“The country’s biggest gun lobby group is proposing a way to water down the program they say will help the government save face rather than double down on a policy “destined to fail.”

Making the case that proposed costs for the program will skyrocket and it will have little public safety benefit, the @CCFR_CCDAF urged @MarkJCarney in a letter last week not to proceed with the buyback and instead usher in a “grandfathering” system, which was used before and would allow current owners of the banned guns to keep them and use them as they did before while disallowing new ones from entering the market.

Tracey Wilson, the group’s head of public relations, told the Star she believes Carney is “more serious” than Trudeau and could be willing to compromise.

“He’s going to have a hard time justifying this crazy expense while cutting from all these government departments,” Wilson said. “If they’re not willing to make concessions, people need to think about the priorities of the government.””