TheGunBlog.ca — Saskatchewan will name its own Chief Firearms Officer, ending the federal appointee as provinces ramp up opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attacks against gun owners and stores. Premier Scott Moe “Our government will always stand beside law-abiding Saskatchewan firearms owners,” Premier Scott Moe said yesterday on Twitter. “A provincially-appointed Chief Firearms Officer…
(Update May 28 at 20:25 Toronto time: Adds government response.) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s order for hunters, sport shooters and businesses to surrender our firearms violates the Constitution and should be struck down, said a lawsuit initiated by J.R. Cox. The Notice of Constitutional Question filed today in the Court of Queen’s…
Bill Blair. Source: OurCommons.ca TheGunBlog.ca — The Office of Public Safety Minister Bill Blair outlines the Canadian government’s planned new restrictions and prohibitions targeting federally licensed firearm . . . This content is for subscribing members. Please sign in below, or subscribe.
(Update May 28: Adds government response.) TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is leading a group that sued the government and federal police today, challenging the constitutionality of a gun-confiscation order targeting hunters, sport shooters and businesses. The filing asked the Federal Court: to strike down the governing Liberal Party’s May 1 cabinet…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party is preparing laws to help municipalities eliminate home handgun ownership, Minister Bill Blair told the Toronto Star in an interview published today. “While stopping short of a national handgun ban, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told the Star that new rules will allow . . . This content is…
TheGunBlog.ca — The founder of one of Canada’s biggest family-owned gun stores hired a leading firearm lawyer to fight the Liberal Party’s May 1 confiscation order, as resistance to a “flagrant abuse of government power” escalates. $100,000 Goal John Hipwell, the founder of Wolverine Supplies Ltd., aims to raise $100,000 after hiring Edward Burlew to…
TheGunBlog.ca — Solomon Friedman, a lawyer with Edelson Friedman Black in Ottawa, filed the first lawsuit against the Canadian government’s May 1 gun-confiscation order targeting federally licensed owners and businesses. Following are the highlights.
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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
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, said more than 100,000 hunters, sport shooters, firearm collectors and other owners may have been targeted in this month’s order for mass confiscations. The total includes both of the following: a known number of federally licensed owners required by law to have registered 105,000…
TheGunBlog.ca — Black Creek Labs Inc. is exiting Canada’s semi-auto rifle market after politicians and police banned the company’s flagship product under mass confiscations to weaken citizens and cripple the firearm industry. Key Quote Black Creek Labs “has made the decision to halt all research, development and manufacturing of semi-automatic rifles made specifically for the…
TheGunBlog.ca — J.R. Cox, the owner of two Canadian gun stores and ranges, raised almost $60,000 in four days for a lawsuit to stop the government’s mass firearm confiscations against hunters, sport shooters and stores. More than 850 people, including the owner of TheGunBlog.ca, donated $57,418 as of 2:15 p.m. in Toronto today through GoFundMe.com….
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Department of Justice comments on when the governing Liberal Party’s gun-confiscation order took effect on May 1.
TheGunBlog.ca — A petition to restore Canadian democracy and stop the Liberal Party attack against honest citizens surged to become the No. 1 online petition to the House of Commons after barely a week. Petition e-2574 had 176,985 signatures as of 5:15 p.m. in Toronto today. It overtook the 175,310 names from a similar solicitation…
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Highlights This Week
– Trudeau Can Cancel ‘Grandfathering’ as Easily as He Promised It
– CCFR, NFA Seek Court Challenge of Liberal Prohibition Order
– Reddit User/Liberal Party Staffer (?) Says Remote Storage Is Next
– Remote Storage = Ban on Home Gun Ownership
– CSSA Says Liberals Banned Many Shotguns, Blair Disagrees
– Firearm Imports Jumped in March to 11-Month High
– News Bullets From Other Media
(Update May 11, 15:20 Toronto time: Adds RCMP response.) TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP deleted the option for so-called “grandfathering” this week from its web page on the Canadian government’s mass gun confiscations, igniting concern owners will face jail unless we surrender our gear within two years. Two Promises The website now mentions only the first…
TheGunBlog.ca — The trade group for the world’s largest gun industry warned shotgun exporters to Canada they risk confiscation after last week’s surprise bans by the Liberal Party. The U.S. National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “important alert” shows how the prohibitions could batter firearm companies worldwide. In the middle of business on May 1, Prime Minister…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party said it will create “a new evergreen framework” for firearm classifications to arbitrarily and quickly ban new gun designs.
TheGunBlog.ca — Police on Twitter across Canada began to protest the governing Liberal Party’s crackdown against hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors, opposing the instant prohibitions targeting federally licensed firearm owners. About 25 of the country’s almost 70,000 municipal, provincial and federal peace officers have responded to the Twitter campaign started yesterday evening, plus about…
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
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today ordered federally licensed gun owners to surrender many of our rifles to police within two years, while promising to allow “grandfathering” for confiscation at death. Gun Ban Plan Criminalize owners immediately with a two-year “amnesty” (Stay Out of Jail card) Re-classify many “Non-restricted” and “Restricted” rifles and…
