Inquiry into N.S. mass shooting calls for sweeping changes to gun laws

OTTAWA — The inquiry into a mass shooting that left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia in 2020 is calling on the federal government to ban all semi-automatic handguns and many types of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.

The Mass Casualty Commission released its final report today, making a series of recommendations aimed at tightening gun laws.

That includes developing a “standardized schedule and definitions” of 206 prohibited firearms in the Criminal Code. 

Parliament is still debating gun-control legislation introduced last May by the Liberals, which included a proposed amendment to enshrine a definition of assault-style firearms in federal law.