Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Altis HR Wins Contract to Supply Gun-Confiscation Project Manager
– Altis HR Cancels Confiscation Project Manager Contract After ‘Threats’
– Alberta Plans Bill 211 to Block Any Municipal Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Adds New 12-Gauge Shotgun to May 1 Confiscations
– Colt Canada Delivers New C20 Rifle to Canadian Forces Sniper Teams
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Court Win: Judge Sides With Gun Owners on ‘Nullification’ Notices
– Self-Defence: Man Found Not Guilty in Deadly Shooting
– Gun Imports Plunge in October to Lowest in Almost Three Years
– Trudeau Says He’ll Move Forward ‘Very Soon’ With New Anti-Gun Laws
– Government Defers ‘Firearms Marking Regulations’ to 2023
– Smith & Wesson Shares Rise as Gun Demand Boosts Sales to Record
– Most-Viewed Articles at TheGunBlog.ca in November 2020
(Correction Dec. 27: Corrects headline and article to delete incorrect analysis of planned handgun prohibitions.)
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Canadian Minister Bill Blair outlines the next steps in the government’s planned laws against federally licensed gun owners.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000
– Accused Man Says He Shot Assailant in Self-Defence
– Liberals to Pay $78 Million for Contractor to Design Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Publishes 2019 Commissioner of Firearms Report
TheGunBlog.ca — Q&A with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Firearms Program on its backlog processing applications for gun licences, and how it’s responding.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Ministry Hires Gun-Confiscation Project Manager, Gets One Bid for Revised Tender
– Canada Risks More Shortages of Guns and Ammo, Suppliers Say
– Federal Court Update: CCFR Objects to RCMP’s Murray Smith Pretending to Be Independent
– Conservative MP Tim Uppal Visits Gun Range, Plans CFSC
– Nova Scotia Attacker Had Colt AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Glock, Ruger P89
– Town Council Near Orillia, Ontario, Considers Banning New Gun Ranges
A copy of our e-mail this evening to supporting members and patrons.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government said it hired the only person who applied as the project manager for the governing Liberal Party’s mass gun-confiscations, and is now reviewing the only proposal it got for a second related contract.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Trudeau Says New Anti-Gun Legislation ‘Coming Forward Soon’
– Ontario Reiterates Opposition to Trudeau Handgun Confiscations
– Federal Court Cases Fighting Liberal Attacks May Get New Judge
– Alberta Invites Input on Gun Policy, Says Provincial CFO Will Be Operational in Summer 2021
– Confiscation Contract Notice Shows Blank List of Interested Suppliers
– Vista Outdoor Has One-Year Ammo Backlog Exceeding USD 1 Billion
– Gravel Agency Says It Will Represent Walther Guns in Canada
– Tactical Imports Offers H&K G36 ‘Non-Restricted’ Rifles for $6,000
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights So Far
– RCMP Says It Faces Four-Month Delay Processing New Gun Licences
– Blair at SECU: New ‘Evergreen Process’ to Prohibit Guns, ‘Red-Flag Regime,’ SKS
– NFA Talk: Conservative Public Safety Critic Shannon Stubbs
– CCFR Raises $391,000 for Federal Court Case to Stop Liberal Attacks: iPolitics
– Here’s How Trudeau’s Gun Ban Is About to Get Worse: Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of suppressing gun owners, today reiterated his plans to invent a new “evergreen process” to prohibit firearms and expand the “red-flag regime” to confiscate them.
He also explained why SKS owners weren’t specifically targeted in his May 1 attacks against federally licensed firearm owners and stores.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights (Sign in for the good stuff)
– SHOT Show Canceled as Covid-19 Cases Rise Worldwide
– StatCan Releases 2019 Police-Reported Crime Statistics
– Liberals Win Two Toronto By-Elections, Retaining Seats in Parliament
– Saskatchewan Party, Respectful of Gun Owners, Wins Fourth Majority Government
TheGunBlog.ca — Ontario’s Chief Firearms Office sent the following memo to the provincial Ministry of the Solicitor General, as the RCMP expanded its FRT every few days to confiscate more guns.
Chantal Trahan, the CFO’s manager of firearm licensing and transfers, provides additional context.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– No Mention of ‘Nullification’ in 11,000 Pages of Draft Gun Laws
– NFA Talk: Interview With Dennis Young
– Self-Defence and Defence of Property Laws Don’t Protect You From Harm: The Runner
– Leslyn Lewis Nomination: Another Unforced Error by the Conservatives?: Christopher di Armani
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responds below to our questions on who nullified the firearm-registration certificates of almost 70,000 federally licensed gun owners, and when and how the change was made.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety responds below to our questions about its revised invitation to bid on a contract to design ways to pay victims of its mass-gun confiscations.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Liberals Plan New Round of Mass Rifle Confiscations: CSSA
– Dennis Young Obtains 20 Years of Cabinet Secrets on Firearms Act
– More Concerning Revelations About the Liberals’ Latest Gun Bans: Toronto Sun
– Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Editorial Boards Want to Kill Handgun Ownership
– Gun Ban Case Puts Property Rights To Test, CCFR Says: Sputnik
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Gun Imports Fall 6.1% in January – August 2020 Vs. 2019
– Peel Police in Ontario Seek New 9 mm Pistol
– Liberals Send Secret Job Ad for Confiscation Project Manager: CSSA
– Blair Must Share RCMP 2019 Commissioner of Firearms Report By Year End
TheGunBlog.ca — Q&A with Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety on its new search for a project manager for its mass gun confiscations, after a previous call for bids failed. The seizures directly target federally licensed firearm owners.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– NFA Talk With Nicolas Johnson of TheGunBlog.ca
– Liberals Didn’t Get Any Bidders for Confiscation Contract: Toronto Sun
– CCFR Files for Federal Court Injunction to Stop Gun Confiscations
– NRA: Canada’s Gun Confiscation Program: Past is Prologue
