In a press conference, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that the government will be reinvigorate Justin Trudeau's gun grab, seizing hundreds of thousands of firearms that were otherwise purchased legally by Canadian firearms owners across the country. Gun owners and non-gun owners alike should be deeply concerned.
00:00:18.840He's Beijing's banker, not our prime minister.
00:00:30.000I'm Derek Vildebrand, publisher of the Western Standard.
00:00:54.980Today, Liberal Leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he was going to reinvigorate Justin Trudeau's gun grab, seizing hundreds of thousands of firearms that were otherwise purchased legally by Canadian firearms owners across Canada.
00:01:13.300gun owners and non-gun owners alike should be deeply concerned to talk about it i've brought
00:01:20.040in our uh friend of the western standard uh president of the canadian shooting sports uh no
00:01:25.860sorry executive director of the canadian shooting sports association tony bernardo uh thank you for
00:01:30.940joining today tony well thank you derek it's nice to be here well no because we're always talking
00:01:36.480about bad news we never have good things to talk about it's always bad news i i don't like talking
00:01:40.500to you for that reason. I understand that. And with a little bit of luck in the grace of God,
00:01:46.700we'll have a poly of government and then we can talk about all the good things.
00:01:50.680Well, we'll see. I mean, liberals are leading right now, so we have to take it seriously when
00:01:55.120they say this stuff. So I guess we'll just start with the background here. Over the course of the
00:02:02.040Trudeau's three terms, he announced, you know, we won't get into every part. There's just too
00:02:09.260many gun bans and restrictions to to be able to get into in background here but you know uh banned
00:02:15.500the sale of handguns uh which triggered the biggest run on handgun sales in canadian history
00:02:21.340i remember as soon as the announcement came through i went down to like there was this lines
00:02:25.060up out the door at cabela's people were just buying literally everything they could get their
00:02:28.500hands on um but he uh you know the liberals really cracked down on the so-called military assault
00:02:35.140style, uh, rifles, um, banning them, reclassifying them from non-restricted to prohibited and from
00:02:42.400restricted to prohibited, but they never actually really got around to collecting any of them,
00:02:47.640really. Uh, because, you know, they figured out that as soon as they actually start going around
00:02:52.720stealing people's guns, people are going to, uh, lose them. I should be careful what I say,
00:02:57.040because I might lose my guns if, uh, you know, the government starts collecting them. This will
00:03:01.040This right here is going to be used as Exhibit A against me.
00:03:04.280This is going to be hilarious getting played back in court one day.
00:03:07.120But so today, Mark Carney said that a Mark Carney liberal government will take responsible action to keep assault style guns off our streets while respecting the longstanding traditions of hunting and sport shooting in Canada.
00:03:21.600To do that, they will reinvigorate the implementation of the recent gun buyback program for assault style firearms.
00:03:30.320Tony, how many assault-style firearms are currently circulating among very dangerous Canadian civilians?
00:03:39.040I honestly have no idea, nor does anybody else, because those firearms are never made apparent until they're actually used.
00:03:47.620And it's very, very rare that those types of firearms get used.
00:03:52.660I can tell you that the only assault-style firearms that I know of on the street
00:03:57.820are the ones that are in the hands of police officers,
00:04:01.700and I'm not really terribly worried about them.
00:04:05.020Crime gangs, it's very rare for those types of firearms to be used.
00:05:09.980Well, I think that they're going to force our CMP to do it during the press conference. Carney specifically mentioned Canada Post and using the post office and he specifically mentioned our CMP.
00:05:28.680But that leaves, like, huge gaping voids in this entire process.
00:05:35.840Now, for example, several provincial governments have said they're not going to dedicate a single dollar to the collection of firearms.
00:06:26.640But it's been Alberta and Saskatchewan, who have taken control of their own chief firearms officers, they've not only said they won't dedicate any money, they've passed legislation making it illegal for federal officials to go and collect firearms.
