So What About Canadians And Their Guns?
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 11 months ago
This?
Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government — a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some 90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada.
“Only 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),” iPolitics reported Friday.
“The Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) can confirm that, as of Dec. 9, 2021, 18 firearms (formerly classified as restricted) affected by the May 1, 2020, Order in Council (OIC) have been deactivated,” RCMP headquarters spokeswoman Sgt. Caroline Duval told iPolitics.
“In addition, there have been 142 OIC-affected firearms recorded as surrendered to a public agency for destruction since May 1, 2020,” she added.
The RCMP seemed to suggest Canadians are merely waiting for a long-promised gun buyback to be created by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before complying.
“If an individual or business were to relinquish a newly prohibited firearm or device before the implementation of the buyback program, they won’t be eligible for compensation once the program is announced,” RCMP told iPolitics last week. “Government officials are currently in the process of refining requirements and developing program design and implementation options for a buyback program.”
Oh, I see. Canadians are merely waiting on a few dollars to relinquish their liberty, or so they say.
Or will it be something else, perhaps just saying ‘no’, and backing that up?
100,000 illegal firearms. Good grief. If they tried to do that with AR-15s in the U.S. (tens of millions), there would be a problem.
Any predictions on what will happen with our neighbors to the North? Will the little boy with the hair-doo win out?
On January 3, 2022 at 12:07 am, TheAlaskan said:
They will comply. At least they always have. I’ve driven the Alcan so many times I can’t remember how many. When I first came north through Canada in ’75, I don’t recall any restrictions. Could be I just didn’t declare myself armed. In those days, armed Americans was a given. Hand gun possession was not illegal yet, not until ’77 I believe. Americans going to Alaska were allowed for a while. Declared firearm transport was legal. Autoloading rifles with large capacity magizines were banned or restricted in 1991.
Now US citizens cannot transport handguns or autoloaders through Canada. Long gun rifles and shotguns can still be transported through Canada. Shotguns however, can only have short barrel length of 20″, not 18″ which is legal in the US.
A required, temporary tax license is required at the border with all guns listed with serial numbers.
The Canadian gun restrictions are a continuing nightmare for gun owners across Canada. The western Provinces minus British Columbia, put up the most resistance. Yukoners are most like Alaskans. We are border buddies.
On January 3, 2022 at 9:40 am, Bill Buppert said:
Agreed, they will comply.
Fidel Castro’s bastard son, Comrade Trudeau, is a communist enthusiast who will spare no one else’s money nor that of unborn progeny to press his government supremacist dystopia in Absurdistan.
Kate’s website is a great way to keep up on the ridiculous and childish nature of the Canadian junta and its supplicants.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
On January 4, 2022 at 4:09 am, Hudson H Luce said:
For what it’s worth, some people aren’t going along with the program – https://peoplesworldwar.com/harry-wade-university-of-western-ontario-student-arrested/
On January 4, 2022 at 10:27 am, robins111 said:
That 100,000 number is so far off the actual as to be laughable. There were over 30,000 AR 15’s sold the year before this nonsense was pushed. That is only one of the models of the 1500 banned rifles.
I suspect the number is somewhere in the excess of 1 to 1.5 million firearms that were put on the chopping block, and the government isn’t getting very many of them, cash for turn in or not.
This isn’t the first time they pulled this bull, when they created their famous ‘Long Gun Registry’ they knew there were over 21 million rifle/shotguns they had some record of, this doesn’t include war bring homes, out of country legal purchases etc.
When the realized they were only getting about 1 in 10 placed in the Registry, they then claimed the number of ‘long guns’ was only about 5 million and their stats look better. 8n other words , they lied to try and look competent.
On January 4, 2022 at 11:39 am, Fred said:
Since this ban prevents almost all new purchases and Canadians are unwilling to use them this has been an effective effort by the government.