Canada - National handgun sales 'freeze' takes effect today

[Moontrane]

Less than 300 firearm homicides annually, just 59% of those via handguns.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00009-eng.htm

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-handgun-sales-freeze-1.6624653

Public safety minister says the measure will 'keep handguns off our streets'

The federal government's promised national "freeze" on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns takes effect Friday — part of Ottawa's plan to limit access to firearms to tamp down on a spike in crime.

Under the regulations, people can still own and use their existing registered handguns and sell or transfer handguns to "exempted individuals or businesses."

Requests to transfer a handgun submitted before today's date will still be processed, the government said.

Authorized businesses can continue to import and sell handguns to other eligible businesses (like museums and the movie industry, among others), law enforcement, defence personnel and other exempted individuals.

[IroNat]

Canada is a safe space.

[Humble Narcissist]

Learn to fight with swords to fend off the immigrants.

[Coach is Back!]

They still have guns

[chaos]

That's what they get. If the US didn't have the 2nd, our government would do the same exact thing. If the people in Canada want to protect themselves, they will have to learn to bludgeon those that intend to do them harm.

[Moontrane]

They still have guns

Yeah, like the so-called assault weapons ban from 94-04.  It only precluded the sale of them; those who already had them, kept them.