The federal government has announced a new set of rules that will apply to non-restricted firearms, which it says is aimed at reducing gun violence, while critics say it is a resurrection of the long-gun registry.
As of May 18, firearms businesses will be required to retain sales and inventory records related to non-restricted firearms, as they did until 2005.
The measure was repealed after it was made obsolete by the creation of the long-gun registry in 1998. The long-gun registry was scrapped by the Stephen Harper government in 2012 through Bill C-19.
“This will make it easier for law enforcement to trace crime guns,” says a May 11 statement from Public Safety Canada.
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