How Ottawa’s Gun Grab Endangers Our Families and Fuels the Independence Fire
By Shawn Michael Alain
As of this October, the Liberal government’s “voluntary” firearms buyback program kicks off in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. But make no mistake, Albertans: this is a federal power play that will soon knock on your door too. While Alberta has declared it will not cooperate with the federal buyback and no federal agents may seize weapons here, the laws are federal.
Even in Alberta’s defiance, crossing provincial lines turns you into a criminal overnight. Even though Alberta isn’t enforcing the gun grab, when you go to another province you will be a criminal and subject to having your RPAL and PAL revoked, guns seized, and hunting license seized. You will have a criminal record that will prevent you from entering countries like the US. Ottawa will make you a criminal even though you’ve always been a law abiding gun owner.
Dressed in the language of safety, it is nothing less than a systematic disarmament of law-abiding citizens, leaving us exposed to home invaders, foreign gangs, and an untrustworthy state apparatus. In Alberta, where vast rural expanses leave families miles from help and RCMP response times stretch into “one to two business days,” this threat hits hardest. Our prosperity, our security, our very sovereignty demand we fight back. Through the Alberta Prosperity Project’s path to independence.
Consider the stark realities already unfolding.
Masked men in Kleinburg recently smashed a front door with a gun handle, terrorizing a family with two young children inside. Police advise leaving key fobs at the door to avoid carjackings turning deadly. That is a band aid on a gaping wound. And recall Nova Scotia’s 2020 horror: a gunman disguised as an RCMP officer slaughtered 16 innocents in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting. The RCMP’s catastrophic failure there. Ignoring warnings about Gabriel Wortman, a known criminal and police informant. That cost dozens of lives. What followed? Zero accountability for the Mounties. Instead, the feds doubled down on stripping your rights, while criminals roam free.
This isn’t isolated; it is a pattern. Since 2015, Canada’s four million responsible firearm owners have misplaced just 27,000 guns. A tiny 0.67% loss rate. Contrast that with the RCMP: 19,000 officers who’ve lost or had stolen 845 firearms, including two machine guns, at a whopping 4.4% rate. That is over six times worse than the public they deem “unfit” to own weapons. In Alberta’s oil patch and prairies, where foreign gangs fuel urban chaos and rural break ins spike, these “professionals” show up late. If at all. And might even charge you for defending your home. Who needs protection from the protectors?
Ottawa’s overlords preach safety while presiding over ruin.
A bankrupt nation drowning in poverty, crime, and unchecked immigration; a bureaucracy nearly doubled in size, gorging on pay raises; baseless lockdowns that isolated our elders, scarred our kids, and wrecked communities. They trampled Freedom Convoy protesters. Beating women, seniors, and veterans in the streets, seizing bank accounts, and jailing “mischief” offenders for years. Now? Life sentences loom for “hate speech,” while murderers and rapists get bail. These are the same elites demanding you surrender your last line of defense in an era of unprecedented violence.
History screams the truth: disarmament isn’t about safety; it is about control. Tyrants from Roman conquerors and Assyrian hordes to English kings like Edward and Richard have stripped arms to crush rebellion. The Holy Roman Empire enforced “common sense blade control.” In modern times, Cambodia, China, the Soviet Union, and Venezuela disarmed their people. Using “voluntary” rhetoric in Venezuela’s case. Before unleashing genocides claiming over 100 million lives and ongoing purges leaving tens of thousands dead. John A. Macdonald, our first prime minister, warned against restrictions: with lawless characters flowing from the U.S. border, a disarmed populace invites lawlessness. Today, threats pour in from worldwide criminals.
Albertans, this hits us square in the heart of our lives. Federal overreach chokes our energy sector with carbon taxes and red tape, inflating costs while crime surges in Calgary and Edmonton. Rural families, hours from aid, face home invasions without recourse. Do you trust the RCMP after Portapique? The feds who’ve economically suicided us? If your answer wavers. “Maybe” or “I think so.” That is a gamble with your children’s lives that we can’t take. This decision is permanent: relinquish now, and the monopoly on violence shifts to criminals and a tyrannical state.
Alberta, you are built for this.
We have carried Canada’s load. From oil sands subsidies to cultural sidelining. Say no to the buyback. Ignore the calls. Lock the door. Our first PM knew it; we know it now. Firearms aren’t hobbies or hunting gadgets (bows served us millennia); they are the barrier against oppressors, foreign or domestic.
Independence is our shield. Through the Alberta Prosperity Project’s Policy Framework, we reclaim control: secure borders, resource sovereignty, enshrined self defense rights. Free from Ottawa’s grip. Join us at www.albertaprosperity.com. Sign up, donate, rally your neighbors. Our prosperity starts with freedom. The monopoly ends with Alberta standing tall. Will you?
Look out for our October 25, 2025 rally at the Legislature in Edmonton.