TheGunBlog.ca — Edward Burlew, a leading Canadian firearm lawyer, comments below on the Liberal Party of Canada’s election plan to force hundreds of thousands of hunters, farmers and sport shooters to surrender their firearms. The Liberals said yesterday they will criminalize the federally licensed owners of certain hunting and sporting rifles for which they invented…
TheGunBlog.ca — Justin Trudeau promised the biggest instant gun bans against hunters, farmers and sport shooters in Canadian history if he is re-elected prime minister. Liberal Gun Ban Plan Take Our Poll Trudeau pitched his newest bans today in Toronto as the Liberal Party leader seeks to recover from scandals. Opinion polls show Liberal voters…
TheGunBlog.ca — Marstar Canada President Payam Khoee comments below in an interview about what’s at stake in next month’s election for his firearm business and the industry. Marstar specializes in importing and selling military-surplus firearms. The company is based in Vankleek Hill, 100 km east of Ottawa. Khoee led the employee buyout of the company…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada may further restrict hunters and sport shooters living in cities if it wins next month’s election, Bill Blair, the Liberal minister of gun bans, told CBC Radio One today. The party is looking at “additional restrictions on where a firearm can be possessed or stored within a municipality,”…
TheGunBlog.ca — I’m high on TACCOM, the Tactical & Competitive Shooting Sports Show. It ran last weekend to become the biggest and most-important gun show in Canadian history. Almost 20,000 people packed a major convention centre near Toronto over three days to explore and celebrate gun culture. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1170378300239286274 Critical Election Firearms Outlet Canada, the show…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian election that kicked off this week is the most-critical vote in a generation for hunters, sport shooters and the gun industry. It will determine the future of civilian firearm ownership in our country. Here are three realities for gun owners and four possible election outcomes. They are adapted from our new…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s RCMP, the agency that approves and tracks gun users, said today it deleted web pages about Bill C-71 in June after the government passed the new law against hunters, sport shooters and gun stores. The two pages provided information for more than 10,000 families and businesses targeted by the first round of…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Quebec government is asking hunters to help stop an animal disease while threatening to confiscate their rifles and shotguns. An advocate for shooters’ rights urged hunters to refuse the call. The Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks asked hunters to target males, females and fawns of white-tailed deer in specific areas to…
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP removed its web pages on Bill C-71, the Canadian government’s new law against federally licensed hunters, sport shooters and gun stores. Two pages outlining the law’s first round of gun prohibitions and confiscations from individuals and businesses appear to have gone offline days or weeks ago, sometime after the legislation was…
TheGunBlog.ca — Gun stores from across Canada and gun makers from around the world were setting up their display booths this evening for tomorrow’s opening of TACCOM, the Tactical & Competitive Shooting Sports Show. Firearms Outlet Canada Inc., the organizer, is transforming the industry with an exhibition that feels like a small version of SHOT…
TheGunBlog.ca — Regina Police Chief Evan Bray is at least the eighth police leader in Canada opposing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Toronto Mayor John Tory’s efforts to ban hunters, farmers and sport shooters from having guns. The growing movement from the RCMP to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to Toronto’s own chief…
TheGunBlog.ca — The price of a gun licence for the 2.2 million Canadian men and women with police permission to have firearms will rise by 2.2% next March to reflect inflation, the federal agency in charge of licensing said today. PAL: $61.32. A firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) limited to so-called “Non-restricted” rifles and…
TheGunBlog.ca — TheGunBlog.ca is excited to be among the leaders of the Canadian shooting community, firearm industry and thousands of shooters heading in two weeks to TACCOM, the Tactical & Competitive Shooting Sports Show. The three-day gathering in Toronto is the largest event of its kind in Canada. Top Brands & Celebrities From Aimpoint to…
TheGunBlog.ca — Almost all Liberal Party of Canada supporters want gun owners evicted from cities, according to a new poll by Ekos Research Associates, confirming the party as the most-hostile political force against millions of men and women. About 86% of Liberals surveyed agreed with the statement: “I think that there should be a strict…
TheGunBlog.ca — Halifax Regional Police joined a growing movement of police groups and leaders across Canada opposing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s and Toronto Mayor John Tory’s campaigns for gun bans against hunters and sport shooters. Halifax Police Quote “We believe we have necessary laws and regulations in place in relation to firearms,” HalifaxToday reported today…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, which lobbies the government to restrict hunters and sport shooters, doesn’t support new gun bans against them, The Canadian Press reported today, citing the CACP president. Adam Palmer, also the Vancouver police chief, is among at least six active and retired police leaders who oppose the…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he will present his Liberal Party’s new proposals against firearm owners when he campaigns for re-election in October on “strengthening gun control.” He didn’t mention his June plan for the largest single gun bans in Canadian history if he wins. Trudeau promises to make gun control…
TheGunBlog.ca — Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders and at least five other active and retired Canadian police leaders have a message for politicians campaigning to ban guns from hunters, farmers and sport shooters: No. Saunders yesterday declined to support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor John Tory’s marketing for massive bans to win votes. He…
TheGunBlog.ca — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is standing up for the millions of hunters, farmers and sport shooters across Canada by opposing proposals from the prime minister and the mayor of Toronto to criminalize gun owners or seize their gear. Ford reiterated his opposition to Toronto Mayor John Tory today, the Toronto Sun reported. The…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian and U.S. politicians and mass media are acting out their usual routine following the weekend massacres in the U.S. and a few attacks across Toronto. Politicians exploit the events to win votes. Media exploit the events to win eyeballs. Everyone blames everyone except the person who pulled the trigger. (Blame: Trump, Scheer,…
