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Conflict in Canada over ‘Mandatory Federal Firearms Buyback’
Not all is well north of the border, as Canadian gun owners and now the Yukon government are pushing back on the “mandatory buyback” of guns by the Ottawa government.

By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The Western Standard in Canada is reporting that the Yukon government has “formally stated it will not participate in the federal mandatory firearms buyback program,” a government gun control effort launched in Ottawa which critics traditionally refer to as “compensated confiscation.”

The announcement increases attention on a conflict north of the border, and clearly belies claims that Canadians support government gun control. The Yukon government position was confirmed during what the Western Standard called the “Speech from the Throne,” which was delivered by Commissioner Angélique Bernard. She said the Yukon government will “support the rights of legal gun owners in this territory,” the news agency said.

This position underscores the Yukon government’s “continued recognition of vetted firearms ownership, hunting traditions, and cultural rights,” the Western Standard explained.

The problem with this mandatory buyback, the news agency revealed, is that “compliance has remained below one percent in preliminary reporting.”

Essentially, Canada’s government launched the buyback—an offshoot of a gun ban enacted in 2020 which prohibits more than 2,500 various makes and models of guns—and virtually nobody is going along with it.

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So exactly how does a government “buy back” what it never owned?

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
— Edward R. Murrow