tricksforchips wrote:Canada already has pretty strict gun laws, and I thought the real issue was illegal weapons being smuggled up from the U.S. I'm not sure if this ban will actually do anything until they put a bit more pressure on the borders to stop the illegal import of assault weapons.
Yeah, I guess it's a similar issue that Chicago has, where they have very strict gun laws but neighbouring states don't, so you can't stop the flow of them coming in.
As strict as the laws were comparatively, there's still close to 125,000 of these registered guns in Canada, I'm happy to see them go and I don't think this is an incremental step or anything. I think the Nova Scotia shooter's collection was a mix of registered and unregistered guns.
But yeah def have to clamp down on illegal imports and fuck it melt all handguns too.