Ottawa considers allowing banned guns to be mailed to disposal facilities
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Ottawa is looking to modify the rules for the retail assault-style weapon buyback by allowing restricted firearms to be shipped through the mail or professional couriers.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is putting new regulations before Parliament to allow professional couriers like Canada Post and private companies like FedEx and UPS to transport restricted firearms for disposal as part of the long-planned assault-style weapon buyback.
“Once the program launches, these measures will provide businesses with additional options to participate in the program and dispose of the affected assault-style firearms and devices they hold in their inventory,” LeBlanc said in a statement.
“Specifically, once in force, these proposed regulations will make the affected firearms and devices mailable matter and will temporarily permit businesses taking part in the program to ship firearms or devices via post.”
Before his proposal, the only method specified to dispose of the more than 1,500 assault-style firearms that were banned in the wake of the April 2020 Portapique, N.S., mass shooting was to turn these weapons into the police.
With the passage of Bill C-21 last year, the government established a Criminal Code definition for “assault-style firearm” that will be bought back by the government.
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