Important update for PAL holders.

Amnesty Orders Extension Amnesty Orders for the 2020, 2024, and 2025 prohibitions are in place to protect businesses and individual owners from criminal liability while they take steps to comply with the law, such as participating in the compensation program or disposing of their prohibited firearms without compensation.

In March 2026, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear an appeal challenging the May 2020 prohibition of assault-style firearms. In light of this, the Amnesty Orders have been extended and set to expire 90 days following the date the Supreme Court of Canada renders its decision, which is expected next year. By extending the amnesty period, the Government is providing certainty to individual owners and businesses that they will continue to be protected from criminal liability while the Supreme Court hears the appeal and renders its decision.

The Government of Canada is confident in the decision to prohibit assault-style firearms due to the risk they pose to public safety. The new expiry date for the Amnesty Orders does not impact the ASFCP, which is expected to be completed by October 2026. The program remains the only opportunity for firearm owners to receive compensation for their prohibited firearms.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I have strong feelings about this but I would be preaching to the choir here so I'm not sure there's any real point getting into it. For the uninformed: We already have a relatively strict (and remarkably effective, considering the amount of illegal guns being transported across the border by criminals for criminals) licensing program, maybe the effort would be better spent on those issues instead of telling licensed, responsible, law-abiding gun owners what they can and can't do with the license privileges they have already proven themselves trustworthy with. Maybe try to stop the guns that are already illegal, and illegally entering the country, before you go making EVEN more of them illegal, when you can't even stop that, and then enforcing it only on legal license-holders. We are not the source of the illegal guns being used by dangerous people in this country.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People are getting killed by speeding, we need to ban race style cars.

[–] No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My bicycle needs a 32kph speed limiter, but a pickup truck with 100x the mass needs nothing.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Best i can do is making speed cameras illegal

[–] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what a joke. "assault style firearms" isn't even a classification. I can make a m1 Garand into an "assault style firearm" (and in the process, bubba-ify it). that has no actual classification, and just serves to take power away from the masses.

my Canadian friends are about to lose their guns in a tragic boating accident, it seems.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The SKS was literally designed for trench warfare and its still okay, but if we paint it black maybe then it would get banned.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The only people that think this is going to make a difference are sitting in caucus. The police don't even believe it.

It's a dog and pony show for the gun control lobbyists that aren't going to be happy until we're hunting with butter knives.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's a dog and pony show for the gun control lobbyists that aren't going to be happy until we're hunting with butter knives.

Poly Se Souvient after they heard the news. Such a critical matter to public safety that the federal government felt the need to postpone it for 6 years meanwhile new centre-fire firearms of similar caliber, type and style to those of which got banned are now are getting non-restricted FRN’s and entering the market.

Wild how dysfunctional this program is.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Important update for PAL holders.

Amnesty Orders Extension

Amnesty Orders for the 2020, 2024, and 2025 prohibitions are in place to protect businesses and individual owners from criminal liability while they take steps to comply with the law, such as participating in the compensation program or disposing of their prohibited firearms without compensation.

In March 2026, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear an appeal challenging the May 2020 prohibition of assault-style firearms. In light of this, the Amnesty Orders have been extended and set to expire 90 days following the date the Supreme Court of Canada renders its decision, which is expected next year. By extending the amnesty period, the Government is providing certainty to individual owners and businesses that they will continue to be protected from criminal liability while the Supreme Court hears the appeal and renders its decision.

The Government of Canada is confident in the decision to prohibit assault-style firearms due to the risk they pose to public safety. The new expiry date for the Amnesty Orders does not impact the ASFCP, which is expected to be completed by October 2026. The program remains the only opportunity for firearm owners to receive compensation for their prohibited firearms.