Saskatchewan’s Minister of Corrections and Policing has sent a letter to the Commanding Officer of the Saskatchewan RCMP about the federal government’s buy back program for guns declared prohibited in May of 2020. Christine Tell explains that the Order In Council banned nine types of firearms for a total of nearly 1,500 models.
She expects many Saskatchewan residents currently lawfully own one of these guns.

Tell says in the letter she wants to make it clear to the Saskatchewan RCMP, through Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, that the province doesn’t support the federal government’s confiscation program when it gets underway and doesn’t authorize the use of provincially funded resources for any process connected to the proposed buy back of these firearms. Tell suggests the vast majority of crimes are not committed with legal firearms, but rather with illegally smuggled guns.

The Corrections and Policing Minister says provincial policing resources will not be used to carry out the federaly mandated administrative program.