00:06:40.460uh so even if the feds found a way around the alberta and saskatchewan fire arms protection
00:06:47.220legislation would they essentially take centrally controlled rcmp officers
00:06:52.820deploy them and go door to door across all of canada because yeah there's this canada posting
00:06:59.920where we're all expected like lemmings to go and drop our guns off a canada post because you know
00:07:04.740that's obviously a safe and secure place to leave your guns um but assuming as i am that the most
00:07:12.240firearms owners do not just take their guns and drop them off like good little liberals uh
00:07:18.620they does that just leave then door-to-door raids of homes i i don't see how it could be anything
00:07:25.780else and when you've got 2.4 million gun owners in canada right now you've got an awful lot of
00:07:33.080rage are going to have to do. And of course, the second the first raid happens, everything else
00:07:38.040just simply vanishes off the planet. And, you know, the Canada Post thing, Canada Post has
00:07:44.180made it very, very apparent that they do not have the ability to do this. They don't have the
00:07:50.600security to do this, and they don't have the will to do this. The RCMP police union said they don't
00:07:57.220want to do it. They don't want to be cast as the bad guy. I mean, even as recently as a day before
00:08:02.900yesterday, Durham Region Police put out an endorsement of Pierre Polyev and clearly state
00:08:09.180in it that gun bans and buyback programs don't work. Nobody wants to play. I don't know how
00:08:16.660they're going to reinvigorate this in any way, aside from maybe just, I don't know, hiring
00:08:23.740private security people and somehow empowering them to go door to door. But I mean, this is a
00:08:30.900recipe for disaster i mean something will happen and it's not going to be good you know one of the
00:08:37.660saving graces of the trudeau government was that he was so stupid he he cared about the announcements
00:08:42.700i am banning assaults military assault style weapons and we're going to have a buyback program
00:08:48.980and trudeau was satisfied with the you know a lot of it's a common criticism of the liberals from
00:08:54.920the left and right was that the announcement was the objective not announcing something to achieve
00:09:00.680something that was a saving grace they were too incompetent and too concerned with the political
00:09:05.780aesthetics of things to actually follow through and steal people's guns they just wanted to announce
00:09:09.440they were stealing if they could have found a way that was easy yeah they sure they would have but
00:09:13.500they ran into these very practical problems uh there is no large-scale rcmp in ontario and
00:09:20.580quebec and i think newfoundland and i'm not sure about the other atlantic provinces but big big
00:09:25.320sections of canada with no direct major rcmp uh the canada post thing is not going to work people
00:09:32.760aren't going to comply with it the enforce the actual enforcement of this is nightmarish in
00:09:38.400proportions with an uncooperative gun owning community uh carney strikes me if if you know
00:09:47.040if he is elected and the term is prime minister here he strikes me as someone who is unfortunately
00:10:09.960Are you more concerned that Carney would actually succeed
00:10:13.060in stealing guns than Trudeau on that account?
00:10:16.540I am to a degree, but bearing in mind, of course,
00:10:19.440He's still got 87% of his cabinet as recycled Trudeau ministers, and they're just as incompetent as they were last year.
00:10:29.100So I don't really see, I mean, Carney in and of himself is not going to be able to do the strategy and the logistics needed to make this thing happen.
00:10:42.240And I really still, to this day, do not understand how they're going to make this work under any circumstances.
00:10:50.260We're not talking about, you know, one or two guns.
00:10:54.260We're talking hundreds of thousands of them and their rifles.
00:10:58.060They're big. There's no place to put them.
00:11:01.440You know, the police stations, they don't have room for them.
00:11:04.260What are they going to do? Hire secure warehouse facilities that have to be manned 24 hours a day in order to store these prohibited weapons?
00:11:15.760I mean, the money simply isn't there to do this. And we're talking gigantic sums.
00:11:22.560It's beyond the scope of what most people think it is.
00:11:26.720It's not simply go ahead and collect 10 guns and put them in a room with a lock on it.
00:11:32.260you know that this is going to be in in areas of population for you know calgary edmonton
00:11:39.460of course you know that they're going to have to have warehouse facilities
00:11:43.420and they have to be secure 24 hours a day and manned uh well you know be great the government
00:11:50.640can steal your weapons and they're too incompetent to protect them so you can go steal them back
00:11:54.360that'd be great the government steals them in the morning you go steal them back in the afternoon
00:11:59.120I don't think it's stealing to take back what is already yours.
00:14:49.140But I think that perhaps we would hope that we haven't descended far enough into a socialist society that the right to innocence, presumed innocence, would still maintain.
