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A new warning is coming out of the Second Amendment community, and it’s coming from north of the border.
According to a recent segment from Gun Owners of America’s “One in the Chamber,” Canada’s gun control efforts may be heading in a direction that a lot of American gun owners have been talking about for years: confiscation.
The claim centers around Canada’s ongoing struggle to enforce its sweeping firearm bans. Back in 2020, the Canadian government banned roughly 1,500 models of firearms. Then in 2022, it effectively froze the handgun market. By 2025, officials added another 179 models to the banned list and rolled out a mandatory buyback program.
On paper, that sounds like a full-court press. In reality? Not so much.
SEE ALSO: Canada’s Gun Buyback Is Failing
GOA’s breakdown points to what it calls a massive compliance failure. While the Canadian government has suggested a 50 percent participation rate, that figure is based on the number of firearms they budgeted to buy, not the number actually in circulation. Estimates put the number of affected rifles closer to 2 million, while only about 67,000 were turned in. That’s a compliance rate hovering around 3 percent.
Now the conversation is shifting.
With the buyback deadline passed, Canadian officials have indicated that law enforcement, specifically the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be tasked with “collecting” the remaining firearms.
That word is doing a lot of work. Because when the government knows who owns what, and where they live, “collection” starts to look a lot like confiscation.
GOA argues that Canada’s national firearm registry plays a key role here, making it possible for authorities to identify and locate gun owners directly. And that’s where the warning to American gun owners really kicks in.
The broader argument isn’t just about Canada. It’s about the path:
- Ban certain firearms.
- Expand the list.
- Restrict new sales.
- Push a buyback.
- Then deal with noncompliance.
That sequence is what has people paying attention.
The GOA segment also makes another point that’s been echoed for years: laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns. The transcript highlights how criminals in Canada are still reportedly using illegally modified firearms, including handguns outfitted with conversion devices, despite the country’s strict regulations.
So while law-abiding citizens are being told to turn theirs in, the people actually committing violent crimes aren’t exactly lining up. That disconnect is part of what’s fueling the criticism.
There’s also a resource argument buried in all of this. The idea of sending federal law enforcement door-to-door to recover firearms raises obvious questions about priorities, especially when violent crime remains an issue in major cities.
SEE ALSO: Canada Homeowner Shoots Armed Intruder!
But zoom out a bit, and the real focus of the GOA message is here at home. The takeaway isn’t subtle: this is being framed as a cautionary tale.
The argument is that once a government starts down the road of broad firearm restrictions (especially paired with registries), it doesn’t just stop at bans. Enforcement becomes the next step. And enforcement, eventually, means going where the guns are.
That’s why GOA continues to push back against gun registries and broader federal gun control efforts, pointing to the Second Amendment’s “shall not be infringed” language as a clear line in the sand.
At the same time, the segment leans heavily into political engagement: voting, grassroots activism, and holding elected officials accountable. As a way to prevent similar policies from taking hold in the United States.
And that’s really where this lands. Is Canada actually heading toward widespread door-to-door confiscation? That’s still unfolding. But the bigger question for readers here is simpler:
If that’s the direction things go when compliance fails… what does that mean for how these policies play out anywhere else?
And more importantly, is this a realistic warning, or is it being used as a rallying cry?
Let me know where you land.
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Selling your gun to the Chekas in a Government “Buyback” to prevent crime, is like cutting off your dick to prevent rape!
I hope they light thier ass up when they come to get them. Rebellion must happen, blood will be shed if 5hey continue down this road.
I would like to share a true story. I live in Colorado and have two friends who are police officers. One is a Boulder City Officer and the other a Longmont City officer. This conversation I had with them was well before all this anti-2nd amendment stuff probably about 12 or so years ago.
I asked both of them separately what they would do if their respective Chief told them they had to go door to door collecting firearms. The Boulder City Officer said he would call in sick and the Longmont Officer said a lot of officers would be shot trying to do that. So when Canadian officials send the Mounted Police out to accomplish this task I hope they are aware of the danger they are putting these officers in.
