Gun control group repeats call for end to sales of SKS rifles after Montreal shooting - BERITAJA

A salient weapon power defense group is repeating its telephone for an contiguous extremity to caller income of SKS rifles pursuing deadly shootings in Montreal.

Police person not identified the type of firearm utilized to kill Montreal police serviceman Mohamed Lamine Benredouane and civilian bystander Michel Mizrahi this week.

But images circulating online bespeak a agelong weapon lying connected the crushed astatine the shooting segment appears to beryllium an SKS.

In a media connection today, the group PolySeSouvient urges the national Liberals to halt caller income of SKS models, saying it would adjacent an evident spread and nonstop a clear signal.

Since May 2020, Ottawa has outlawed about 2,500 types of firearms connected the ground they beryllium only connected the battlefield.

It has not banned the SKS rifle, which is commonly utilized successful Indigenous communities to hunt for food.

It besides has been utilized successful constabulary killings and different high-profile shootings successful caller years.

Ottawa says it is carrying retired a wide reappraisal of Canada’s firearms classification authorities that will see consultations pinch Indigenous communities connected the SKS.

PolySeSouvient is calling for a “precise and accelerated schedule” for consultations and regulatory action connected existing SKS rifles.

“The existent gait is indefensible, and location is nary charismatic timeline,” the group’s connection says. “These weapons stay wide available, many times linked to violence, and treated pinch a leniency they do not merit.”

Ottawa has initiated a compensation programme for owners of banned firearms who move successful aliases deactivate their guns.

As things stand, owners who declared their prohibited firearms nether the buyback programme “can return nationalist money and bargain a caller SKS rifle,” PolySeSouvient says.

“That is not nationalist safety. It is simply a taxpayer-funded farce that leaves the aforesaid deadly threat connected the marketplace nether a different name.”