This is a totally UNSCIENTIFIC observation, and should not be taken at face value... however.
On Gunpost, there are currently 10,540 "firearm" ads as of this writing.
If you filter by provinces, the number (and percentage out of 10,540) are as follows:
Ontario: 3,580 (33.96%)
Alberta: 1,907 (18.09%)
British Columbia: 1,517 (14.39%)
Quebec: 1,176 (11.15%)
Manitoba: 736 (6.98%)
Nova Scotia: 567 (5.37%)
Saskatchewan: 457 (4.33%)
New Brunswick: 450 (4.27%)
Prince Edward Island: 58 (0.55%)
Newfoundland: 55 (0.52%)
Territories: 37 (0.35%)
Now if we look at the gun grab stats based on 47,000 declarations, and the numbers per province, the percentages would therefore be something like:
I'm no mathematician, but if we compare people trying to sell stuff vs. people declaring their prohibited stuff - we can see that the percentages based on what we can assumed to be the number of PAL/RPAL owners to be roughly the same.
Ontario leads the way in private sales, and declarations. Nova Scotia is right at the middle...
But more importantly, most provinces only switched 2 positions in both lists, so it gives us a rough idea of how many people by percentage of a known sum - are actively trying to get rid of their stuff.
Again this shouldn't be taken as fact since this is only circumstantial evidence at best, using only two sources - one is a website, and the other is the government...
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u/_MlCE_ Mar 20 '26
This is a totally UNSCIENTIFIC observation, and should not be taken at face value... however.
On Gunpost, there are currently 10,540 "firearm" ads as of this writing.
If you filter by provinces, the number (and percentage out of 10,540) are as follows:
Now if we look at the gun grab stats based on 47,000 declarations, and the numbers per province, the percentages would therefore be something like:
I'm no mathematician, but if we compare people trying to sell stuff vs. people declaring their prohibited stuff - we can see that the percentages based on what we can assumed to be the number of PAL/RPAL owners to be roughly the same.
Ontario leads the way in private sales, and declarations. Nova Scotia is right at the middle...
But more importantly, most provinces only switched 2 positions in both lists, so it gives us a rough idea of how many people by percentage of a known sum - are actively trying to get rid of their stuff.
Again this shouldn't be taken as fact since this is only circumstantial evidence at best, using only two sources - one is a website, and the other is the government...