NewsTracker Answers for week of May 04, 2020

Q: Canada is banning the sale of military-grade assault weapons in the aftermath of the country's deadliest mass shooting which killed 22 people in Nova Scotia. Where is the Atlantic island province of Nova Scotia on this map of Canada?

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Q: Saying families and friends of gun violence victims "deserve more than thoughts and prayers," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the ban in Canada’s national capital . . .

A. Edmonton

B. Montreal

C. Ottawa

D. Toronto

C. Trudeau had said the assault-weapons ban was in the works before the Nova Scotia shootings two-weeks ago involving a dentist dressed up as a police officer and driving a replica police car. He was armed with several weapons including an assault rifle. In 2014, a shooter was killed during an attack at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Q: Last week, masked protesters carried assault-style rifles into the Capitol Building of which state on Canada’s border?

A. Maine

B. Michigan

C. Minnesota

D. Montana

B. Photos of armed men parading around while the state legislature was in session outraged many people, but Michigan State Police said it was legal to carry a firearm in public "as long as the person is carrying the firearm with lawful intent and the firearm is not concealed." The men were protesting stay-at-home restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.

Q: Trudeau said there was no place in Canada for weapons designed “to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.” In 2017, a lone gunman used legally owned and modified assault rifles to fire than more 1,000 rounds of ammunition in 10 minutes, killing 58 people and wounding 413 in which state?

A. Connecticut

B. Florida

C. Nevada

D. Virginia

C. Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire from his 32nd floor Las Vegas hotel room at a crowd of concert-goers below. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the deadliest U.S. mass shooting committed by an individual. The other worst massacres were 49 killed in a Florida nightclub, 32 at a Virginia college and 27 in a Connecticut elementary school.

Q: While hundreds of U.S. mass shootings have brought little or no change in our federal gun laws, which nation banned military-style assault weapons less than a month after a white supremacist killed 51 Muslim worshipers in 2019?

A. Australia

B. France

C. Germany

D. New Zealand

D. An Australian man attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019. On April 10, the nation’s parliament passed a law banning the assault weapons and authorized the police to buy back all semiautomatic and military-grade firearms and their relevant ammunition. Trudeau is proposing a similar buyback in Canada.