PAL Rate Vs. Total Adults Rose in 2023
TheGunBlog.ca — The percentage of Canadian adults with a gun licence rose in 2023, suggesting accelerating interest in gun ownership.
TheGunBlog.ca — The percentage of Canadian adults with a gun licence rose in 2023, suggesting accelerating interest in gun ownership.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s gun imports plunged in 2023 after the governing Liberal Party made it a crime for government-licensed firearm users to buy handguns.
TheGunBlog.ca — The number of Canadians with a gun licence rose to a record in 2023, increasing in every province and territory.
TheGunBlog.ca — Following are key points from a survey this year of Canadian gun owners by Environics Research Group. Environics ran the survey to advance the federal Liberal Party’s failing firearm confiscations.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s gun imports soared to a record $238.4 million in 2022, as government-licensed firearm users snapped up rifles, shotguns and handguns before the governing Liberal Party’s new prohibitions.
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TheGunBlog.ca — The number of Canadians with a gun licence rose to a record in 2022, defying the governing Liberal Party’s increased attacks on firearm users.
TheGunBlog.ca — Here are Canada’s top-10 handgun brands among government-licensed owners, based on the number of personally owned pistols and revolvers registered with the RCMP.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s government-licensed handgun users requested 160,815 handgun transfers from May 30 to September 30, after Trudeau said he’s killing the legal handgun market.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s government-licensed firearm users bought almost 90,000 handguns in the seven weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s killing the legal market, a shopping spree that wiped out supply and set records. We estimate the total now exceeds 100,000.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian handgun imports jumped to a record in June, as gun users raced to stock up before Trudeau kills the legal market for pistols and revolvers. The Trudeau administration said today it will criminalize government-licensed importers starting in two weeks
TheGunBlog.ca — Almost all the gun owners targeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s May 2020 mass criminalizations rejected his confiscation order and kept their firearms, according to new government data.
TheGunBlog.ca — The number of Canadians with a government-issued gun licence rose 1.8% in 2021 to a year-end record, as firearm ownership for protection, sport, collecting and other activities continues to gain in popularity.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun imports jumped to their second-highest level on record in 2021, driven by demand for Italian shotguns, Finnish rifles and Czech handguns.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians bought roughly 30,000 AR-15 target rifles in the lead-up to PM Trudeau’s political attacks of 01 May 2020. The data, shared here for the first time, show the magnitude of the shopping spree to counter the crackdown.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls personal gun ownership in Canada, said it has a four-month delay processing new firearm licences, in line with the backlog a year ago over slowdowns related to Covid-19.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun imports rose 25% in the first nine months of 2021, led by shotguns from Italy. Full-Year Outlook: firearm imports are on course for their first gain in four years.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP comments below on its 26 February 2021 “nullification” notice to 1,865 more gun owners targeted by its May 2020 regulatory attacks, after a “technical issue” led to them being missed last year.
More than 70,000 people have now been notified.
Read our Q&A with the RCMP.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP provided the following data at 31 December 2020:
– Number of individuals with a firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL)
– Number of individuals with at least one gun registered with the RCMP
– Number of firearms registered with the RCMP
– Table of firearm registrations by type of firearm
TheGunBlog.ca — The number of Canadians with a federal gun licence fell last year for the first time in a decade, as shutdowns to stop Covid-19 prevented people from applying for a permit. This year is on course for a new drop.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun imports sank in January-April even before the Covid-19 crisis hit.
Shipments plunged to the weakest April in eight years.
January-April 2020: -12% to $47.5 million.