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    Albertaner, die im Rahmen des Ottawa-Rückkaufs Waffen verboten erklärt haben, können immer noch keine Entschädigung erhalten | CBC-Nachrichten


    Albertaner, die im Rahmen des Ottawa-Rückkaufs Waffen verboten erklärt haben, können immer noch keine Entschädigung erhalten | CBC-Nachrichten

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/banned-guns-alberta-buyback-james-bachynsky-calgary-9.7157829

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    1. rastamasta45 on

      How does paying an upper middle class man $67,700 of our tax dollars make anyone safer. Paying him 67,700 doesn’t stop the man with a glock that has an auto switch from invading a home.

    4. OrangeRising on

      I like this quote.

      >This entire situation is extremely frustrating for people like Bachynsky.

      >”Legal gun owners, people that have followed the laws, regulations, impediments to ownership scrupulously for decades … now we have legislation that’s saying, ‚we’re just going to seize all your property and we’ll determine if you’ll get fair market value and what that fair market value may be,’” he said. “That’s not fair. It’s not reasonable.”

    6. icedesparten on

      It’s not too late for them to withdraw from the program. Hopefully they do.

    7. thehuntinggearguy on

      >On Wednesday, a spokesperson with the group criticized Alberta’s approach, writing that it was “ironic that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government, which purports to stand for individual autonomy from government intervention, is preventing thousands of Albertans from receiving financial compensation for the prohibited firearms they declared.”

      >“Gun owners deserve better than to be pawns in the province’s jurisdictional games aimed at blocking federal criminal law from being applied in Alberta,” the statement reads.

      Poly will tell any lie if they think it’ll help their cause. The AB gov is trying to keep Albertan firearms owners from getting dicked around by the feds. It’s not irony when they’re also refusing to take part in the compensation program. I don’t want to take part in the compensation program or the ban and that’s what 95% of other gun owners are doing as well: literally voting with their wallets by refusing to participate in the compensation program.

    9. MZM204 on

      Spoiler Alert: most people who declare (even from „cooperating“ provinces) won’t get any compensation.

    11. PT6A-27 on

      You have to be a special kind of clueless to sign up to participate in a program that your province has made very explicitly clear, from the very beginning, that it will not be participating in. What did they think was going to happen? Just withdraw from the program and keep living your lives, the feds were never going to pay you out anyway. 

    12. DoubleDDay69 on

      If you don’t get compensation it is robbery, plain and simple. It would be a slam dunk for Carney to get rid of this for several reasons beyond just political points. I have never seen a policy that goes so against statistics and logic where it is purely about emotion and political points.

      Ignoring political views for a second, illegal guns are overwhelmingly used to commit crime, and our own safety minister thinks the policy is stupid. He doesn’t even have an RPAL/PAL. My RPAL is useless for general use ever since 2023-2024, though I got it in 2025. Also, what makes me different from someone who already had a restricted/prohibited firearm? Only years of having it right? If anything, I got the training very recently, though training doesn’t beat years of experience. But those questions are valid

    13. PrairieScott on

      It’s fine for the government to decide to do something but this program was implemented under dubious circumstances and is tantamount to theft.

    14. Conscious_Candle2598 on

      what in the money laundering is this fucking program all about then. 

      I keep getting all cap threatening letters from the RCMP that looks like it was written by Donald Trump himself over guns I don’t even own.

      like, What a complete Shitshow for how long this bullshit has gone on for.

    15. pioniere on

      Not saying the program is right or wrong, but expecting this wingnut Alberta government to cooperate in any way with the Federal government is naive.

    16. PeB4YouGo on

      The gun store selling fire arms in my city in BC recommended telling the cops, the guns were stolen long ago and therefore pay a 250 dollar fine for failing to report the theft. Not sure how good that advice is, said gun store is shut down now, owners went back to the US where they are from. Seams like good advice might be hard to get.

    17. Spider-King-270 on

      Ottawa did admit that getting paid is probably rare. It’s time to scrap this ban and let owners use their property again. This whole program has been a failure with zero improvement to public safety.

    18. Right_Hour on

      What did y’all expect, LOL? But now they know what you have, because you yourself told them. The whole point of this “self declaration” bullshit was for people to declare their previously non-restricted firearms that became prohibs. That RCMP had no record of because they wouldn’t have issued registrations for them.

      It was never to actually get people paid for confiscation.

    19. miuyao on

      Everyone knows this policy needs to end across both political aisles. That is how stupid it is.

    20. toilet_for_shrek on

      I encourage fellow gun owners to not comply. Wait, and hopefully a sane government will eventually overturn the ban

    21. True_Dog_4098 on

      But,Natalie Provost said we would get compensation….please don’t tell me she was lying…..

    22. Juli3tD3lta on

      Seems like such a crazy concept to me. Giving your guns away… to the government…

    23. chillyrabbit on

      I wonder what laws the Federal government keeps saying is preventing compensation.

      The only laws I know so far is the Alberta Firearms Act which basically is making sure that no random person can seize firearms in Alberta.

      That basically requires the seizure agent to

      * pass a background check
      * have a firearms license
      * have liability insurance
      * take any training necessary

      Basically no random bozo is allowed to seize firearms, only trained, vetted, insured people, can seize, transport and store these „dangerous assault style weapons“

      That isn’t a very high bar to clear for the federal government, maybe its a little wasteful of money for them to do it. But can you really look at Alberta’s legislation and say its unreasonable?

      Proving that the people doing all these activities are trained, licensed and doing it safe isn’t a big ask. And it is pretty incredible the Federal government is refusing to participate in it.

    24. Illustrious-Bid-3826 on

      I think the only hope of overturning this will be the Supreme Court, and that doesn’t inspire much confidence because its current members serve as an excellent barometer of dumb opinions. 

    25. Admirable-Site7256 on

      I’d say its pretty likely that **anyone** foolish enough to declare anything is *not* going to get paid. 

      They don’t even have a plan to actually collect any of these guns and if/when they come up with one, it will take months for them to seize, assess, destroy and finally notify the previous owner that they’ll get $146.56 for a rifle thats worth $2000.

      The gun grab site literally says word for word „compensation is not garuanteed“. 

      Fuck this disrespectful abuse of our democracy (if you can even call it that anymore).

    26. EQ1_Deladar on

      *All the provinces (and territories) need to be copy pasting Saskatchewan’s legislation at this point.*

      Premiers like Kinew and Ford just saying they’re against the Liberal confiscation plan and won’t be participating is **not enough**.

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