OTTAWA — Retailers participating in the federal gun buyback scheme should be able to turn in banned firearms using courier companies starting this fall, as the Trudeau government gears up to begin the first phase of the long-awaited program.
On Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced regulatory changes that will allow retailers to surrender banned firearms using courier services, a move critics say is long overdue and that gun-control advocates celebrate as a “critical” first step in a program that has been mired in controversy.