Its one thing to pass a law and another to delegate a very dangerous undertaking to law enforcement that they would not want to take themselves. I hope the Mounties refuse to do this and if they don’t I hope they make it home to their families after they get shot. Funny how these socialist favor the criminals over their law abiding citizens and we all know if it was them being attacked in this manner they would complaining like crazy. Personally, if I was a Mountie I would invite them to come with me and be the one to knock on a door and explain why we were there. That ought to be part of the law as well.
You can pretty much guarantee that legal gun owners will die from confiscation if this happens but let’s not go after criminals but legal law abiding people! The governments want to disarm their citizens to keep them under control. Do not give up your legally purchased firearms under the guise of a buyback “ confiscation “ which it really is. The government cannot buyback something it never owned!
i pity the mounties as the boots on the ground targets! now the rest of the country needs to overthrow the king and elect some decent people to run the place.
You sure talk about kings a lot, paul. We don’t even have kings, at least not since Bob Wills died. They still celebrate him in Turkey.
Maybe you’ve heard about the periodic rallies that keep the kings from regaining power?
what do you mean “we”, you are under british rule and therefore one of king charles subjects.
Give us a display of your Constitutional brilliance and name the last British monarch that issued an edict/order to those subjects – or in any way overruled or supplanted the government in place in the form of the elected Parliament.
Let me help you narrow down your search: it was before our War Of Independence. Trite phrases parroted are most entertaining when used by parrots.
The Great Charter has not stopped the Rothschilds family from obtaining a Coat of Arms more elaborate than the one belonging to the House of Windsor and becoming the real power behind the throne of Great Britain. Jolly old England is dead, and the Celts and Anglo-Saxons are disappearing despite “winning” 2 world wars.
Whether Paul is really the one to blame for the types of flippant statements such as the “no Kings” cliches is missing the scary events in Canada and what this may portend for the US.
If you or BD believe that the events in Canada are NOT a dangerous circumstance for gun owners both the US and Canda, I would like to read that explanation.
what are you that embarrassed to admit your just a subject or just gullible?
Kane: “If you or BD believe that the events in Canada are NOT a dangerous circumstance for gun owners both the US and Canda, I would like to read that explanation.”
If you don’t believe that the only reason that Trudeau’s former advisor Carney is now his replacement Marxist Prime Minister, rather than the Conservative party led by an economist, has nothing to do with Trump threatening to invade and annex Canada just weeks before their national election, I’d like to read that explanation.
Because the Conservatives were poised to win a majority in Canada better than DeSantis has done here in Florida, with one of their main promises being to wipe out Trudeau’s gun ban/confiscation which was done by their equivalent of our Executive Orders – never passed as a law in their Parliament. Until Trumps threat and insults to Canadians, who he well knew had fought beside us in Afghanistan from the first day to the last. Carney raced to proclaim himself the only leader who could defend Canada against Trump, while the Conservative leader already demagoged as a mini-Trump would supposedly surrender Canada to Trump as soon as Trump asked for his surrender.
Did you miss that? Canadian gun owners, overwhelmingly Conservative voters, sure as hell didn’t miss why they’re now threatened with actual confiscation efforts in just a few months – rather than Trudeau’s Order In Council for confiscation being wiped out on the first day of the expected new Conservative government.
Of course there’s dangers on both sides of the border to gun owners. But babbling about Rothchilds supposedly being the British government, the Biderbergers, the Jews, “the subjects” is ensuring you turn a blind eye to how this happens.
Convince everybody that Trump is putting serious effort into just forcing all states to recognize other states’ carry permits – just like all states are now forced to recognize any states marriage license issued to a homosexual couple of either sex.
You can vote for Trump, endorse and support what he does that is positive, and be man/intelligent enough to recognize when he shytes the bed and doesn’t deliver on promises or does things harmful to not just what he promised and our allies – never mind to himself and the agenda he was elected on.
My guess is we won’t have that promised nationwide carry permits when Trump leaves office and there will be no permanent changes to ATF and our gun laws when he leaves office. When the next Democrat government arrives, from the perspective of the Second Amendment, Democrats will simply pick up where they left off when Trump was elected.
