Back in May, the Trudeau administration announced support for a bill that would halt the legal sale, purchase, and transfer of all handguns in Canada and allow for municipalities to ban the possession...
The ban, to take effect in two weeks, will allow Ottawa to stop imports without waiting for Parliament to pass legislation. But critics say it doesn’t get at the real problem: Firearms smuggled illegally from the United States.
Canada announced Friday it will ban the import of handguns beginning on August 19, as part of a wider proposed freeze in the wake of high-profile mass shootings in the United States.
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