Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 December 27
Highlights
– CSAAA Welcomes the New Managing Director. Jennifer Leigh Gadbois
– Lorne Gunter: Why I’m Cheering for Trudeau’s Gun Buy Back to Fail
Highlights
– CSAAA Welcomes the New Managing Director. Jennifer Leigh Gadbois
– Lorne Gunter: Why I’m Cheering for Trudeau’s Gun Buy Back to Fail
Highlights
– Almost 100% of Gun Owners Have So Far Rejected Trudeau’s Confiscations, iPolitics Reports
– Government Says It Will Share 2020 RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Report in February 2022
– RCMP Says Government Still Working on May 2020 Mass Gun Confiscations
– CSAAA Hires Jennifer Gadbois as New Managing Director
– RCMP Adds More Models to Guns Prohibited Under 01 May 2020 Attacks
– Canadian National Shooting Range Day Proposed By CCFR
– Chris Lewis: Will Handgun Bans Prevent Violent Crime in Canada?
Highlights
– Canadians Bought 30,000 AR-15 Target Rifles in Lead-Up to Trudeau’s May 2020 Attacks
– RCMP Canadian Firearms Program Hiring Privacy Specialist, Invites Tech Firms to Bid
– Government Cancels Invitation to Bid for Military Pistol Contract After Trade Tribunal Decision
– SECU Snapshot: Dancho and Lloyd Challenge Mendicino on Guns
Highlights
– Canadian Gun Imports Rise 28% to $158 Million in January to October
– Trudeau Boasts About Criminalizing Honest Canadians to Keep Us Disarmed and Defenceless
– Tragically Hip Supports Criminalizing and Disarming Honest Canadians
Highlights
– Toronto Police Officer Who Killed Rodger Kotanko Refuses to Talk to SIU
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation Buys Ottawa Bus-Shelter Ads to Fight Trudeau’s Mass Criminalizations
– Trudeau Names Anti-Gun Activist MP Pam Damoff as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Marco Mendicino
– RCMP Says All 22 Victims of 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Killing Were Firearm-Related Homicides
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government estimates its May 2020 attacks on gun owners affects 150,000 of our firearms, and said it hasn’t begun to compensate confiscation victims.
The Department of Public Safety was responding to our questions in relation to a report by IBM Canada.
Highlights
– Interview With NFA Past President Sheldon Clare (Video)
– Liberal ‘Throne Speech’ Reiterates Aim to Criminalize Gun Owners
– Marco Mendicino Says ‘We Need to Do More’ to Criminalize Gun Owners
– Bullet-Related Homicide Rate Rose in 2020, Led By Nova Scotia Attacks, Statistics Canada Says
– Green Party Appoints Gun-Friendly Amita Kuttner as Interim Leader
– IBM Report to Liberals on Mass Criminalizations and Gun Confiscations (PDF)
– Trade Tribunal Tells Government to Cancel and Restart Military Pistol Contract
Highlights
– Rodger Kotanko Family and Lawyer Brief Media on His Killing By Toronto Police
– NFA New Video Ad: Working Within the Law to Change the Law
– U.S. Anti-Gun Sentiment Sinks to Lowest Since 2014
– U.S. Gun Owners Increasingly Cite Crime as Reason for Ownership
– Kyle Rittenhouse Has Been Acquitted on All Charges
Highlights
– Erin O’Toole Names MP Raquel Dancho as Conservative Critic for ‘Public Safety’
– Conservative MP Raquel Dancho Makes First Statement as Opposition Critic for Public Safety
– Update on Toronto Police Killing of Rodger Kotanko
– Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply’s Federal Court Challenge Is Allowed to Proceed
– Jim Newman: That Dog Don’t Hunt: Tales from The Hunt Camp Porch
Highlights
– Canada Gun Imports Rise 25% in January – September, Led By Shotguns From Italy
– NFA Says Sheldon Clare Decided to Step Down as President
