TORONTO — A uniquely violent year in Toronto marked by a major surge in gun-related crimes saw police seize an unusually high number of handguns from city streets, the force’s chief said Thursday. Mark Saunders said officers had recovered 514 handguns so far in 2018 — or 222 more than […]
Month: December 2018
Feds’ gun-control bill might not become law before 2019 election
The predicted timeline for the passage of the Liberals’ new-gun control legislation in the Senate is raising concerns it will not become law before the next federal election. Bill C-71, introduced in the House in March as part of the Liberal government’s delivery of gun-control promises from the last election, finally made […]
Firearms Registry: Geneviève Guilbault relies on the gentle method
Minister Geneviève Guilbault launches the moment on the gentle method to convince hunters to register their firearms on the register. “There are fines, yes, for people who have not fulfilled their obligations, but you know, before the repression, I prefer to bet on the prevention part,” she said Monday, in […]
Opinion: The evidence simply doesn’t support calls for gun bans in Canada
According to gun control advocates’ logic, Australia’s buyback should have been followed by a sudden drop in firearm homicides and suicides. After all, access to legal guns ought to have been greatly diminished. It seems obvious: ban guns and there won’t be any gun crime. After two people were killed […]
Police say they’ve busted a gun-manufacturing ring in the Toronto area
Ontario Provincial Police say they have busted an organized crime group that was manufacturing illegal handguns and selling them to street gangs in the Greater Toronto Area, Niagara Region and elsewhere. “This is a GTA-centred group,” Supt. Bryan MacKillop of the OPP organized crime enforcement bureau said in an interview […]
Ottawa considers gun control options with a handgun ban seen as costly and possibly ineffective
OTTAWA—The federal government is considering further restrictions on handguns but will stop short of an absolute ban, as the cost to buy back legally owned handguns is pegged as high as $2 billion, the Star has learned. Escalating gun violence across the country, including Toronto, spurred calls for the federal […]
Gun groups worried about government’s ability to trace guns to owners
The groups say new marking regulations could be the “final piece” needed to trace every non-restricted gun in the country. Local and national firearms advocacy groups are sounding the alarm over what they perceive as an attempt by the federal government to effectively recreate the long-gun registry, which was scrapped […]
Gun controls will be tightened, Trudeau tells Montreal radio audience
The Canadian prime minister said he hasn’t excluded the possibility of banning them outright. The federal government is considering adopting measures that would see tighter controls applied to handguns and assault weapons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. In a radio interview with 98.5FM in Montréal, the prime […]
Canada’s Bill C-71 to Pass by Early Spring, Senator Tells CTV
Canada’s Senate is likely to approve Bill C-71 in winter or early spring, CTV News reported today, citing the sponsor of the planned law to further curtail the privacy and freedom of hunters and sport shooters. “I am confident that it will pass, eventually,” Senator André Pratte told CTV News in an interview […]
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