Have the Liberals abandoned their “assault-style” firearms ban？
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The Liberal government's gun buyback has been a complete failure, and now gun control advocates are putting pressure on the government to do more than they have already done to get rid of illegal guns. In this episode, we talk to Tracy Wilson of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights about what's going on, and why gun owners should not be satisfied until all guns are confiscated.
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By the way, the gun buyback, the quote-unquote gun buyback that the liberals had promised
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that was supposed to cost between $400 million and $600 million, now projected to be over
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$2 billion, and they have spent, I forget exactly how much, but they've spent millions
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of this without even getting a single firearm yet.
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So the liberal government on its gun buyback has managed to spend millions and millions
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of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, and not actually got any guns.
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I've said this, like, I don't support government waste, but I'm happy that the gun buyback does
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not exist, because the gun buyback is not a buyback, it's a confiscation scheme that the
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government is trying to pretend is just this, like, administrative priority.
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Now, because the government has been so bad at doing this, because they've been so incompetent,
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they're now getting pressure put on them from the gun control groups and advocates that
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were pushing this in the first place, who think that the liberals are basically, as the
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word from Polly Susuvia, abandoning, abandoning efforts on this.
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Now, I think gun owners would probably love it if that were the case.
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She is with the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.
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So there are a few different moving parts on this.
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I mean, one is that, I mean, you, I know, are obviously tied into the firearms issue,
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And I'm sure on one hand, you don't like government wasting money, but as a gun owner,
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you're probably thrilled that they haven't managed to make this gun grab happen on their
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But why is it that they're now getting pressure from the gun control advocates?
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Why are they unhappy when, from my perspective, the liberals have basically given them everything
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Well, they actually won't be happy until the, you know, doors of gun owners like me across
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the country are kicked in by law enforcement and our stuff is forcibly confiscated.
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I've said right from the beginning, it doesn't matter how far the liberals or any other government
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goes to appease them, they'll never be satisfied.
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So we saw with C-21 and the amendments G-4 and G-46 that they had to withdraw.
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They went right after hunting rifles and they're going to do it again.
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So, you know, the anti-gun lobby also professes that there are all kinds of assault style
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firearms that have evaded this ban, you know, and escaped it.
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Well, at the same time, I think most Canadians know that real assault rifles were banned back
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in the seventies and this is just a further assault on legal gun owners.
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You have this attitude among some gun advocates that they will not give an inch.
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And I think that there's some merit to that because people like us and certainly people
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like you have seen what happens when the inch is given.
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And the one trend, certainly with this liberal government that's become clear is that wherever
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they say the line is drawn between an acceptable and an unacceptable gun will change the second
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And I think the so-called assault rifle thing conundrum is an example of that where they
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say the line is here and then, okay, and then handguns now.
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And then at a certain point, I think you're right that I don't believe the gun control advocates
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would be happy until grandpa's musket, the last musket from, you know, 1787 is being
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pried out of some old farmer's hands in Saskatchewan, will they?
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I mean, if you look at it, it's not even just the last nine years of liberal regime, but
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for over 30 years now, Pauly Susouvien has been calling the shots.
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The increase in gun control just in the last 30 years is substantial.
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We've got some of the strictest regimes in the world, and yet that's still not enough.
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They won't be satisfied until our doors are kicked in and until they can basically abolish
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And I know they profess on social media that that isn't true, but they haven't been very
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Every time they get what they want, they move that goalpost a little bit more to include
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So, you know, and at the end of the day, whether I'm a gun owner or a taxpayer, I'm
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also a mom and a grandma, and I see the increase in violence.
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And I think what could those resources do for our communities if they were better invested
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You know, we're getting a little bit off topic here, but there was a big seizure in Peel
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region, which is in the greater Toronto area last week.
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And police see 71 guns and, you know, all of the liberals were jumping up and down saying,
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oh, great, this is Justin Trudeau, you know, in his gun control in action.
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69 of the 71 guns were smuggled in from the United States.
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So zero connection whatsoever to any restrictions that any government would put in on lawful gun
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And the remaining two may have been smuggled in as well.
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So it's possible that every single one of them, but certainly the majority were, but
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at the end of the day, gun owners are a minority in Canada.
