“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time,' Trudeau said on Friday.
Nine days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to ban assault-style weapons in the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, he made good on that promise.
Trudeau also announced that his cabinet will work with Parliament to put into place a buyback program to provide current owners of the now-banned weapons with"fair compensation" for their losses. The government estimates that enforcing the ban could involve removing over 100,000 weapons from circulation. The buyback program could potentially cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Earlier in the week, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that the gunman in the Nova Scotia rampage that killed at least 22 people was carrying several semi-automatic handguns and two semi-automatic rifles during his killing spree. When asked if any of those weapons could be described as “military-style assault rifle,” police Supt. Darren Campbell said that just one of the weapons could be described as such.
"Their families deserve more than thoughts and prayers. Canadians deserve more than thoughts and prayers," he added.
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