Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.
Highlights
- Canada’s government introduces legislation to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package.
- The new legislation would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the new measures were needed as gun violence was increasing.
- Canada has stronger gun legislation than the United States but while its gun homicide rate is less than one-fifth the U.S.
- rate it is higher than that of other rich countries and has been rising.
- In 2020 it was five times Australia’s rate, the country’s highest since at least 1997, according to Statistics Canada.