Despite Failures, Canada Proceding with Wrecked ‘Buyback’ Plan

Canada’s test of its so-called buyback program went about as well as you’d expect. In other words, it was a complete disaster. The rate of people taking advantage of the “buyback” was ridiculously low, and this is in a country where they tend to follow the rules more than we do.

It failed, but that’s not doing jack to the Canadian government’s desires to take away everyone’s so-called assault weapons.

In fact, the main event–the full-scaled “buyback”–kicks off today as people there will have to declare if they want money for the property the government intends to steal from them.

Starting Monday, gun owners will have until the end of March to declare their intention to participate in the federal program compensating individuals for turning over one of their government-banned guns, should they want the chance at money. 

After that date, gun owners who possess one of the more than 2,500 makes and models of guns which the government has deemed too dangerous for public use will not be able to receive compensation.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who formally announced the launch of the program on Saturday, suggested not every gun owner who registers to participate would be guaranteed compensation.

“I urge you to declare as early as you can because submitting a declaration does not guarantee compensation,” he announced. “Declarations will be processed on a first come, first serve basis.”

Public Safety Canada, the department responsible for administering the program, confirmed that around $250 million had been set aside for payments, in a not-for-attribution technical briefing from officials. It would determine compensation based on date of when the declaration was submitted, with the money expected to cover up to 136,000 guns.

Once submitted, participating firearms owners would be provided with information on collection efforts sometime in the spring, the department says.

Regardless of whether they choose to participate in the government program, gun owners with listed firearms face a deadline of having to turn them over to local police or have them deactivated, a process that renders them not useable, by the time an amnesty period shielding them from liability expires at the end of October, the federal government confirmed on Saturday.

Now, anyone interested in complying with the law will, undoubtedly, declare unless they deactivate them, which isn’t likely for most owners. Those who opt to do so will likely only deactivate guns with some sentimental value.

Regardless, this is the first step in a massive gun confiscation scheme, but they expect people to comply with it out of the goodness of their hearts and the desire for a paltry sum. Based on what we saw in the test, though, the $250 million set aside for this should be pretty flush still when this is all over.

Then again, I could be wrong. Canada isn’t the United States, even though one would be hard-pressed to find the Canadian in a group of Americans. At least until he says “aboot” or something.

And this is what far too many people want here in the United States. They want to take our so-called assault weapons, even as members of the same side of the political aisle continue to advocate for violence against not just federal law enforcement, but people like you and me. They want to take away our guns so we’ll be powerless when the mobs come for us.

Canada is taking a very wrong step today.

We can’t save them from themselves.

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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