Ministry Declines to Say If Nobody Bid for Confiscation Contract
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety declined to say if anyone applied to work on its mass gun confiscations, after a newspaper said nobody bid for the contract.
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Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 September 21
Highlights This Week
– Liberals Cancel Invitation to Bid for Mass Gun Confiscations
– NFA Is Funding Parker Case in Federal Court to Stop Confiscations
– Alberta Says Hunting Generates Almost $600 Million Per Year
– Liberals Extend Newly Expired Gun Licences to End of Year
– Trudeau No Longer Owns Guns, The Hill Times Reports
– ‘Ping-Pong’ Gun Politics Continue to Divide Voters, as O’Toole Courts GTA Seats
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 September 14
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Firearms Outlet Canada Says It Has Plenty of Ammo, No Shortage
– Conservative Public Safety Critic Stubbs Comments on Gun Policy
– Opinion: Anti-Hunting Letter Filled With ‘Illogical Framing’
– Montreal Mayor Wants More Laws for Attackers Who Disregard Laws
– Massad Ayoob: More on the Rittenhouse Shooting Case
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 September 07
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– You’re Not Selling a Handgun, You’re Selling a Mindset
– Toronto Mayor John Tory Pursues ‘National Handgun Ban’
– U.S Demand for Guns Causing Supply ‘Pinch’ for Ontario Hunters
– O’Toole Names Shannon Stubbs Shadow Minister for Public Safety
Ministry Comments on Tasks, Scope of Gun-Confiscation Contract
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety comments on the tasks, scope and cost of a pending contract to design the mass confiscation of many rifles and shotguns from federally licensed firearm owners and businesses.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 31
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Petition E-2574 Against Liberal Attacks Closes With 230,905 Signatures
– Court Battles to Stop Confiscations Could Drag Out for 5 Years: Burlew
– Glock Won’t Offer Its New Retro G17 Gen 1 Model P80 Pistol in Canada
– Green Party Frontrunner Annamie Paul Wants Confiscations
– Ontario MP Mellilo: Survey Shows Constituents Oppose Liberal Attacks
Hardly Anyone Sought Section 74 Hearings on July 20 Notice: RCMP
Hardly any of the 68,000 recipients of the RCMP’s July 20 firearm-registration nullification notice applied for Section 74 hearings to fight the mass gun confiscations underway.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 24
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– ‘Amnesty’ Is a Liberal Lie
– Erin O’Toole Says He’s ‘Very Pro-Rights’: Global News
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation Supports CCFR Court Challenge
– CSSA Says Ministry Blocks Export of AR-15 Rifle, Derya MK-12 Shotgun
– OFAH: RCMP Tells Gun Owners to Avoid Jail By Printing Webpage
– CCFR Is Preparing New TV Show on Liberal Attacks: ‘Broken Trust’
– Bill C-71 Won’t Be Fully in Place Until at Least 2022: Memo
– Dennis Young Updates on Health, Website, New Contact Info
– Cold Lake City Council in Alberta Will Make Anti-Confiscation Pitch to Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 17
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights
– NFA: Solomon Friedman and Guy Lavergne Update on Federal Court Cases
– ‘Canada’s Gun Store’ Airs ‘Long-Distance Shooting Is Nerdy’ Video
– CCFR Says It Has Spent $770,000 on Legal Battle to Stop Confiscations: iPolitics
– CSSA Supports Hipwell Lawsuit, Adding to Parker, Group of Nine
– Canadian Tire Is Being Sued for Selling Gun Used in B.C. Attack
– Conservative Party to Announce New Leader on Aug. 23
– Peter MacKay Is ‘Best Choice’ for Conservatives, Toronto Star Says
– Toronto Police Cuts Gun/Ammo Budget By Almost 50% to $1.2 Million
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 10
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Sixth Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court to Stop Gun Confiscations (O’Dell Engineering)
– Gary Mauser: Should Firearms Owners Be Licensed?
