BREAKING

Public Safety Canada has announced the start of a "voluntary" gun confiscation pilot program in Nova Scotia (Cape Breton).

Here is a summary of the information from the press conference this morning:

• Pilot in NS Starting today, running approximately 6 weeks
• Only 200 firearms to be collected
• To test online portal, collection and destruction processes, and system for compensation payments
• Dedicated contact centre for all participants in both official languages
• Opened nationwide "later this fall"
• Collection and compensation period in 2026
• Eligible firearm owners will be contacted by mail or email with info on participating during "declaration period"
• "Voluntary" but those who do not participate will not recieve compensation and will have to dispose of prohibited firearms by deactivating, exporting or turning in to police before amnesty period ends (current expiry is 30 Oct 2025)
• Government "assessing appropriate time required to extend the current amnesty order"
• Program reopening for businesses to collect firearms banned in subsequent Dec 2024 and Mar 2025 bans
• All affected firearm owners or businesses will have to comply with the law by the end of the amnesty period, to avoid criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm

UPDATE: 2:30PM ET - LIST OF FIREARMS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH COMPENSATION AMOUNTS*

*We highly recommend using a VPN if viewing the list on the PS website. For your convenience we have made copies of this list in the following formats: PDF | CSV | EXCEL

You can watch our social media channels for any further updates.

If there has ever been a time to help the CCFR, it's right now.

We have plans in motion for a "hail mary" project which could very well be the largest project we've ever done as an organization, and we need all of your support to pull it off. This is it.

The CCFR sued the government over these bans and we still have an application to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada. We will fight this all the way to the bitter end, because there is no other option.

Don't be fooled by the empty words of others. We showed up during the election, we've consistently showed up for gun owners when it mattered the most, and we're going to continue showing up for you until all of this is undone or there's nothing left.