But hey! As our consolation prize, we can rush to bytch about Canada and the UK!
Getting personal gratification from beating on Canada – or the USA – after watching Canada’s current gun ban put in place by a minority government with their equivalent of one of our Executive Orders might give you personal gratification. But it’s just a pathetic blind eye – just like ignoring that it was a freely elected British Parliament that waged war on the English citizens in America, not King George who ordered that.
Freely elected Democrats, and some Republicans, have been making war on the Second Amendment since long before the Canadian government decided that handguns had to at least be registered with the local police, whether Canadians intended to carry or hunt with them or not.
They’ve just lost their constitutional right to “arms for their defense” to successive freely elected governments far faster than we have in the intervening 90 years.
My answer to your totally irrelevant question(s) is that I believe Carney overreacted to Trump’s pushing his buttons just like Greenland. Only Greenland did NOT compound the mistake. As a compounding overreaction, Carney has tried to forge a strategic partnership between Canada and China. Carney and you must be impressed with the deals China has made with the “belt and road initiative” throughout the globe and bridge collapses that cannot be explained away. Good luck with that “true patriots love” while China snickers at politicians like Carney or WJC who granted MFN status to failing communist state and received no concession from the resurgent thirsty dragon. Trump would have never made that deal.
I take statements as, Carney has switched from a conservative to “Marxist” over Trump and the” threating to invade,”? I’m pretty sure that at the most Trump said he would annex Canada, hardly a threat on a level greater than the balloon floated over from China. Trump wants to renegotiate the bad trade pacts between the US, Canada and everyone else selling not really buying, hardly a horrible idea. If Carney thinks that Canada was under threat of invasion by the US/Trump (that was your point, right?) then he is for a big surprise with what China will be like as business partner. If the rest of Canada is really afraid of an invasion by the US then disarming the public is the last policy the Liberal Party would be pursuing. False flag.
Canada ended military operations in Afghanistan in 2014 and withdrew except for a small and brief return during Operation Aegis, thus Canada did NOT as you stated, “…fought beside us in Afghanistan from the first day to the last.” The political and financial costs were too much to maintain, and it’s worth pointing out that Trump was NOT the POTUS at that time.
I am not criticizing Canada for avoiding several more years of that money pit, it was a only response to the point you thought was relevant but was inaccurate, not my mistake. IMO, Canada made a bad call in 2001 and a better call in 2014 and thus avoided the Biden bungled US withdrawal.
Did you miss that? Biden ordered the USMC clean up the human fecal matter and other hazmat material that the Afghans drenched throughout the Kabul airport after the Afghans killed 11 Marines, 1 Army and 1 Navy service members. What a degrading send off for the US military but the unvetted Afghans, chose randomly, did really well. So did Zelenskyyy. That sloppy departure, after more than 20 years, was just to get the US into a proxy war with Russia, any thoughts on those facts?
As far as Rothschilds is concerned, that was my counter point to how the crown in England was limited in power by the Great Charter, or in Latin, the Magna Carta. I thought you knew all this and I was pointing out that there is still a powerful and hidden hand in government that no King has ever achieved such power nor has it been checked. My quick proof is a quote of Mayer Amschel Rothschild himself, “let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” What a shame that the inbred Rothschilds family (even more inbred that the Royals) was NOT prevented from gaining control of Europe’s money and plunging nations into financial distress and war. I will NOT hand out a free pass just because the Rothschilds are Jewish or someone might call me a conspiracy theorist and pop of with the lame Bilderberg comment like you just did. BTW, even though the Monarchy is in many respects a figure head, much is still done in the name of the Monarchy such as the CiC of British Armed Forces.
As far as rest is concerned, Trump or anyone else, you take the good with the bad. At least Trump has some good, like shutting the opened border, stopping numerous wars, got rid of NAFTA, striking down the BHO SS rep payee gun ban, duping Greenland into a deal, protecting real women athletes, reigning in DEI, promoting savings accounts, removing bas regulations, forcing out speculation investment in private homes, etc. Trump will certainly fail to deliver on all his promises. Feel free to make any and all lists you like that a former POTUS has compiled of true great achievements. Can’t wait to read.
