Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Firearms Outlet Canada Says It Has Plenty of Ammo, No Shortage
– Conservative Public Safety Critic Stubbs Comments on Gun Policy
– Opinion: Anti-Hunting Letter Filled With ‘Illogical Framing’
– Montreal Mayor Wants More Laws for Attackers Who Disregard Laws
– Massad Ayoob: More on the Rittenhouse Shooting Case
(Update Sept. 18: Adds Edward Burlew comment.)
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Liberal Party-led government refused to provide the Federal Court with documents behind its May 1 attack against innocent citizens, citing “confidentiality.”
The government’s legal team had agreed to a Sept. 11 deadline to either share the contents or to say they object to sharing them.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government deferred its Firearms Marking Regulations beyond Dec. 1, pushing back the start of the new restrictions on the gun industry for the 10th time since passing them in 2004.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– You’re Not Selling a Handgun, You’re Selling a Mindset
– Toronto Mayor John Tory Pursues ‘National Handgun Ban’
– U.S Demand for Guns Causing Supply ‘Pinch’ for Ontario Hunters
– O’Toole Names Shannon Stubbs Shadow Minister for Public Safety
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights led its supporters today in the country’s largest gun-rights rally in a generation. It was part of the mounting opposition to the governing Liberal Party’s attacks against federally licensed firearm users. 800 – 5,000 Participants More than 5,000 CCFR fans from across Canada joined the association’s “Integrity…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety comments on the tasks, scope and cost of a pending contract to design the mass confiscation of many rifles and shotguns from federally licensed firearm owners and businesses.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Petition E-2574 Against Liberal Attacks Closes With 230,905 Signatures
– Court Battles to Stop Confiscations Could Drag Out for 5 Years: Burlew
– Glock Won’t Offer Its New Retro G17 Gen 1 Model P80 Pistol in Canada
– Green Party Frontrunner Annamie Paul Wants Confiscations
– Ontario MP Mellilo: Survey Shows Constituents Oppose Liberal Attacks
Hardly any of the 68,000 recipients of the RCMP’s July 20 firearm-registration nullification notice applied for Section 74 hearings to fight the mass gun confiscations underway.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– ‘Amnesty’ Is a Liberal Lie
– Erin O’Toole Says He’s ‘Very Pro-Rights’: Global News
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation Supports CCFR Court Challenge
– CSSA Says Ministry Blocks Export of AR-15 Rifle, Derya MK-12 Shotgun
– OFAH: RCMP Tells Gun Owners to Avoid Jail By Printing Webpage
– CCFR Is Preparing New TV Show on Liberal Attacks: ‘Broken Trust’
– Bill C-71 Won’t Be Fully in Place Until at Least 2022: Memo
– Dennis Young Updates on Health, Website, New Contact Info
– Cold Lake City Council in Alberta Will Make Anti-Confiscation Pitch to Federation of Canadian Municipalities
TheGunBlog.ca — Amita Kuttner is pledging greater justice for Canada’s millions of hunters, farmers, sport shooters and gun collectors if they win the Green Party’s leadership contest in October. Below is an exclusive short Q&A with Kuttner’s campaign manager, followed by their firearm platform. It includes recognizing “home defence as reasonable legal grounds for firearm…
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney yesterday reiterated his plan to hire the province’s own Chief Firearms Officer to fight the federal Liberal Party’s attacks against hunters, farmers, ranchers and sport shooters. Kenney, one of Canada’s strongest defenders of gun owners’ rights, was outlining the priorities of Kaycee Madu as Alberta’s new Minister of Justice…
Update on today’s Federal Court meeting with the lawyers fighting the Liberal Party of Canada’s ’s mass gun confiscations, and with lawyers defending the Liberal attacks.
Update Aug. 27:
– Adds Federal Court Procedural Order (Timeline)
– Adds clarifications by Bouchelev
TheGunBlog.ca — Erin O’Toole, who proposed the most-detailed and comprehensive gun policies among the four candidates running to head the Conservative Party of Canada, was elected as the new party leader. Why It Matters Gun users and businesses have a strong defender to head the Conservatives, our only ally in the House of Commons. O’Toole…
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights
– NFA: Solomon Friedman and Guy Lavergne Update on Federal Court Cases
– ‘Canada’s Gun Store’ Airs ‘Long-Distance Shooting Is Nerdy’ Video
– CCFR Says It Has Spent $770,000 on Legal Battle to Stop Confiscations: iPolitics
– CSSA Supports Hipwell Lawsuit, Adding to Parker, Group of Nine
– Canadian Tire Is Being Sued for Selling Gun Used in B.C. Attack
– Conservative Party to Announce New Leader on Aug. 23
– Peter MacKay Is ‘Best Choice’ for Conservatives, Toronto Star Says
– Toronto Police Cuts Gun/Ammo Budget By Almost 50% to $1.2 Million
TheGunBlog.ca — Nils Ek, a Canadian national pistol competitor, discusses why he joined a group fighting the governing Liberal Party in Federal Court, saying their mass gun confiscations are unconstitutional and illegal. TheGunBlog.ca spoke with Ek by e-mail over the past month. The editor of TheGunBlog.ca has donated to Ek’s case and others among the…
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Sixth Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court to Stop Gun Confiscations (O’Dell Engineering)
– Gary Mauser: Should Firearms Owners Be Licensed?
– RCMP ‘Has Resumed’ Processing New Gun Licences as Covid Slows
– NRA-ILA: Canadian Gun-Rights Groups Condemn RCMP Letter
– Doctors Who Hate Gun Owners Founder Wins Lobby Group Award
TheGunBlog.ca — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal by a homeowner saying he shot and killed an intruder in self-defence, its first self-defence case since the government updated the Criminal Code in 2013.
Case: Peter Khill (Ontario)
Keep reading for key points, context, PDF by Khill’s lawyers, and links.
Black Creek Labs CEO Rob MacIntyre discusses topics including:
– working as a security contractor in Iraq
– early involvement with Northeastern Arms
– how he’s responding to the Liberal confiscations
– BCL’s new PX19 pistol
– Possible collaboration on a new semi-auto rifle
TheGunBlog.ca — John Hipwell’s lawyer, Edward Burlew, filed 2,358 pages of evidence with Canada’s Federal Court today, as the founder of Wolverine Supplies Ltd. fights the governing Liberal Party’s attacks against hunters, farmers and sport shooters.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party invited 15 companies to bid on designing and running the mass gun confiscations underway, suggesting the government didn’t have a plan when it ordered the forced surrender, and still doesn’t. The list includes some of the world’s largest consulting companies that qualified to apply as so-called “Supply Arrangement Holders.”…
