TheGunBlog.ca — Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said banning federally licensed handgun owners would be an “absolute monster piece of work” to manage.

Highlights – O’Toole Pledges to Repeal Trudeau’s Attacks Against Gun Owners as PM – Government Responds to How Bill C-21 Relates to Bill C-22 on Guns – NFA: They Hate Us – OFAH: Bill C-21 and Municipal Handgun Prohibitions – Government Responds to How Bill C-21 Relates to Bill C-22 on Guns

TheGunBlog.ca — Conservative Party MP Shannon Stubbs said a comment by Liberal Minister Bill Blair to the House of Commons today was “frankly frickin ridiculous,” as he presented his new draft law to criminalize Canadian gun owners.

TheGunBlog.ca — Erin O’Toole, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, pledged to repeal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s regulatory attacks against gun owners, ending six months of near silence on firearm policy.

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Department of Justice responds below to our questions on how Bill C-21 interacts with Bill C-22 in relation to gun owners, after the government proposed the new laws last week. Includes slides from Bill C-22 technical briefing.

Highlights – Trudeau Files Bill C-21 as New Law to Criminalize Gun Owners – Ontario and Alberta Oppose Bill C-21 – Trudeau Says Feds Will Help Municipalities Criminalize Handgun Owners – Self-Defence: Supreme Court Hears Peter Khill Appeal in Fatal Shooting – Gary Mauser: Confiscating Firearms From Lawful Owners Won’t Stop Violence – Blair Estimates…

TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government is drafting new rules on storing guns and on using the Firearms Marking Regulations and Bill C-71 to trace every gun to its owner. The Department of Public Safety comments below.

TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed Bill C-21 today as a sweeping and complex new law against federally licensed gun owners, as he works to weaken citizens, hurt the firearm market, and kill modern shooting sports.

Highlights – Blair May File New Anti-Gun Law on Feb. 16, House Agenda Shows – Edward Burlew Files First Section 74 Appeal for Group Fighting ‘Nullifications’ – Federal Court Dismisses Injunction Motions to Stop Liberal+RCMP Attacks – Christine Generoux Comments on Federal Court Dismissal of Injunction – CZ Agrees to Buy Colt and Colt Canada…

(Update Feb. 19: Adds in last paragraph that Burlew filed second appeal.) TheGunBlog.ca — The court fight escalated this week to restore justice for Canadian hunters, farmers and sport shooters and stop the federal government’s and federal police’s regulatory attacks. Edward Burlew, one of the country’s leading firearm lawyers, filed the first court appeal on…