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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 1 June 2022
Canada to cap the market for handguns with new law

By ROB GILLIES The government said the
TORONTO (AP) — Cana- measure would guard the
dian Prime Minister Justin safety of those applying
Trudeau’s government in- through the process, often
troduced legislation Mon- women in danger of do-
day that would put a freeze mestic abuse, by protect-
on importing, buying or sell- ing their identities.
ing handguns. The government said it will
“We are capping the num- require rifle magazines to
ber of handguns in this be permanently altered so
country,” Trudeau said. they can never hold more
The regulations to halt than five rounds and will
the growth of personally ban the sale and transfer of
owned handguns is ex- large-capacity magazines
pected to be enacted this under the Criminal Code.
fall. “Canada can teach us a
“It will be illegal to buy, sell, lot,” tweeted Bruce Hey-
transfer or import handguns man, a former U.S. ambas-
anywhere in Canada,” the sador to Canada under the
prime minister said. Families Obama administration.
of shooting victims joined Trudeau said his govern-
him at a press conference ment recognizes the vast
in Ottawa. majority of Canadians
Canada already has plans Monday, May 30, 2022. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces new gun control who own guns are respon-
to ban 1,500 types of mili- legislation in Ottawa, Ontario, on sible but the level of gun
tary-style firearms and offer Associated Press violence is unacceptable.
a mandatory buyback pro- Mendicino said they are
gram that will begin at the en in a generation. Canada has had far fewer measures. Trudeau said in- aware the announcement
end of the year. Trudeau “Countries that do a good mass shootings than the creased funding already could lead to a rush to buy
said if someone really job of controlling guns do a U.S. in part because of helped border officials guns before the law is en-
wants to keep their assault good job of controlling gun a lack of easy access to double the amount of acted and urged Parlia-
weapon it will be made violence,” Mendicino said guns, though the U.S. popu- smuggled guns confiscat- ment to pass it as soon as
completely inoperable. in an interview with The As- lation also is far larger than ed at the U.S. border. possible.
Canada already expand- sociated Press. Canada’s. The government also said The new measures are as-
ed background checks. Bill Blair, minister of emer- Blair noted guns are often the bill would also allow for sured of passing in Cana-
Trudeau has long had plans gency preparedness, said smuggled in illegally from the removal of gun licens- da’s Parliament as the rul-
to enact tougher gun laws Canada is very different the U.S., which he noted es from people involved in ing Liberals and leftist op-
but the introduction of the from the United States. has one of the largest small acts of domestic violence position New Democrats
new measure comes after “In Canada, gun ownership arms arsenals in the world. or criminal harassment, have enough votes.
mass shootings in Uvalde, is a privilege not a right,” The government plans to such as stalking. Pierre Poilievre, who is run-
Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., this Blair said. “This is a principal fight gun smuggling and The bill would create a new ning to be leader of the
month. that differentiates ourselves trafficking by increasing “red flag” law allowing Conservative party, said
Public Safety Minister Mar- from many other countries criminal penalties, pro- courts to require that peo- law-abiding gun owners
co Mendicino called the in the world, notably our viding more tools to in- ple considered a danger to should be respected and
legislation the most signifi- colleagues and friends to vestigate firearms crimes themselves or others surren- dangerous criminals should
cant step Canada has tak- the south.” and strengthening border der their firearms to police. be jailed.q

Group urges ICC to probe alleged use of mines in Libya war

CAIRO (AP) — Human based forces led by com- and international” inquiry
Rights Watch on Tuesday mander Khalifa Hifter, who is needed to look into the
called for the International was also supported at the use of land mines around
Criminal Court to investi- time by the United Arab Tripoli.
gate allegations of the use Emirates, Egypt and Russia. The group said that a de-
of landmines in 2019 by Hifter’s offensive collapsed mining group with the Trip-
Russian paramilitaries fight- in the spring of 2020, when oli-based Defense Ministry
ing in Libya. Turkey and Qatar stepped reported that mines and
According to the New York- up their military support to other explosive ordnance
based watchdog, new his rivals in western Libya. killed at least 130 people
data has emerged from Libya plunged into turmoil and wounded 196, mostly
Libyan demining groups after a NATO-backed upris- civilians, between May
linking mercenaries from ing in 2011 toppled dictator 2020 and March 2022 in
Russia’s Wagner Group to Moammar Gadhafi, who Tripoli’s southern suburbs.
the use of “banned booby was later killed. It has for HRW cited a tablet left on Mourners pray for fighters killed in airstrikes by warplanes of Field
traps” in Libya during an of- years been split between a Libyan battlefield by a Marshal Khalifa Hifter’s forces, in Tripoli, Libya, April 24, 2019, as
fensive by east-based Liby- rival administrations, each Wagner mercenary that officials in Libya’s U.N.-backed administration said they plan
an forces trying to capture backed by different militias contained maps of the lo- to present evidence to Moscow of Russian mercenaries from
the capital of Tripoli from and foreign powers. cations of 35 unmarked the Russian private security contractor Wagner Group fighting
rival militias. Lama Fakih, HRW’s direc- anti-personnel mines. The alongside their adversary, the forces of Hifter, in their country’s
The Wagner Group backed tor for Mideast and North tablet was obtained by the war.
the offensive of the east- Africa, said a “transparent BBC in early 2021.q Associated Press