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The gun nuts always argue that they should be able to have the scary guns because they are no more deadly than the hunting guns. If they're functionally the same buy the hunting gun unless you're buying it for how it looks. If you're buying it for how it looks you shouldn't have guns.
People are allowed to customize the look of the guns. I haven't ever heard of any gun or people being shamed for buying guns because of how they like them to look.
In another perspective, making cars faster, boosting, lifting/lowering, and modifying them make them deadlier, too. They do affect the performance though whereas the look of a gun does not.
I think the most they can do is modify the magazine count, trigger pressure, and maybe bump fire? But bump fire reduces accuracy.
I'm a gun owner but not really into spending money on how they look. Most of my collection is hand-me-downs or family heirlooms. Won't knock someone for getting what they find aesthetically pleasing.
I've owned guns for almost 40 years. I fully support the restrictions on gun ownership in Canada. If you're buying a gun for how it looks, for how it makes you feel, or for how you think it makes other people feel you shouldn't own guns. Guns aren't jewelry. They aren't a fashion statement. They're a tool. The argument that they are functionally the same falls flat on its face when you challenge them to use the functionally equivalent walnut stocked field gun because they aren't buying it for how it works, they're buying it for how it looks.