A long-standing Liberal pledge to ban “assault-style” firearms is being replaced with less stringent regulations that the government insisted Monday would still meets its goal of curbing gun violence but that critics slammed as a broken promise.
A long-standing Liberal pledge to ban “assault-style” firearms is being replaced with less stringent regulations that the government insisted Monday would still meets its goal of curbing gun violence but that critics slammed as a broken promise.
A long-standing Liberal pledge to ban “assault-style” firearms is being replaced with less stringent regulations that the government insisted Monday would still meets its goal of curbing gun violence but that critics slammed as a broken promise.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino was on the defensive on Tuesday over his revised approach to federal gun control legislation, saying the proposed definition banning future assault-style firearms rather than targeting those currently on the market was not invented out of thin air.
The federal government is working with a national gun industry organization to figure out how to compensate retailers that stock prohibited firearms, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says.