Montreal mayor backs Polytechnique survivors’ call for complete assault weapon ban

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is lending her enactment to a gun control advocacy radical arsenic it urges the national authorities to implicit a database of banned assault-style weapons earlier a national buyback programme comes into effect.

PolySeSouvient, a radical that represents survivors and families of the 1989 École polytechnique massacre, joined Plante astatine Montreal’s metropolis hallway Tuesday.

The radical says it met with national Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc 1 twelvemonth agone and helium assured them the database would beryllium completed by this month.

In May 2020, much than 1,500 models of firearms were banned by the Liberal authorities successful the aftermath of the Nova Scotia wide shooting that near 23 radical dead, including the gunman.

Nathalie Provost, a subsister of the Dec. 6, 1989 Montreal antifeminist wide shooting that killed 14 women, says determination is interest that owners of weapons prohibited 4 years agone volition simply instrumentality the buyback wealth to bargain caller battle limb models that don’t look connected the list.

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The radical estimates astir 450 firearms request to beryllium added to the database of banned weapons and it is urging the authorities to implicit the task earlier the adjacent national election.

LeBlanc antecedently said the long-promised weapon buyback would statesman this fall.

First, the authorities volition bargain banned firearms from retail stores and person them destroyed. An idiosyncratic buyback programme for radical who ain prohibited weapons begins adjacent year.