Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is telling MPs finding out federal gun-control laws that the Liberal authorities is dedicated to “getting this right.”
Mendicino is showing this afternoon on the House of Commons public security committee, the place members are finding out a authorities invoice launched final yr.
The look comes greater than two months after the Liberals withdrew an modification to the invoice that might have spelled out in legislation the varied fashions coated by a ban on assault-style weapons.
The Liberals had touted the definition as an evergreen measure that might cement in laws a May 2020 regulatory ban of some 1,500 firearm fashions and variants, in addition to a number of others flagged since then.
The authorities pulled the measure from consideration after weeks of criticism from Conservative MPs and a few firearm advocates who mentioned the definition would ban many generally used searching rifles and shotguns.
The committee began over, listening to from numerous teams and people, together with Indigenous leaders, with the goal of crafting new wording for the modification.
