It was obvious to anyone familiar with the data that the government’s ban on assault-style weapons was never going to make Canada safer. The poor implementation of the policy now means that it will likely end up making Canada more dangerous.
The government’s justification for the ban was weak from the beginning. When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced the prohibition by Order-in-Council in the aftermath of the Nova Scotia massacre, significant problems were already clear. The government could not define what they wanted to ban. Instead, they created a laundry list of infamous guns with equivalent firearms left out.
