Gun rights activists call Liberal backtrack on firearms ban a ‘massive retreat,’ but not a victory

The Liberals' failure to 'do their homework' and consult with Indigenous communities burned political capital and left the government back where it started last fall, says NDP strategist Cam Holmstrom.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced the Liberals' newly revised amendments to Bill C-21 on May 1, including a new definition of firearms to be prohibited in the future.

As gun-control advocates accuse the Liberal government of betraying victims and capitulating to a “duplicitous” NDP, the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is calling the revised amendments to the Liberals' gun-control legislation a “massive retreat” from the more...

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