So… it looks very much as though the Canucki government wants to go on a gun-confiscation expedition:
Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.
“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”
And the response:
“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection.”
Remind me again how they know where to do these collections confiscations, and from whom?
Oh yeah, that’s right: guns and gun owners are “registered” up there in the Great White Empty Space.
So the next time some Leftoid asswipe suggests registering guns and gun owners here in the U.S., please remember the above proposed action by the Canucki gummint.
Afterthought: Canuckis being the milder version of the North American tribe, I’m kinda curious to see to what degree they’ll resist this foul confiscation drive. I’m also very curious to see how many Mounties (active or retired) will actually show up to perform it.
They don’t need to send Mounties door to door. They can simply debank gun owners safely from a distant air conditioned office, just as they did to those truckers years ago.
I’ve given a bit of thought to this, and I agree. We have hand gun registration in michigan so they know exactly what I own. All they need to do is send me a letter telling me to bring the below listed items in or they shut off my sources of income, my bank account, my medical insurance etc. There are folks who can just go off grid but most of us cant. They would not have to send a uniform by. A note about government employees, be they cops, military or whatever. Most will obey the entity that pays them. You spend a bit of time in mil/gov you will find protecting those benefits and pension will dominate your thinking. I did walk away from the mil at 12 yrs. My choice was kids or job. Cant think of much else that would have motivated me to leave. I did retire from state service and I have seen folks convince themselves of some marginal stuff to not rock the boat, and I’m sure that if required to officer friendly will convince himself he’s doing the proper thing. Further thought. Years ago I was talking some “ pry them from my cold dead hands” stuff and my ex wife asked me, would you really shoot that 19 year old guardsman knocking on your door? Are you prepared for death or prison?
Kim, I think of something you wrote many years ago about your experience in South Africa.
Everyone you knew then wanted some firearm that the government did not know about.
As to Canada now, how many Canucks are wishing that they had a firearm or two the Soviet Socialist Republic of Canada didn’t know about, so when bad stuff happens, they have a chance of seeing tomorrow.
I expect a LOT of guns were sadly lost on hunting trips in the tundra or fishing trips on the many lakes and rivers in the last few years.
I’m worried about butch’s debanking tactic, that’s something they’ve demonstrated a willingness to use, and I don’t know of any defense against it.
I served with Canadian Air Force in NORAD decades ago, and again in NATO AWACS in Yurp. Like most countries, I suspect, their military is decidedly more conservative than the rest of the populace. I respect them. There are some in Canuckistan who think like “Muricans”. I don’t know how many.
But they are further along the road we are traveling. Much further. Along with Britain, much of the rest of Yurp, and Australia. How their LE officers would react is something I would not want to speculate on. Think about what our military was becoming under Obama and then Biden. Canuckistan has been trying to weed out the normals and conservatives harder for longer than we have.
Simply because we have a much larger military, much of whom serve 4-6 years and get out, as opposed to career soldiers, airmen, and sailors, we have an lot of veterans in LE agencies. I have no clue how many Canuckistanian veterans are in LE agencies. None. I would like to think “The Mounties” may not want to carry out these orders. But I sure would not bet on it. DEI hiring practices could have overwhelmed the hiring of conservatives up there.
I do think the first blue state to try disarmament down here would have disastrous consequences. It would be open season on the officers of the agencies involved, I think. I’d like to hope, anyway. But Canuckistan? It’s anybody’s guess.
I would expect the lower French part of Quebec and the lower part of Ontario to surrender without complaint. The rest of Canada — not so much. they will all be off fishing and on hunting trips when or if some member of the RCMP shows up (or at least that will be what the reports will show)
This is a solemn moment.
It grows dark.
Our brothers are but only a few minutes from Solzhenitsyn O’clock.
Soon, the horn of Valhalla may sound.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Hate to say it but Spicey times are inbound.
Worst times are coming. And I just wanted to be left alone.
The state of CT has records on every firearm bought in the state since the 90s I believe and demanded people register magazines as well as re-register many firearms over the past several years. What they don’t know is what a person brings with them when moving from another state. Also, the state’s records of what you possess is regularly wrong and cannot be corrected. I think you could request a copy of your inventory according to the state. I don’t know if you still can.
The real threat will come from the state via economics. You’ll get your money frozen then seized. Any professional license will be suspended then renewal will be denied. Same with a driver’s license. The bank will then take your house through foreclosure etc. The big bloated government is big enough to give everything is also big enough to take everything.
The easy part is the soap box and ballot box. The jury box is harder and the cartridge box and pine box are even harder to use. Get involved with your local candidates and get the statists voted out of office. Far too many politicians are ignoring petitions, protests etc. They only understand being fired at the ballot box.
Good luck Canada. you’re going to need it.