{"id":1172590,"date":"2021-12-30T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172590"},"modified":"2021-12-30T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:19:40","slug":"hardly-any-canadians-have-turned-in-their-now-outlawed-firearms-to-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hardly-any-canadians-have-turned-in-their-now-outlawed-firearms-to-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Any Canadians Have Turned In Their Now-Outlawed Firearms To The Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhardly-any-canadians-have-turned-in-their-now-outlawed-firearms-to-the-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government &nbsp;\u2014 a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some&nbsp;90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),\u201d iPolitics <a href=\"https:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2021\/12\/24\/most-owners-are-holding-onto-their-banned-weapons-before-buyout\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) can confirm that, as of Dec. 9, 2021, 18 firearms (formerly classified as restricted) affected by the May 1, 2020, Order in Council (OIC) have been deactivated,\u201d RCMP headquarters spokeswoman&nbsp;Sgt. Caroline Duval told iPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, there have been 142 OIC-affected firearms recorded as surrendered to a public agency for destruction since May 1, 2020,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP seemed to suggest Canadians are merely waiting for a long-promised gun buyback to be created by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before complying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an individual or business were to relinquish a newly prohibited firearm or device before the implementation of the buyback program, they won\u2019t be eligible for compensation once the program is announced,\u201d RCMP told iPolitics last week.&nbsp;\u201cGovernment officials are currently in the process of refining requirements and developing program design and implementation options for a buyback program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/canadians-arent-turning-in-their-guns\/\">report<\/a> from The Reload cited numerous issues with Canada\u2019s plan to collect now-outlawed legally purchased firearms from citizens, noting of gun owners\u2019 general \u201chesitancy\u201d to hand them in (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p><em>The announcement comes as the April 2022 deadline for the \u201cassault weapon\u201d confiscation order rapidly approaches. The Canadian government\u2019s plan to collect the affected weapons has been rife with problems since it was announced. Consulting fees and enforcement planning have resulted in a bloated budget&nbsp;before even a single weapon has been \u201cbought back,\u201d and a concrete plan for the buyback program is yet to be finalized. <strong>It now appears affected gun owners are hesitant to give up their guns. \u2026 With such a low rate of gun owners relinquishing their weapons up to this point, further doubt has been cast on the feasibility of making gun owners comply by the April 30, 2022 deadline.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a significant number do not turn in their guns over the next four months, the government will have to decide whether to take criminal action against Canadian gun owners for keeping guns they legally purchased,\u201d The Reload added.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., prominent Democratic politicians have not shied away from their support for gun bans and buyback programs. Notably, Vice President Kamala Harris, while running in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary,&nbsp;\u201cexplicitly advocate[d] for the confiscation of what she estimated to be tens of millions of legally owned firearms,\u201d The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/kamala-harris-brings-gun-confiscation-support-to-dem-presidential-ticket\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to have a buyback program and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,\u201d Harris said at an event in October&nbsp;2020. \u201cIt\u2019s got to be smart. We\u2019ve got to do it the right way but there are five million [assault weapons] at least, some estimate as many as 10 million, and we\u2019re going to have to have smart public policy that\u2019s about taking those off the streets but doing it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government \u00a0\u2014 a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some\u00a090,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada. \u201cOnly 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}