PJ The Belt - April 02, 2026


Canada's Gun Grab Just COLLAPSED!! - Defiant Owners Prevail


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Length

8 minutes

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Word count

1,277

Sentence count

86

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Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

3

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The gun buyback program has been a big hit with most gun owners saying no to the government's plan to confiscate all assault style weapons. Now, the program is running out of money and the government has no idea what to do with all the guns.

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00:00:00.000 Individual owners are advised all assault-style firearms must be disposed of or permanently deactivated before the amnesty period ends October 30th, 2026.
00:00:12.360 The yield hasn't been great. Liberals, I think, would even agree when they look at the numbers.
00:00:18.720 90% of the gun owners have basically told the government, look, go kick rocks. We ain't returning anything. We ain't giving you anything. You want them? Come and get them.
00:00:30.000 well this is it canada's gun grab just failed and the liberals know it for years they told you this
00:00:38.540 was inevitable that low-abiding canadians will line up hand over their property and say thank
00:00:44.420 you but that's not what happened firearms owners said no then the provinces said no and the police
00:00:51.560 did the same and now the federal government is stuck with a confiscation scheme that looks strong
00:00:57.500 on paper but has no one willing to enforce it and even though they'll never admit to it publicly
00:01:03.700 their little authoritarian experiment is blowing up in their faces it's actually collapsing
00:01:09.840 at the montreal shooting club
00:01:15.140 the gun buyback program has been a target for criticism 90 of these of our of the gun owners
00:01:24.400 I've basically told the government, look, go kick rocks, we ain't returning anything.
00:01:30.280 The Lachine Outfitter sells everything from semi-automatic weapons.
00:01:34.120 Some of them are distinctively made for hunting, like something like this would definitely be made for hunting.
00:01:38.680 To handguns. But this one, an M1, is now on the banned list,
00:01:43.820 along with around 2,500 other models deemed assault style by the federal government.
00:01:49.300 These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.
00:01:59.040 The Prime Minister at the time adding the program will make Canada safer, an assertion Frank Nardi doesn't agree with.
00:02:06.640 Criminals don't care about your laws. They don't care about the buyback. They just want to buy a gun. 0.99
00:02:11.360 The Quebec government supports the initiative and Montreal police confirm officers will be involved to help collect the gun.
00:02:18.120 We have a ban on most assault weapons in Canada and that's not going to change
00:02:24.280 whether or not there's a big participation or not in the buyback.
00:02:29.000 Heidi Rathjen has been advocating for strong laws for years. 0.99
00:02:34.120 After she was a student during the Polytechnic shooting
00:02:37.800 and was outspoken for increased measures following Dawson College.
00:02:41.960 She pushed for the ban but adds it should be expanded 0.98
00:02:45.720 And she's particularly concerned about this gun, the SKS, one of the most popular at Nardi's shop.
00:02:52.660 The government has shied away from dealing with this weapon.
00:02:57.500 Even if owners don't participate in the buyback now, they'll have till the end of October to get rid of any bent weapon.
00:03:04.760 I'm worrying about giving you any. You want them, come and get them.
00:03:06.520 I would rather show my objection by not declaring.
00:03:10.540 You're asking for me to give up my hobby, give up tens of thousands of dollars worth of firearms and do something else.
00:03:16.060 Is the restriction to what I'm allowed to do or what I'm allowed to own, is that worth what we're getting on the other side?
00:03:22.540 There's going to be no change to homicide rates, to mass shooting rates.
00:03:25.900 None of this stuff's going to change.
00:03:27.340 And this is where the mask falls off.
00:03:29.880 This isn't just policy anymore.
00:03:32.140 This is behavior.
00:03:33.580 This is what it looks like when a government demands compliance.
00:03:37.420 They just keep pushing harder anyway.
00:03:39.580 not because it's working but because they can't afford to back down because backing down would
