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The federal government is eyeing a "clear, consistent" definition of assault-style firearms to be prohibited through legislation, as recently suggested by the Nova Scotia mass shooting commission, says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is trying to find the dividing line between guns suitable for hunting and ones that have no place in society because they pose significant dangers in the wrong hands. 

Seven members of a parliamentary committee studying the Liberal gun bill have requested two special meetings to hear from witnesses on the government's proposed definition of an assault-style firearm.

“Who are we to believe? The law? Different authorities’ different interpretations of the law?" wondered a vice-president of the BC Wildlife Federation.

Police say the man who went on a murderous rampage through five Nova Scotia communities was likely using unlicensed firearms, and investigators are trying find out how he obtained illegal weapons.

Federal ministers played down notions on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, that Senate committee amendments to the Liberals' gun bill would hobble the legislation.

The federal government tabled a proposed new bill Tuesday to tighten the sale and tracking of firearms, only to find itself under attack from both sides: gun owners wary of burdensome regulation and shooting victims who say the bill doesn't go far enough.

A British Columbia police officer is being remembered as a "hero" after he died on Monday, November 6, 2017, in an exchange of gunfire with a man accused of shooting at people in a parking lot.