r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 06 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/floydsmoot Jun 09 '22

In the event of a handgun ban it will cost the government and Canadian taxpayers likely over a billion dollars

How will it cost the public billions? As I understand it, they will confiscate your handguns when you die and not pay you a nickel for them?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

Hahahahaha imagine trying to ban ARs and still not having a plan to confiscate 200k OICd rifles 2 years later AND THEN trying to ban over a million handguns hahaha liberals really insane

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u/CalibreMag Jun 09 '22

I mean, they're already well over a hundred million into the AR ban, and like... Nothing has happened. These are the same people that ran the gun registry; ain't no way a handgun ban doesn't end up costing billions. Even if they just confiscate them, the overtime in police budgets would be billions (not that we even have the police to work that overtime).

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

There's so much incompetence when it comes to gun legislation that I legitimately don't see a confiscation happening. At the very worst people will have safe queens until the apocalypse.