As far as the Canadians are concerned, I do not target them for hate and I also do NOT want them to be part of the union, NOT “getting any personal gratification” from any those. What was your basis for making the statement below?
” Getting personal gratification from beating on Canada – or the USA – after watching Canada’s current gun ban put in place by a minority government with their equivalent of one of our Executive Orders might give you personal gratification. But it’s just a pathetic blind eye – just like ignoring that it was a freely elected British Parliament that waged war on the English citizens in America, not King George who ordered that.”
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“unaware the the Colonialist “subjects” were under the rule of an elected Parliament”
Not my ancestors. They were from places like Galway and Wicklow who lived under the Crown and the “Penal Laws” and Oliver Cromwell where our ancestorial land was confiscated and we had no vote for Parliament and Parliament nor Queen gave a flip when millions of Irish Catholics died.
Just taking a guess, England (1290)- King Edward I? Having a hard time recalling the details but you might have those facts ready.
Best response possible when you’re Paul, I’ll Lie How I Want/1st Amendment.
I’ll just call you a pathetic useless idiot. A bloviating idiot, flexing ans strutting while completely unaware the the Colonialist “subjects” were under the rule of an elected Parliament. Freely elected by their fellow Brits, selected and voted for by their peers.
BTW, Paul (who I’ll point out is an idiot) the answer to the question you ran from shrieking in fear: the last British monarch who attempted to claim authority over the elected government was Edward The First. And a century before our Revolutionary War, after he tried that, Parliament dragged him out of Buckingham Palace and lopped his head off in public in the streets of one of London’s markets.
No British monarch since then has tried that “ruling their subjects” stuff you’re posturing and flexing still happens. Including Evil King George – who had absolutely nothing to do with the elected British Parliament of the day, taxing, harassing, and ultimately making war on their English subjects in the American colonies.
Thus endith your history lesson for today. (not that I think it will ever take with anyone who’s an embarrassment to our American public education system)
Your move, Paul, I’ll Lie How I Want/1st Amendment
yep cant dazzle with brilliance baffle with bullshit and insults…….i guess i can now call you a stupid phuck. I’m american so only thing i need to know is we kicked your asses and sent you packing, as far as your parliament they can con you about, in your opinion, the worlds richest welfare family! now why explain why the king is traveling the realm before major decisions are made and why did he come here to see trump and not the pm or his staff????
i’m sure you will spew more bullshit since i’m unnerving you so much heh-heh!
Kane: “My answer to your totally irrelevant question(s) is that I believe Carney overreacted to Trump’s pushing his buttons just like Greenland.”
Your totally irrelevant answer either deliberately or in error didn’t address what I posted: you, Trump and the majority of Canadian voters wouldn’t be bytching about Carney if Trump hadn’t decided that the genius move would be to threaten Canadians with a Trumpian invasion and annexation just weeks before their federal election.
Without those threats, with the expected defeat of the Liberal party likely leaving them without enough seats to even meet the requirements of an official political party, Carney would have returned to looking around the world for his next bankster gig.
Carney’s “overreacting” to Trump’s threats to add Greenland to his “Just lettin’ you know world, I might add Greenland to my invasion list” came AFTER Trump’s threats to invade Canada. About a year later – Carney wouldn’t have been in ANY political office without Trump.
Trump rescued the Canadian Liberals from electoral oblivion and put Carney in power rather than Pouillvier who was cruising towards a slam-dunk win before Trump’s threats. So… imagine that: Americans who are Democrats take Trump’s threats, bloviating, and utterances seriously – and then Canadians equivalent to American Democrats react exactly the same!
Who’da thunk it!
