r/canadaguns • u/Uhuru2019 • May 18 '26

Application / Regulation advice Status of Buyback

Anyone know what the current status of the buyback is? While I oppose it in principle, I bought a Springfield M1A for pure novelty and jumped at the chance to get virtually all of my money back for it. I went through the application process and now, crickets...

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u/iTzDusty May 19 '26

You will likely get an email in the next week to confirm an appointment and sign a funding agreement. Depends on how early you were in the process. I received mine two weeks ago, others I know received theirs last week. My appointment is in about two weeks at my local detachment.

Ignore all the salty responses, 99% of them are from people that dont even have any prohibs to begin with. If I listened to the crowd here I wouldn't be buying a Carmel guilt free and would be stuck with $22,000 in prohibs I cant use.

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u/WSBBroker May 29 '26

When did you submit ? Early or late

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u/iTzDusty May 30 '26

Pretty early, I think within a few hours of it being announced.

If you havent received a box yet, check the portal and there should be a tracking number. My wife had her address listed wrong 

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u/WSBBroker May 30 '26

We will see what happens. I’m in SK

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u/iTzDusty Jun 02 '26

Just to update you, did my dropoff today, took like 10 minutes, was painless. Within an hour my portal account was updated showing all of them were verified and payment will be issued.

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u/WSBBroker Jun 03 '26

Thank you for the update . Sask implementing the whole exemption until you get fair compensation thing almost implies that they will participate in the program if the owner is comfortable with the money being offered by the gov. So maybe I don’t need to be concerned . The $ offered for most of mine were almost what I paid . So kind of dumb not to try

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u/elemsova Jun 22 '26

Same in BC. Did my dropoff, took about 10min. Didn't even have to get out of the car lol.

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u/chaugh1 15d ago

Did you include magazines? If there’s no extra payment for magazines I’m not including any

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u/iTzDusty 15d ago

Nope. I stripped everything that wasn't functional, so all qd mounts, irons, anything that isn't a core functional component. The gun needs to be "fully assembled" so things like triggers and bolts should be included. I swapped any part of value, like geissele triggers, out with the cheapest mil-spec stuff i had, same thing with pistol grips and such.

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u/chaugh1 15d ago

Thanks bro. Appreciate the reply. I’m dropping off on July 31, located in GTA.

I’m getting $600 for a gsg15 I paid $450 for lol

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u/iTzDusty 15d ago

No problem at all, hang on to that cash and invest it so that when better days come we can buy all the cool shit again lol. Took me about 2 weeks to get my direct deposit