🇨🇦 Alberta Gun Owners Declared Their Firearms — Ottawa Still Won't Pay Them

More than 7,000 legally owned firearms have been declared in Alberta under the federal gun buyback program, and the owners cannot collect a cent of compensation because Ottawa and Edmonton cannot agree on how the program is supposed to work. These Albertans complied in good faith with a federal order to surrender property they legally purchased, and the government's response is an ongoing jurisdictional dispute that leaves them holding nothing.

This is the federal gun confiscation program in its purest form: pass an order-in-council bypassing Parliament, declare hundreds of firearms banned overnight, demand compliance from law-abiding owners, and then fail to deliver even the compensation promised in exchange for the surrender. The criminals whose guns this policy was allegedly targeting have not declared a single firearm. They never do. The only people harmed by this program are the rural Canadians, sport shooters, and collectors who followed the rules — which was always the point. Disarming the compliant is not public safety policy. It is a demonstration of state power over a demographic the Liberal establishment holds in open contempt.

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