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Alberta MP launches petition to ban use of the term ‘assault rifle’

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Conservative MP David Yurdiga, right, and former MP Ed Kormarnicki, left, are pictured at a 2015 House Transport Committee meeting. Mr. Yurdiga recently launched a petition seeking to stop use of the term 'assault rifle' in the House during discussions about guns. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

March 10, 2021

Alberta Conservative MP David Yurdiga launched a petition March 3 seeking to stop use of the term “assault rifle” in the House of Commons when it comes to conversations about guns, calling it a scare tactic used to “demonize all guns,”

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