Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is casting doubt on the federal government’s new firearm legislation that pledges to support cities that wish to implement a handgun ban, saying "it’s just not going to work."
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Advocates of Gun Rights and Gun Control React to New Firearms Bill
The federal government proposed new gun control legislation Tuesday that would introduce the long-anticipated buy-back program for recently barred firearms.
Bill C-21, which comes nine months after the Liberal government announced a ban on the use, sale, and importation of “assault-style” weapons, will also allow municipalities to ban handguns, and increases criminal penalties for gun smuggling and trafficking.
Reacting to the new bill, the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR) says the new rules will do little to curb the types of offences it purports to address, and has accused the government of politicizing the contentious gun control issue.
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EDMONTON Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson says the powers that proposed federal gun legislation would give municipalities is not necessarily the right approach to the problem. The federal government announced Tuesday it would make good on its promise to impose gun laws with a voluntary buyback program to purchase now-prohibited firearms in the coming months. Bill C-21 would also allow municipalities to ban handguns in their region using bylaw restrictions on storage and transportation. Normally, mayors are happy to have additional powers delegated to us, but clearly in this case a networked approach is required,” Iveson said Tuesday. I ve spoken to our police chief about this, whose advice I take very seriously, and the measures needed to curb gun violence deal with organized crime, deal with the trafficking of these weapons and are much more complicated than a simple city by city ban.