Canada is Showing America What
Government Gun Confiscation is Like

The ongoing battle for Canadian gun owners whose firearms were labeled as "military grade assault weapons" by the Canadian government appears likely to continue for many more years. Incredibly, even those in charge seem to have become cynical about whether their goal of confiscating hundreds of thousands of guns from law-abiding citizens will ever actually happen.

As some background, in May 2020, the Liberal government issued Order in Council SOR/2020-96, which immediately classified 1,500 models of firearms (including modified versions and unnamed variants) previously listed as "non-restricted" or "restricted," as "prohibited" firearms under the federal Criminal Code. In creating the ban, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bypassed the legislative process and the order was not pre-published for public input.

Since then, the government has added more models of firearms to the banned list (there are now between 1,800 and 2,000 models) and declared that all would be confiscated through a "buyback," but they never implemented a real plan to do so.

"The premise was that no longer could Canadians be trusted to hang on to these firearms, and the firearms suddenly became too dangerous," said Tom Mavin, Ontario director and chief lobbyist for Canada's National Firearms Association (NFA). …