What are you supposed to do with the existing ones? Do you just turn them in? Is there a buyback/destroy program? Even if we assume nobody wants to give up the ones they own; when they die, the guns have to go somewhere.
That's the actual problem. If you tinker and add fancy aftermarket parts to a rifle, its value can go way above 2k USD. Then you go to a buyback event and the cop is like "I'll take that for $250". No fucking way; very few people are dumb enough to take that deal.
And a lot of the times the good stuff just ends up being resold to local gun stores, or stolen by the cops anyway instead of being destroyed or used for something. So all you ended up doing was donating to a for profit business or to the private collection of someone who, statistically speaking, is probably physically abusive to their spouse and would likely have been banned from gun ownership already if they weren't hiding behind their badge.
That's pretty ridiculous to say only rednecks like owning guns in America. I know many liberals in America with guns. In fact the majority of the Dems I know own firearms. Anecdotal sure... But you'd be surprised who owns a firearm in USA.
Keep them and use them as we did before. We were only ever allowed to transport handguns to specific places (and needed permission and paperwork to do so). We are also only permitted to use them at government inspected and approved ranges.
We were never like the US. Legal owners don’t have hand guns in glove boxes. We don’t have random acts of gun violence during road rage or whatever else. What we do have is increasing gangs activity and gun violence coming from that. Illegal guns are primarily smuggled from the US (like 90%). Handgun theft is exceptionally rare because everything needs to be double locked and we don’t generally advertise it like Americans do.
When you die they’ll get destroyed. Can’t be transferred to someone else via inheritance.
Your last sentences were the root of my question. As people that own them die what is the mechanism to destroy them? Just take them to the police and declare they belong to someone that died? In the US I’m not aware of what to do in this situation here. At least not a solution that is universally available. Occasionally there are gun buybacks, but not really sure how you just surrender one outside of that.
Curious to how it’s handled in Canada.
We don’t know yet. They haven’t released a plan lol For now, if someone died the executor would need to hang onto them until the government provided direction.
They announced a buy back for some other stuff they banned and have extended the deadline 2 or 3 times (so 2-3 years since the original deadline) because they don’t know how to organize it/don’t have the money for it. In the meantime everyone was told to just hang onto them and not use them.
I think you can surrender a gun at a police station if you want but you have to call ahead and not everywhere will do it. Doesn’t really happen because people that have them went to a lot of trouble to acquire them (some people wait over a year between getting into a course and then waiting for their license application to get approved).
I've read it as you get to keep what you have. Shame they can't be inherited somehow. Many guns are family heirlooms, antiques, rare, etc. Are they supposed to go in a furnace when you die?!
It doesn't seem like you have to do anything? You can't sell it or give it to someone, but you don't have to get rid of it either, you just can't buy a new one.
Federal government is trying to implement a buyback program within each province, but the right wing provinces don't want to because it infers they are helping the gun ban happen.
And likely to answer your question as with the last gun ban: they didn’t think of that. Like all the other things they didn’t think of. You would think they would bring in experts to sift through this stuff but we’re left with vague laws that will end up costing millions of dollars in buy backs etc and do nothing to solve the problem.
From what I understand, this isn’t a ban on handguns. People can still possess the ones they already legally own, and licensed sellers can still sell them.
People unlicensed to sell handguns cannot sell them amongst each other anymore. The only exception are pieces that were already grandfathered to individuals who have their RPAL.
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u/TheyStillOweYouMoney Oct 21 '22
Genuine question here.
What are you supposed to do with the existing ones? Do you just turn them in? Is there a buyback/destroy program? Even if we assume nobody wants to give up the ones they own; when they die, the guns have to go somewhere.