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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I never had a loaded rifle on any of the public parades I did in Canada.
Edit: in fact I guarantee they weren't loaded. Everytime I carried a loaded weapon in Canada we were told to keep it out of sight, lest it scare the populace.
I am not sure if they had ceremonial weapons or if they were just unloaded weapons.
If I was a betting man I would say that the weapons they used were specific to the purpose they served, all show.
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Someone posted earlier about the rifles being decorative (no firing pins, etc)