Mr. Speaker, they are required to be registered now.
The Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle was the weapon used by Marc Lepine in Canada's worst-ever mass shooting in Montreal. Now the government wants to remove restrictions from this weapon and others like it.
As if trashing years of valuable registry records in spite of victims' pleas was not enough, now the government is removing controls over high-powered rifles.
Why is the government making it harder to track who has these dangerous weapons? Why has it not learned from the past?