Canadian gun control group says hobbies should not outweigh the lives of children
An umbrella group of gun-control advocates says any exceptions to the federal handgun freeze should be very narrowly defined.
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Handgun freeze should have more exemptions, sport shooters say
MPs are coming under pressure to broaden an exemption to a planned federal handgun freeze to include a wider range of sport shooters — an idea prominent firearm-control advocates firmly oppose.
Co-founder of Quebec City mosque decries lack of federal progress on curbing handguns
The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six people were killed and many others injured four years ago this week laments the lack of federal progress on handgun control in a new letter to the prime minister.
'It would be terrible if nothing changed,' says Danforth victim's father
When Ken Price read the final police report on the man who shot his daughter during a rampage through Toronto's Greektown, it galvanized his resolve to tackle one of the major issues that emerged through the investigation: access to a handgun.
Supreme Court sides with man over his detention in race-tinged drug case
The Supreme Court of Canada has highlighted the harms of over-policing on racial minorities in a ruling that set aside an Asian-Canadian man's convictions for possessing a gun, drugs and illicit cash.
Gun violence a 'significant concern' for Canadians, Bill Blair says
Canada is willing to consider any possible measures that might reduce gun violence and organized crime, but will stay the course when it comes to border security, says the federal minister who's now overseeing the Liberal government's approach to all three.
Liberals poised to tighten controls on sale, licensing of firearms
The Liberal government is planning to introduce long-promised legislation on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, to strengthen controls on the sale, licensing and tracing of guns.
Feds eye tougher screening of gun owners for mental health, violence concerns
The federal government has been eyeing changes that would allow authorities to more quickly identify people considered unfit to have guns for reasons such as mental instability or violent behaviour, an internal memo shows.