Public Safety, Policing, & the Justice System

Guns platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Continue to implement the buyback programme for assault-style firearms
  • Legislate a pre-authorisation system where the RCMP would determine the classification of new firearm models entering the market

    "Legislating a pre-authorization system that ensures that the classification of new firearm models entering the market is determined by the RCMP and not the gun industry;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

  • Automatically revoke gun licenses for anyone convicted of violent offences

    "Automatically revoke gun licenses for individuals convicted of violent offences, particularly those convicted of intimate partner violence offences;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

  • Invest in the RCMP's National Forensic Laboratories and the Saskatchewan Ballistics Lab to track down guns used in crimes

    "Increase capacity to track down guns used in the commission of crimes so we can catch those responsible by investing in the capacity of the RCMP’s National Forensic Laboratories in Ottawa and Surrey, and the Saskatchewan Ballistics Lab;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

  • Increase the capacity of Provincial Chief Firearms Officers to oversee firearms licensing and enforce yellow and red flag requirements

    "Toughen oversight of firearms licensing and strengthening the enforcement of yellow and red flag requirements by bolstering the capacity of Provincial Chief Firearms Officers to fulfill their obligations." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

Conservative

  • Create Enhanced Weapons Prohibition Orders to subject repeat violent offenders to random searches with judicial oversight

    "Create Enhanced Weapons Prohibition Orders to subject repeat violent offenders, including domestic violence, to random searches with judicial oversight." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Clear the gun licensing backlog

    "Clear the licensing backlog so that hunters and sport shooters can enjoy their lawful pastimes sooner." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Add plain language to the Firearms Act

    "Add plain language to the Firearms Act so that law-abiding Canadians and police can more easily understand and enforce the law." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Protect licensed sport shooters and hunters

Bloc

  • Participer à un meilleur contrôle des armes à feu illégales et interdites

    Le Bloc continuera d’exiger et participer à un meilleur contrôle

    des armes à feu illégales et interdites. Il continuera à veiller

    à ce que de telles règlementations ne restreignent pas les

    droits des chasseurs et l’industrie de la chasse sportive.

We don't have any NDP policies on Guns.
We don't have any Green policies on Guns.

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