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IronNoggin:
Federal government plans to confiscate $4 billion worth of private property via gun ban

Over the past few years, based on claims that “fewer guns mean safer communities,” the Trudeau government has cracked down heavily on Canadian firearms owners. In addition to introducing increasingly restrictive regulations, the government has essentially erased the value of more than $4 billion worth of private property (i.e. firearms) by ordering its confiscation. Property that was legally owned and used now must be forfeited to the government to purportedly “reduce gun violence,” but none of the owners have been accused of a violent act. Nor were any likely to commit a violent crime. Adding insult to injury, the administrative costs of these confiscations could reach into the billions.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/federal-government-plans-to-confiscate-4-billion-worth-of-private-property-via-gun-ban

IronNoggin:
10.67 In February 2001, the Department told the Government it had wanted to focus on the minority of firearms owners that posed a high risk while minimizing the impact on the overwhelming majority of law-abiding owners.

However, the Department concluded that this did not happen. Rather, it stated that the Program’s focus had changed from high risk firearms owners to excessive regulation and enforcement of controls over all owners and their firearms.

The Department concluded that, as a result, the Program had become overly complex and very costly to deliver, and that it had become difficult for owners to comply with the Program.

10.68 The Department said the excessive regulation had occurred because some of its Program partners believed that

• the use of firearms is in itself a “questionable activity” that required strong controls, and

• there should be a zero-tolerance attitude toward non-compliance with the Firearms Act.

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/bvg-oag/FA1-2002-2-18-eng.pdf

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