We have had several RCMP members who got paid out of their federal pension plan and started with the Municipal pension plan . It has not hurt them by any means . I think timing years of service is everything when it comes to making the switch . I am sure the BC Chiefs of Police are aware of pension issues . They just do not advertise the work they do sometimes . Thanks , Sgt Holmes here <| sep |> Everytime someone brings up the Australian gun buyback I explain how utterly incomparable it is . The TOTAL amount of guns they had turned in probably isnt even half as many as there are in the Houston metro area alone . The amount of guns that there were in Australia is a tiny fraction of those in America and most of our gun owners will not just turn in or even sell their firearms to the government under any circumstance . Even if we did have a buyback program , it would cost tens if not hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars to buy back any substantial amount of them even if they were just purchasing at face value . The illegal trade along our Mexican border is currently drugs and people coming in , money and guns going out . If you shut off the supply of guns or anything high demand and illegal in the US , the cartels will make it their number one priority to corner the market . Australia is an island with no borders and thousands of miles of ocean .