PM Trudeau announces federal ban on assault-style firearms in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the federal government is immediately placing a ban on 1,500 models and variants of certain assault-style weapons that have been used in mass shootings in Canada and abroad. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country,” Trudeau said. The prime minister spoke about how every Canadian can remember the day they realized how “a man with a gun could