Saskatchewan’s government is introducing amendments to the province’s firearms act to ensure gun owners receive “fair market value” for their firearms as Ottawa moves forward with its national gun buyback program.
The proposed amendments say that the value that gun owners receive would be determined by the Saskatchewan Firearms Commissioner, the government said on Nov. 25.
If a firearm owner does not receive fair market compensation for an impacted firearm within 12 months of the federal program coming into effect, the firearm will be deemed “seized,” the province says.
“The amendments we are introducing will promote public safety and help safeguard the heritage of law-abiding firearms owners by holding the federal government accountable for providing fair compensation to all affected Saskatchewan firearms owners,” Saskatchewan Public Safety Minister Tim McLeod said in a Nov. 25 statement….