OTTAWA –
A spokesman for the Quebec City mosque the place six males have been shot to loss of life in 2017 is asking on Ottawa to go a gun-control bill being studied by MPs.
Boufeldja Benabdallah informed the House of Commons public security committee at present the bill needs to be amended to incorporate a complete and everlasting definition of banned assault-style firearms.
He says the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre desires that definition to incorporate all assault-style semi-automatic weapons that would not fairly be used for searching.
The bill, launched by the Liberal authorities in May, would “freeze” the acquisition, sale, switch and importation of handguns in Canada.
The bill consists of sure exemptions for high-level goal shooters, however sport shooting teams have referred to as for these exemptions to be expanded.
Ken Price of the group Danforth Families for Safe Communities informed the committee he worries exemptions will undermine the objective of decreasing the variety of weapons in Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Oct. 20, 2022.