In the past two years, the Saskatchewan Firearms Office has taken numerous steps to improve firearms safety and promote the perspective of the Saskatchewan firearms community in Canada.

That’s according to a news release from the province with this week marking the two-year anniversary of the program after taking it over from the federal government.

In the past two years, the Firearms Office has helped to establish an advisory committee to provide policy recommendations to government on education, licensing and transportation of firearms and aided in developing The Saskatchewan Firearms Act, which allows it to take on an expanded role in prosecuting non-violent regulatory firearms offences.

There was also a memorandum of understanding signed with the Saskatoon Police Service to house the new provincial Firearms Ballistics Lab.
The province says around $8.9 million was allocated in this fiscal year’s budget to support the work of the Firearms Office to reduce the criminal use of firearms and protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners.