The federal government has come up with a revised plan for its gun ban under Bill C-21, which Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says will ban certain types of “AR-15 style” firearms after the legislation comes into effect.
The new legislation, if passed, would not ban any currently legal long guns, such as shotguns and rifles. However, the Liberals’ national handgun freeze would remain in place.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill on May 1, Mendicino said the Liberals will “protect families” by banning AR-15 “assault-style” guns and will introduce new amendments to Bill C-21, a gun control act, to “take action against large capacity magazines, which can be fed into a gun and turn it into a mass shooter.”…