Montreal council unanimously adopts hand gun ban motion; seeks national ban
Montreal’s city council unanimously adopted a motion on Monday calling for the federal government to ban the possession of handguns and so-called assault weapons across the country except for members of security forces and other authorities mandated to posses firearms.
The resolution follows a similar motion passed by Toronto city council in July after a gunman opened fire on the city’s Greektown district, killing two people and injuring 13 others.
Coun. Alex Norris, who tabled the motion, told the assembly the problem of guns in cities won’t be solved with a local ban and, thus, a nation-wide prohibition on certain types of weapons is necessary.
“(A local ban) would be a half measure and completely inefficient because it would be simple to import firearms acquired in another part of the country into the big cities.”