Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for the invitation. I will use English just to be quicker. I have been studying firearms culture, legislation and technology for many years. I'm here to talk about ghost guns—firearms that are not identified by a serial number. They are a growing public secur

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question, Ms. Michaud. Yes, we are indeed hearing here in Canada something very similar to the rhetoric being bandied about in the United States. Proponents of the right to own and use firearms sometimes spout arguments taken directly from organizations such as

Public Safety committee  As I said in my introduction, one of the major problems is that the components that are identified by a registered serial number are the cartridges and the breeches, i.e., the receivers of handguns and assault-style rifles. Moreover, most firearm components have a serial number g

Public Safety committee  Thanks for the question. Identifying other parts, like the barrel figure and the slide, would make it more difficult for anybody to order parts and make them. Then if they're caught making them, they will be caught making a weapon and they can have bigger jail sentences. It wou

Public Safety committee  It will get worse, faster, but I think Dr. Langmann is right. The problem will grow because it has gotten easier to make ghost guns since 2013, when the first printed gun was made. It was cheap then; it would break very easily, but now, very efficient firearms can be printed and

Public Safety committee  Yes, I was on mute. Sorry.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Rainville's case is interesting because he only spent a few months in prison for having tried to import approximately 250 replica Glock 17s. He was released from prison in July of this year. My opinion hasn't changed: punishment is not the best way to discourage people from

Public Safety committee  I'd like to thank the committee members for having invited me. I don't know whether the document that contains my recommendations was distributed, but in any event, I will now present them to the committee. I have two recommendations to make. The classification of firearms needs

Public Safety committee  Yes. The main thing is that prevention is more efficient. That being said, it depends on the objective of the government. If the objective is to reduce mass shootings and perhaps terrorism too.... I would say that what the government calls at the moment “military-style assault r

Public Safety committee  I think you are right. Long guns are not usually used to commit crime. Again, it depends on what the government wants to do first. Also, what I propose here is classifying weapons differently. You used the expression “assault weapon”. It's very difficult to define an assault we

Public Safety committee  I think you are the politicians. I'm not, so I'm giving you my opinion on how we should categorize the weapons. Of course, I think a lot of people will not be happy. That being said, with the current law and categorization, a lot of people are not happy, so it's up to you to dec

Public Safety committee  It would have a significant impact on public security, even if the weapons we are talking about are not used very often in crime. Mass shootings are lower-frequency but high-intensity events. That's the main problem with those weapons.

Public Safety committee  You're absolutely right. The law is way stronger here than it is in the United States.

Public Safety committee  I think you're probably right. That being said, the industry is pushing for new models of weapons to be sold here and everywhere in the world, and those weapons may be quite dangerous. We know what happens south of the border, and a lot of those weapons are going to Mexico and So

Public Safety committee  I agree with Professor Cukier. It should be clear that there is no intent to infringe on first nations' hunting rights. That being said, it should also be clear that military-style assault rifles should be more regulated if they are not, and should at least be registered in the