RIVERVIEW, N.B. – A New Brunswick man whose young daughter was gunned down in a robbery 29 years ago is calling for a renewed debate on the federal long-gun registry.
Ron Davis of Riverview says he’s concerned about military-style guns winding up in the hands of the wrong people on city streets.
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He decided to speak out after a two-page ad from a gun shop featuring mostly military-style firearms appeared in a local newspaper in December.
Davis says he has nothing against hunting rifles, but he questions the need for the types of powerful firearms seen in mass shootings in the United States and Canada, including the June 2014 murders of three Mounties in Moncton.
Davis’s 16-year-old daughter, Laura, was shot and killed with a handgun in a convenience store holdup in Moncton in 1987.
The 74-year-old says he and his family will attend a parole hearing in Quebec in April for the man convicted in his daughter’s shooting.