The federal government will provide $1 billion in funding to help provinces ban handguns, while making the firearms buyback program mandatory, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Thursday.
“The majority of gun-related homicides involve a handgun, and that’s why our government is committed to investing $1 billion to support those provinces and territories who want to ban handguns,” Mendicino said during a meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
