Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro says his government will direct RCMP in the province not to enforce the confiscation of newly prohibited firearms from what were once legal owners.
"We will not tolerate taking officers off the streets in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners," Shandro said Monday.
Shandro says the province will use a dispute clause in the provincial police service agreement to keep officers from being re-purposed to enforcement of the federal assault weapons ban.
"All Canadians whether firearms owners or not should be concerned about the scapegoating of law abiding citizens and the targeting of their property," said Teri Bryant, chief firearms officer for Alberta.
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"It's going to cost billions of dollars to change how things are," said James Bachynsky, a co-owner of the Calgary Shooting Centre.
He says no clear case has been made that public safety will be improved as a result of the ban.
"They're treating us as bad guys, they're attacking us at every opportunity and claiming that somehow it's affecting public safety," Bachynsky said.
A buyback program has been floated but so far, gun owners say they are being offered pennies on the dollar. Even so, the price tag is estimated to exceed a billion dollars.
Many expect the price tag to be even higher.
"Even if these costs can be contained to $2 billion dollars, that would cover the costs of some 12,000 person years of regulatory and enforcement personnel, or a fully-paid 20-year career for some 600 people," said Bryant, reinforcing the province's stance that money to combat gun crime is being spent in the wrong place.
The provincial government is also filing legal challenges, seeking intervenor status in a half-dozen cases currently before the courts. Those cases generally challenge the constitutionality of the federal weapons ban.
Shandro says federal government informed him last week it was planning to move ahead with the confiscation of approximately 30,000 firearms in Alberta this fall.
if you want to lower crime, maybe focus on criminals? I dunno just seems smarter than confiscating legally obtained property from those least likely to offend
09-27-2022, 06:07 PM
gwill
the sovereignty act certainly came quicker than expected.... biggest surprise is theres a lack of outrage. Weird
09-27-2022, 10:38 PM
JRSC00LUDE
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Originally Posted by littledan
if you want to lower crime, maybe focus on criminals? I dunno just seems smarter than confiscating legally obtained property from those least likely to offend
You still think it's about crime? Come on now.
09-28-2022, 12:59 PM
D'z Nutz
Could Shandro please shut the fuck up until Trudeau gives me $1337 for the lower I paid $130 for and never did anything with? Hahaha
09-28-2022, 04:01 PM
tirebob
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Originally Posted by D'z Nutz
Could Shandro please shut the fuck up until Trudeau gives me $1337 for the lower I paid $130 for and never did anything with? Hahaha
Uhhhh… Go on CGN and sell that shit! You might get more than the turd would give you these days. You think trucks are bad for inflation? Try guns!
09-28-2022, 05:22 PM
killramos
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Originally Posted by tirebob
Uhhhh… Go on CGN and sell that shit! You might get more than the turd would give you these days. You think trucks are bad for inflation? Try guns!
You can’t transfer AR’s anymore…
09-28-2022, 06:01 PM
Yolobimmer
Who's doing the sell back, and whose packing in grease and burying in the back yard?
09-28-2022, 06:21 PM
tirebob
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Originally Posted by killramos
You can’t transfer AR’s anymore…
If it just parts?
09-28-2022, 06:28 PM
littledan
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Originally Posted by yolobimmer
who's doing the sell back, and whose packing in grease and burying in the back yard?
cosmoline!
09-28-2022, 06:30 PM
Yolobimmer
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Originally Posted by littledan
cosmoline!
Love the smell of cosmoline in a wooden Chinese crate.
09-28-2022, 08:06 PM
killramos
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Originally Posted by tirebob
If it just parts?
It’s only eligible for the buyback because the “part” is legally a gun.
09-28-2022, 08:30 PM
dirtsniffer
How is it a buy back if the government never owned it?
09-28-2022, 08:52 PM
killramos
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Originally Posted by dirtsniffer
How is it a buy back if the government never owned it?
You think we are allowed to own things in Canada?
Cute
09-28-2022, 09:55 PM
schurchill39
Sounds like Sask is following suit
09-29-2022, 09:36 AM
jutes
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Originally Posted by schurchill39
Sounds like Sask is following suit
Provinces not abiding by woke federal ideology that makes no sense logically is something I can get behind.
Now for that Carbon tax that is meant to control the weather.....
09-30-2022, 09:15 PM
D'z Nutz
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Originally Posted by tirebob
If it just parts?
According to the law, this is the firearm, not the sum of all the parts. So hey, if Trudeau wants to treat it as a whole gun and pay me for it accordingly, go right ahead.
Manitoba has consistently stated that our approach to gun violence is to focus on those who use weapons in crime, not law abiding gun owners.
On September 13th, I wrote the federal Minister of Public Safety, The Honourable Marco Mendicino, regarding the “buy-back” program for guns that federal Liberal government is enacting.
In that letter I stated the following:
“We feel many aspects of the federal approach to gun crimes unnecessarily target lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals, who are unlikely to follow gun regulations in any event. In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime.”
We will be bringing these concerns, along with the shared concern of Saskatchewan and Alberta, directly to the federal government next month in meetings of Ministers of Justice and Ministers of Public Safety.
10-02-2022, 09:00 PM
ThePenIsMightier
^This is the way. You want to declare it a Prohibited WeApoN, you better pay me during amnesty.
*3D printer goes burrrr.