00:03:45.880 mean that they were wrong and they can't have that so what do they do they escalate they get
00:03:51.960 more aggressive more confrontational almost like they're not in control anymore they're reacting
00:03:58.500 and that's where the abuse of power part comes in because when you're used to getting your way
00:04:05.000 and suddenly you don't, you start looking for other ways to force the outcome. And that's
00:04:10.800 exactly what this feels like. Not confidence, not leadership, but desperation. And you can feel it
00:04:18.020 in that room. You can hear it in the way they're talking. This isn't a we've got this under control
00:04:23.260 kind of thing. This is a why are you not listening to us type of situation. Today is the deadline for
00:04:30.360 Canadians to submit a declaration to participate in the federal government's assault style
00:04:34.920 firearms compensation program, the buyback program as it's known. It's open to all individual
00:04:40.260 firearms owners in Canada who possess eligible firearms that were prohibited back in May of 2020,
00:04:47.360 December of 2024 or March of 2025. The weapons have to have been acquired prior to their relevant
00:04:53.980 prohibition date. The government advises that while participating in the buyback program is
00:04:58.860 voluntary. Compliance with the law is not. Individual owners are advised all assault style
00:05:05.200 firearms must be disposed of or permanently deactivated before the amnesty period ends
00:05:12.040 October 30th, 2026. But I'll pick up one word there, confiscation. This is not about confiscation.
00:05:17.780 This is about voluntary return of firearms for compensation, for confiscation. So let's talk
00:05:25.400 about the biggest lie when it comes to this. This buyback was never voluntary. It was a compliance
00:05:32.760 based confiscation. And Ottawa's entire plan depended on one thing, obedience. But here's what
00:05:40.380 they didn't plan for. Canadians did not obey. Most legally owned firearms have not been turned in. 0.85
00:05:48.240 Owners aren't lining up. They're digging in. Now look at the provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan
00:05:54.760 have openly moved to block enforcement, passing laws and directives that prevent local police
00:06:01.240 and municipalities from acting as federal confiscation agents. And then there's the
00:06:06.040 police themselves. Police leaders across the country have been very clear. They do not want
00:06:12.340 this job. They're not set up for it. And they're not interested in turning millions of law-abiding
00:06:17.740 citizens into criminals for Ottawa's politics. So here's what you're left with. A gun grab with 0.68
00:06:24.260 no buyers, no enforcers, and no provinces. Just press releases and delays. Today, March 31st,
00:06:31.900 is the last day gun owners can participate in Ottawa's buyback program. According to Public
00:06:38.040 Safety Minister Gary Ananda Sangri, more than 51,000 assault-style firearms have been declared
00:06:43.540 by gun owners since January. That number, it's just a fraction of the 150,000 banned guns Public
00:06:49.940 Safety Canada says are circulating inside the country. Could be more. For a closer look at how
00:06:55.400 the program is faring, we're joined by Francis Langlois, firearms policy expert and professor
00:06:59.560 of history at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Good morning to you.
00:07:03.700 Good morning, Nancy.
00:07:04.800 So this program relies on local police to collect these banned firearms from owners. Most local
00:07:09.540 police forces have said, no, we're not going to do that. We're not going to participate.
00:07:13.500 Premiers across the political spectrum have really criticized this policy. So
00:07:17.060 Why is the buyback program facing so many roadblocks?
00:07:21.780 I think there are two main reasons.
00:07:23.840 First, a few of the prime ministers and the municipalities feared, I would say, the wrath of gun owners and people who are against that type of policy.
00:07:38.700 And the other thing is that people want to be as far as possible from possible problems that could appear, a bit like what happened at the beginning of the 2000s when the federal government was trying to put on, create a registry that cost so many millions of dollars.
00:08:01.920 So I think that both reasons explain why most provincial and municipal authorities are keeping our existence from the program.
00:08:14.320 Why would we want to take on that whole headache?
00:08:16.320 Alberta and Saskatchewan have passed legislation barring the program from their jurisdictions.