Gun control advocates trash feds’ bill, but it’s probably a winner anyway, say pollsters

Voters who don’t like guns often are not ‘particularly bothered around the nuances of some of these things,’ says Shachi Kurl.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has been the face of the government's gun control agenda since the last election. His long-awaited bill to make good on the party's gun control promises from that election campaign has been harshly criticized by advocates on both sides of the issue.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

March 8, 2021

Gun control advocates have slammed the government’s new gun control bill as ineffective, redundant, and a “capitulation to the gun lobby”—which is also thoroughly displeased with the bill. It might be good politics for the Liberals anyway, say pollsters....

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