A salient gun-control group says the national government's buyback of "assault-style" firearms will beryllium a discarded of money unless it includes a prohibition of the semi-automatic SKS rifle.
Since May 2020, Ottawa has outlawed about 2,500 types of guns connected the ground they beryllium connected the battlefield, not successful the hands of hunters aliases athletics shooters.
The authorities says a national buyback program will supply owners adjacent compensation for their outlawed firearms, pinch the latest specifications to beryllium announced Tuesday.
However, the authorities has not outlawed the SKS, which is commonly utilized successful Indigenous communities to hunt for food.
The SKS has besides been utilized successful constabulary killings and different high-profile shootings.
PolySeSouvient, formed successful consequence to the 1989 wide shooting astatine Montreal's École Polytechnique, says leaving the firearm successful circulation would beryllium "a nationalist information failure."
PolySeSouvient wants the authorities to enforce an contiguous prohibition connected caller income of the SKS, region from circulation modern, assault-style versions of the rifle, and instrumentality a voluntary buyback of older models.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Sunday the authorities would soon denote the latest shape of the buyback program, including a aviator programme successful Nova Scotia.
The curate is scheduled to clasp a news convention connected Parliament Hill Tuesday afternoon.
PolySeSouvient said successful a media connection that arsenic agelong arsenic the SKS is not prohibited, Canada lacks a prohibition connected assault-style weapons.
New SKS models will flood the marketplace and switch different firearm models that person been outlawed, the group said.
"Nothing will alteration successful the agelong run, different than a discarded of hundreds-of-millions of taxpayers' dollars," PolySeSouvient said. "Much of the buyback money will beryllium injected into the weapon industry, making manufacturers richer and the weapon lobby stronger."