Juno News - August 20, 2025


Kris Sims mentions the lessons from the failed Long Gun Registry


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2 minutes

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413

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32


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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is fighting the federal government's plan to confiscate millions of firearms. They argue that this confiscation of private property should not be allowed and should not affect individuals who own certain kinds of guns.

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00:00:00.000 Now, when we're getting into what's happening here, this is not going to affect all firearms
00:00:06.020 owners. It is going to affect firearms owners who own specific kinds of guns. And I wanted to
00:00:12.400 reiterate, a lot of folks in the media keep calling this thing a buyback. It is not a buyback. I did
00:00:19.460 not purchase my gun from the government. This is a confiscation of private property, which was
00:00:25.280 legally obtained, and now they've changed the rules. Do we have an estimation as to how many
00:00:31.560 people, how many gun owners this is affecting, this rolling confiscation that it sounds like
00:00:37.380 the federal government wants to go ahead with? Well, it's funny. The federal government says
00:00:41.880 this affects somewhere around 140,000 firearms, which is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody believes
00:00:48.220 that for a second. There are somewhere around 90,000 AR-15s. AR-15s are registered. They're
00:00:55.740 restricted firearms. So the government knows who has them and how many there are. And so for them
00:01:01.380 to say, after all of these successive bans and all of the bans via variant status from the RCMP,
00:01:09.740 that somehow the total number of affected firearms is 140,000 is ridiculous. It's probably,
00:01:15.580 Nobody knows for sure, because the overwhelming majority of these firearms are unregistered.
00:01:20.000 The government doesn't know who has them or where they are or how many there are.
00:01:25.320 But we think there should be somewhere maybe between half a million, 800,000, maybe up to over a million.
00:01:32.140 So it's a lot of guns.
00:01:34.220 Based on my experience and the family I have, that feels about right.
00:01:38.280 Right. You start thinking about who among my family has certain kinds of firearms legally obtained.
00:01:43.300 And then you kind of work out the ratio. That feels about right. Now, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we're right there with you. So we are fighting against this gun confiscation. Last we checked, this current push to confiscate people's private property is going to cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars. That's with a B.
00:02:05.000 And for folks who are saying, oh, well, their government's going to come in under budget, that's never happened.
00:02:12.520 And I can point back to, of course, the long gun registry that they tried to do.
00:02:17.740 Back then, they said it was going to cost around $2 million with an M.
00:02:21.780 After the smoke all cleared, they were getting close to $2 billion with a B by the time they were done.
00:02:28.500 And it didn't make Canadians safer.