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Lorne Gunter: Ottawa's gun buyback program a dismal failure

There may be a lot of gunowners who signed up for compensation who will be left without a convenient way to hand in their guns.

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Six years ago, after Gabriel Wortman of Nova Scotia committed the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history, the Trudeau government banned more than 2,500 models of firearms because they looked scary. Even though other models of the same firearms had the same firepower, those versions were not banned because they lacked the militarist features that made the others look like “assault-style” weapon.

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