The Liberals’ gun “buyback” program, which is being piloted in Nova Scotia and will be expanded across the country later this fall, is a costly and ineffective government boondoggle that will not help reduce gun crime on our streets — and even the minister in charge of the program knows this.
Earlier this week, National Post obtained an audio recording of a private conversation between Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and a tenant in a building he owns. In it, the minister says he can’t “explain the logic” of the program, which aims to confiscate an estimated 180,000 privately owned firearms that Ottawa has made illegal over the past five years.
And neither can we. The Liberals have been intent on banning as many firearms — what they erroneously call “ assault-style ” weapo