Gun grab flops: Tracey Wilson explains the Liberals’ embarrassing buyback 'pilot'
The Liberals promised a sweeping gun grab. What they delivered instead was a bureaucratic flop.
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On this episode of The Gunn Show, I sit down with Tracey Wilson, of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, to break down the spectacular failure of the federal government’s so-called “test pilot” of its firearms buyback program.
After years of threatening law-abiding gun owners, spending millions of taxpayer dollars, and insisting this was all about “public safety,” the Liberals’ pilot project managed to collect just 25 firearms from 16 people.
That’s it. Twenty-five.
I asked Tracey why this result shocked absolutely no one who understands Canada’s firearms laws or the people who follow them. Licensed gun owners are among the most heavily vetted citizens in the country. They aren’t criminals, and they aren’t lining up to hand over their legally acquired property to a government that treats them like one.
We also dig into how the Liberals ignored repeated warnings from firearms experts, police, and provinces, choosing instead to push ahead with a program driven by ideology, not evidence. Tracey walks through the mounting costs, the logistical chaos, and the growing provincial resistance to participating in this mess.
Most importantly, she explains what this failure proves. This gun grab was never about stopping crime. It was about politics, optics, and punishing the wrong people.
If the pilot project is any indication, the Liberals’ flagship firearms policy isn’t just ineffective, it’s well on its way to becoming a billion-dollar boondoggle.
COMMENTS
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Paul McConnell commented 2026-01-17 12:47:46 -0500I betcha these guns were surrendered by old men who were tired of shooting and hunting anyway and wanted to tidy up their estates so their wives did not have a legal hassle with the government when they were grieving. I am not in that position just yet, but I would like to get a buyback for my Norinco pistol because the goddamn thing cannot fire more than two rounds in a row without a stoppage. -
Paul Scofield commented 2026-01-16 23:00:59 -0500Here’s hoping that in the “new country” (as Sheila and Lise like to term Alberta and Saskatchewan post-independence) here is hoping that the owning firearms will be enshrined as a God-given right, in addition to legally acquired property.
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john morissette commented 2026-01-16 20:12:07 -0500Nathalie Provost was elected in her writing instead of Guy Morin (Tous contre un registre) So now law-abiding gun owners across the country will have to pay for the Trump derangement syndrome of boomers in my province…Elbows up everyone!
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Fran g commented 2026-01-15 14:59:23 -0500Liberals will never do anything good. It is not in their DNA. They will only do the odd thing begrudgingly because of years of pushback from the public.
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Anthony Salotti commented 2026-01-15 07:53:18 -0500It will never work . It’ll cost billions to buy guns back from the 2 and a half million legal and registered gun owners in Canada . Just go after the criminals already !
