r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Aug 17 '26

Recurring Canadaguns Politics and Debate Thread

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u/Cock_ball_dickin Aug 17 '26

Imagine the unholy tantrum poly is gonna throw when the SCC case is won in our favour. Perhaps I’m being too hopeful

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u/FunkyFrunkle Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

I have a feeling that the government wants nothing to do with buying back pistols.

You can fudge NR numbers all day long. The long gun registry was killed off over a decade ago, so trying to accurately estimate how many affected NR guns there are is impossible. Restricted guns on the other hand are known. The numbers come out every year in the firearms report.

With over a million pistols in civilian possession, the government cannot escape or fudge the numbers and would have no real choice but to budget for over a million units in a buyback which is not feasible. It would bankrupt the country.

Their goal is to slowly kill handgun possession by attrition.

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u/Dill_Pickle_Tears Aug 18 '26

It would be truly impossible to implement and could be seen as unnecessary. Even NZ and AUS - both inspirations for the buyback - have suppressors and handguns which are legally accessible to some degree.

I’m sure common folk wouldn’t care, but still. Handgun prohibition would be an exponentially larger beast than the current bans - which they clearly will be unable to execute on successfully.