Is there an epidemic of crimes involving machine guns and/or AR15 styled rifles in Canada? No. I wish politicians could just be honest about this instead of going for the impression that they're actually doing something about real crime. A woman strangled her teenaged daughter to death in Calgary ths week, laws can only do so much. People have to realize the nanny state can't protect them from evil people all the time and that in life there is a "@#%$ happens" quotient that no amount of legislation can ever change. Bottom line, "Cowboy-up" people.