– RCMP ‘Has Resumed’ Processing New Gun Licences as Covid Slows
– NRA-ILA: Canadian Gun-Rights Groups Condemn RCMP Letter
– Doctors Who Hate Gun Owners Founder Wins Lobby Group Award
Self-Defence Shooting: Supreme Court of Canada to Hear New Case
TheGunBlog.ca — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal by a homeowner saying he shot and killed an intruder in self-defence, its first self-defence case since the government updated the Criminal Code in 2013.
Case: Peter Khill (Ontario)
Keep reading for key points, context, PDF by Khill’s lawyers, and links.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 03
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– CCFR Organizes Ottawa Rally to Fight Liberal Party Attacks
– Firearm Imports Slump 23% in Second Quarter 2020
– Alberta Updates Wildlife Regulation to Boost Hunting, Conservation
– Self-Defence Shooting: Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Peter Khill
– Black Creek Labs Plans First Canada-Made Pistol in Over a Decade
– Ontario Superior Court Judge David Harris Shows His Gun Hate
Gun Imports Slump 23% in Second Quarter 2020 Vs. 2019
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun imports, a key health indicator for the firearm industry, slumped 23% in the second quarter of this year from last year, as shipments of Italian shotguns, Finnish rifles and Czech handguns declined.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 27
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– RCMP Says July 20 Nullification Notice Isn’t a Revocation Notice
– Federal Court Holds First Meeting With Teams Fighting Gun Bans
– Saskatchewan Smashes Liberal Anti-Gun Bias in Naming Freberg CFO
– OFAH Analyzes Survey on Newly Banned ‘Non-Restricted’ Guns
– NFA: Cassandra Parker Sees ‘Months of Litigation’ to Fight Confiscation
RCMP Responds to Questions on 20 July 2020 Nullification Notice
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responded July 27 to our questions about its 20 July 2020 letter to firearm owners saying their ownership certificates were nullified following a May 1 confiscation order.
Ontario CFO’s Trahan Comments on Firearm Transfer Time, Quantity
TheGunBlog.ca — Chantal Trahan, the manager of licensing and transfers for the Ontario Chief Firearms Office, comments on firearm transfers, as well as on the May 1 federal confiscation order, and Authorizations To Transport firearms.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 20
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– CSSA Sees ‘Trickery’ in RCMP Gun-Ownership Cancellations
– OFAH Asks Bill Blair to Extend PALs to Deal With Backlog
– CCFR Won’t Organize Mass Filing Against RCMP Ownership Cancellations
– NFA: Challenging Firearm Reclassification Under Section 74 of Firearms Act
– Liberals Hold Majority in Newest Poll Projections
– Ian Runkle, Gun Lawyer, Discusses RCMP Letter in First YouTube Video
– ‘Please Don’t Buy One’: RCMP B.C. Says to Avoid Airsoft
Human Rights Commission Rejects Complaints That Gun-Ban Order Is Racist
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Human Rights Commission rejected complaints that the governing Liberal Party’s firearm-confiscation order of May 1 is racist for creating different rules for different races of gun owner.
Following is their response to several complaints.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 13
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– ‘Nullified:’ RCMP Mails Ownership Cancellations for Newly ‘Prohibited’ Guns
– Federal Court to Meet July 29 With Four Anti-Confiscation Lawsuits
– TACCOM Show Moves to April 2021 After Covid-19 Disruption
– Note on Conservative Leadership Vote
– Chrystia Freeland Values Guns for Protection, Hunting
– Vermillion Gun Club Post on Limiting Police Reached 141,714 People
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 06
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– More Stores Warn of Gun, Ammo Shortages
– Conservative Leadership Candidates Debate Gun Policy: NFA
– Huntsville, Ontario, Preparing New By-Law on Firearm Discharge
– Communist Party of Canada Updates Program of ‘Revolutionary Ideology’
– CCFR Has Raised Over $220,000 for Lawsuit, iPolitics Reports
– Trudeau’s Bulletproof Vest in 2019 Election: More Inconsistencies
– AR-15 Parts Imports Being Blocked By CBSA and Global Affairs