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Highlights This Week
– Liberals Say New Restrictions on Gun Owners ‘Remain a Crucial Priority’: Canadian Press
– Most Viewed Articles in March 2020
– COVID-19: Global Politics & Society, Poverty & Hunger in Canada
– News Bullets
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Highlights This Week
– The Bright Side of Seeing Gun Shops Sold Out
– Mass Media Focus on Rising Gun and Ammo Sales Amid COVID-19
– Talking Points for Media Interviews
– News Bullets
TheGunBlog.ca — The Ontario Chief Firearms Office comments below on its COVID-19 response relating to gun licensing, safety courses and target ranges. Chantal Trahan, the CFO’s Manager of Licensing and Transfers, made the comments yesterday in response to questions from TheGunBlog.ca. The Firearm Safety Education Service of Ontario, which oversees the province’s firearm-safety instructors, said…
Highlights This Week
– CFSC Gun-Licence Courses Are Closing to Prevent COVID-19 Spread
– Gun Sales Rise on COVID-19 Concern of Shortages, Social Unrest
– Police Across Canada Are Scaling Back Service, Enforcement on COVID-19
– Ontario CFO Letter to Club and Range Executives on COVID-19 Response
Highlights This Week
– Coronavirus May Save Gun Owners From the Liberals
– Liberals ‘Moving Quickly’ on Rifle Ban, Blair Says in Report
– RCMP Says It Will Work With Liberals on Anti-Gun Plans
– Blair Reiterates Plan to Order Mass Confiscations, NFA Reports
– Saskatchewan to Appoint Its Own CFO: Regina Leader-Post
– News Bullets From Other Media
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Highlights This Week
– SFRC Offers E-2341 Rifle to Honour Solidarity Around Petition
– Manitoba Says Municipal Gun Laws, Bans Are ‘Not Appropriate’
– Municipalities Don’t Want the Power to Confiscate Handguns: iPolitics
– O’Toole Is First Conservative ‘Verified Candidate’ With Firearm Blurb
– News Bullets From Other Media
TheGunBlog.ca — The Ontario government said Chief Firearms Officer Dwight Peer will stay in the role until his successor is named, even after the Ontario Provincial Police promoted him last month to a new rank with new command duties. Ministry Comment “Chief Superintendent Peer remains in the role of Chief Firearms Officer in addition to…
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Highlights This Week
– RCMP Publishes Public Firearms Reference Table (FRT) for First Time
– Ontario CFO Peer to Remain After Promotion Until Successor Named
– Blair Reiterates Plan to Confiscate Rifles at SECU Committee
– Conservative Leadership: Eight ‘Approved Applicants’ By Deadline
– News Bullets From Other Media
Comments by Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety suggest three stages for the governing Liberal Party’s confiscation order:
1. Pre-Confiscation Order to re-classify firearms as “Prohibited” “safe queens”
2. Spending Request to Parliament
3. Confiscation/Surrender Order
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Highlights This Week
– Clarifying the Steps for Liberal Rifle Confiscation
– Desmond Inquiry Shines Light on Gun-Licensing System
– Petition Rises to 175,310 Signatures Following Validation
– Bill C-71: “All of the Measures” Will Take Effect After Budget, Blair Tells iPolitics
Canadian Petition e-2341 against a Liberal order for mass gun confiscation closed yesterday with 175,310 signatures, making it the No. 1 e-petition in House of Commons history.
Following is an analysis of the petition’s risks and benefits, and significance for Canadian gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca newsletter for members. Includes news, analysis and insight on Canadian gun culture, politics and policy.
Highlight This Week
– Why the Conservative leadership race matters to gun owners
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety said in a “secret” 2018 memo that most adults with a federal firearm licence don’t pose a threat to public safety, undermining the governing Liberal Party’s plans for mass gun confiscations. First Memo “Most licenced firearms owners comply with the law and do not pose a threat to…
Canadian Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair has a new director of communications.
Highlights
– Airbnb becomes one of Canada’s top anti-gun activists
– Bill Blair gets new communications chief
– Liberals could confiscate via new bill in parliament vs. OIC
– Conservatives vs. Liberals in House of Commons on red-flag laws
– Ducks Unlimited responds to criticism for not sharing petition
Highlights This Week
– Week-Ahead Agenda
– How Soon Will the Liberals Publish Their Prohibition Order?
– About That Petition — Extrapolation
– Did You Notice Blair’s Language Shift on Compensating Confiscation Victims?
– Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Firearm-Marking Regulations?
– Anti-Gun Extremists Are Trying to Smear Gun-Rights Advocates as Far-Right Extremists
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Joël Lightbound last month as Parliamentary Secretary to help Minister Bill Blair confiscate a quarter-million rifles from hunters, farmers and sport shooters. Here’s some background.
TheGunBlog.ca newsletter for members. Includes news, analysis and insight on Canadian gun culture, politics and policy. Updated throughout the day, every day. In focus this week: Timing of rifle-confiscation order, Petition update, Blair’s language shift.
TheGunBlog.ca newsletter for members. Includes news, analysis and insight on Canadian gun culture, politics and policy. Updated throughout the day, every day.
Weekly roundup of news, analysis and insight on Canadian gun culture, politics and policy. Updated throughout the week.
