The public safety minister admitted his government’s sweeping plan to confiscate thousands of previously legal gun models with a “buyback” is badly flawed. But as Ian Runkle, a lawyer specializing in firearms law, tells Brian Lilley, it’s far more troubling than that. Ottawa plans to recreate a form of the hated gun registry that it abandoned long ago. And gun owners won’t necessarily be compensated for turning in their weapons, but will risk violent police raids if they don’t. Tens of thousands of resisters, including no small number of Indigenous-Canadians, could face arrest and jail time. And, argues Runkle, it’s all being done to placate one small Quebec anti-gun group and to punish non-Liberal voters. (Recorded Oct. 3, 2025.)

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