c'mon member kimmy! Public Safety Canada is asking you to, 'share your thoughts'!
Well, if I understand this correctly, they've come up with 11 price categories, and the compensation for any of the 1500+ guns on the Newly Prohibited list will be whichever one of the 11 categories it has been prohibited under.
If that's the case, then I will be thrilled, but a lot of other people will be hella mad. Here's why.
My Newly Prohibited Rifle is a Norinco M305, which is a Chinese clone of the Springfield M1A, which is itself a civilian, single-fire version of the M14. It looks like this:
According to the price list, the compensation for M14 variants is $2612. Why am I delighted? Because I only paid 400 bucks for my Norinco M305, sometime around 2014-2015. They were retailing for around $700 in 2020 before the ban. So I make out like a bandit, even adjusting for inflation and considering a few after market parts I purchased.
People who own a genuine Springfield M1A, on the other hand, are probably losing money. Especially people who bought match-grade precision models made for competition shooting. They'll be furious. Coming up with a single price for a category that has a variety of products in it is unworkable.
So then we go over to the AR-15 category which has an even wider range of prices. They've picked a price of $1337 (which I have to believe is a deliberate trolling attempt by the LEET HAXX0RS at Public Safety Canada). Some low-end products retailed for somewhere around $900 prior to the ban, as I recall. But others sold for well over $2000.
Things aren't so bad for fairly homogenous categories (like the Beretta Cx4 carbine , the Swiss Arms rifles, the Robinson Arms rifles) but things get absurd when you look at the idea of trying to assign a single price to ridiculously broad categories like "any firearm with a bore greater than 20mm" (which could be anything from a $200 flare gun or a tired old shotgun to an antique collectible shotgun or black powder musket) or "any firearm capable of discharging a projectile with energy greater than 10000 Joules" (which doesn't contain anything cheap, but could describe anything from single-shot long-range rifles chambered in 50BMG that sell for around $2000 to incredibly rare and expensive safari guns that auction for 10-20 times that much.)
If Marco Mendocino comes to someone's door and says "You have to give me your $40000 elephant gun, here's $2819 compensation", I doubt he's going to get a friendly response.
My thoughts are that while I'm personally pretty stoked about getting $2612 for my $400 gun, I have a hunch that they're going to get sued.
-k