Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 December 07
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE13 December 2020Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – Altis HR Wins Contract to Supply Gun-Confiscation Project Manager – Altis HR Cancels Confiscation Project Manager Contract After ‘Threats’ – Alberta Plans Bill 211 to Block Any Municipal Gun Confiscations – RCMP Adds New 12-Gauge Shotgun to May 1 Confiscations – Colt Canada Delivers New C20…
Liberals Aim to Confiscate 150,000 Rifles and Shotguns, They Tell Stubbs
08 December 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party told an opposition MP last week it expects to confiscate about 150,000 rifles and shotguns from hunters, farmers, sport shooters and businesses under its May 1 political attacks.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 November 30
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE06 December 2020Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – Court Win: Judge Sides With Gun Owners on ‘Nullification’ Notices – Self-Defence: Man Found Not Guilty in Deadly Shooting – Gun Imports Plunge in October to Lowest in Almost Three Years – Trudeau Says He’ll Move Forward ‘Very Soon’ With New Anti-Gun Laws – Government Defers…
Blair’s Office Outlines Next Steps Against Gun Owners (Correction)
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE04 December 2020(Correction Dec. 27: Corrects headline and article to delete incorrect analysis of planned handgun prohibitions.) TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Canadian Minister Bill Blair outlines the next steps in the government’s planned laws against federally licensed gun owners.
Greg Dunn Q&A After Winning Stark Court Case on ‘Nullification’
01 December 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Greg Dunn of Dunn & Associates comments below after winning the first court case for gun owners against the May 1 regulatory attacks by Canada’s governing Liberal Party and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Dunn, based in Calgary, was the lawyer for Ryan Stark in his request to access a Section 74 hearing…
Court Win: Judge Sides With Gun Owners on ‘Nullification’ Notices
01 December 2020TheGunBlog.ca — An Alberta court sided with gun owners fighting the federal government and federal police’s regulatory attacks, marking a significant procedural win for the rights of Canadian hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors.
Alberta CFO Sent This Letter to ATRS Ordering Business Shutdown
30 November 2020(Update Dec. 1: Adds RCMP comment.) TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta’s Chief Firearms Office, a unit of Canada’s federal police, ordered Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply to stop making, selling or advertising its rifles, jeopardizing the company’s existence and leading to a lawsuit. Ken Dobie, a firearms officer with the Edmonton-based regulator, signed the three-page letter dated Oct.…
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 November 23
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE29 November 2020Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations – RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000 – Accused Man Says He Shot Assailant in Self-Defence – Liberals to Pay $78 Million for Contractor to Design Mass Gun Confiscations – RCMP Publishes…
ATRS Sues RCMP, Alberta CFO Staff for $70 Million in Gun-Confiscation Damages (Correction)
27 November 2020Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply (ATRS) sued the Canadian government and four RCMP and Alberta CFO employees for $130 million in damages from the May 1 gun bans. It’s the first cororate case of its kind in Federal Court.
Bill Blair Says Mass Gun Confiscations Won’t Be Run By Police; Ministry Q&A
27 November 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister for the mass gun confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters, said this week it’s too expensive and inefficient for police to administer the seizures. He didn’t say who will.