If they hadn't burned significant amounts of goodwill leading up to the program launch with repeated statements of "just buy the ones that aren't prohibited", only to turn around and prohibit those.
If they had actually paid market value.
If they actually promised to pay out at all.
The LPC needed buy-in from everyone, and instead we have Minister Anandasangaree talking out of both sides of his mouth, and no actual justification for this except "we clearly aren't able to enforce the laws that we already have, so let's do something and hope it plays well politically".
"we arent coming for your hunting rifles or historical artifacts" -bans half of WW2 rifles. There's probably 600,000 SVT-40s in Canada. They were the SKS of the previous generation.
When I was 19 for $200 you could get an SVT-40 and 440 rounds of soviet ammunition, these sort of deals were on for years. Minimum wage was about $8 an hour at the time so $200 was a lot more money.
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u/stevedrums Apr 06 '26
Australia seized over 600k when they did this. Looks like Canadians trust their government far less