Ten years to the day after Marc Lepine used a .223-calibre Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle to murder 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique, the notorious weapon is readily available in gun stores across Canada. The Ruger Mini-14 is a high-powered rifle suitable for big-city police forces, because the relatively small round it fires at high velocity tends to mushroom on contact. It kills one person at a time. That is the only socially sanctioned use the Mini-14 has. It... (GunPolicy.org)