Commentary: Meeting the Leadership Candidates – Andrew Scheer

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

By CJ Summers, Calibre Magazine

Canada – -(Ammoland.com)-In an interview with Canadian leadership candidate, Andrew Scheer discusses his policy stance on gun rights in Canada.

“My friends took me hunting two years ago, first time I had ever been out, I used a friends Lapua .308 and got a white tail from about 400-450 meters away – I was hooked. I have my license, I own a few firearms already – I really look forward to experiencing incredible things like this with my son now.” -Andrew Scheer

Andrew Scheer

• Opposition House Leader (2015-2016)
• Speaker of the House of Commons (2011-2015)
• Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairman of Committees of the Whole (2008-2011)
• MP Riding of Regina-Qu’Appelle (2004-Present)

Do you think Canada’s existing gun laws need to be rewritten?

I think aspects of them do – I support my colleagues private members bill right now which would define certain aspects of the Firearms Act. It would take power away from the RCMP to make arbitrary, unilateral, reclassification’s. Those are aspects that need to be implemented. My sense is – the conversations I have had about the 10/22 clip, the AR-15, that a …Read the Rest

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