New federal gun control bill expected this week

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New federal gun control bill expected this week

The federal government is expected to introduce new legislation this week that would strengthen laws surrounding the selling of firearms in an effort to crack down on gun violence.

Changes could include expanded background checks that would examine the criminal backgrounds and mental health history of someone trying to purchase an unrestricted gun.

The bill could also beef up screening of people who already own guns, allowing a continuous eligibility evaluation that would flag criminal behaviour as grounds for a potential investigation into their firearm ownership.

It could also require people buying guns to prove they have a licence before completing a transaction.

Currently, firearm vendors are not obligated to ask for proof of a licence before selling to a customer — nor do they have to keep files of gun inventory and sales.

Anyone with a firearms licence legally can buy unrestricted guns, and they don't have to show proof of a licence. So they could buy dozens of guns, and the stores that sold the firearms wouldn't be required to have a record of the purchases.

The government used to require the sales records from the vendors, along with a proof of licence. But those conditions were scrapped by the Harper government in 2012, at the same time the long-gun registry was abandoned.

New federal gun control bill expected this week
 
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It's the server.

Getting the same error after clicking through google search.
 
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The link works now but here is the text just in case it goes down again.

Sorry for your loss.



Gun laws have made life safer in B.C.

Gun amnesties have helped, says Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth

Don’t expect to see armed security considered for B.C. schools, despite concern about school shootings south of the border.

That’s the word from B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth. The minister responsible for police and provincial prisons, Farnworth says the British Columbia public has confidence in the safety of schools and communities.

“In my entire time as an MLA, which is 23 years, I don’t think I’ve ever had a person contact me about what goes on down in the U.S. all too often,” Farnworth told Black Press.

“I do think there are some fundamental differences in this province, in this country. There have been situations where there have been lockdowns, and the police are on them very well, and the school districts have protocols in place.”

He credits Canada’s strict gun laws, and a culture that has adapted to urbanization from a rural tradition where hunting rifles and shotguns were widely held.

The province and police forces have hosted gun amnesties, allowing people to turn in rifles, handguns and other weapons to police with no questions asked. Anyone with an old gun that needs safe disposal can turn it in, but they should be sure and call the police first for instructions.

Police work with B.C. schools to warn of the dangers of gangs, often with former gang members describing how they were lured into the apparent glamour of drug dealing and crime. Police and border officials report that illegal guns are smuggled into B.C. from the U.S. along with drugs.

https://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/canadian-culture-gun-laws-have-made-life-safer-in-b-c/
 
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I wonder what strict guns laws they're talking about.

Canadian laws are pretty lax.
 
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yes, I read it and all I see is opinion and anadoctal stories. So where's the evidence?
Click to expand...

If Liberals did evidence they would be something else...conservative maybe.

That's why they turn green and go star craving coocoo when you show them the stats go UP
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when ONLY CRIMINALS have guns.( Like they say: Never trust a dope dealer OR a COP!)

(NOTICE, how in florida for example, the cops never busted the crazy kid despite ALL the warnings, and did not go inside to save any children???)
 
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The OP is full of lies. First off, the provinces are back in the business of recording firearms sales. Most of them always have been. So there are records of firearm sales.

Secondly, all this does is punish law-abiding gun owners. The REAL gun problem comes out of Akwesasne. But since that's a reserve, you can rest assured the Libtards will do sweet f*ck all about the problem.
 
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