What's Your Receipt? - Canada Gun Buyback Tracker: 6 years, $100 million, 25 guns collected
This is Canada's Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program (ASFCP) scorecard.
Program Scorecard
How the gun buyback is performing
Pilot Admin Cost
Pilot Result (target: 200)
Cost Per Gun (pilot)
Est. Guns Covered
Projection Based on Cape Breton Pilot
Pilot Admin Cost
$149,760
÷ 25 guns
Admin Per Gun
~$6,000
Projected Admin (136K guns)
$815M
Calc: $6,000 × 136,000
Compensation Budget
$248M
Total Projected Cost for 136,000 guns
~$959M
(Admin $815M + Compensation $144M, based on $7,000/gun from pilot)
Provincial Positions
Where provinces stand on the buyback
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Crime Gun Sources
Where crime guns actually come from
% of Crime Guns from US Sources
Sources: Toronto Police, Regional Police Services
Buyback targets:
2.4M licensed gun owners
“Yet in 91% of solved shooting homicides, the accused did NOT have a valid licence for the firearm used.”
“Licensed gun owners have a homicide rate of 0.60/100K vs 1.85/100K general population — 3× safer.”
Untouched by buyback:
Smuggled firearms
“85-90% of crime guns in major Canadian cities are traced to US sources”
“In 2023, Montreal police made 351 arrests in connection with firearm events and seized 775 guns — mostly handguns from the United States.”
Opportunity Cost
What else could this money fund?
Budget
$100.0M
Nurses (@ $90K/year)
1,111
Food Bank Meals (@ $0.50)
200,000,000
Border Scanners (@ $1.5M)
66
$100M → 25 guns
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Canada's gun buyback: 6 years, ~$100M spent, 25 guns collected. That's $4M per gun. See what YOU paid:
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About
What's Your Receipt? is a non-partisan public transparency project that tracks federal spending on the gun buyback program.
What We Are
- ✓A non-partisan fiscal transparency project
- ✓Based on verifiable public data
What We Are Not
- ✗A pro-gun or anti-gun lobbying group
- ✗Affiliated with any political party
Methodology
Contribution = (Federal Tax / $400B) × $248.6M
Data Sources
All data comes from verifiable government and media sources.
CBC News: Ottawa unveils next steps in gun buyback program
Details on the national gun buyback program and next steps
CBC News: Gun buyback pilot collected 25 firearms
Pilot program results showing 25 firearms collected
Parliamentary Budget Officer: Cost Estimate of the Firearm Buy-Back Program
Official cost estimate of the firearm buy-back program (estimated $756 million)
CP24: Toronto police will not help with gun buyback
Toronto police say they will not help with federal government's gun buyback program