Leitch’s campaign says mass email to supporters while pictured firing a handgun intended to communicate directly to gun owners, ‘very important’ community

Kellie Leitch's spokesperson Michael Diamond says federal jurisdiction over guns is of great importance to many Conservative Party members and prospective members.

In the email blast she sent to her Conservative Party supporters that contains the photos, titled, 'A common sense approach to firearms regulation,' Kellie Leitch talked about the 'long-standing tradition' of recreational firearm use in her family. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

March 29, 2017

OTTAWA—Conservative Party leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s email to supporters about her proposed firearm policies, which included a photo of her firing a 1972 Walther P1 handgun at a shooting range while discussing the “tradition of using firearms for hunting and for recreational purpos...

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