Trudeau declares previously lawful guns illegal

In 2020, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extinguished the property rights of law abiding Canadians at the stroke of a pen.

By a unilateral Order in Council – passed without parliamentary debate or a vote – he declared thousands of previously lawful models of semiautomatic guns and variants were illegal “military grade assault weapons.”

Such weapons, he said, “were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.

“There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada… So, effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import, or use military grade assault weapons in this country.”

Farmers, hunters, sport shooters, and collectors in possession of these guns – impliedly all condemned as potential mass murderers – were henceforth prohibited from further use of any gun on the prohibited list.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has since added thousands of additional makes and models to the list as “variants” of the banned firearms.

The only recourse for owners who wish to avoid criminal prosecution is to surrender their property to the government or hope that the Liberal government makes good on its promises of a “grandfathering” option.