“The issue with guns is not with criminal guns. It’s with legal gun owners that have issues and we must protect our families,” Nathalie Provost said during a November 25, 2024, press conference.[i]
It appears that Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc agrees with Ms. Provost’s assertion.
Today the Minister announced the prohibition of 104 families of firearms, covering 324 makes and models of firearms, that are owned by RCMP vetted and federally licensed firearms owners.
This ministerial order will be published tomorrow, December 6, 2024, in Canada Gazette.
Provost’s statement and Minister LeBlanc’s subsequent prohibition of 324 makes and models of firearms raise an interesting and perhaps disturbing point.
If licensed firearms owners – trained according to the Canadian Firearms Program and investigated for suitability to own firearms by the RCMP – are not “safe” to own, possess and use firearms, is Provost’s assertion that the RCMP and the Canadian Firearms Program failed to properly vet 2.2 million Canadians?
That notion is absurd on its face. Decades of statistics prove this narrative is false, yet this federal government behaves as though it’s true.
This insults the integrity of the RCMP.
It insults the integrity of 2.2 million firearms owners.
It insults the intelligence of Canadians who can, through government data, see through the smokescreen.
What’s Included In The Ban?
What we know so far:
- 104 families of firearms are prohibited effective immediately (View PDF)
- This covers 324 makes and models of firearms and any unnamed existing or future variants of them
- An amnesty order for owners of these newly banned firearms takes effect immediately (View PDF)
- The RCMP Firearms Program will notify all known owners of these now-Prohibited firearms
- Enhanced licence qualifications will be introduced on Parliament’s first sitting day in January
- The complete list of now-prohibited firearms will be published in Canada Gazette tomorrow, December 6, 2024
- These 104 families of firearms are eligible for the government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme, but only if the firearm is surrendered to the government through this scheme
- No compensation will be given for firearms that are deactivated
- No compensation will be given for firearms turned into police
- New magazine restrictions will be introduced “no later than March 2025”
- New additions to the Red and Yellow flag laws in Bill C-21 will be introduced in the spring
When questioned by reporters, the government admitted that only “a couple dozen firearms” have been confiscated, to date.
Newly Prohibited Firearms
View PDF of the newly prohibited firearms on Canada Gazette
[i] https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/gun-violence-womens-groups-raise-concerns–november-25-2024?id=65d47f75-db60-419b-9cea-429c7f73251a Timestamp 18:55
