TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Liberal Party-led administration said 723 firearms have been surrendered under its May 2020 confiscation order targeting government-licensed individuals and businesses.
723 Surrendered Firearms
- Individuals have surrendered 657 firearms.
- Businesses have surrendered 66 firearms.
- The Liberals didn’t say how many of each volunteered their goods for destruction without compensation. (Was it hundreds of people, or three people with large collections?)
- They also didn’t say if the guns were surrendered by living owners, or by the heirs of deceased owners to avoid jail.
Source
- TheGunBlog.ca obtained the information today from the Library of Parliament.
- The Liberals filed the data in the House of Commons yesterday in response to Question Q-2640 from Conservative Member of Parliament Shannon Stubbs.
- Stubbs didn’t respond to an e-mailed invitation from TheGunBlog.ca to comment.
Data Table
The response to Stubbs’s question about the May 2020 confiscation order includes a data table showing the Liberals have obtained 2,123 firearms that were reported to the RCMP Registrar of Firearms.
Six reasons are listed: Detained, Found, Safekeeping, Seized – criminal investigation, Seized – public safety, and Surrendered.
The only relevant row in the table is “Surrendered” firearms.
- Police don’t need the confiscation order to seize your gear for “public safety,” for a “criminal investigation,” or any other legitimate action.
- Businesses and individuals don’t need the confiscation order if they wish to turn in their goods for “safekeeping.”
Confiscation Fantasy Is Dead
- The Liberals say their May 2020 attack targets government-licensed individuals and businesses who own about 150,000 rifles and shotguns. They acknowledge industry estimates exceed 500,000.
- Almost all owners intend to keep their gear amid massive institutional and grassroots opposition to the crackdown.
- The Liberals have wasted about $72 million in taxpayer wealth on their confiscation fantasy. In 2019, they estimated its direct costs would swell to almost $2 billion.
- They had initially aimed to complete their seizures by April 2022.
- The fantasy died the instant the Liberals pushed their deadline until after the next election. The party is expected to lose by a landslide to the Conservatives, who oppose the attacks on honest citizens.