00:15:09.140maintain. Um, I don't trust the, the Trudeau, uh, liberals. I don't trust the Carney liberals
00:15:18.120and they're all the same thing, of course, but I don't trust what they've done with courtrooms
00:15:23.880either because we we've seen some terrible, uh, travesties of justice in courtrooms and you don't
00:15:31.540have to look too far to see those. Right. Let's, uh, well, this flows from it. He says he wants
00:15:38.680the toughen oversight of firearms licensing and strengthen the enforcement of yellow and red flag
00:15:43.900requirements. Those are kind of two different pieces. Maybe let's talk about the second part
00:15:48.340first, yellow and red flag requirements. You might face completely erroneous bullshit charges for
00:15:57.740something. I've previously been open to the idea of yellow or red flag laws, at least depending on
00:16:06.220the severity of the charge they're facing you know if you're facing a murder charge
00:16:10.480okay maybe it's unfair but when you're facing charges you already do have restrictions placed
00:16:17.260on your freedom even though it's not proved in court i i i'm sympathetic to the idea of it for
00:16:22.860serious charges i was i'm sympathetic for in general before uh you know i i faced uh some
00:16:29.620bullshit thing myself that got laughed out of a court but in the meantime i i had a flag on my0.73
00:16:34.340license it's taken off now because it's been completely defeated um but it was a very minor
00:16:39.400charge and i and i couldn't legally go shoot at the range in the meantime my gun i still had my
00:16:44.380guns but i couldn't take them to the range uh my guns weren't seized but that that made me a bit
00:16:50.700more suspect of these kinds of laws uh you know where where do you stand uh is there a place for
00:16:57.000some flag laws for maybe very serious crimes uh where someone's still pending charges you know
00:17:01.640has charges pending a trial uh or do you think it's just too open to abuse at all well it is
00:17:08.360open to abuse when they start saying we need more and more and more of it but we've had red and
00:17:12.680yellow flag laws for 30 years this isn't new you know if you you commit an assault expect to lose
00:17:21.480your firearms even if it's temporary you know that's that's not new and so when they say they're
00:17:28.680going to strengthen them i don't know what else they can do except maybe go with just a basic
00:17:36.600allegation of wrongdoing it warrants a a no-knock raid and your stuff is stolen from you which you
00:17:46.600never get back easily you know we we've had lots of experience with people
00:17:51.640who've had firearms seized for one reason or another and sometimes it takes years to get the
00:17:57.480the property back even if the person's acquitted. All right, well, the last one I want to get into
00:18:05.480here is he says he wants a legislative requirement for the RCMP to classify new firearms models
00:18:10.420entering the market instead of the gun industry. What implications would that have? Because the
00:18:15.940RCMP already has the right to classify guns however they like, however arbitrarily they like.
00:18:21.120It's very, it's very arbitrary, obviously, if it's, you know, if it's got a, you know, if it's got a, you know, if the stock isn't wood and the gun is, you know, like black and looks scary, they say, oh, it's an assault rifle meant for war.
00:18:37.540But what impact would this have having the RCMP classified new firearms models entering new, new firearms entering the market rather than the industry?
00:18:46.080Well, for the vast majority of firearms imported into Canada, the classification of the firearm is readily apparent.
00:18:56.100You know, if it's a handgun, for example, that does not meet the specifications of a 12-6 prohibited handgun, then it's automatically restricted.
00:19:05.680If it's a long gun and it meets the criteria for a non-restricted firearm, that is also readily apparent.
00:19:14.440Yeah, but they arbitrarily pick all the time. I mean, we could talk. I mean, the well, you know, what's funny is the SKS is the only gun in mass circulation in Canada that is issued to militaries for war. And that is the one that is not not that they should, but it's not banned for certain demographic political reasons that we both know, but won't we won't get into.
00:19:38.880Maybe it's a little spicy, but it's used by, you know, groups that might vote liberal, whereas other guns are used by groups that would never vote liberal.
00:19:47.020It's extremely, you know, you think of the Ruger Mini.
00:19:49.760That is very obviously should be a non-restricted long gun rifle.
00:20:17.460I mean, really, it's always a crackerjack surprise when you open the box.
00:20:23.560The firearms you're talking about right now, there's one called the crypto, and it was just prohibited a couple of weeks ago.
00:20:31.780When the Feds put in the descriptive of what is a so-called assault-style weapon, the company that makes the crypto, which is Canadian, specifically designed the gun so it did not meet any of the criteria, and the RCMP banned it anyway.
00:20:56.900So, I mean, the goalposts are shifting all the time.
00:21:00.040They're totally arbitrary, despite the fact that there is a definition now in law.
00:21:06.680The RCMP still has the ability to ban anything they don't like.
00:21:10.780And they've been doing this a long time.
00:25:19.340And, you know, you will hear occasionally that 85 percent of the guns that the police sees in the Commission of Crimes are smuggled in across the border.
00:25:30.280And people would say, well, what about the other 15 percent?
00:25:33.220Well, what they don't tell you is that most of that 15% are firearms that are lost and stolen from the police and from the military.