OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is directing her two top public safety officials to prioritize safeguarding gun owners and those who act in self-defence from federal overreach.

Updated mandate letters sent by Smith to Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis on Thursday contained identical instructions to “relentlessly defend Albertans’ right to lawful and safe possession of firearms and right to self-defence.”

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This is a new item on both ministers’ to-do lists.

Amery told National Post that it’s not an accident the premier’s new directive to vigorously defend Albertan gun owners coincides with the launch of a pilot program for the Liberal government’s assault-style gun buy-back program, which Alberta has said it won’t coo

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