Parliamentary Committee Notes: Key changes — former Bill C-21 and Bill C-XX

Removed from former Bill C-21

  1. Non-permissive storage regime for prohibited assault-style firearms (ASFs), which will make buy back, deactivation, surrender or export of ASFs mandatory
  2. Scheme to allow municipalities to implement federal storage and transportation handgun restrictions, which is replaced by “national handgun freeze”

New and amended measures in Bill C-XX

  1. Victim and applicant protections added to “red flag” laws
  2. Protection orders to affect firearms licence holders:
    1. prevent individual with prior or current protection order from obtaining firearms licence
    2. revoke existing licence in case of new protection order revoke licence if CFO becomes aware firearms owner is involved in domestic violence or stalking
  3. National freeze” to prevent individuals from transferring handguns in Canada and bringing handguns into Canada
    1. Owners of existing handguns could continue to possess and use them
    2. Businesses could continue to operate
    3. Also exempted from freeze: individuals with Authorizations to Carry and elite sports shooters
  4. Repeal Governor in Council ability to downgrade firearms classification
  5. Registration certificates to expire immediately after firearm reclassification
  6. Expand Criminal Code list of offences eligible for wiretapping.

Complementary measures (not in Bill C-XX)

  1. New “red flag” awareness program to promote and make laws accessible to all
  2. Future regulations to address commitments on Large Capacity Magazines
    • require permanent alteration of long gun magazines so that they can never hold more than five rounds; and
    • prohibit sale and transfer of magazines capable of holding more than leg
  3. Consult industry and law enforcement on how to implement “replica” firearms prohibition
  4. Consult Indigenous People on exemptions to revocations due to protection orders, e.g., sustenance hunting
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