{"id":575672,"date":"2026-04-01T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:24:09","slug":"liberals-eye-next-steps-in-firearm-buyback-as-window-for-individual-owners-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575672\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals eye next steps in firearm buyback as window for individual owners closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberal government\u2019s firearm buyback program is entering a new phase with passage of the deadline for individual gun owners to declare interest.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said last week that owners had reported more than 52,000 firearms to the government as the March 31 deadline loomed.<\/p>\n<p>That number was 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>The minister is expected to provide an update on the numbers today.<\/p>\n<p>Since May 2020, Ottawa has outlawed about 2,500 types of firearms, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, on the basis they belong only on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>The government is expected to soon reopen the buyback program to businesses after more than 12,000 guns were collected in an initial phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberal government\u2019s firearm buyback program is entering a new phase with passage of the deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-575672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575672","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=575672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}