Ontario Liberals will ban handguns within one year of taking power, announced their leader Steven Del Duca on April 19.
“I’ve had it with Doug Ford’s open for business policy for guns,” Del Duca said in a statement.
“The Ford Conservatives are putting the interests of the gun lobby ahead of the Ontario victims of gun crime they swore an oath to protect. The result is handgun violence is spiraling out of control. The choice on handguns is clear, more handguns and gun crime under the Ford Conservatives or a ban on handguns under the Ontario Liberals.”
The plan also includes taking advantage of the federal gun buy-back program, involving the province in counter-gun smuggling operations at the border with the United States, and advocating for a national handgun ban.
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