing fentanyl, cocaine, crack and three replica firearms, including a replica submachine gun. On New Year’s Day, an Alberta man who fought police after being found smoking weed in a stolen car at Clover Point had a concealed replica handgun.
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