Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun Controllers Unwittingly Support Unsafe Societal Conditions [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)in the past 40 years from prohibition to control, so not buying it. No, in California's case some guns were reclassified. Of course, there is Australia and UK.
Spousal notification is for the PAL, not the gun. The use of handguns in crimes have increased since many of their laws passed. If access to guns had anything to do with it, Canada should have more machine gun crimes than we did until 1977. As far as I can tell, they didn't even in the 1920s, but they didn't have prohibition and organized crime flush with cash. In case you don't know, while Canada started a registration, background check for handguns in 1934, about the same time we did with machine guns for different reasons, they left machine guns alone until 1952. They started a machine gun registry, but no licensing like for pistols that year, and continued until 1977.
Gun crime levels seem to be more cultural than because of laws. Canadian murder weapons are evenly divided between guns, contact weapons (knives, baseball bats), and bare hands.