Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for an important opportunity to provide clarification.
The weapons that we prohibited are not weapons that were designed or intended to be used either in hunting or for sport shooting.
Mr. Chair, these are weapons that were designed for soldiers to use in combat to kill other soldiers. They have no place in civil society. Notwithstanding some of the confusion that we've heard from the members opposite, we did not prohibit hunting weapons such as the 10-gauge shotgun and the 12-gauge shotgun. We prohibited weapons designed to kill people.