Canada’s much-hyped gun buyback pilot program has crashed and burned harder than a Liberal Party promise, hauling in a pathetic 25 firearms after months of taxpayer-funded fanfare. This assault weapon confiscation trial, meant to pave the way for Justin Trudeau’s grand vision of disarming law-abiding citizens, drew yawns from the public and mockery from critics who pointed out the emperor’s got no clothes—or in this case, no turn-ins. With millions already squandered on planning and promotion, the program’s feeble yield underscores a simple truth: Canadians aren’t lining up to surrender their property for pennies on the dollar, especially when crime rates soar and criminals ignore such feel-good edicts.
Digging deeper, this flop isn’t just embarrassing; it’s a masterclass in policy malpractice. The Liberals froze over 1,500 models of rifles—tools used by hunters, sport shooters, and farmers—without grandfathering existing owners, then expected voluntary compliance in a pilot targeting just a handful of prohibited firearms. Only 25 trickled in, mostly from urban virtue-signalers, while rural folks and self-defense advocates rightly saw it as a Trojan horse for total confiscation. Compare this to Australia’s 1996 buyback, which cost billions (adjusted) and still left black markets thriving—Canada’s version is shaping up to be an even bigger boondoggle, with estimates pegging the full program’s tab at $1.5 billion or more for a fraction of the 400,000+ affected guns. It’s not unworkable; it’s deliberately punitive, betting on apathy or force to bridge the gap.
For the 2A community worldwide, this is pure gold: empirical proof that gun grabs don’t work without martial law, galvanizing resistance from south of the border to Europe. American patriots, take note—Canada’s pilot exposes the endgame of incremental bans, where compliance craters and costs explode, handing ammo to fight ATF overreaches or state-level red flag laws. As Trudeau doubles down on buyback theater amid rising gang violence in Toronto, it reinforces the Founders’ wisdom: an armed populace isn’t a bug, it’s the feature keeping tyrants’ fantasies in check. Share this far and wide; the global gun rights movement just got a hilarious win.
