Canada to cap the market for handguns with new law
The Hindu
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced legislation that would put a national freeze on importing, buying, or selling handguns
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation Monday that would put a freeze on importing, buying, or selling handguns.
“We are capping the number of handguns in this country,” Mr. Trudeau said.
The regulations to halt the growth of personally owned handguns is expected to be enacted this fall.
“It will be illegal to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” the prime minister said. Families of shooting victims joined him at a press conference in Ottawa.
Canada already has plans to ban 1,500 types of military-style firearms and offer a mandatory buyback program that will begin at the end of the year. Mr. Trudeau said if someone really wants to keep their assault weapon it will be made completely inoperable.
Canada already expanded background checks.
Mr. Trudeau has long had plans to enact tougher gun laws, but the introduction of the new measure comes after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., this month.
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