Canada Gun Rights News: Week of 2023 May 01
Highlights
– Liberals Plan New OIC to Confiscate More Guns, Mendicino Says
– CSAAA Contract Blowback: PDF of Contract, Board Resignations, CSAAA Provides Context
– Canada Gun Imports Q1 2023 (Summary)
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– Liberals Plan New OIC to Confiscate More Guns, Mendicino Says
– CSAAA Contract Blowback: PDF of Contract, Board Resignations, CSAAA Provides Context
– Canada Gun Imports Q1 2023 (Summary)
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberals will use a new OIC as early as this summer to confiscate more guns, Minister Marco Mendicino said May 01 in comments that many people missed.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberals outlined new amendments to Bill C-21 today to prohibit future rifle and shotgun designs, expanding their attacks against government-licensed gun users and businesses.
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– CSAAA Faces Backlash Over $700,000 Contract With Liberals
– Mendicino Again Signals Liberals Have No Idea How to Execute Their Gun-Confiscation Fantasy
– Bill C-21: Liberals, NDP Plan New Amendments
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– Federal Court Judge Says Decision Possible ‘In a Couple Months’
– RCMP Says Employee Work Stoppages Leading to ‘Service Delays’
– CCFR Gets $100,000 Donation from Calgary & District Target Shooters Association
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– Federal Court Hearing to Stop Trudeau’s May 2020 Gun-Confiscation Order in Council
– RCMP Annual Plan Suggests Trudeau’s Confiscation Fantasy Is On Hold
– Gary Mauser: Gun Violence Is a Red Herring
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– 2023 Q1 Review and Outlook for Canadian Gun Rights (Video)
– Alberta Blocks Municipalities and Police From Contracting With Federal Government on Confiscations
– Watch Federal Court Hearing to Stop May 2020 OIC
TheGunBlog.ca — Watch our review and outlook for Canadian gun rights at the end of the first quarter 2023.
It isn’t all bleak. There’s some good news.
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– Liberal Budget Suggests Gun Confiscations Trudeau Ordered in May 2020 Are on Hold
– Alberta Firearms Act Becomes Law, Blocking Trudeau’s Confiscations
– RECAP: Where Provinces Stand on Confiscations
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– Why I’m Increasingly Optimistic Trudeau’s Mass Gun Confiscations Will Fail
– Alberta Firearms Act Passes Third Reading
– Solomon Friedman Buys PornHub
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– Liberals to Extend Gun-Confiscation Deadline, 2023-2024 Plan Shows
– Liberals Name Mike Duheme as RCMP Interim Chief
– Ontario CFO Processing Handgun Transfers From About September 24, Jenn Gadbois Says
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– Alberta Introduces Its Own Firearms Act to Promote Gun Use and Block Confiscation
– Liberals Will Extend Confiscation Deadline Again, Shandro Says
– Liberals Planned to Start Home Gun Confiscations in H2 2023
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– RCMP Says ‘No Backlog’ to Process PAL Gun Licence Applications
– Follow-Up on Gun Prohibitions By OIC
– Alberta Firearms Act, Planned for Spring, Will Promote Gun Use and Block Confiscation
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government responds below to our questions on using a so-called “Order in Council” (OIC) to prohibit and confiscate guns from government-licensed owners and businesses.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP said it has “no backlog” processing PAL applications after clearing months of delays related to Covid-19.
Highlights
– Liberals Appear to Backtrack Goal of Compensating Victims of Their Gun Confiscations
– Self-defence in Canada: When Lethal Force Could Be Legal
– RCMP 2021 Commissioner of Firearms Report
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– Liberals Estimated Cost of Gun Confiscations At Up To $1 Billion in 2019 Memo
– RCMP Says It Hasn’t Changed ‘Restricted’ PAL Process
– CCFR Publishes Liberal Memo on Gun-Confiscation Plan
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party estimated the “preliminary costs” of its mass gun confiscations at $850 million to $1 billion, according to a 2019 internal memo.
This marks the first publication of the government’s cost estimate.
Highlights
– Alberta Chief Firearms Officer Teri Bryant: In Conversation (Video)
– Canada Gun Imports Rise to Record in 2022
– Trudeau’s Office Assigns Mendicino a New Chief of Staff, Samantha Khalil