– RCMP Website Has Been Offline for Two Days
– CSAAA Is Hiring a Managing Director
– 70-Year-Old Gunsmith Rodger Kotanko Shot to Death By Toronto Police at His Home
– NFA: O’Toole’s Firearms Flip-Flop
Highlights
– Trudeau Names Marco Mendicino as New Minister Against Gun Owners
– NFA: Election 2021 Lessons and Next Steps for Gun Owners
– Gary Mauser: Children and Firearms Safety
– Gun Stores Are Waiting for Products Ordered a Year Ago
– RCMP Deems Kodiak Defence KD200 Bolt-Action Rifle ‘Prohibited’ Under May 2020 Mass Criminalizations
Highlights
– Canada Delays Deadline to Bid for Military Pistol Contract for Third Time
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation Says Gun-Confiscation Costs Rise Again Without Any Confiscations
– NFA Airs New 6 min 40 sec Video Ad for Recruiting and Gun Rights
– CCFR Commemorates Sixth Anniversary
Highlights
– Supreme Court Decides Case in Ontario Court of Appeal in Peter Khill Self-Defence Shooting Case- OFAH Releases Public Version of the Firearms Report Filed With Federal Court
Highlights
– Gun Imports Rise in January-August, Led by Jump in Shotguns From Italy
– CCFR Says It Has About 34,000 Members and 50,000 – 80,000 Donors
– Gary Mauser: Accidental Shooting Deaths Are Low
– Federal Court: Christine Generoux Shares Links to Affidavit PDFs
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Department of Public Safety responded today to our questions on five topics:
1. Bill C-71 New Measures Coming Into Force
2. RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Report 2020
3. IBM Contract on Compensating Gun Owners Targeted By OIC
4. $8.8 Million in New Confiscation Expenses
5. Election 2021 Commitments on New Restrictions
Magali Deussing, a spokesperson for the department in Ottawa, responded today by e-mail to our questions.
Highlights
– Saskatchewan Gun-Rights Advocate Robert Freberg Takes Over as CFO to Block Trudeau’s Attacks
– Twice as Many Signatures on Petition to Recall O’Toole As on Petition to Keep Him
– J.P. Morgan Gets Shut Out of Texas Municipal Bond Market for Being Anti-Gun
– Smith & Wesson Is Leaving Anti-Gun Massachusetts and Moving to Tennessee
Highlights
– Election 2021 Highlights
– Federal Court Hearing to Stop Liberal Attacks Will Miss April Deadline
– Erin O’Toole Showed Gun Owners Aren’t a Priority Before He Betrayed Us
– Select Shooting Supplies Warns of More Ammo Shortages and Price Inflation
– Liberals to Spend Another $8.8 Million on Mass Criminalizations
– Canadian Government Adds Seventh Q&A for Military Pistol Contract
– CCFR Says It Spent $152,000 on TV and Radio Ads in Election 2021
Highlights
– Takeaways About Canadian Gun Owners From Environics Report for the Liberals
– FSESO: Firearm Instructors in Ontario Have a Superb New Website
– Section 74: Attorney General of Canada Seeks to Quash Individual Appeals, J.P. Says
– Calibre: Liberal Policy Promises to Ban Millions of Hunting Rifles, Lee Enfields, .22s, Etc.
– iPolitics: Anti-Gun Activists Cukier, PolySeSouvient and Doctors Didn’t Register to Campaign for Liberals This Election
– U.S. NRA: Trudeau Ramps Up Gun Control Promises, Makes Guns a Wedge Issue
TheGunBlog.ca — Following are key takeaways for and about Canadian gun owners from a March report by Environics Research Group for Canada’s Liberal Party-led government.
Highlights
– Three Responses to Erin O’Toole’s Flip: ‘I’m Sticking It to Him,’ ‘I’m Stuck With Him,’ ‘I’m Sticking With Him’
– CSSA, NFA, CCFR Support Conservative Party After O’Toole Flip-Flop on Guns
– Savage Partners with the Canadian University Shooting Foundation
– Canada Faces ‘Unsophisticated’ Attacks Using Everyday Weapons, Government Threat Report Says