NAGR Takes Up-Close Look at Canada’s Gun Confiscation Effort

Our brothers and sisters in the Great White North are in a tough spot right now. Their gun rights have been under assault for years. Once upon a time, the differences in gun laws between there and here could arguably be called a wash. They had some restrictions we didn’t have, but short-barreled rifles weren’t restricted at all, so it wasn’t all bad.

Then things got bad.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got caught up in a “brown face” scandal regarding one of his cosplays, and, as former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam did, he focused on gun control, and the media dropped the entire thing.

Canadians were screwed from that moment on.

Now, the government is cranking up the confiscation efforts for so-called assault weapons, and Taylor Rhodes wrote about it for the National Association for Gun Rights.

Rhodes talked about the differences politically between there and here, including the parliamentary system and the lack of a Second Amendment, then got to this:

From “just a ledger” to confiscation

If you’re an American who hears “registry” and thinks we don’t have that here, I’ve got bad news: we do. Every background check you’ve ever filled out, every 4473 form, is stored at the retail level. That data is not sitting in some void. It’s in binders, boxes, and hard drives in gun shops across the country, all of it traceable back to you and your firearm. And even worse, the ATF has been caught quietly digitizing these records in a grim office building in West Virginia. The reality is that we are far closer to Canada’s model than most gun owners are willing to admit. I don’t say this as a scare tactic. It’s simply the harsh truth about the America we’re living in today.

Now look north. Canada repealed its all-long-gun registry years ago, but the infrastructure crept back in – retail ledgers, model-by-model restrictions, and eventually sweeping prohibitions. Handguns were registered. AR-15s and a ballooning list of “variants” were declared illegal. Retail logs, whether on paper or in point-of-sale systems, created a roadmap that let the government know enough to target categories when it was ready.

Then came the “compensation” scheme: open a portal, tell owners to declare their firearms, promise they’ll be considered for payout, fund it just enough to scoop up the low-hanging fruit, then close the window. Anyone left is suddenly in unauthorized possession of a prohibited firearm, a felony that can carry years in prison.

That’s incrementalism perfected. Catalog, freeze, prohibit, dangle compensation, then criminalize by attrition. Bureaucracy doesn’t need 100% compliance when it can weaponize time, paperwork, and fear.

Rhodes also notes that this isn’t a door-to-door confiscation like many people envision would be necessary. However, it doesn’t really need to be, now does it?

Sure, some people might hold onto their now-illegal firearms, but they can’t do anything with them. They can’t practice at the local range. They can’t train with them in any other way, really. Hell, they might even have trouble buying ammunition for them.

And Rhodes talks about some of the ways people will get jammed up just the same, until there’s enough fear that there’s absolutely no one to push back anymore.

Go read the whole thing. It’s very good, and he brings up so many more points that I just don’t have the time and space to get into, and honestly, I’d just parrot what he says.

For now, understand that anytime someone talks about registration, they have to know they’re setting the stage for eventual confiscation. That’s especially important as the ATF continues digitizing records, thus building an illegal database of gun buyers.

The stage is set.

Do not let us go down the road Canada has gone down. Yes, we have a Second Amendment, but we’ve also seen how some courts can rationalize literally any restriction.

The best move is to not let the laws get passed in the first place.

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