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New rifles on the way for Canada's soldiers as defence spending ramps up

www.cbc.ca /news/politics/colt-modular-assault-rifles-army-9.7011113

A program intended to replace the entire stock of the Canadian military’s aging assault rifles is being sped up, CBC News has learned.

An internal Department of National Defence presentation references a move to quickly order the first tranche of weapons under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program.

A Defence Department equipment briefing, dated July 2025, says the plan is to order up to 65,401 modern rifles with the possibility being left open to increase the delivery up to 300,000 should the government proceed with a plan to drastically scale up the size of the military supplementary reserve.

The Canadian Modular Assault Rifle is intended to replace the current stock of C7 and C8 rifles, which date from the Afghan war almost two decades ago.

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A well-deserved and desperately needed upgrade. The current C7 stock is in very rough shape to say the least
- I liked when the C7s had a cleaning kit in the buttstock. I've never been so organized since.
Canadian Made, by Colt Canada a US subsidiary. :(
I hope that one day Canada will learn the lesson of dual purpose industry. Have Canadian owned and made small arms on principle of sovereignty and defence.
When military production is not required due to peacetime, convert production to civilian models. This can scale up and down a few production lines as needed. Ammunition is included here too. The civilian operations subsidize the cost of maintaining a permanent defense industrial footprint.
Use that civilian infrastructure as a recruiting tool for the military as sports shooters may be more inclined. You also generate a population base of trained marksmen to draw upon should conflict arise. The swiss model can be drawn upon for inspiration.
Canada's liberals have been on a gun hunt since forever. They say they will cut the civil service to save money while expanding on past obscene expenditures for gun grabs. They wage war on civilian firearms industry, and the sports shooting community while also claiming to support domestic industry, especially defense, is such a raging case of suck and blow at the same time their heads are going to implode.
- If it makes you feel better, Colt seems to be owned by a Czech company now.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_CZ_Group
  
  Actually, it does make me feel better. Thanks. :)
  
  I thought Colt Canada had gone tits up, I didn't realize CZ bought them. Good on them, CZ makes excellent products.
- The liberals are the friendly-face nanny-state fascists, the conservatives are the scary-face anti-everything fascists, they're two sides of the same coin. They're both starting to swing fascist authoritarian, don't be deceived because they wear different costumes.
  
  I've seen where the modern right wing takes us. It's orange, it's bloviating, it's anti-intellectual, it's corrupt to the core. The slovenly worship of the least deserving person on the planet, the self-owns, all so they can cause pain to people they don't like. The destruction of the global order and denial of reality.
  I prefer the liberal version. There just isn't a 'both sides' to this.
- The gun ban shit is stupid, and expensive and pointless. The licensing scheme was all that was needed and it worked very well. They could even remove the non-restricted/restricted distinction and just have long gun/handgun, and the handgun freeze crap needs to go to hell. Also pocket pistols should be relegalized again. A person that can be trusted with a glock 19 can be trusted with a glock 43.
  Edit: I have a fuckload more to say but I haven't the time or energy for this shit.

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