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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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Yeah, I wanted to chime in on this too, in any parade function when we were issued our weapons the Beach Block Carriers on the FNC1A1's weren't issued and the mags empty. It was kind of a nice because it made a pretty heavy weapon significantly lighter.
when we went in the field or were deployed we were issued the Carriers but usually weren't issued ammunition til we hit our destination.
The only ceremonial rifles at the time were those white plastic things that the Cadets marched with. Our rifles were real but deactivated.