Saskatchewan Calls for Control of Firearms Administration

Saskatchewan is calling on the federal government to devolve all parts of the federal Firearms Act to the province of Saskatchewan—so the province could administer and regulate firearms within its borders. A private member’s motion calling on Ottawa to do that was passed unanimously in Saskatchewan’s legislature on April 25. The opposition NDP also supported the motion. The vote was 40–0. “Saskatchewan is different than downtown Toronto,” said Fred Bradshaw, the Saskatchewan Party MLA behind the motion. “What the federal government needs to do is they need to go after the criminals that are using firearms because the criminals don’t have a firearms license,” he told The Epoch Times. “They are the ones causing the problem.”...