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

[friendly_iconoclast]

55. They were banned because they *look* like AK-47s...

...something you alluded to in your post 47:

"Basically, I would guess that it's the fact that it's semi-automatic and was not in common use in Canada for any hunting or pest/predator control purposes (which is how the Mini-14 escapes the fate it deserves, I gather). If you're a bank employee looking at a thing that looks like an AK-47, you're not going to know that it just shoots pellets. And back in the 90s was when Montreal was the bank robbery capital of the world (or more likely that was the 80s; I can't remember and google only wants to tell me how Vancouver was the bank robbery capital of North America until recently). And bank robbers there didn't use handguns, they used big honking long guns. What a gun looks like sometimes does matter."

So the long gun that could do more damage and functions like an illegal one remains legal, while one that only looks like an illegal one (but doesn't function like
it, and in fact functions like several other legal ones) is banned?

Do me a favor- let me know when they ban Momo steering wheels and Recaro car seats to combat speeding and illegal drifting contests, mmkay?