Why the Liberals keep putting off the gun marking regulations

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced on Nov. 30 that his government was again deferring the Firearms Marking Regulations, likely until after the next election.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is the latest in a long line of Liberal and Conservative public safety ministers who have so far proven unable to fix the Firearms Marking Regulations.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

December 6, 2020

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s Nov. 30 decision to punt the Firearms Marking Regulations three years down the road is a sign that the government is torn between its tough-on-guns messaging, law enforcement, and its own bureaucrats, say lobbyists for gun owners a...

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