Mark Carney Liberals will nonetheless expand program nationally after meagre results in Nova Scotia

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Just 25 guns. That’s how many firearms were taken in as part of the Mark Carney government’s gun “buyback” pilot program in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton region.

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The government had been hoping for 200 guns collected in an area that industry experts estimate has at least 2,000 guns that the government has banned.

Instead, they got 25 guns, most of them from family members looking to dispose of grandpa’s old hunting rifles that they no longer wanted around.

This program has been a failure from the beginning, but that won’t stop the Liberals from pushing on and expanding it. In fact, they’ve already announced