Ford government joins Supreme Court challenge of ‘assault-style’ firearms ban

The Ontario government has joined the legal challenge by a firearms lobby group of the federal government’s sweeping 2020 ban of "assault-style" weapons.

lunedì 25 maggio 2026 New tab

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OTTAWA—The Ontario government has joined the legal challenge by a firearms lobby group of the federal government’s sweeping 2020 ban on “assault-style” weapons.

The Ford government is joining the Supreme Court challenge as the Carney government begins collecting weapons for its contentious buyback program, after the owners of roughly 67,000 now-banned guns, nearly half in Ontario, signed up to turn them in for compensation rather than risk criminal charges.

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