You may not have noticed amid all the other news, but the cause of banning handguns in Canada took two serious body blows in recent days. Good.
The first and most important was an announcement by Bill Blair, the federal Liberals’ minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction. Blair has been looking into cracking down on legal gun ownership in Canada for months, as part of a government promise to investigate whether Canada’s gun control laws are sufficient in the wake of some high-profile shootings. Though Blair concluded Canada can do more, and rumours continue to swirl about a possible ban of the AR-15 rifle (and perhaps other semi-automatic rifles), Blair said he had concluded that a handgun ban wasn’t necessary. Instead, he says a re-elected Liberal government would work with municipalities to consider whether the laws governing how firearms are stored need to be strengthened.
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Again Blair has proven his complete incompatibility with the task at hand. First he openly declared that he and his party were going to ban handguns and all "assault rifles" in Canada. Guess no-one told them that real assault rifles have been banned in Canada for decades. Now he is back-pedaling due to the backlash those statements and positioning caused.
Already Canada has some of the most stringent firearm storage rules of any in the entire world. And it is well proven that the vast majority of legal firearms owners comply, and comply extremely well. What Blair et al are catering for now are the TO and type votes. Their City Councils have demanded that handguns be banned within their jurisdictional limits (well overstepping their legal authority) and that sporting and target arms be stored at a "central facility" and signed out only for "approved use". Again, nonsense that will not prevent criminal use of firearms in any way shape or form.
The entire exercise is nothing more than grandstanding and catering to their urban based votes.
Nog