Pam Damoff at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.

February 14th, 2023 / 4:30 p.m.

Liberal

Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON

Thank you to all of our witnesses for being here today.

I just want to clarify something that Mr. Shockey mentioned.

If the amendments had been passed, there would have been 19,000 models with over 100,000 variations of firearms available. My understanding is there are 20 million AR-15s in the United States. They've been restricted since 1977 and banned since 2020 in Canada, so the doom and gloom for the industry seems quite misplaced.

I just want to say that guns commonly used for hunting are very different from trophy hunting in Africa to bring home trophies for your trophy wall, or bringing Americans to the north to get trophies for their trophy walls.

I'll leave it there, Chair.

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