For all the gun control activists in America who continually shout, “NO ONE IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS!” while at the same time pushing ever-increasing gun control, our neighbor to the north is giving reason for vigilance.
Canada is demonstrating if enough citizens become complacent and disengaged, then yes — the government will, in fact, come for your guns.
March 31 was the deadline for gun-owning Canadians to “declare” and “register” for the government’s forced-buyback (read confiscation) program if they own any of the 2,500 different types of firearms that the government deemed were “designed for war” and “for killing people.”
That includes AR-15-style semiautomatic centerfire rifles — or Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) — but also thousands of varieties of hunting firearms and those purchased for self-defense purposes. So far, the compliance rate with the mandatory declaration is a paltry 2.5 percent.
If gun owners refuse to participate in the Canadian government’s forced confiscation program — which would pay taxpayer funds for something they already purchased and own — they can “stay within the law” by “deactivating their firearms at their own expense, turning them in to local police for no compensation or exporting them if they hold an export permit,” according to Canadian media.