Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the federal government’s gun buyback program will be rolled out across Canada as a report from a pilot in Nova Scotia suggests low turnout.

“I will be showing our next steps on the program as we roll out throughout the country,” Anandasangaree said on Sunday afternoon. “But it is significant to say that we will be rolling the program out across Canada."

A news release from the federal government marking the beginning of the pilot in Cape Breton, N.S., said the goal was to “test program elements while collecting an initial 200 assault-style firearms."

Official results from the buyback program are not yet available, but the chair of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s police commission, Coun. Glenn Paruch, said earlier this week he’s he

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