The Liberal authorities is anticipated to unveil plans at the moment to arrange a program to purchase again “assault-style” weapons that have been blacklisted final spring.
As Radio-Canada reported final week, the voluntary program will present monetary compensation to gun homeowners who quit their banned weapons, with the purpose of taking them out of circulation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is anticipated to provide extra particulars concerning the invoice at 10:30 a.m. ET. CBC Information will carry it stay. Public Security Invoice Blair, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Justice Minister David Lametti and Joël Lightbound, parliamentary secretary to the minister of public security, can even 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 provide 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 below the Firearms Act. Typically, “assault-style weapon” is used to explain a semi-automatic firearm with an ammunition journal, constructed to fireside rapidly. There may be already a authorized restrict — 5 rounds — on the utmost measurement of {a magazine}.
“These weapons have 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 carry down a deer.”
The Liberal Occasion promised some kind of buyback program within the final election, one thing that would value taxpayers a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars}.
