r/canadaguns • u/SKSFan79 • Mar 19 '26

News / Politics / Activism Liberals quietly cut money available for compensation in "buyback" by nearly $200 million

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EhXUU2OV6w&t=3s

According to Calibre Magazine looking at Treasury Board documents,, the Liberals have apparently cut the money available for compensation in their "buyback" from $250 million to $64.8 million, with no notice to current or future participants.

We tried to to tell everyone their guns would be seized and they'd get nothing.....

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u/Murray3-Dvideos Mar 19 '26

Its the Liberals, they will never reverse it. grandfathering at best is maybe what will happen.

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u/GokuBlank Mar 19 '26

There is definitely a path to reversal, the laws are based on aesthetics and looks and not function. Nothing that is based in ludicrous rhetoric will ever be permanent.

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u/Murray3-Dvideos Mar 19 '26

Canadian gun owners have always lived under ludicrous rhetoric.... that's why for 30 years you could own a SVT 40 but not a Dragunov, a M1a but not a FAL, a BRS-99 but not an a UZI. The Liberals are physically incapable of letting it go. And the Conservatives fail to reverse things to the fullest due to PR fatigue.

There is no dimension where a liberal leader could be seen putting AR-15s and the like back on the shelves again. Best you can hope for as a new shooter is no new bans, some C21 compliant semis, and maybe suppressor legalization under a CPC majority.

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u/adhq Mar 19 '26

Suppressor legalization will only ever happen if non gun owners revolt against the forced full-blast noise from hunters' guns and "demand" that the government legalize suppressors. I would personally be stoked if they start by at least legalizing them for airguns. It still amazes me (not positively) - every time I think about it - that even airguns have to have the factory baffles removed before being legal for sale in Canada. It's friggin' airguns, you morons!

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u/Newftube Mar 20 '26

Let's be realistic lol. They won't legalize suppressors for any reason. They'll just ban hunting rifles over insert meaningless arbitrary decibel level here.