Canada bans .22 rifle because it looks similar to an AK-47

[iverglas]

31. just to point out

that the court didn't make the statement -- the federal Cabinet at the time the original Prohibition Order was made, and the later regulations incorporating it were made, did that.

I think the courts had little choice but to make the finding the two appellate courts did, if the AP80 and AK-22 are in fact functionally identical.

(This doesn't really alter what I said earlier -- that it wasn't "the feds" that made the decision in issue in the OP, since the letter referred to relies on the judicial decision as its authority, and the event in issue / in the news is really the recent judicial decision. But the decision on which the court's decision is based is the decision to include the AK-22 in the prohibited weapons order, really.)