OTTAWA –
A outstanding gun-control group is urging MPs to legislatively enshrine a complete ban on firearms the federal government outlawed utilizing regulatory orders greater than two years in the past.
The Liberals banned some 1,500 fashions and variants of firearms, together with the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, by an order-in-council in May 2020 on the grounds they haven’t any place in looking or sport capturing.
Appearing on the House of Commons public security committee at present, PolySeSouvient says a complete ban on all such firearms, together with some not coated within the 2020 ban, should be constructed right into a bill MPs are learning.
The group says this “evergreen” measure must be accompanied by new rules that create a pre-authorization course of for fashions coming onto the market.
The course of would make sure that solely these firearms particularly deemed “non-restricted” or “restricted” and given a Firearm Reference Number by the RCMP can be authorized.
As for the banned firearms, a buyback program now being deliberate would require homeowners to both promote these to the federal government or have them rendered inoperable at federal expense.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 1, 2022.