TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s rifle imports rose 6.4% in the first nine months of the year, Statistics Canada data showed today, putting shipments on course for their first annual increase in three years. Shotgun and handgun imports dropped.

TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of suppressing gun owners, today reiterated his plans to invent a new “evergreen process” to prohibit firearms and expand the “red-flag regime” to confiscate them. He also explained why SKS owners weren’t specifically targeted in his May 1 attacks against federally licensed firearm owners and stores.

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TheGunBlog.ca — Ontario’s Chief Firearms Office sent the following memo to the provincial Ministry of the Solicitor General, as the RCMP expanded its FRT every few days to confiscate more guns. Chantal Trahan, the CFO’s manager of firearm licensing and transfers, provides additional context.

TheGunBlog.ca — More than 120 Canadian gun owners are in provincial court fighting the May 1 attacks by the governing Liberal Party and RCMP. They’ve applied under Section 74 of the Firearms Act to restore their nullified registration certificates.

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TheGunBlog.ca — “Kassandra” tells her personal story of how Canada’s “red-flag” laws empower her violent ex-husband — and the police — to abuse her.

TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Medical Association Journal corrected a report related to gun owners this week, after it failed to disclose that two of its authors run a lobby group that campaigns against gun owners.

TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responds below to our questions on who nullified the firearm-registration certificates of almost 70,000 federally licensed gun owners, and when and how the change was made.

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety responds below to our questions about its revised invitation to bid on a contract to design ways to pay victims of its mass-gun confiscations.