Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 May 03
Highlights
– Canadian Military Picks SIG P320 As Its New Pistol
– Gun Imports Fall 3.5% in First Quarter, Led By Handguns. Ammo Shipments Jump 30%.
– Most Viewed Articles at TheGunBlog.ca in April 2021
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Highlights
– Canadian Military Picks SIG P320 As Its New Pistol
– Gun Imports Fall 3.5% in First Quarter, Led By Handguns. Ammo Shipments Jump 30%.
– Most Viewed Articles at TheGunBlog.ca in April 2021
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Highlights
– Alberta Minister of Justice’s Office Elaborates on Plans for New CFO
– Analysis of CityTV’s ‘The Gun Chase’ Video Documentary
– Bill C-21: Legislative Summary in Plain English (PDF)
– CSSA: RCMP Is Still Using ‘Long-Gun Registry’ That Was Ordered Deleted
– Conservative Party Raises Record $8.48 Million in First Quarter
– U.S. Gun-Rights Orgs Cheer Supreme Court Cert of Second Amendment Case
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Alberta’s Minister of Justice comments below on plans to name its own Chief Firearms Officer, as Premier Jason Kenney works to shield gun owners from the federal government’s political attacks.
TheGunBlog.ca — “The Gun Chase” by CityTV is a factual and informative video documentary about Toronto’s illegal gun trade. It’s part of a mass-media landscape that mostly portrays firearms and their users in a bad light.
Here’s our quick analysis of last night’s show.
Highlights
– Blair’s Office Says Estimating Gun-Confiscation Costs ‘Underway’
– Alberta Is in ‘Final Stages’ of Naming New CFO After Law to Block Handgun Bans
– Liberal Budget 2021 Doesn’t Mention Cost of Mass Gun Confiscations
– Conservative MP Blaine Calkins Asks Blair for Cost of Gun Confiscations
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government is still calculating the costs of the mass gun confiscations it unleashed last May against federally licensed firearm owners, after omitting the expense in yesterday’s annual budget.
Highlights
– Gun Licences Fell in 2020 for First Time in a Decade on Covid-19
– RCMP Provides 2020 Data on Gun Licences and Registrations
– RCMP Says 132 Gun Owners Now Seeking Section 74 Hearings on ‘Nullifications’
– Blair’s Office Says ‘Significant Elements’ of Bill C-71 to Take Effect This Summer
– Blair’s Office Says No Plans for Home-Alarm System for Gun Owners, Denying CSSA Report
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
Highlights
– Canada Gun Imports Rose in February to Six-Month High
– Bill C-71: ‘Significant Elements’ to Take Effect This Summer, Blair’s Office Says
– Trudeau Says O’Toole ‘Promised to Make Assault Weapons Legal Again’
– Bill Blair: ‘Everybody in the Extremist Is in the Gun Lobby’
– M.D. Charlton Wins $1 Million Contract to Supply RCMP AR-15 Surefire Lights
Highlights
– Most-Viewed Reports in First Quarter 2021
– Section 74: Alberta Judge Allows Hearing to Decide Jurisdiction in 4 Cases
– CACP Supports Criminalizing Owners of Items That Look Like Guns
– Liberals May Allow Provinces to Confiscate Handguns as Parties Oppose Bill C-21
– Section 74: Alberta Justice Fradsham Says Crawford Hearing Can Proceed
– Some Mayors Against Bill C-21 Are NOT Our Friends
– Toronto Police Data Show Illegal Shootings Doubling Under Tory, Liberals
– Newmarket, Ontario, Mayor Wants National Handgun Confiscation
– RCMP Warns of Possible Ransomware Attack
– Reader Comment: I Will Not Do Business With Any Business That Helps the Government Destroy Our Guns
– Manitoba Says Bill C-21 ‘Unfairly Targets Legal Firearm Owners’ Names Advisory Group
– CSSA: Liberals to Offer Choice of Gun Destruction, Confiscation or Home Alarm
– CSAAA: Liberals May Be Secretly Setting Up Businesses to Promote Gun Destruction
– Trudeau ‘A Traitor’ Unless Gun Bill Overhauled, Say Families of Polytechnique Victims
– NFA: List of NFA-Endorsed Candidates for Conservative Party National Council
– When Police Don’t Knock
– Section 74: Procedural Win as Alberta Judge Allows Evidence
– Canadian Military Begins Search for New C22 ‘Modular Pistol and Holster System’
– Liberals Won’t Present Budget Until at Least April
– Personal: 10th Anniversary of Japan Earthquake That Shook Up My Life
Highlights
– Trudeau a Decade Ago: Guns Are Part of Canadian Culture and Heritage
– Blair Comments on New Handgun-Safe Rules, Insurance
– Terry Korth Discusses Canada’s Gun Market
– B.C. Proposes New Law Inventing New Gun-Related Penalties
– Most-Viewed Articles at TheGunBlog.ca in February 2021
– Shooting Federation of Canada Restarts Recreational Program
– Study: Mental Illness Not a Factor in Most Mass Shootings
Memos Show:
– Bill C-71 to take effect over the next year
– New “Firearms Buyback Secretariat”
– RCMP prints 10,000 PAL cards per week
– May 2020 memo on CCFR’s planned court challenge
– And more
Highlights
– O’Toole Pledges to Repeal Trudeau’s Attacks Against Gun Owners as PM
– Government Responds to How Bill C-21 Relates to Bill C-22 on Guns
– NFA: They Hate Us
– OFAH: Bill C-21 and Municipal Handgun Prohibitions
– Government Responds to How Bill C-21 Relates to Bill C-22 on Guns
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Department of Justice responds below to our questions on how Bill C-21 interacts with Bill C-22 in relation to gun owners, after the government proposed the new laws last week.
Includes slides from Bill C-22 technical briefing.
Highlights
– Trudeau Files Bill C-21 as New Law to Criminalize Gun Owners
– Ontario and Alberta Oppose Bill C-21
– Trudeau Says Feds Will Help Municipalities Criminalize Handgun Owners
– Self-Defence: Supreme Court Hears Peter Khill Appeal in Fatal Shooting
– Gary Mauser: Confiscating Firearms From Lawful Owners Won’t Stop Violence
– Blair Estimates We Paid $1,300 for Our Guns He Wants to Confiscate
– Edward Burlew Files 2nd Section 74 Appeal for Group Fighting ‘Nullifications’
– CACP Police Lobby Wishes Bill C-21 Ordered National Handgun Confiscation
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government is drafting new rules on storing guns and on using the Firearms Marking Regulations and Bill C-71 to trace every gun to its owner.
The Department of Public Safety comments below.