Two contentious amendments to the Liberal government\u0027s controversial gun control legislation have been withdrawn.
Amendment G4 aims to expand the list of prohibited guns by including its definition to ban rifles and shotguns “…capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner and that is designed to accept a detachable cartridge magazine with a capacity greater than five cartridges of the type for which the firearms was originally designed.”
“The way the Liberals introduced this amendment after we had completed our witness testimony, I think was a sign of bad faith,” New Democrat MP and committee member Alistair MacGregor told the National Post in an interview last month. “Trudeau desperately wanted to ban hunting rifles,” he said, calling the amendments a “sucker punch” for Canada’s licenced firearm owners.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Year-end interviews with both CTV and CBC News saw the Prime Minister backtrack on repeated assurances that C-21 targets criminals, not law-abiding gun owners.
Conservative committee member Raquel Dancho called the amendments “underhanded” and represented the largest firearms ban in Canadian history.Article content
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