Canada Banned Certain Guns, Can’t Figure Out How to Collect Them

Opposition leader in the Senate criticized the plan, which has cost $67 million so far without buying one gun. Public Safety Canada says the plan is on track.

Gun supporters of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Sept. 12, 2020. Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty Images

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Canada Banned Certain Guns, Can’t Figure Out How to Collect Them

Opposition leader in the Senate criticized the plan, which has cost $67 million so far without buying one gun. Public Safety Canada says the plan is on track.

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By Michael Clements

September 29, 2024Updated:October 01, 2024

CALGARY, Canada—On May 1, 2020, the Canadian government outlawed 1,500 types of semiautomatic rifles and announced a firearms buyback program to take possession of the newly banned guns.

The action was the federal government’s response to a mass shooting in Nova Scotia in which 22 people were killed over April 18 and 19, 2020.

Canada Banned Certain Guns, Can’t Figure Out How to Collect Them

Canada Banned Certain Guns, Can’t Figure Out How to Collect Them

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