An estimated 250 rally-goers gathered in Sydney on Thursday to let the Cape Breton Regional Police Service chief and federal government officials know they’re wasting their time and money on a federal buyback program targeting prohibited firearms.

“It’s a waste of police resources and of tax dollars,” said Tracey Wilson, vice-president of public relations for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, who flew in from Ottawa to attend the rally outside the Myles F. Burke Police Headquarters on Grand Lake Road.

“Those efforts should be focused on crime, violence and gun smuggling — not on the good people of Cape Breton.”

PEACEFUL PROTEST

Organized by Sydney lawyer Anna Manley, who also ran as a Sydney-Glace Bay Conservative candidate in this past spring’s federal election, and Jeff McNe

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