Thu Sep 29, 2022 – 5:28 pm EDTThu Sep 29, 2022 – 6:02 pm EDT
REGINA, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) – The Saskatchewan government has joined Alberta in saying it will not abide by a semi-automatic gun buyback program enacted by the Canadian federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“As the federal government continues to plan for their confiscation program, it is important to make it clear to you, the Commanding Officer of our provincial police service, that the Government of Saskatchewan does not support and will not authorize the use of provincially funded resources for any process that is connected to the federal governments proposed ‘buy back’ of these firearms,” wrote Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety Minister Christine Tell in a letter to Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore.
Like Alberta, Saskatchewan has directed the RCMP in the province to not allocate resources to the buyback scheme.
Tell noted that the province will instead focus on getting illegal guns off the streets and going after criminals who use firearms illegally.
“We know that the vast majority of these crimes are not committed by legal firearms or their owners but rather with illegally smuggled
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