The legal challenge to the Liberal government’s order to ban over a thousand models of firearms is being heard in federal court this week.
Multiple suits were filed after the federal government designated in May 2020 a set of then-legal firearms as prohibited. A buyback program estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars is yet to become operational.
The ban came on the heels of the mass shooting around Portapique, Nova Scotia, which claimed 22 lives.
“As of today, the market for these assault-style weapons in Canada is closed. Enough is enough,” said at the time Bill Blair, then minister of Public Safety and current minister of Emergency Preparedness….