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Originally Posted by pastarocket
100 percent. Good questions.
The first question that I had when I heard about the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting was "How the heck can a person with a history of mental health issues and prior assessment by medical professionals get access to a handgun??"
I mean Canada has stricter gun laws than the U.S. right??
It's not like I can just walk into Walmart, show two pieces of picture ID, and buy a gun, a hunting rifle etc.
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I know when I got my PAL I had taken the course with 5 other people, one of those persons was a co-worker and friend of mine. He had been off work prior to this on basically a mental breakdown, when he applied for his PAL they would not give it to him based on the previous mental breakdown approximately 2 years prior.
I can't speak to this specific case but it does seem there are some checks and balances, if the shooter did have a license, not sure if they fell through the cracks or what.
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