The Government of Canada has passed legislation to impose a “national ban” on the sale and purchase of K handguns as part of a gun control package that will also limit store options and ban some gun-like toys.

The new law, which revived some measures that were delayed last year by national elections, came just a week after 19 children and two teachers were killed in an Ovaldi, Texas classroom by a gunman.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters that “as gun violence escalates, new measures are needed” and explained: “We just need to look south of the border to know that if we don’t take strong and fast action , it will only get worse. and become difficult to “confront him”.

The Freeze pistol will have exceptions, including elite sport shooters, Olympic athletes and security guards. Canadians who already own pistols will be allowed to keep them.

Canada banned the sale and use of about 1,500 assault weapons, such as the AR-15, two years ago after a mass shooting in Portapic, Nova Scotia.

Speaking alongside Trudeau, Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino confirmed the “inevitable launch of the initial phase” of a ransom program for owners of these weapons.

Planned legislation will prevent anyone under a protection order, or who is involved in domestic violence or stalking, from obtaining or retaining a firearms license.

The new laws also ban some toys that look like real weapons, such as airsoft guns. It is reported here that last week Toronto police shot and killed a man who was carrying a malicious gun.

“Because they look like real firearms, the police must treat them as if they were real,” Attorney General David Lamett told reporters. “And that has had tragic consequences.”