Your News About Guns – Vos Nouvelles Sur Les Armes À Feu
C’est fait. Le registre des armes à feu du Québec est désormais entré en vigueur. Mais avec seulement le quart des armes d’épaule d’enregistrées, Mario Dumont se questionne sur son utilité dans sa forme actuelle. Sur le plan politique, le gouvernement a été habile afin de concilier les demandes des […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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—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 […]
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 […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s national homicide rate last year was the highest it’s been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. In a report released Wednesday, the agency said there were 660 reported homicides in Canada last year. Not only was that an increase […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he wants to tackle a surge of gun violence in Canada by targeting criminals who use weapons illegally, rather than supporting an outright handgun ban. Scheer is to unveil the second part of his plan for improving public safety Tuesday in Delta, B.C.: a policy […]
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