The federal government of Canada has been talking about "buying back"
guns
that it has made illegal for several years now but has had a lot of
trouble figuring out how to do it. Initially, the wanted the police to
run the program but the cops wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then
they thought they'd have the Post Office collect the guns but the postal workers didn't want anything to do with it. Eventually they got a pilot program together and decided to try it in the Cape Breton area of Nova Scotia. By the time the pilot program was over, they had collected a
grand total of 25 guns in an area thought to have in the neighbourhood
of 2000 weapons that would qualify. 12 of the guns came from a widow who didn't want her late husband's guns cluttering up the house any more. At least some of the guns collected weren't even on the list of those that
had been prohibited. By any reasonable standard, this pilot program
should be reckoned a complete failure. So what is our government going
to do?
You probably won't be surprised to learn that they are rolling out the
same program nationally! That's right: they're spending over $700
million (Canadian) to try to get back guns. By the way most of that
money will be spent on the administration costs: there is considerable
doubt that there will be any money left to pay for the guns they are
hoping to buy.
Meanwhile, gun violence in this country continues to climb to
unprecedented levels. Strangely enough, the criminals don't seem to take
the gun laws very seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xrf9LVIWMk [6 minutes]
On Jan 9, 2026 at 2:53:01 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
The federal government of Canada has been talking about "buying back"
guns
I'm *still* waiting for someone, anyone, to explain to me how the government can buy back a gun it never owned in the first place.
that it has made illegal for several years now but has had a lot of
trouble figuring out how to do it. Initially, the wanted the police to
run the program but the cops wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then
they thought they'd have the Post Office collect the guns but the postal
workers didn't want anything to do with it. Eventually they got a pilot
program together and decided to try it in the Cape Breton area of Nova
Scotia. By the time the pilot program was over, they had collected a
grand total of 25 guns in an area thought to have in the neighbourhood
of 2000 weapons that would qualify. 12 of the guns came from a widow who
didn't want her late husband's guns cluttering up the house any more. At
least some of the guns collected weren't even on the list of those that
had been prohibited. By any reasonable standard, this pilot program
should be reckoned a complete failure. So what is our government going
to do?
You probably won't be surprised to learn that they are rolling out the
same program nationally! That's right: they're spending over $700
million (Canadian) to try to get back guns. By the way most of that
money will be spent on the administration costs: there is considerable
doubt that there will be any money left to pay for the guns they are
hoping to buy.
Meanwhile, gun violence in this country continues to climb to
unprecedented levels. Strangely enough, the criminals don't seem to take
the gun laws very seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xrf9LVIWMk [6 minutes]
On Jan 9, 2026 at 2:53:01 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
The federal government of Canada has been talking about "buying back"
guns
I'm *still* waiting for someone, anyone, to explain to me how the government can buy back a gun it never owned in the first place.
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