The Liberal government hopes to tighten Canada's firearms law with changes to the background check system and new mandatory record-keeping practices for vendors. 'It is simply not a federal long gun registry. "Even in the United States, commercial gun dealers are required to record gun sales and those records are readily available to the authorities. 'Fairly innocuous': Gun control analyst weighs in on Bill C-715:04Goodale said a contentious issue like gun control inevitably provokes heated rhetoric. Under proposed Liberal changes, vendors will have to maintain records of all firearms sales.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2018 15:17 UTC