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There are, you know, maybe 2 million of us in a country of 36 million or so.
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How do you communicate this to a lot of people who just in their quiet, peaceful, suburban
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existence don't think of guns and are really susceptible to the first bit of propaganda
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Well, I mean, I would like to think that we live in a country where we don't attack somebody
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just because they're a minority, just because that's not how most Canadians live.
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That's a whole different rabbit hole we could go down.
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But at the same time, I think this does touch every Canadian, whether you own a firearm or
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not, because number one, there's the property rights issue.
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So if the government, if I followed every rule and regulation, regardless of how ridiculous
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they are, complied with everything, and at the end of the day, it doesn't matter, they're
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going to come and take my stuff, then that should sound big red flags for all Canadians.
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And secondly, when nobody thinks about violence happening to them, and of course, we, the majority
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of us will never experience it at that kind of lethal level.
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But I'm sure that everybody who's been a victim of violence thought that too.
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So as we see crime rates rise in communities all across the country, I think everyday Canadians
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are going to start saying like, hey, what is going on here?
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The focus has been on the wrong people, for at least for the last nine years, if not the
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And I think it's time to sort of recenter that balance and get back to being serious about
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To go back to the assault rifle ban, the so-called assault rifle ban, one of the claims that the
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group has made in its criticism here is that tens of thousands of quote-unquote assault
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style guns prohibited in 2020 remain in the hands of their owners.
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Now, this is referring to, of course, the fact that, you know, my AR-15 has not been able
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I still mind, but I'm not allowed to legally do anything with it.
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But the whole point here is that if you are minded to follow the law, like I am and like
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you are, that gun is providing no safety hazard to anyone, whether I'm legally allowed to
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And as we've talked about in the case of Peel Region, the police that are seizing these
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guns have said time and time again, these guns are unregistered, they're unlicensed owners.
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But this word assault rifle does so much heavy lifting for the Liberals here.
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And I know I've talked about this, but for people listening that are not as in this,
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what does that word mean or what does it not mean?
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Well, it's globally understood that the term assault rifle refers to a firearm that has
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What they're targeting with this May 2020 OIC and what Polly Susuvian keeps referring to
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as assault-style firearms, by definition, is something is styled after something else.
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So what they're talking about is more modern sporting arms.
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So I know as a female, a young, well, not a young, an older female of small stature,
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I know for me, it's really important to have a firearm that is compatible to my size and
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And, you know, a lot of these modern firearms have all kinds of adjustable stocks and a
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So anything that looks scary is now, you know, on that ban list and, of course, in the target
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But at the same time, you know, this is technology advancing.
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I mean, my truck sitting in my laneway right now doesn't look anything like my grandfather's
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truck that we used to drive on the farm with, right?
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So it stands to reason that a lot of my guns don't look like my grandfather's either.
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And the reality is, and again, I don't want to give them any ideas here, but if you were
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to want to have an intellectually consistent and honest position, it would be that all
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guns are capable of killing and all guns, therefore, should be banned.
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This idea of drawing an arbitrary line that is ultimately based on appearance is just so
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And again, I don't want to push that argument too far because I know there's going to be
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some liberal member of parliament that will say, yes, you're right.
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And I think certainly if they thought they could, they would.
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But the reality is when they draw these lines, they do not make any sense.
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And that's how you know it's just political theater.
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I mean, when you start, you know, you've got this big basket of firearms and of course,
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There's all kinds of them, all shapes and sizes and colors and functionalities.
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The problem is, is that it'll never be enough for them.
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No matter what they stick in that bandbasket, it'll never be enough for them.
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And they actually complain about new firearms on the market as well.
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Because as the rules and the laws change with this ever-changing liberal gun control, what
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manufacturers do is they, you know, they get inventive and creative and they start creating
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And Paulie Susouvier says, well, what they're doing is circumventing the law and making new
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Like, it's absolutely breathtaking to see the desperation they've got.
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I'm not going to ramble on too long about this.
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But we are four years down the road from when they first banned them.
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Every single firearm is still exactly where it was before, safely locked away in the gun
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So, you know, Canadians need to ask themselves, maybe we took a wrong turn here and focused
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Tracey Wilson, VP of Public Relations for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.
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