Ottawa Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blazoned Monday a proposed snap on handgun power in Canada that would effectively ban their importation and trade, following recent mass blowups in the United States.
The bill must still be passed by Parliament, with the ruling Liberals holding only a nonage of seats.
We are introducing legislation to apply a public snap on handgun power,” Trudeau told a news conference, joined by dozens of families and musketeers of victims of gun violence.
What this means is that it’ll no longer be possible to buy, vend, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” he said.” In other words, we are circumscribing the request for handguns.”
Days after Canada’s worst mass firing left 23 dead in pastoral Nova Scotia in April 2020, the government banned types of military- grade or assault- style arms.
But Trudeau conceded Monday that gun violence continues to rise.
The government statistical agency reported last week that arms- related violent crimes regard for lower than three percent of all violent crimes in Canada.
But since 2009 the per capita rate of ordnance being refocused at someone has nearly tripled, while the rate at which a gun was fired with an intent to kill or wound is upfive-fold.
nearly two- thirds of gun crimes in civic areas involved handguns.
Police Frequently point to smuggling from the United States– which is reeling from recent blowups at a academy in Texas and at a supermarket in New York state– as the main source of handguns.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino estimated there are about one million handguns in this country– up significantly from a decade agone
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Trudeau reflected,” People should be free to go to the supermarket, their academy or their place of deification without fear. People should be free to go to the demesne or to a birthday party without fussing about what might be from a slapdash pellet.
Gun violence is a complex problem,” he said.” But at the end of the day, the calculation is really relatively simple the smaller the ordnance in our communities, the safer everyone will be.”
The proposed law would also strip anyone involved in domestic violence or stalking of their arms license, and take down ordnance from those supposed to be a threat to themselves or others, as well as strengthen border security and felonious penalties for gun trafficking.
It would also ban long- gun magazines able of holding further than five pellets.