Fears Liberals may have 'abandoned' assault-style gun control efforts: advocacy group

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A prominent gun control group fears the Liberal government has abandoned its commitment to enact a comprehensive ban on assault-style firearms, citing "no tangible progress" on key steps to fulfil the pledge.

In an open letter to Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, PolySeSouvient spokesperson Nathalie Provost expresses concern that "we won't see these measures materialize in our lifetimes" as the clock ticks toward a federal election that must be held by October of next year.

A record of wasting public support and bungling various opportunities over the years would be a "devastating legacy" for the Liberals, wrote Provost, a survivor of the 1989 mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique.

The group wants the federal government to follow through on plans to proceed with a buyback of banned assault-style firearms, including the AR-15, prohibit others that fell through the legislative cracks and strengthen regulations on large-capacity magazines.

Late last year, Parliament passed a government bill that cemented restrictions on handguns, increased penalties for firearm trafficking and aimed to curb homemade ghost guns.

Given the delays, the letter says, "we are beginning to suspect that either the Liberal government is not competent enough to deliver on its nine years of promises to ban assault weapons, or that it has abandoned its commitment to do so because it fears further stoking the wrath of the gun lobby."

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