It's the Liberal leader's views where he talked about how high-powered handguns would be commonplace “outside busy places like shopping malls, grocery stores, and sports arenas”. Those are his words; they're not mine. It's clearly over the top, and it's truly unfortunate when I think Bill C-42 strikes the right balance between protecting law-abiding firearms owners and protecting the public's safety.
I'll be quite frank. One of the things we've been criticized on with Bill C-42 is our insistence that new firearms owners take a mandatory firearms course. Challenging the firearms course is not allowed anymore. The firearms groups are somewhat uncomfortable with that, but our view is very strong that new firearms owners should be required to take a test in person. They do it once in their lifetime. It's a day out of their lives, but it's time well spent in terms of learning firearms safety.