Recently, we spoke to a disgruntled gun owner who posted about his experience participating in the Cape Breton Pilot Program for the Liberal gun grab.

In a post on CGN, “David” posted this;

“I’m gonna start off by saying you can hate me, judge me or even insult I do not care. It was my property to do with as I please. This post is a cautionary tale to all others across this country.

So I participated in the trial buy back program. Why? Well the way I see it is we lost the last chance we had last election to vote the liberals out and preserve what guns we had in this country. They know what restricted you have and who the time comes they WILL come and get them or make your life miserable. Just ask the people who had their bank accounts frozen that donated money to the truckers in Ottawa. That or they will just send RCMP eventually to take what you have and you won’t get a penny for it. The other fear I have is that the pot will dry up and you’ll be turning them in for free. Regardless of why I did it, I am posting this as a cautionary tale.
The price they show you on the List is nowhere what you will get. They also say Lower receivers which is what I had. One was listed at around $1200-1400 and the other $800 give or take. In the end $550 is what I got for each of them. There is no appeals process and currently the buyback website is down so you cannot even log in to see the paperwork or anything. It took 4 calls in and almost a month to finally have someone call me back to explain the amounts.
First the person said it was because the lower wasn’t complete……yes they were. They then said it was because it wasn’t a complete firearm. It doesn’t state that anywhere in the list. It specifically says lowers in the price list.
Apparently there is something I. Section 6.7 and 6.8 of the funding agreement which I cannot access because again the website is down. I tried to argue that hey you are not even paying for uppers.
I’m not looking for sympathy nor do your insults bother me. It’s my property I can do what I please with in. That being said this post is a cautionary tale for any others who may go into the buy back….you will not get anywhere what you are thinking and you have no leg to stand on. I almost expected this and kinda wanted to see what the procedure would be. If I had been allowed to sell my firearms I would have sold these lowers long ago.
Now with the liberals 1 seat away from a majority and an election years away guns in Canada are screwed.
Take this post as you will again insults don’t mean anything to me but I would like others to see the results of the program”

David spoke on the phone with Rod Giltaca and detailed how the price list showed him he’d receive from $1110 at the low end and up to $2400 tops for his LAR-15 lowers, something the government already knew he had. He ended up getting a measly $550 with no means to appeal. There is no recourse for gun owners if you’re unsatisfied or if you get robbed …

David recounted how the website is beyond not being user friendly and is downright pathetic. There is also no form of confirmation that your submission was received or successful. The call centre is non-existant and not manned by technicians, it’s like an outsourced call centre that just takes a message, gives you a ticket number and nobody ever calls you back.

David went on further in his post to say “The whole process was a sham. Issue plagued from the moment you used the website. Took over a month and 4-5 phone calls with a promise of a call back in 5 days and staff who have no clue. Typical government run program with a sprinkle of liberal mishandling in it. Oh well someone has to be the Guinea pig and guess that’s me”

“The poorly trained staff at the end of the number you call is amazing as well. Nothing about the program made sense from the start. They made you feel like a Criminal when you went to turn the guns in as well”

“That was one of the best parts, you have to bring them the gun. Then park in a special area all badly marked off. Then call a number, proceed to the cop lobby and wait. Then hand your keys to them while they go and get the firearms out of your vehicle and then wait for your keys back. You were then asked if you wanted to talk to a couple of government workers about issues with the program. I told the nice police lady twice if I had to talk to them I would leave in cuffs. They didn’t want to talk to me after that lol”

“A courier company delivered boxes that had instruction about how to box them up and a metal zip tie to disable the lowers. We had booked a time and date and knew where to go. There were no special instruction so we followed th transportation laws for restricted. They must have given me a ATT automatically to transport them there.”

He says he got a “base amount” or each lower, half of what the lowest listed price is on the government’s own website.

“It was <paid by> direct deposit. E transfer wasn’t an payment option I believe and
it sounded like if you wanted a cheque it was gonna be more of a process”

Its is very important for gun owners to know that participating in the Liberal gun grab does NOT gaurantee you compensation – the Liberals are very clear on that. They threaten you to hurry up and provide your list to increase your chances of getting anything at all. It truly is the Hunger Games for gun owners as Rod remarked recently.

The CCFR recently joined other stakeholders in Cape Breton to rally against the pilot program, warning gun owners they would be ripped off … unfortunately, we were right.

If you’ve had a bad experience with the “buyback” gun grab and want to tell us about it, please reach out at [email protected]

The Minister has stalled the nationwide rollout of this mess until some time in January, according to his office. No further information or date was provided. The bans began in May of 2020. The CCFR is currently awaiting the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to see if they’ll hear our long running national case.

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