Bill C-21: An Act to amend certain Acts and to make

to a more than tenfold increase Returning firearms to the authorities in dangerous in the likelihood situations that a man will kill his partner, Pre-amendments: Bill C-21 allowed gun owners whose licence was as opposed to revoked to choose to deliver the firearm to law enforcement or to committing non- otherwise dispose of it as they please; it also authorized judges to fatal violence. [...] See section 36 of the bill (section 70.2 of the Firearms Act) and section 37 of the bill (sections 72(4), 72(5), and 72(6) of the Firearms Act). [...] They enable a judge to order the return of the firearm to the owner while they contest the decision of the chief firearms officer. [...] Amendments: Sections 36, 37 and 41 of the bill (sections 70, 72 and 89 of the Firearms Act) were amended to include a timeline of 24 hours • for a chief firearms officer to revoke a licence in situations of suspected domestic violence or stalking; • for a gun owner to deliver their firearms to a peace officer when their licence is revoked; • for courts who make a protection order to alert the chie. [...] The SECU committee made both changes in section 16 of the bill (section 6.1 of the Firearms Act): Protection orders 6.1 Subject to section 70.3 and the regulations, an individual is not eligible to hold a licence if they are subject to a protection order or have been convicted of an offence in the commission of which violence was used, threatened or attempted against their intimate partner or any.