Former Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney: Owning a gun is a “right, and it’s a right that comes with responsibilities.”

From 2006 to 2014

• Eliminated the long-gun registry (2012)
  • Also stopped a back-door registry
• Cancelled the proposed gun-show regulations
• Postponed UN marking / tracing regulations until 2017
  • (for 11 consecutive years)
• Amnesty for licensing (extended until May 2015)
• Extended POLs expiry date
• Offered free PAL renewals (for past several years, now expired)
• Amnesty for owners of recently banned Swiss & CZ rifles (expired
  • March 2016)
• Neither signed nor ratified the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty
• Cancelled biased Environment Canada study on the environmental
  • impact of lead ammunition (2013)

• Firearms Records Regulation (Classification), August 2014
• Restricts RCMP powers to reclassify firearms (one-year limit)
• Rolled back RCMP reclassification of Swiss & CZ rifles
  • (Essentially now treated as restricted weapons)

Bill C-42 – Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act, July 2015

• Grace period for PAL renewal (6 months)
• POLs upgraded to PALs automatically
• ATT automatically attached to PAL
• Arbitrary powers of CFOs reined in
• Domestic abusers refused PALs
• Challenges eliminated for first-time applicants