The government of Saskatchewan is proposing additional amendments to the province’s firearms act to let firearms owners and businesses apply for a certificate of exemption from the federal gun buyback program.
The certificates would allow the gun owners to continue to store their “lawfully-owned, but now prohibited” firearms, the province said in a March 11 news release.
The province says its proposed amendments to the Saskatchewan Firearms Act intend to help gun owners and businesses in the province receive “fair compensation for their property that has been targeted by federal legislation.”
The exemption certificates will be issued under Section 117.08 of the Criminal Code. The section exempts individuals from criminal charges if they act “on behalf of, and under the authority of, a police force or a department of the Government of Canada or of a province,” the provincial government said….