Topic: News Bullets
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 May 18
Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – RCMP Is Secretly Making Guns ‘Prohibited’ in FRT, Reports Say – RCMP Has Mailed Notices to PAL Holders About Gun Confiscations – Solomon Friedman Files Court Challenge of Gun-Confiscation Order – Liberals Plan Gun-Licence Extension of Six Months for Covid-19 – News Bullets From Other Media/Sources
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 May 11
Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – Gun-Ban Order Took Effect Before It Was Even Public, Government Says – RCMP Responds to TheGunBlog.ca on Deleting ‘Grandfathering’ – CSSA: Ban Covers 12-Gauge Shotguns ‘Capable Of’ 10kJ Muzzle Energy – CACP Police Lobby Says It Will Review Liberal Confiscation Order – Canada Post Requires Free…
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 April 27
Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – Trudeau Reiterates Plan for Municipal Handgun Confiscations – Over 150,000 People Have Signed Change.org Petition Against Rifle Bans – Police Briefings on Nova Scotia Attack Raise Questions – News Bullets From Other Media
Liberals May Order Gun Prohibitions This Week, CBC Reports
29 April 2020 - News, News Bullets(Correction April 30: Corrects list of guns. Updates models and details, adds Trudeau comment.) Newest update: April 30 at 23:20 Toronto time. TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party may order new gun prohibitions this week as the first step in its mass confiscations against hunters, farmers, sport shooters and collectors, CBC News reported. TheGunBlog.ca estimates…
RCMP Outlines Details, Timeline of Nova Scotia Massacre
https://youtu.be/PHlc1EXJhho?t=3943 TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP outlined the details and timeline of last weekend’s shooting massacre in Nova Scotia in a statement and media briefing today by Superintendent Darren Campbell. Casualties Dead: 22 + Attacker Injured: 3, none currently in hospital Crime Locations: 16 Big Mass Shooting The RCMP didn’t give totals for how many people…
Civil Disorder Among COVID-19 Concerns: Statistics Canada Survey
TheGunBlog.ca — More than 24% of respondents to an informal Statistics Canada survey of about 200,000 people were “very or extremely” worried the Covid-19 crisis could lead to civil disorder, the statistics agency said today.
Trudeau Says Gun-Ban Measures Were ‘Ready to Go’
https://youtu.be/vIgLWl_4hI8?t=1712 TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today his plans to order mass gun confiscations against federally licensed owners were “ready to go” last month when the House of Commons was suspended. Trudeau Comment We are certainly looking at introducing our new gun-control measures that were ready to go before parliament was suspended…
Nova Scotia Attacker Didn’t Have ‘FAC’ Gun Licence, RCMP Says
https://youtu.be/1Hvf5zAhtJo?t=2794 TheGunBlog.ca — The man behind last weekend’s mass attacks in Nova Scotia didn’t have a Firearms Acquisition Certificate, the RCMP said today in addressing whether he had a gun licence. Canadian gun owners breathed easier on the assumption the police meant a firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL), which replaced the FAC in the…
Trudeau Reiterates Plan for Mass Gun Bans Against PAL Holders
https://youtu.be/FUblBdLaGYI?t=1141 TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister Bill Blair used a weekend shooting attack in Nova Scotia to reiterate their plans to target federally licensed firearm owners with new restrictions and mass gun confiscations. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki also commented on the police investigation into the deaths of at least 18 people,…
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 April 13
Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – RCMP Says PAL Renewals by Mail Are ‘Significantly Impacted’ – News Bullets
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 April 06
Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – The Liberals Are Gaining Popularity on COVID-19, Survey Shows – Hopes and Concerns Over Liberal Gun Confiscations Amid Covid-19 Crisis – News Bullets – B.C. Hunting Licences, Wild Game Permits Almost Double – NFA: COVID-19 and Firearm Owners Q&A – OFAH: COVID-19 Restrictions and Closures Affecting…
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 30
Updated daily throughout the week. 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
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 23
Updated daily throughout the week. 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
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 16
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
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 09
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…
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 02
Updated daily throughout the week. 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
Bullet Points: Week of 2020 February 24
Updated daily throughout the week. 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
Canada Gun News: Week of 2019 December 16
Highlights From This Edition — (1) Scenario Analysis: Rifle Confiscation Order: How It Might Go Through. (2) Newest Articles at TheGunBlog.ca (3) News Bullets.