(Update Aug. 12: We are updating the How to File section as we get more information.) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians are going to court to fight the governing Liberal Party and federal police’s mass firearm confiscations targeting hunters, farmers, sport shooters and collectors. Following is a Q&A with “CameronSS” on why and how they applied for…
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP is playing politics and favourites in the mass firearm confiscations it’s running for the governing Liberal Party, signalling a breakdown in its role as federal police and regulator of gun owners.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– CCFR Organizes Ottawa Rally to Fight Liberal Party Attacks
– Firearm Imports Slump 23% in Second Quarter 2020
– Alberta Updates Wildlife Regulation to Boost Hunting, Conservation
– Self-Defence Shooting: Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Peter Khill
– Black Creek Labs Plans First Canada-Made Pistol in Over a Decade
– Ontario Superior Court Judge David Harris Shows His Gun Hate
(Update Aug. 15: Adds comment by BCL owner Rob MacIntyre.) TheGunBlog.ca — Black Creek Labs plans to sell its new PX19 pistol this year as the first made-in-Canada handgun in more than a decade. It will follow up with the larger PX17. ❤️ 🇨🇦 ❤️ “The PX19 will be available in late 2020 in black,…
TheGunBlog.ca — Brian McRae, who oversees municipal hunting and fishing issues for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, comments in an interview below on municipal firearm by-laws.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun imports, a key health indicator for the firearm industry, slumped 23% in the second quarter of this year from last year, as shipments of Italian shotguns, Finnish rifles and Czech handguns declined.
TheGunBlog.ca — The town council of Huntsville, Ontario, is preparing a by-law to restrict gun users beyond what’s in federal and provincial prohibitions. Brian McRae, who oversees municipal hunting and fishing issues for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, comments below. The OFAH is one of Canada’s biggest associations of firearm users. Details The…
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– RCMP Says July 20 Nullification Notice Isn’t a Revocation Notice
– Federal Court Holds First Meeting With Teams Fighting Gun Bans
– Saskatchewan Smashes Liberal Anti-Gun Bias in Naming Freberg CFO
– OFAH Analyzes Survey on Newly Banned ‘Non-Restricted’ Guns
– NFA: Cassandra Parker Sees ‘Months of Litigation’ to Fight Confiscation
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responded July 27 to our questions about its 20 July 2020 letter to firearm owners saying their ownership certificates were nullified following a May 1 confiscation order.
TheGunBlog.ca — Rudy Venditelli, the owner of Dante Inc., one of Canada’s biggest independent gun stores, comments below on business, the market outlook, and the effects of the governing Liberal Party’s May 1 firearm-confiscation order. TheGunBlog.ca edited the interview from a series of e-mail and phone conversations from May until now. Venditelli, who took over…
Newest Update: Aug. 02
TheGunBlog.ca — The five teams fighting the governing Liberal Party of Canada’s gun-confiscation order in federal court had their first meeting with the Federal Court today.
Includes downloadable motions to intervene from:
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation
– National Firearms Association
– Coalition for Gun Control
TheGunBlog.ca — Chantal Trahan, the manager of licensing and transfers for the Ontario Chief Firearms Office, comments on firearm transfers, as well as on the May 1 federal confiscation order, and Authorizations To Transport firearms.
TheGunBlog.ca — Saskatchewan named Robert Freberg as its new Chief Firearms Officer, hiring a high-profile advocate for hunters, farmers and sport shooters.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– CSSA Sees ‘Trickery’ in RCMP Gun-Ownership Cancellations
– OFAH Asks Bill Blair to Extend PALs to Deal With Backlog
– CCFR Won’t Organize Mass Filing Against RCMP Ownership Cancellations
– NFA: Challenging Firearm Reclassification Under Section 74 of Firearms Act
– Liberals Hold Majority in Newest Poll Projections
– Ian Runkle, Gun Lawyer, Discusses RCMP Letter in First YouTube Video
– ‘Please Don’t Buy One’: RCMP B.C. Says to Avoid Airsoft
TheGunBlog.ca — Glock, the maker of the world’s most-popular handgun, expects a Canadian version of its model 45 pistol to arrive in Canada late this year after delays from Covid-19, and aims to sell more country-specific editions.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Human Rights Commission rejected complaints that the governing Liberal Party’s firearm-confiscation order of May 1 is racist for creating different rules for different races of gun owner.
Following is their response to several complaints.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada uses the term “grandfathering” to conceal the reality of their instant gun prohibitions, according to from Rick Hemmingson, a lawyer swith Hemmingson Law in Lacombe, Alberta. Hemmingson e-mailed TheGunBlog.ca yesterday evening in response to our report: Liberals Plan ‘Grandfathering’ Under Bans: Minister of Justice. An early version of…
Updated July 24
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Minister of Justice said the government intends to offer a “grandfathering regime” to victims of its mass gun confiscations. It may be the first time a minister has mentioned the “grandfathering” option.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– ‘Nullified:’ RCMP Mails Ownership Cancellations for Newly ‘Prohibited’ Guns
– Federal Court to Meet July 29 With Four Anti-Confiscation Lawsuits
– TACCOM Show Moves to April 2021 After Covid-19 Disruption
– Note on Conservative Leadership Vote
– Chrystia Freeland Values Guns for Protection, Hunting
– Vermillion Gun Club Post on Limiting Police Reached 141,714 People
TheGunBlog.ca — Every political party in Canada’s parliament is working to eliminate or further restrict private firearm ownership, except one: the Conservative Party. It’s beyond disheartening that the country’s millions of gun users failed again to support the party and the candidates running to lead it. Conservative Leadership Election Party HQ said July 14 it…
