Marco Mendicino met with Saskatchewan community leaders to assure them new gun policies do not target rural regions of Canada
Canada’s public safety minister says a proposal to reform the country’s gun laws isn’t meant to target farmers or other rural gun owners who use firearms recreationally or to help keep wildlife off their properties.
Mendicino also said he has spoken with rural leaders, hunters and recreational sport shooters to make it clear that the bill introduced in Parliament this week is not aimed at them. “This is nothing more than virtue signalling from the federal government that we see time and time and time again, regardless of the topic.”
It would allow for the automatic removal of gun licences from people committing domestic violence or engaging in criminal harassment such as stalking. Federal statistics show the number of registered handguns in Canada increased by 71 per cent between 2010 and 2020 and reached approximately 1.1 million. Handguns were the most serious weapon used in most firearm-related violent crimes between 2009 and 2020.
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