Canada has an assault weapon ban.

Mostly.

The ban covers a couple of thousand models of so-called assault weapons, but there are apparently other models that are still allowed. There aren't that many and it's entirely likely that others will get restricted sooner or later, but for now, if you can figure out which models are still permitted, you can still buy them.

For those that have banned models, they can't actually do anything with them, at least not until the trainwreck that is Canada's mandatory buyback system rolls out.

Yet officials in Montreal want the Canadian government to do something before then. They want a total assault weapon ban.

Mayor Valerie Plante is urging the federal government to implement wider gun control measures.

The call comes nearly two weeks before Montreal marks 35 years since the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre which killed 14 women and injured many more.

Plante says the city wants a total ban on all assault weapons before the launch of Canada’s firearms buy back program this fall.

“I just think it makes sense to have a complete list before we move forward and knowing how the gun industry adapts,” Plante said.

The mayor and advocates say Canada’s Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc previously promised a wider ban by Dec. 6.

On that day in 1989, Nathalie Provost survived the massacre that killed 14 of her classmates.

She says tighter gun laws are long overdue.

“The sooner, the better. It’s really, really, really important. There may be, in any time, an election,” Provost said.

For what it's worth, Canadian officials don't seem to be particularly keen on the idea, in part because the buyback effort has been a complete nightmare and they haven't even started taking firearms yet.

And while Canada tends to have lower crime than the United States, that was the case when their gun control laws were at a semi-sane level. Over the last few years, they've gone nuts, and the results? Well, Toronto is having something of a rough time.

Montreal may want a total assault weapon ban, but what they have to understand is that if someone wants to kill folks, they'll find a way to do it. Oklahoma City, for example, didn't require a single firearm to kill 168 people, many of them children.

I get that Montreal may still be rattled by that mass murder, but the fact that they're not reeling from anything more recent is a pretty good indicator that guns aren't the problem.

Unfortunately, while they might not get their wish before the buyback starts, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Trudeau government give them a total ban on modern sporting rifles soon after it begins.

That's assuming they can ever get the buyback rolling, which I'm not holding my breath on.

Part of the issue Canada has is that they don't have a Second Amendment, so there is no preservation of the right to keep and bear arms. Officials there seem to believe that since there isn't one, the right doesn't exist within their borders, which is blatantly wrong, but it doesn't really matter since only a small portion of the Canadian population believe otherwise.

Thank God that's not happening here.

Of course, consider who almost became president for a moment. She called for something similar, so let's not get too excited.