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Originally Posted by T. O'Heir
The broad Canadian ban on the commercial sale of .25 and .32 caliber firearms had one purpose and one purpose only. It wiped out an entire class of firearm with one law(Ditto for the under 4" barrel nonsense.).
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Precisely.
The basic scenario was that many voters were upset by rising crime and supported gun control, so the politicians wanted to ban SOMETHING, but their constituents wouldn't support a broad ban on all pistols because some Fine Upstanding Law-Abiding Citizens like those. Ergo, the politicians picked small concealable pistols, because such pistols were seen as a tool of criminals and other social undesirables.
This is the very same political calculation that created the ATF handgun import points system and much of the NFA in the United States.
Lethality—or lack thereof—was never a serious consideration. The idea was to take guns away from unpopular constituencies who are too small or insufficiently determined to vote the politicians out of office over it.