{"id":560221,"date":"2026-03-25T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:56:09","slug":"gun-control-group-criticizes-ottawa-over-poor-participation-in-firearm-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560221\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun control group criticizes Ottawa over \u2018poor participation\u2019 in firearm buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774461369_228_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People protest against a federal firearms ban and compensation program in front of the legislature in Quebec City, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jacques Boissinot<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 25, 2026 | 10:37 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Gun control group PolySeSouvient blames \u201cweak political leadership\u201d for what it calls \u201cpoor participation\u201d in the federal compensation program for banned firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Tuesday that gun owners had reported more than 52,000 firearms to the government with one week left to go in a program to provide compensation for banned guns.<\/p>\n<p>That figure is well short of the 136,000 firearms for which the Liberal government set aside compensation money when the buyback for individual owners opened in January.<\/p>\n<p>In a media statement today, PolySeSouvient says weak messaging about the program has failed to counter misinformation and disingenuous provincial manoeuvring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People protest against a federal firearms ban and compensation program in front of the legislature in Quebec City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-560221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}