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When it comes to Canada's often tense debate around gun laws, most Canadians likely will not have heard of an RCMP database called the Firearms Reference Table, or FRT.

The FRT is a database used by the RCMP to help classify firearms. That classification determines whether a gun is non-restricted, restricted or prohibited.

Technically, the FRT isn't a legal instrument, but instead just an internal RCMP tool based on definitions set out in the Criminal Code and Firearms Act. But in practice?

"It's both the law and not the law," said A.J. Somerset, the author of Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Trudeau never reigned in gun crime which ruined his credibility, he had 10 whole years to accomplish that task, the statistics are public knowledge.

That has literally nothing to do with the constitutionality of his mandate.

You call people who own firearms gun nuts but it’s a hobby just like any other

No, it's fucking not. It's a hobby that requires the mass manufacture and ownership of instant, point and click, murder tools.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Out of curiosity, in a perfect world and existing regulations excepted, what sort of firearm regulations would you like to see in Canada?