Instead of repealing their soft-on-crime bail laws, stiffening weak sentencing guidelines and ending revolving-door justice, the federal Liberal government is spending $740+ million of your tax dollars (expected to climb to $1 billion) on a gun confiscation scheme that won't make Canadians safer.
The recently-launched federal Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program (ASFCP) offers eligible businesses and individuals who may own certain prohibited firearms to receive federal compensation (subject to availability of program funds) in exchange for turning in their guns.
Under this scheme, law-abiding firearms owners and businesses must declare an "interest" in the compensation on or before March 31, 2026. They'll be required to dispose of, or permanently deactivate, so-called "assault-style" firearms before an amnesty period ends on October 30, 2026 – or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm. (More details here.)
Like several other provincial premiers and law enforcement agencies such as the Ontario Provincial Police, Manitoba's NDP premier Wab Kinew recently announced that his province won't participate in the scheme. A law-abiding firearms owner himself, Kinew called the confiscation scheme a "program that doesn't appear to be very efficient, doesn't appear to be well-run. And so for us looking at that, why would we want to take on that whole headache?"
The Liberal government has chosen to target law-abiding Canadians rather than repeat violent offenders or the criminals who smuggle illegal guns into Canada from the U.S.
Wouldn't taxpayer funds be better spent on securing Canada's borders, supporting law enforcement and making your streets safer?
In fall 2025, the federal government undertook a six-week voluntary pilot project on Cape Breton Island to test how the ASFCP would work. Though federal officials were confident they'd gather about 200 firearms, only 25 were collected and destroyed – with just 16 individuals participating, according to Nova Scotia's Department of Public Safety.
Revealingly, Liberal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree was caught on tape in late 2025 admitting that his government's program is nothing more than politically-motivated bad policy.
Public safety experts, police forces and several provincial premiers agree: No criminals will voluntarily turn in their illegally-obtained guns.
It’s time to end this unfair, punitive and wasteful program.
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Our Petition
Whereas the Carney Liberal government is wasting $740+ million on a gun buyback program that won't make Canadians any safer;
Whereas the Liberal Public Safety Minister was caught on tape admitting that his own program is bad policy; and,
Whereas this boondoggle targets law-abiding firearms owners instead of stopping the flow of illegal guns smuggled into Canada across the U.S. border,
Therefore... we, the undersigned, call upon the Prime Minister and his Liberal government to immediately scrap this gun buyback scheme.
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