How shocking -- Breitbart is being a bit duplicitous. The SKS the shooter used was not covered by the 2020 ban and, despite efforts to ban it for the last 2 years, is still legal to buy in Canada.
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Obviously, an SKS is not a handgun, so all the detail given about handguns in the story doesn't apply. The shooter was a security guard, so he would have already passed his license test. Once you have a license, I don't believe any other waiting period applies. So all told as applied to this jackass, the "stringent gun control" amounts to pretty much the same as Massachusetts. For now.