The Trudeau government banned 1,500 types of firearms in 2020 and promised a buyback program, but 4 years later not a single gun has been collected. This week, though, they banned another 300 models, and announced a plan to send the guns that have yet to be collected to Ukraine.
Liberals ban hundreds more types of firearms, look to send prohibited guns to Ukraine | National Post | Stephanie Taylor:
December 5, 2024 - "The federal government is adding hundreds more types of firearms to its list of banned guns and looking to send some of them to Ukraine. On Thursday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the Liberals were adding 324 more 'unique makes and models' of what he called 'assault-style' firearms to its list of banned guns, taking effect immediately. All current and future variants of these guns would be prohibited, raising the total number of models banned to more than 2,000, according to Public Safety Canada. The number of restricted firearms affected is 14,521....
"In May 2020, the Liberal government announced it was banning some 1,500 types of firearms, promising to compensate gun owners and businesses through a still not-yet-functional forced-buyback program. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has estimated the program could cost upwards of $750 million, depending on its design. An amnesty order protecting from prosecution gun owners and businesses with prohibited inventory they acquired lawfully, including the 324 models added Thursday, is currently in place until October 2025, several days after the deadline for the next federal election to take place.
"LeBlanc said on Thursday that the pilot phase of the forced-buyback program targeting distributors and retailers is underway, with four businesses currently participating.... He also said that the guns taken from retailers could be shipped to Ukraine, which is fighting a war against Russia’s 2022 invasion. 'As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine,' LeBlanc said.
"Defence Minister Bill Blair said the Liberals asked the Ukrainians in October if their troops could use some of the guns Canada has banned. 'They confirmed that indeed some of the weapons that are part of the program would be suitable,' said Blair. Businesses that choose to work with the Defence Department on the initiative would be compensated, he said.
"LeBlanc said more gun-control measures are coming, with the RCMP studying what to do about the SKS, a popular hunting rifle, which the Liberals had originally tried to prohibit in 2022 but have since backed down. He committed that he would resolve the SKS question by February 2025, when the government plans to come out with a new list of prohibited firearms. He noted that many First Nations and Inuit hunters use the SKS, which makes it more complicated....
"Conservative public safety critic Raquel Dancho blasted Thursday’s new prohibitions as strictly symbolic moves that would not address the real causes of violent crime. 'After nine years of Trudeau’s reckless policies, he has unleashed a crimewave (sic) on Canada. Violent crime has exploded over 50% and gun crime has surged 116%,' she said in a statement.
Trudeau has failed to fix the border disorder that lets in almost all of the illegal firearms used in gun crimes from the US.... Instead of locking up criminals and reversing his laws that have contributed to the alarming explosion of crime in our country, Trudeau chose to attack lawful and vetted hunters, sport shooters, and Indigenous Peoples who safely and legally use firearms as they have done for generations.
"Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery echoed the comments.... 'Instead of choosing to commit scarce resources to addressing criminal usage of firearms, such as through strengthening our border to combat the trafficking of firearms that make up the overwhelming majority of those used in violent crime, the federal government has chosen to focus its attention once again on undermining law-abiding firearms ownership in Alberta and across Canada.'
"The Alberta UCP government has said it will not enforce the federal government’s mandatory-buyback program or require provincial officials to assist with it. Manitoba and Saskatchewan have also said they oppose the plan."
Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberal-gun-ban-expands
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