Trudeau Liberals to seize formerly legal guns from Canadians to give to Ukraine

The Trudeau Liberals on Thursday said they plan to confiscate formerly legal guns and give them to Ukraine.It was part of a new raft of gun confiscation orders coming down from the Justin Trudeau government.A total of 324 "unique makes and models of assault-style firearms" would be "added to the list of prohibited firearms in Canada," announced Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc at a press conference Thursday afternoon.There is actually no such thing as an "assault-style" firearm; there are automatic, semi-automatic and single-shot The prohibition takes effect immediately, and indigenous communities will be provided with certain race-based accommodations and exemptions. On Friday, December 13, the federal government will "table regulations to ensure that no firearm can come into Canada or be sold in Canada without first being approved by the RCMP," said LeBlanc. "And no later than the end of January, we will table additional measures in Parliament to address the rates of gun violence in situations of gender based and intimate partner violence."Defence Minister Bill Blair told reporters the Department of National Defence “will begin working with the Canadian companies that have weapons that Ukraine needs and which are already eligible for the social firearm compensation program in order to get these weapons out of Canada and into the hands of the Ukrainians.”“For companies that choose to participate in this initiative, the Government of Canada will pay them with the same amount, exactly the same amount, what weapons committed to Ukraine as they would have paid them to participate in the existing compensation program,” said Blair. “Every bit of assistance that we can offer to the Ukrainians is one step towards their victory and a worthwhile investment of our collective time and efforts — Ukrainians are fighting not only for their sovereignty and freedom, but they're also fighting for the rules-based international order.”“Our support for Ukraine in this way will be steadfast and committed. We will continue to support Ukraine with all of the help that we can to ensure that they need resources and support that they need to win this war.”.Liberals set to introduce additional gun control legislation.Tory leader Pierre Poilievre called the move a "stunt" that "attacks licenced and law-abiding hunters and sport shooters."Trudeau's policies have "caused a 116% hike in gun violence in nine years," wrote Poilievre on social media Thursday morning."He still has not implemented his long-promised 'gun ban, and now he’s promising a new one while he reduces prison sentences for rampant gun criminals and allows 99% of shipping containers to go uninspected.".Tony Bernardo, CEO of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, told the Western Standard it’s ridiculous to send these firearms to Ukraine. “These are not weapons of war,” he said. “Ukraine wants cruise missiles. They don’t want Canadian sporting arms.” “This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If the guns were weapons of war, they wouldn't have been allowed into Canada.”“They're giving them to Ukraine, and Ukraine doesn't want them.”“They're .22 — are they being sent there for shooting tin cans?”Bernardo said this fight has been going on for decades. The Trudeau Liberals four years ago listed 1,500 makes and models of firearms as prohibited. The federal government then made a “supplemental list,” which got a lot of pushback from First Nations groups. “And then they withdrew the supplemental list — this is that supplemental list coming back,” he said. The CSSA CEO said this was a last-ditch effort for the Liberals to “punt their useless pots down the street” before the next federal election, which is scheduled for October, but could come sooner in the case of a successful non-confidence vote.“This is bogus. This thing is a scam. The government knows they have until next October,” said Bernardo. “Mr. Poilievre is virtually certain to not support this ridiculous kind of gun control law. So these firearms are never going to have to be bought out.”.Liberals withdraw controversial amendments to gun control bill.Franco Terrazzano, Canadian Taxpayers Federation national director, told the Western Standard "the gun confiscation is a huge taxpayer boondoggle in the making.""The government has already spent tens of millions of dollars and hasn’t even bought a single gun back yet," said Terrazzano."The costs keep ballooning and taxpayers have every reason to worry — the tab is only getting bigger.""Trudeau must cut our losses and scrap this ineffective and expensive gun 'buyback' boondoggle."The last time the Liberals tried expropriate guns from licenced owners, it resulted in illegal firearms crimes skyrocketing. Plus, their unsuccessful (but much trumpeted) "gun buyback" program to this day has not collected a single gun. "Buyback" is a misnomer, because the government never owned the guns in the first place. Further, the term implies the program is consensual.

Trudeau Liberals to seize formerly legal guns from Canadians to give to Ukraine

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