Trump’s special superpower is making himself as dislikable as possible to not only Americans at home, but also around the world. An example being gems like telling Brits and Canadians “You’ve never done anything for us”. He should be grateful that no Prime Minister of those countries pointed out that their soldiers were fighting and dying beside Americans in our wars, while many Americans followed the example set by Trump, Biden, and Clinton and stayed safe at home in our earlier forever war in Vietnam.
“I take statements as, Carney has switched from a conservative to “Marxist” over Trump and the” threating to invade”
Now WHO told you “Carney has switched from a conservative to a Marxist”? Certainly no Canadian – did you just make that part up as you went along? Some web search told you that?
Imagine that: Liberals were asking Carney to run for leader of their Party back around 2012 because he was supposedly a conservative! And then PrimeTrudeau brought Carney on board as his advisor because he was a conservative!
If we’re going to wildly speculate here, Trump decided to threaten Canadians with annexation because somebody had told him that Carney was more conservative than Poillviere – the economist that Liberals and Dippers were complaining was more economically conservative than Trump!
“Canada ended military operations in Afghanistan in 2014”
Ooohhhh… let me replicate your web search and just change the name of the country so I can say “America ended military operations in Afghanistan in 2014”! Ready (I just changed the name “Canada” to “USA”):
‘After 2014, American combat deployments in Afghanistan transitioned to a support role under Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, focusing on training and assisting Afghan forces rather than direct combat. U.S. troops remained in Afghanistan to help secure and build upon the gains made during the previous years, but major combat operations officially ended in December 2014.’
Now, web searches aside, Canada ended full scale combat deployments about the same time we did, when we handed over the actual fighting of the war to the ANA and the ANP while the Coalition supplied support to them in various forms. No different.
If you’re going to try and re-write Canada’s history in Afghanistan after a brief web search like you’re attempting to rewrite Carney’s to make him originally a conservative, you’re going to have a hard time getting that past the troops in 2 VP, CSOR, and JTF2 who were among the numerous Canadian units who continued to deploy to Afghanistan in one capacity or other. Oh… and then there’s their CSOR/JTF2 supporting our ground troops in Syria – Trump apparently wasn’t aware of that (despite being in office at the time), so you’re probably unaware of that as well!
You’ve done a lot of circling around the drain to avoid dealing with the reality that Carney wouldn’t be Trudeau’s former advisor, promoted to take his place as Liberal Leader and then successor minority Prime Minister, if Trump hadn’t used his magical super powers of issuing threats to Canadians in order to rescue Carney, the Liberals, and their Order In Council gun ban and confiscation from being wiped out.
Facts don’t care about your deflections and emotions. Liberal gun confiscation under a Prime Minister’s Order In Council only survives because Trump’s threats rescued the Liberals and put Trudeau’s advisor in office as the next gun confiscating Liberal Prime Minister.
“Ooohhhh… let me replicate your web search and just change the name of the country so I can say “America ended military operations in Afghanistan in 2014”! Ready (I just changed the name “Canada” to “USA”):
‘After 2014, American combat deployments in Afghanistan transitioned to a support role under Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, focusing on training and assisting Afghan forces rather than direct combat. U.S. troops remained in Afghanistan to help secure and build upon the gains made during the previous years, but major combat operations officially ended in December 2014.’
“Now, web searches aside, Canada ended full scale combat deployments about the same time we did, when we handed over the actual fighting of the war to the ANA and the ANP while the Coalition supplied support to them in various forms. No different.
“If you’re going to try and re-write Canada’s history in Afghanistan after a brief web search like you’re attempting to rewrite Carney’s to make him originally a conservative, you’re going to have a hard time getting that past the troops in 2 VP, CSOR, and JTF2 who were among the numerous Canadian units who continued to deploy to Afghanistan in one capacity or other. Oh… and then there’s their CSOR/JTF2 supporting our ground troops in Syria – Trump apparently wasn’t aware of that (despite being in office at the time), so you’re probably unaware of that as well!
“You’ve done a lot of circling around the drain to avoid dealing with the reality that Carney wouldn’t be Trudeau’s former advisor, promoted to take his place as Liberal Leader and then successor minority Prime Minister, if Trump hadn’t used his magical super powers of issuing threats to Canadians in order to rescue Carney, the Liberals, and their Order In Council gun ban and confiscation from being wiped out.
