Still 19,000 Firearms out There for Hunters, Says Minister on Plan to Expand Prohibited ListCanada's Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings said on Dec. 14 the waters need to be calmed over her government's plan to expand the list of prohibited firearms, since there will still be plenty of guns available for hunters.
"Here’s the fact you need to know: there are still 19,000 firearms available for hunters and sport shooters, and indigenous hunters. So there’s lots of firearms still available in Canada legally," Hutchings said during a scrum on Parliament Hill.
"If you want to shoot ducks, moose, deer, partridge, ptarmigan, there are plenty of legal firearms available."
Hutchings is herself a hunter and said that people in her province of Newfoundland and Labrador rely on hunting for sustenance, yet she said her party's bill is necessary to reduce violent crimes committed with firearms....
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