Topic on Talk:Epic Fail

I was under the impression that the ban wasn't enacted by vote of parliament. Did it? I never found anything indicating it was "passed" by anything but the whim of a head of state. Skipping parliament (read:senate) is, by definition, dictatorial regardless of if it sounds negative or if the head was given that power by the senate previously (recall that Rome's dictator was chosen by the senate).

All of that is irrelevent however. The central point on this being epic fail is not the autocratic ban or if it was even autocratic, its that the ban was authored by someone who knew so little about firearms they '''included coffee by mistake'''. Is there any dispute on the ban including coffee? Is it somehow a normal failure to thing coffee is a type of firearm?

edit: Also I'm not sure how you can only find def-con news articles on it. Literally every major firearms news site (The Truth About Guns, Firearms Blog, Ammoland ect.) covered the contents of the ban, I linked to a Canada Gazette listing of the full ban list, and the ban on coffee was identified by the coffee company itself. Perhaps you're not finding them because the same ban included websites (see (z.085) in the linked Gazette article), and your search results reflect that? That your search engine being one that has altered its results to bolster establishment media and won't find websites dedicated to firearms (which most search engine companies consider taboo).