Canadian ban on military assault-style firearms

Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the groundbreaking announcement that Canada will be banning more than 1,500 types of assault weapons effective immediately. Canada’s Prime Minister cited several mass shooting tragedies including the massacre of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989, the Dawson College shooting in 2006, the shooting on Toronto’s Danforth in 2018…