(Update Dec. 1: Adds RCMP comment.) TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta’s Chief Firearms Office, a unit of Canada’s federal police, ordered Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply to stop making, selling or advertising its rifles, jeopardizing the company’s existence and leading to a lawsuit. Ken Dobie, a firearms officer with the Edmonton-based regulator, signed the three-page letter dated Oct….
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Highlights This Week
– RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000
– Accused Man Says He Shot Assailant in Self-Defence
– Liberals to Pay $78 Million for Contractor to Design Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Publishes 2019 Commissioner of Firearms Report
Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply (ATRS) sued the Canadian government and four RCMP and Alberta CFO employees for $130 million in damages from the May 1 gun bans. It’s the first cororate case of its kind in Federal Court.
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister for the mass gun confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters, said this week it’s too expensive and inefficient for police to administer the seizures. He didn’t say who will.
TheGunBlog.ca — Q&A with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Firearms Program on its backlog processing applications for gun licences, and how it’s responding.
TheGunBlog.ca — Pete Merrifield, vice president of the National Police Federation, the RCMP labour union, discusses urging Canada’s government to help police stop violent gangs instead of seizing guns from federally licensed owners and stores. Read: RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations Merrifield made the comments today in a telephone interview with TheGunBlog.ca. The…
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP labour union today opposed the Canadian federal government and federal police’s attacks against hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors, saying the crackdown undermines safety instead of improving it.
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Highlights This Week
– Ministry Hires Gun-Confiscation Project Manager, Gets One Bid for Revised Tender
– Canada Risks More Shortages of Guns and Ammo, Suppliers Say
– Federal Court Update: CCFR Objects to RCMP’s Murray Smith Pretending to Be Independent
– Conservative MP Tim Uppal Visits Gun Range, Plans CFSC
– Nova Scotia Attacker Had Colt AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Glock, Ruger P89
– Town Council Near Orillia, Ontario, Considers Banning New Gun Ranges
A copy of our e-mail this evening to supporting members and patrons.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian firearm owners and stores risk expanded shortages of guns and ammo, an industry group said last week, quoting several suppliers.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government said it hired the only person who applied as the project manager for the governing Liberal Party’s mass gun-confiscations, and is now reviewing the only proposal it got for a second related contract.
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Highlights This Week
– Trudeau Says New Anti-Gun Legislation ‘Coming Forward Soon’
– Ontario Reiterates Opposition to Trudeau Handgun Confiscations
– Federal Court Cases Fighting Liberal Attacks May Get New Judge
– Alberta Invites Input on Gun Policy, Says Provincial CFO Will Be Operational in Summer 2021
– Confiscation Contract Notice Shows Blank List of Interested Suppliers
– Vista Outdoor Has One-Year Ammo Backlog Exceeding USD 1 Billion
– Gravel Agency Says It Will Represent Walther Guns in Canada
– Tactical Imports Offers H&K G36 ‘Non-Restricted’ Rifles for $6,000
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta today invited public input to develop gun policy that respects hunters, farmers, sport shooters and firearm collectors, and protects them from the co-ordinated attacks of the federal government and federal police.
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Highlights So Far
– RCMP Says It Faces Four-Month Delay Processing New Gun Licences
– Blair at SECU: New ‘Evergreen Process’ to Prohibit Guns, ‘Red-Flag Regime,’ SKS
– NFA Talk: Conservative Public Safety Critic Shannon Stubbs
– CCFR Raises $391,000 for Federal Court Case to Stop Liberal Attacks: iPolitics
– Here’s How Trudeau’s Gun Ban Is About to Get Worse: Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s rifle imports rose 6.4% in the first nine months of the year, Statistics Canada data showed today, putting shipments on course for their first annual increase in three years.
Shotgun and handgun imports dropped.
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of suppressing gun owners, today reiterated his plans to invent a new “evergreen process” to prohibit firearms and expand the “red-flag regime” to confiscate them.
He also explained why SKS owners weren’t specifically targeted in his May 1 attacks against federally licensed firearm owners and stores.
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Highlights (Sign in for the good stuff)
– SHOT Show Canceled as Covid-19 Cases Rise Worldwide
– StatCan Releases 2019 Police-Reported Crime Statistics
– Liberals Win Two Toronto By-Elections, Retaining Seats in Parliament
– Saskatchewan Party, Respectful of Gun Owners, Wins Fourth Majority Government
TheGunBlog.ca — Ontario’s Chief Firearms Office sent the following memo to the provincial Ministry of the Solicitor General, as the RCMP expanded its FRT every few days to confiscate more guns.
Chantal Trahan, the CFO’s manager of firearm licensing and transfers, provides additional context.
TheGunBlog.ca — More than 120 Canadian gun owners are in provincial court fighting the May 1 attacks by the governing Liberal Party and RCMP.
They’ve applied under Section 74 of the Firearms Act to restore their nullified registration certificates.
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Highlights This Week
– No Mention of ‘Nullification’ in 11,000 Pages of Draft Gun Laws
– NFA Talk: Interview With Dennis Young
– Self-Defence and Defence of Property Laws Don’t Protect You From Harm: The Runner
– Leslyn Lewis Nomination: Another Unforced Error by the Conservatives?: Christopher di Armani
