Posted September 20, 2019 5:14 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

We reported earlier today that Canada’s Liberal Party was soon to unveil its plan for a gun ban, and just a few hours after our story appeared, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made it official.

Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We will ban all military-style assault rifles, give municipalities the ability to restrict or ban handguns, and strengthen gun control. pic.twitter.com/NvX0IBtAU5

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 20, 2019

Trudeau is going full Beto and demanding a compensated confiscation of legally owned firearms, according to a CBC report.

A Liberal government also would create a buyback program for all semi-automatic assault rifles that were legally purchased, offering owners a fair market price for their weapons and giving law enforcement agencies resources to administer the program. A two-year amnesty would be put in place while the program is being set up.

Bill Blair, who served as the government’s pointman on gun control, said there are about 250,000 of the weapons now legally owned, with an average value of about $1,500 each. The buyback program is expected to cost between $400 million and $600 million, he said.

I think the so-called “assault weapons ban” was expected, but the move to change federal law to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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