I find it sad that they exclude indigenous people from the order while also (page 63) cite that “indigenous persons are victims of homicides involving firearms” (far more)
so one of the reasons cited is to protect indigenous people from disproportionately being victims of gun crime but they don’t get into the fact that most of those homicides were indigenous on indigenous crimes!
i feel for the rural residents - especially in areas were indigenous rural crime is rampant - I hope the rural crowd doesn’t see an increase in crime. And even the Nova Scotia shooting - 25mins to respond! I sure bet one of those victims wishes they had access to an AR when that asshole with his firearms ban and illegally obtained firearms (some from the US where this order would have no effect) came along.
Citing Nova Scotia as a reason for a gun ban is great for a legal challenge BECAUSE it’s hard to defend an order in council that was due, in their own rationale, to a case that would not have been impacted by this order in any way.