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interesting timing, I wonder how advanced the buyback plan is.
Easy.
Or, they can claim that the fiscal realities no longer support compendation and go straight for confiscation. Trudeau is used to having his way and this is a major plank in his campaign.
The buyback plan, which Trudeau campaigned on costing at least $800 M, is supposed to pay owners of now-banned but previously legally owned firearms "fair market value" for thier guns or pay for permanent deactivation for those who choose to keep them as wall hangers. The original pre-election estimate of the "compensated confiscation (TM)" was $200 M, but a report by the PBO pegged the cost at closer to $785 M, a figure the Liberals disputed before the writs dropped.
I've seen comments elsewhere about a Jane and Finch amnesty bush.
Yup…I spent my early days living on Driftwood Ave, just SE of the Jane-Finch Mall. It has continually gotten more dangerous as the years/decades have passed…
I prefer to call it legal theft because the market value will be determined by a bureaucrat with an agenda.
I prefer the term "Compensated Confiscation"(TM). But, the recent announcement out of Québec is heartening in that the leaders in that province have realized and are focusing on where the problem really lies... and it's not gonna be found on shooting ranges or in gun clubs and hunting lodges.
Lots coming across the border out that way.
Considering that there are only 6500 BSOs across Canada in all modes (air rail, marine, land border and inland), the RCMP patrol the border mostly as a secondary task and that just 5% of the maritime containers entering Canada actually get inspected, the chances of intercepting any contraband is remote. You can buy a handgun in Florida, smuggle it across the border and sell it in Toronto for a 1000% profit.
The Liberal government can control your Enfields because you obey the law and that's easy. They cannot control the gang banger's Glocks because that's hard and doesn't provide the immediate results they need to buy votes from terrified urban dwellers. Québec seems to have figured that out and have decided to take the harder road less traveled. As I noted earlier, that's amazing in the home province of Polysesouvient and the Coalition for Gun Control, Canada's two largest anti-gun lobby groups dedicated to eradicating civilian ownership of firearms in Canada. Let's see how the Québec government follows through on it.
So what can I bring you
I have a list of desired items but the wife says "no more guns until the Liberals are gone". So, no more guns ever, it seems.So what can I bring you
FTFY
According to the Liberals, straw purchases are a huge problem in Canada, even though only one or two a year are prosecuted.
My post above pretty much explains why the Liberals are frequently targeting their gun control efforts at legal firearms and licensed owners. In short, it's the low-hanging fruit.
Yes I should have been clear -- same issue we have down here, the majority of "problem" guns are not legally owned.FTFY
I don't see it as low hanging fruit - I see it as social re-engineering. Generally people who take guns away from a populace - want to do something to the populace that the populace would not willingly accept if they had guns.
