Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced he will file a bill that will freeze the sales of handguns in Canada.
“We are capping the number of handguns in this country,” Trudeau said in his announcement.
Laws in Canada already include expanded background checks, and a mandatory buy-back program beginning later this year. For AR-15 style rifles, they must be made inoperable to be legal in Canada.
Trudeau ran on stricter gun laws, but introduced the new ban on handguns after the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Texas earlier this month.
“One Canadian killed by gun violence is one too many. That’s why we’ve banned 1,500 types of military-style assault firearms. And that’s why, today, we’ve introduced legislation to further strengthen gun control in Canada,” Trudeau said. “Through this legislation, we’ll move forward with a national freeze on handgun ownership. In other words, it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada once this Bill becomes law.”
Trudeau’s news release with details about his bill are at this link.
View Trudeau’s remarks on his handgun ban at this link.
Earlier this year, Trudeau condemned the nation’s commercial truckers as they engaged in civil disobedience over the prime minister’s oppressive Covid-19 measures that forced Covid-19 vaccines on them. He called the protesters a fringe extremist group.
Last summer, in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, Trudeau announced the ban on sales of new gas-powered cars after 2035.