Facts don’t care about your deflections and emotions. Liberal gun confiscation under a Prime Minister’s Order In Council only survives because Trump’s threats rescued the Liberals and put Trudeau’s advisor in office as the next gun confiscating Liberal Prime Minister.”
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I’m NOT even going to bother with the complete elements of this bizarre post. I do not claim to know or care about Carney’s detailed history, let alone “rewrite” his or Canada’s history. I’m sure anyone who has tried to read your posts are having a hard time following your intended meaning and any misunderstanding emanates from that circumstance. My response will focus mainly, but not exclusively, on the portion of your text re-posted above.
What you have to be saying is that Canada did NOT really end operations in Afghanistan in 2014 (aside from the limited evacuation of people linked to Canada in OP Aegis, August 2021, that I pointed out previously). You are in fact aware of Canadian military operations in Afghanistan that continued well after the Canadian flag was lowered in Kabul during a ceremony on March 12, 2014. The lowering of the Canadian flag in 2014 would be intended to officially acknowledge the end of Canada’s approximate twelve-year military participation in Afghanistan and the departure of the last 84 Canadian soldiers on March 15, 2014.
As proof, you drop some unit designations that most current and former American military members would not well acquainted; “JTF2” Joint Task Force 2, “CSOR” Canadian Special Operations Regiment and “2VP”? Wow, you must be on a really high level to be so well versed with Canadian units and never once used a “web-search” to come up with initialism? Then you must have access to classified Canadian military operations that the unwashed masses using a “web search” would never have the same level of access? And you are willing to use your supposed access to classified information during an exchange on a limited public forum? Wow, how can I compete with those unverifiable claims?
You state, “facts don’t care about your deflections and emotions.” Here’s an emotion that most Americans would agree, as long American service members were being killed or maimed by the same enemy, then all 20 years count. Pretty sure the British, who ended operations in May 2021, would consider the “first day to the last” as a distinct and different span for each participant with Britain close to the approximate 20-year span like the US.
You can mark timelines with Canada or pretend that you have access to TOP SECRET information on “2VP” but “facts don’t care…” And here’s another fact, certainly the families of the 13 verifiable US service members killed and 45 wounded at Abey Gate on August 26, 2021, just 4 days before the complete US military withdrawal, would not share your view that the various dates established by historical record are “no different.”
Using your same debate tactic, it could be asserted that1st SFOD-D is still continuing operations in Afghanistan, therefore official end dates don’t really matter. I don’t know or believe that to be true and any security clearance I had in the USMC has expired many years ago and would not have gained me any type of access close to this type of information, but you are an exceptional case. Since the command structure changed between OEF and OFS it would greatly complicate secret Canadian military operations past 2014. So even you must concede your claims seem like a “deflection.”
Going back to your claims of Canadian elections. You must have a really low opinion of the of the Canadian electorate where you theorize that Trump could swing the elections by some type of “magical super power of issuing threats to Canadians.” Another unverifiable assertion, very much appears to be a “deflection” brought on by troubling “emotions.”
“.i guess i can now call you a stupid phuck. I’m american so only thing i need to know is we kicked your asses and sent you packing”
Never miss an opportunity to let your inner Furry Freak Tranny retard out in public, Paul I’ll Whine When I Want To. That’s your First Amendment Super Power. If your father knew he had a son and it was you, he would die of embarrassment. And it’s why your mommy keeps giving you her hair dryer, vibrator collection and the kitchen toaster for your bath toys.
As best I remember, the Canadians (who you simply can’t tell from Brits) burned the White House and sent James Madison running with his wife left behind to save important things in the White House. Hell of a definition of “kicked your asses and sent you packing”.
You ‘d know that and a lot of our American history if you’d attended school long enough to show up for some civics courses rather than making your high school major smoking dope Obama-style with your version of his Choom Gang.
i’m sure your parents are a couple of nice guys………butt baby!