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As of now, 1,500 models of rapid weapons are banned in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. “These weapons are designed for one purpose only: to kill as many people as quickly as possible,” said Trudeau. “There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.”
A two-year amnesty is applied to the owners of the affected rifles, and the government is planning a buyback program. The import and sale of weapons is prohibited with immediate effect. The government estimates that around 100,000 of those weapons are owned by Canadians.
On April 19, a 51-year-old man killed at least 22 people in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. After hours of pursuit that spanned an area of around 100 kilometers, police shot the man at a service station in Enfield.
Canada is following New Zealand’s example by tightening the gun law. The government there imposed a ban on the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons after the bloody attack on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.
