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Details of federal firearm buyback program to be announced Saturday
The program will provide fair compensation for about 136,000 banned firearms with nearly $250 million budgeted, following Ottawa's ban on roughly 2,500 gun types since 2020.
- The Liberal government will unveil details of a national buyback program at a Montreal briefing on Saturday, according to The Canadian Press report.
- Outlawing roughly 2,500 gun types since May 2020, the federal government says they 'belong only on the battlefield.'
- Fiscal estimates and a small pilot haul frame expectations as the federal government says the buyback could cost more than $700 million and the pilot program collected only 25 firearms.
- Reaction is mixed among advocates and opponents as gun control advocates applaud the initiative while Conservative MPs and some gun owners criticize the plan as wasteful targeting law-abiding citizens.
- Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, Québec Public Security Minister Ian Lafrenière and police representatives will take part, with Liberal MP Nathalie Provost, a survivor of a 1989 rampage, expected to attend.
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Registration for the national firearms buy-back program will be open next Monday, a first step in this direction that could recover up to 136,000 prohibited assault weapons across Canada.
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