r/canadaguns 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/GokuBlank Mar 19 '26

Getting my RPAL in 2 weeks, hoping to fuck that the government gets some sense and reverses some of this insane lawmaking that's happened.

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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/GokuBlank Mar 19 '26

C21 should have been balled up and used to clean a pigs asshole years ago. I genuinely think a large part of the issue is that the anti-gun community is being headed by survivors of the Polytechnique school shooting, and with the southern example of wild West gun laws it's easy to provide fact based evidence for more gun control. However banning guns based on looks is just absolute lunacy and anyone who saw that and voted it through with full understanding should be checked for a brain worm. I am ALL for gun control and responsible gun ownership, it is just super annoying and frustrating that direction is headed. It isn't about responsible gun ownership, it's about no gun ownership. I really think that a tax stamp system would work so well here where if you want prohibited firearms you simply have to pay the government X amount of money for a stamp in order to own that and use that legally. Same with suppressors extended magazines and everything else a firearm enthusiast would want to own and use. That way it's more monitored, the gov't makes money off of the gun owners and their wanton need for tacticool pewpews. Hell I would happily pay a couple thousand a year if it meant I could go to a range and fire a gun I actually want, the way it was actually designed to be fired. I honestly think the fact that they are not monetizing it is absolute Insanity, there's a market there even if it's small and the increased taxation revenue in each province or territory would be worth it because it's going in place something that doesn't exist. Anything over a zero is a win. Although I do recognize that the people that tend to make it to higher places in government also tend to not have the most intelligent view on some things.

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u/some_guy2024 Mar 19 '26

That is one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever read here. Begging the govt to charge for tax stamps to use what we’ve already safely used/owned for years? 🤮 The fact you think that US policy gives anyone “fact based evidence” for more gun regulation up here when we’ve never had fact based regulations is just comical. When will people like you get it through your heads? The LPC hates gun owners and cares not one iota about us. They will happily regulate gun ownership out of existence, will not conoensate anyone and if you don’t comply they will ruin your life. This is what is currently ongoing, how you fail to see this is just wild.

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