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Canada Gun News: Week of 2022 March 07

Highlights
– Interview: Allan Harding, Canadian National Pistol Champion (Video)
– CSSA: Jean Charest Is No Friend to Canada’s Firearm Owners
– Mendicino Is Doing a Canada-Wide Anti-Gun Tour
– Canada Gun Imports Almost Double in January 2022 Vs. 2021
– Rodger Kotanko Family Challenges SIU Report Clearing Policeman Who Killed Gunsmith
– Statistics Canada Briefs SECU on Criminals Who Use Guns and Ammo
– NSSF: Canada’S Heavy-Handed Trucker Response Foreshadows Gun Confiscations

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2022 February 28

Highlights
– Mendicino Plans New Anti-Gun Law ‘Soon,’ Maybe More Bans By OIC
– Liberals May Ask Gun Owners to Mail-In Our Confiscated Gear, Tracey Wilson Reports
– Policeman Who Killed Rodger Kotanko Shot Him in Self-Defence, SIU Says
– Public Safety Canada’s 2022-23 Plan Suggests Trudeau to Extend Deadline for Gun Confiscations
– Interview With Donovan Dewis of Canadian Access To Firearms (Video)

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2022 February 14

Highlights
– Interview With Wes Winkel of CSAAA and Ellwood Epps (Video)
– Government Comments on Gun-Confiscation Questionnaire E-Mailed to 23 Businesses
– Canada Invites Bids to Supply New Military Pistol, After Canceling Previous Tender
– Government Submits 2020 Commissioner of Firearms Report to Parliament

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2022 January 24

Highlights
– Paul Rogan, Founding Editor of Canadian Access To Firearms, Has Died
– Trudeau Reiterates Aim of Further Suppressing Government-Licensed Gun Owners
– Government Appeals Court Order in Effort to Hide RCMP’s ‘Nullification’ Algorithm (See the 2 PDFs)
– Kawartha Lakes (Ontario) City Council Covers Firearm-Discharge Bylaw
– Government Now Says It Expects New Bill C-71 Restrictions in 2022 From 2021
– Anti-Gun Groups Urge Government to Criminalize Handgun Owners
– CSAAA: January 2022 Newsletter

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2022 January 03

Highlights
– Court Orders ‘All Info’ on RCMP Algorithm for Attacking Gun Owners
– Canadian Gun Imports Rose 29% in January to November 2021, on Course for First Annual Gain in Four Years
– FSESO: Ontario Cancels All CFSC and CRFSC Courses on Covid-19 Concern
– CCFR: National Range Day — You In?

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 December 20

Highlights
– Almost 100% of Gun Owners Have So Far Rejected Trudeau’s Confiscations, iPolitics Reports
– Government Says It Will Share 2020 RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Report in February 2022
– RCMP Says Government Still Working on May 2020 Mass Gun Confiscations
– CSAAA Hires Jennifer Gadbois as New Managing Director
– RCMP Adds More Models to Guns Prohibited Under 01 May 2020 Attacks
– Canadian National Shooting Range Day Proposed By CCFR
– Chris Lewis: Will Handgun Bans Prevent Violent Crime in Canada?

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 December 13

Highlights
– Canadians Bought 30,000 AR-15 Target Rifles in Lead-Up to Trudeau’s May 2020 Attacks
– RCMP Canadian Firearms Program Hiring Privacy Specialist, Invites Tech Firms to Bid
– Government Cancels Invitation to Bid for Military Pistol Contract After Trade Tribunal Decision
– SECU Snapshot: Dancho and Lloyd Challenge Mendicino on Guns

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 November 29

Highlights
– Toronto Police Officer Who Killed Rodger Kotanko Refuses to Talk to SIU
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation Buys Ottawa Bus-Shelter Ads to Fight Trudeau’s Mass Criminalizations
– Trudeau Names Anti-Gun Activist MP Pam Damoff as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Marco Mendicino
– RCMP Says All 22 Victims of 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Killing Were Firearm-Related Homicides

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 November 22

Highlights
– Interview With NFA Past President Sheldon Clare (Video)
– Liberal ‘Throne Speech’ Reiterates Aim to Criminalize Gun Owners
– Marco Mendicino Says ‘We Need to Do More’ to Criminalize Gun Owners
– Bullet-Related Homicide Rate Rose in 2020, Led By Nova Scotia Attacks, Statistics Canada Says
– Green Party Appoints Gun-Friendly Amita Kuttner as Interim Leader
– IBM Report to Liberals on Mass Criminalizations and Gun Confiscations (PDF)
– Trade Tribunal Tells Government to Cancel and Restart Military Pistol Contract

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 November 15

Highlights
– Rodger Kotanko Family and Lawyer Brief Media on His Killing By Toronto Police
– NFA New Video Ad: Working Within the Law to Change the Law
– U.S. Anti-Gun Sentiment Sinks to Lowest Since 2014
– U.S. Gun Owners Increasingly Cite Crime as Reason for Ownership
– Kyle Rittenhouse Has Been Acquitted on All Charges

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 November 08

Highlights
– Erin O’Toole Names MP Raquel Dancho as Conservative Critic for ‘Public Safety’
– Conservative MP Raquel Dancho Makes First Statement as Opposition Critic for Public Safety
– Update on Toronto Police Killing of Rodger Kotanko
– Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply’s Federal Court Challenge Is Allowed to Proceed
– Jim Newman: That Dog Don’t Hunt: Tales from The Hunt Camp Porch

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2021 November 01

Highlights
– Canada Gun Imports Rise 25% in January – September, Led By Shotguns From Italy
– NFA Says Sheldon Clare Decided to Step Down as President
– RCMP Website Has Been Offline for Two Days
– CSAAA Is Hiring a Managing Director
– 70-Year-Old Gunsmith Rodger Kotanko Shot to Death By Toronto Police at His Home
– NFA: O’Toole’s Firearms Flip-Flop