Manitoba Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kelvin Goertzen wrote to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and said that Manitoba would not take part in any federal “buy-back” gun program..“On September 13th, I wrote the federal Minister of Public Safety, The Honourable Marco Mendicino, regarding the ‘buy-back’ program for guns that federal Liberal government is enacting,” said Goertzen’s Facebook post.. GunsGuns .The letter said the following:.“We feel many aspects of the federal approach to gun crimes unnecessarily target lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals, who are unlikely to follow gun regulations in any event. In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime.”.“We will be bringing these concerns, along with the shared concern of Saskatchewan and Alberta, directly to the federal government next month in meetings of Ministers of Justice and Ministers of Public Safety.”.Manitoba joins Alberta and Saskatchewan, who both informed the RCMP and federal government that they would not participate in or fund any gun “buy-back” programs..READ MORE Saskatchewan will not fund federal gun buyback program, joining Alberta.Saskatchewan’s Chief Firearms Officer Robert Freberg called the “buy-back” program a “confiscation program.”.Manitoba will focus on gun violence and the weapons used in those crimes, not chase after law-abiding gun owners.
Manitoba Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kelvin Goertzen wrote to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and said that Manitoba would not take part in any federal “buy-back” gun program..“On September 13th, I wrote the federal Minister of Public Safety, The Honourable Marco Mendicino, regarding the ‘buy-back’ program for guns that federal Liberal government is enacting,” said Goertzen’s Facebook post.. GunsGuns .The letter said the following:.“We feel many aspects of the federal approach to gun crimes unnecessarily target lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals, who are unlikely to follow gun regulations in any event. In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime.”.“We will be bringing these concerns, along with the shared concern of Saskatchewan and Alberta, directly to the federal government next month in meetings of Ministers of Justice and Ministers of Public Safety.”.Manitoba joins Alberta and Saskatchewan, who both informed the RCMP and federal government that they would not participate in or fund any gun “buy-back” programs..READ MORE Saskatchewan will not fund federal gun buyback program, joining Alberta.Saskatchewan’s Chief Firearms Officer Robert Freberg called the “buy-back” program a “confiscation program.”.Manitoba will focus on gun violence and the weapons used in those crimes, not chase after law-abiding gun owners.
