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By David Baxter The Canadian Press
Posted October 25, 2024 7:33 am
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Still nary day for Canada’s weapon buyback programme arsenic amnesty play acceptable to expire
The national authorities is giving Canada Post the quality to store and transport restricted firearms successful caller regulations that bring the retail gun buyback program 1 measurement person to beginning.
An bid successful assembly dated Oct. 16 allows for restricted assault-style firearms to beryllium removed from safes, transported and yet destroyed.
More than 1,500 models of firearms were restricted successful May 2020 aft a wide shooting successful Nova Scotia near 23 radical dead, including the gunman.
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Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has said the long-promised buyback programme would statesman this fall.
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First, the authorities volition bargain restricted firearms from retail stores and person them destroyed, earlier a buyback for radical who ain restricted weapons begins adjacent year.
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The Criminal Code amnesty for owning restricted assault-style firearms has been extended doubly truthful far, and is present acceptable to expire connected Oct. 30, 2025.
Canada Post has antecedently said it volition not person its employees instrumentality portion successful the weapon buyback owed to information concerns.
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