• What are YOUR thoughts about gun ownership?
• Should firearms be confiscated?
• Do you think licensed gun owners are responsible for crime?
• Do you think shooting a gun is a sport?
• What’s your views on the Liberal buyback program? Did you know that taxpayers money will be used to buy these guns.  To date, the Liberals have not secured an agency that is willing to accept firearms
• (according to Taxpayer.com) The federal government has banned hundreds of types of guns owned by law-abiding Canadians and the Liberal election platform includes $200 million in taxpayers’ money to buy back those guns, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer says the bill could be more than $750 million.

  This expensive policy arbitrarily bans and buys guns owned by law-abiding Canadians and will not take away illegal guns from criminals.

  And spending hundreds of millions to buy legally owned guns will not make Canadians safer.

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The Canadian tradition of firearm ownership involves law-abiding individuals, including hunters, ranchers, collectors and Olympians. Despite being highly vetted, existing firearms legislation in the form of Bill C21 is criticized for unfairly targeting this group, disregarding property rights, and being arbitrary. Since 2019, the Trudeau government has imposed aggressive restrictions, criminalizing responsible firearm owners, who are peacefully but vigorously opposing the legislation.

The utilization of firearms has long been ingrained in Canadian tradition and culture. Presently, our country boasts a population of over 2 million individuals engaged in activities such as hunting, ranching, trapping, farming, target shooting, recreational shooting, and collecting, all of whom are firearm owners.

What percentage of Canadians own guns?

According to the Department of Justice, it is estimated that 26 per cent of Canadian households own some sort of firearm. Put another way, more than one in four households has a firearm located in it. Ninety-five per cent of firearm-owning households in Canada possess long guns.

Despite being an exceptionally law-abiding and meticulously vetted segment of the Canadian population, this group faces unjust treatment under the existing firearms legislation. The current laws fail to acknowledge their property rights. This represents the most severe infringement on their rights in over a generation.

FACTS In 1995, the Firearms Act, recognized as the most stringent gun-control legislation in Canadian history, was introduced through Bill C-68. Its contentious feature, the establishment of a long-gun registry, was abolished in 2012.

The Act persists in categorizing firearms based on criteria often unrelated to their functionality. Furthermore, the classification of firearms can be altered arbitrarily by a bureaucrat. What is legally acceptable one day may become illegal the next.

Operating under the Act’s licensing system has transformed firearm ownership into a precarious privilege that can be revoked or modified at any given moment. Legitimate gun owners risk losing their property and facing criminal charges, either due to their inaction (such as failing to keep paperwork up to date) or the shifting parameters of Canadian firearms law.

See what Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has to say when questioned on the subject

More than three years have passed since Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban and mandatory confiscation (“buyback”) of what he called “military grade assault weapons,” which was followed by a national handgun “freeze” and other gun control measures. 

Recently analysed by the Fraser Institute, federal government plans to confiscate $4 billion worth of private property via gun ban (July 21, 2023) by Gary Mauser (Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University), observes that the crackdown on responsible gun owners and “campaign by the Trudeau government to disarm Canadian civilians” has “rendered valueless more than $4.0 billion of private property from law-abiding Canadians while simultaneously bankrupting hundreds of small businesses.”

The government subsequently extended the amnesty for legal gun owners to keep those very same rifles and shotguns until Oct. 30, 2025.

For those keeping track, that means the government has no plans to deal with the guns they said were so dangerous they must be seized until five and half years after they originally banned them.  Why is this? Almost certainly, because there is no institution or organisation that wants to enforce the collection or storage of confiscated firearms.

Canada Post have refused:

The RCMP want no part in it.

Since the introduction of the legislation to ban and confiscate licensed Canadian gun owners’ firearms, in true Lib/NDP mismanagement, not one firearm has been confiscated, after an enormous cost to the Canadian taxpayer.

As one of Victor’s supporters told him recently, “Some people go fishing, others play darts or soccer or hockey. My sport is target shooting and I’m really good at it. It’s an Olympic Sport. I belong to a gun club and I meet my friends there. We have tournaments between different clubs. It’s what I and millions like me do for recreation. Why can’t Trudeau just leave us alone?”

A lot of legal Canadian firearm owners are hunters. Their humane hunting skills under license has been passed down through generations. Often called upon to cull invasive damaging wildlife. The Lib/NDP government are currently hiring foreign mercenaries to cull deer on a BC Island. The cost to Canadian taxpayers is over $12 million. Which includes airfare to bring these people to Canada, hotels and even helicopters to take them from place to place. Did it occur to the spendthrift government, that Canadian licensed gun owners who are hunters would have done the job for free? Not only that, but they would have also bought a special license for the cull.

These well trained and humane hunters would have thinned out the damaging expanding deer population, without requiring taxpayer funded helicopters or airfares. In fact, our own hunters would have made it into a vacation. In previous years, our own hunters have culled under license, over 2,000 of the invasive ecosystems damaging deer for free. Steven Guilbeault rose in the house and exclaimed that he had no knowledge of this issue. Many people believe that the reason the government hates Canadian gun owners so much, is that they are perceived to be Canadian patriots. Trudeau makes no secret of his distaste for the historic colonial white stock people from Europe that built the country. It is believed by many that he sees modern day gun owners as part of that demographic.

The answer to this problem of persecution is of course to evict this controlling government that seems hell bent on control and persecution of loyal hardworking Canadians to live their lives.

“Common sense Conservatives will bring in jail and not bail for repeat violent offenders; they will offer treatment not decriminalize and subsidized hard drugs; and we will reinforce our borders to keep illegal guns and drugs out rather than harassing the law-abiding, trained and tested RCMP-vetted lawful firearms owners.” “We will protect the lawful people and put the real criminals in jail. Common sense,” Poilievre stated.

The Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights