OTTAWA — The federal government’s plans to resume a compensation program for retailers for inventories of formerly legal guns that were subsequently banned by the Liberals have been delayed from this fall until an unspecified date.

The change comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government intends to move ahead with the launch of a national “buyback” program by the end of the year for individual gun owners whose formerly legal firearms ended up being banned.

In September, when Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree announced the “buyback” program was being piloted for individuals in Cape Breton, N.S., his department confirmed that the second phase of the program for businesses with banned stock would resume in the “coming weeks,” after it was closed this past spring.

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