Alberta says it will take control of prosecutions for banned firearms from Ottawa

EDMONTON — Alberta’s justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year.
Tyler Shandro says he is also advising Alberta’s prosecutors that the province does not consider it to be in the public interest to go after law-abiding owners of banned weapons — although he can’t tell them when to lay charges.
Shandro says he has written to his federal counterpart, David Lametti, to adv