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 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