Imagine the federal government decided it was going to confiscate a bunch of guns, and they were hoping the states would help. Now, some states wouldn’t balk in the least, but a lot of states would. I can see California jumping at the chance while Texas just points and laughs, for example.
Up in the Great, White North, Canada had a similar scheme in mind.
The idea was that while they were bound and determined to take away so-called assault weapons, they’d get the provinces to help.
Nearly half of them have now decided to say, “Nah. We’ll pass,”
The Yukon government has formally stated it will not participate in the federal mandatory firearms buyback program, placing the territory among a growing group of provincial and territorial governments resisting Ottawa’s gun control policies.
The announcement came during the recent Speech from the Throne, delivered by Commissioner Angélique Bernard, which outlined the government’s priorities for the upcoming legislative session.
In the address, Bernard affirmed the government intends to “support the rights of legal gun owners in this territory,” signalling continued recognition of vetted firearms ownership, hunting traditions, and cultural rights.
The speech also referenced the importance of hunting for First Nations communities and rural Yukoners, noting firearms are widely used for subsistence harvesting, protection from wildlife and food security in remote regions.
The decision not to participate in the buyback aligns Yukon with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, all of which have publicly declined to assist in the federal initiative.
I find this genuinely interesting.
Canada lacks any kind of protection for gun rights, which means they can kind of do what they want and no court has really got the grounds to stop them. Canadians tend to favor gun control far more than Americans, which means one would imagine that most of the provinces aren’t likely to even blink at helping with a gun confiscation effort.
And yet, here we are with 40 percent of the provinces declining to take part in this absolute trainwreck of a program.
They don’t have a Second Amendment to stand on, but they’re finding other ways to stand, including indigenous rights. I honestly don’t care, because they’re standing for the rights of Canadians to keep their guns.
Canada hasn’t been a free-for-all on firearms in a long, long time. No one alive today who owns a gun lawfully didn’t have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to do so. These are the people Canada is trying to disarm, and they’re doing it stupidly.
I’m surprised to see these provinces stand up to Ottawa, but I’m pleasantly so.
It’s nice to see that even in a gun-control bastion like Canada, some people still value telling the federal government to urinate up entwined hemp instead of just capitulating to a gun control requirement like this.
It does my little anti-authoritarian heart proud.
Now, we need to sit down and talk with them about a bunch of the other stupidity that the country has been engaging in and see if we can get a gun rights sanctuary movement taking place up that way.
Watching Canadian anti-gunners’ heads explode over that would be so worth it.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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