Public Safety committee  I'm running out of firearms, because I lost all of the semi-autos and now it's the handguns.

Public Safety committee  What happens when these ones and the handguns are gone? It's going to be the same conversation. “Well, you still have two rifles left. You can certainly use those.” To be fair, the onus isn't on me to prove why I should still own guns. The onus is on the government to prove that

Public Safety committee  The situation, when it comes to firearms—why you can own firearms, how they're obtained, everything—is completely different in the United States than it is in Canada. The United States has virtually no firearm regulations to speak of in comparison to Canada. In fact, if you look

Public Safety committee  There are a lot of different aspects of firearm regulation. I have my own concerns with holes in the system. I talked about the licensing system, the application and that the firearms program doesn't call references. Especially if you think in terms of domestic violence, if some

Public Safety committee  Yes. I agree.

Public Safety committee  The reason I call it a “ban” is that when I die, the RCMP will come and confiscate all of my firearms, all of my handguns and, of course, my semi-auto rifles that were banned in May 2022. There are probably half a million long guns sitting in safes. People just can't use them. N

Public Safety committee  I think some do. The reason those are on our website is for gun owners to know where we stand on different issues, but we've never actively lobbied for either of those things. We're quite a ways away from there. We're facing a gun ban.

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely they are.

Public Safety committee  The Supreme Court has said something to that effect. Yes, that's right.

Public Safety committee  I don't know what that means, either.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I'm sorry that has happened to you. Some things have happened to me too.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do. We've never been in your riding spreading anything to do with firearms stuff. We did—

Public Safety committee  Oh, that one, yes. Do you know what? You're right.

Public Safety committee  That was a fun project.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The overwhelming number of firearms used in criminal behaviour come from the United States. That's anywhere from 80% to 90%, and it varies by jurisdiction. For instance, there are some smaller cities in Canada where they would have more domestically sourced guns, but they're