Ford government joins Supreme Court challenge of ‘assault-style’ firearms ban
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ford-government-joins-supreme-court-challenge-of-assault-style-firearms-ban/article_6fd7ecac-29fb-4920-b7ce-7281950fff7a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
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Much probably that Supreme court would win on decision but not influencing the local people about the “guns” things I think the local states should have s state law when treating guns not necessarily needing a federal law and it’s individual choice if wants to get weapon or not
Good on ya Doug!
a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Better late than never, I guess.
Doug’s down in the polls so time to throw some red meat to the base
I will donate to Doug’s re election and to anyone’s who fights confiscation of legally acquired property without proper compensation. Some people have tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of firearms. Speciality rifles and accessories get expensive, quickly.
It’s theft by executive order, which is almost certainly the SC’s issue with the entire disaster.
Every day the Carney government makes an active decision to double down on stupid, one that the very minister responsible for the program has stated won’t work and will cost a billion dollars+. I’m dying from all the pragmatism.
Paywall bypass?
Ford may actually get my vote back if he gets results on this
Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point
When Ford gets on the ropes (polls wise) you can always count on him to jump on some populist bandwagon.
oh, wow, isn’t it the first time Doug Ford goes after Carney’s liberals? Either he really likes shooting his GSG-16, or he is helping uncle Mark with a convenient off-ramp
Long overdue. 6 years in, the data should be crystal clear that this is a colossal waste with little to no effect.
His past required him and brother to carry a gun , doing illegal stuff as old records can confirm ,
Doug Ford fighting for the little guy!
… Unless that little guy cares about where their tax money goes with the OPC government… And accountability, and they like public healthcare or education…
But I mean if you like guns and/or hate disabled people! The OPC has your back!
Why is this a good thing? Why shouldn’t assault style weapons be banned? Does it matter if it’s from the US or Canadian? Are we saying that all automatic guns should be banned instead because of how weapons are defined?
It took Ford long enough to take a stance.
Something I’m going to bring up whenever the government pretends they banned only a small number of firearms.
> The federal government has estimated there are nearly 180,000 of the now-banned firearms in circulation.
But the government “estimates” are completely out of touch.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) in 2021 estimated there were 150k firearms to confiscate in Canada from gun owners, (110k registered restricted firearms, 40k non-restricted unregistered firearms) the report in 2021 only considered the guns banned in May 2020. (I think the 40k firearms in 2020 is a massive underestimate of the nonrestricted firearms but lets work with these baselines)
[The PBO report](https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/RP-2122-011-M–cost-estimate-firearm-buy-back-program–evaluation-cout-programme-rachat-armes-feu) stated The government estimated there were 150k prohibited firearms to be confiscated and compensated if there was 100% take up. on page 9 of their report they also bumped it up to 188k in their cost estimate to not undershoot costs.
> Public Safety estimated that approximately 150,000 firearms would be impacted by the ban. Of this, approximately 110,000 firearms were previously classified as prohibited and restricted (registered) and 40,000 as non- restricted (non-registered). As non-restricted firearms do not require registration, ownership data is not available and the number of affected firearms in Canada is unknown.
But nevertheless minimum 150k firearms to confiscate in 2021.
It’s now 2026, the government banned a ton more firearms in Dec 2024, and March 2025. [Yet the government says they are ready to confiscate and compensate up to 136,000 firearms](https://globalnews.ca/news/11617988/banned-assault-firearms-program/)
>Federal officials said nearly $250 million has been set aside to compensate participants, covering an estimated 136,000 firearms.
I’m not quite sure of CCFR’s estimates of more 2 million affected guns but at a minimum there is certainly more than the governments low ball estimate of 136k, and its strange how they think there are less prohibited firearms to confiscate now in 2026 than they did 5 years ago, prior to 2 more ban waves.
I would expect there to be at least 300k prohibited firearms since 2020 only banned approximately 1500 models, if you banned 1000 more (2,500 models) I expect it to be close to double if not more. (I personally would expect a lot more because the December 2024 and March 2025 bans specifically banned a lot of rimfire guns, and military surplus rifles which are very very common.)
Wish bc would actually stand up
As a normal Canadian who isn’t an Conservative with a NRA fetish I welcome all forms of gun control.
I live in a big city and don’t want to be shot by a crazy neighbor.
Let the downvoting begin Murica lovers.
Please dont let this lead to him winning again