The federal government has extended the deadline for owners of thousands of newly banned firearms to deactivate or turn in their guns as an appeal challenging Ottawa’s gun ban proceeds to the Supreme Court.
The government said the amnesty period to turn in around 2,500 banned firearm models will continue until 90 days after the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the legal challenge.
Canada’s top court agreed to hear the appeal in March but no hearing date has been announced yet. The court is expected to hear the case sometime next year.
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Ottawa’s first firearms prohibition order went into effect in May 2020. Successive Liberal governments have banned approximately 2,500 models of firearms and variants in the past six years since then, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifles….