Several controversial firearms amendments have been withdrawn by Ottawa

There was talk of banning a bunch of long guns that hunters use a lot. Several hunting shotguns like this 8-gauge water fowling gun by Joe Lang would be prohibited under Bill C-21's provision banning all guns over 20 millimetres.

As part of a campaign to ban "assault-style" weapons, Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed said Friday the government is withdrawing a long list of guns that would have been deemed "prohibited" despite fierce opposition from Conservatives, NDPs, and Blocs and firearms rights groups. A Liberal backbench MP quietly proposed amendments to the Criminal Code that would have prohibited these weapons under the Criminal Code rather than by regulation. Future governments would have had a tougher time reversing that prohibition. Several long guns widely used by hunters would have been banned by these amendments. Originally drafted, C-21 was intended to ban handguns, but the amendments widened its scope. Opposition parties questioned whether the amendments were even admissible under parliamentary rules because the changes diverged so dramatically from how the bill was originally written. However, now that the government has backed down, those concerns are moot.

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