‘Massive endeavour’: feds face difficult task in finding contractors for gun buyback scheme, expert warns

'The government has to rely on the private sector and qualified businesses to do the work,' said the University of Ottawa's J.L. Gilles LeVasseur.

Last year, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government will implement its planned buyback of firearm models which have been banned since 2020.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IREM KOCA

January 18, 2024

Observers have warned that it could be difficult for the federal government to find contractors to do the groundwork to get the firearms buyback program rolling, and that it will likely cost tens of millions of dollars.

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