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FIRST READING: Gun 'buy back' has cost $24,000 per gun

For every three guns taken in, the government could have instead hired another police officer

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FIRST READING: Gun 'buy back' has cost $24,000 per gun Back to video

The Liberals’ plan to “buy back” thousands of once-legal firearms has experienced so many cost overruns that it has so far more than $24,000 for every gun collected.

This means that for just three firearms turned over as part of the program, the federal government could have instead paid the starting salary of a full-time RCMP officer ($71,191).

For every two guns, the government could have purchased a new fully-equipped patrol car.

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It’s been nearly six years since the government of then prime minister Justin Trudeau issued a surprise order-in-council declaring that more than 1,500 models of previously legal Canadian firearms were now........

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