The Liberal authorities is anticipated to unveil plans at this time to arrange a program to purchase again “assault-style” weapons that had been blacklisted final spring.
As Radio-Canada reported final week, the voluntary program will present monetary compensation to gun homeowners who surrender their banned weapons, with the goal of taking them out of circulation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is anticipated to offer extra particulars in regards to the invoice at 10:30 a.m. ET. CBC Information will carry it dwell. Public Security Invoice Blair, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Justice Minister David Lametti and Joël Lightbound, parliamentary secretary to the minister of public security, may also be there.
In Might, Trudeau introduced a ban on the use, sale and importation of greater than 1,500 makes and fashions of what the federal government refers to as military-grade “assault-style weapons.”
A two-year amnesty interval has been in place to offer individuals who already personal the focused firearms time to adjust to the ban. The amnesty interval will final till April 30, 2022.
Final week, Blair gave discover he’ll be introducing a invoice coping with firearms.
The time period “assault-style” has no authorized definition in Canada underneath the Firearms Act. Usually, “assault-style weapon” is used to explain a semi-automatic firearm with an ammunition journal, constructed to fireplace shortly. There’s already a authorized restrict — 5 rounds — on the utmost measurement of {a magazine}.
“These weapons had been designed for one goal and one goal solely: to kill the most important variety of folks within the shortest period of time,” Trudeau stated final spring. “You do not want an AR-15 to deliver down a deer.”
The Liberal Celebration promised some kind of buyback program within the final election, one thing that might value taxpayers a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
