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
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