Toronto Sun: The City of Toronto is seeking federal authority to outlaw the sale of handguns and their ammunition within the 416 area.
City Council will also ask the federal government to ban handguns, assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons across the country except for police, military and security uses.
The debate seesawed between violence prevention and enforcement, from a gun repository to programs to combat racism and youth unemployment to an under-15 midnight curfew to a citywide handgun ban.
“Enforcement is the only way to deal with this issue,” said Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti who proposed the curfew, easier evictions from Toronto Community Housing, a study on the contribution of “lack of parenting“ to crime, the hiring of 100 new police officers and an appeal for more investigative resources for police.
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