Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 20
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE26 July 2020Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – CSSA Sees ‘Trickery’ in RCMP Gun-Ownership Cancellations – OFAH Asks Bill Blair to Extend PALs to Deal With Backlog – CCFR Won’t Organize Mass Filing Against RCMP Ownership Cancellations – NFA: Challenging Firearm Reclassification Under Section 74 of Firearms Act – Liberals Hold Majority in Newest…
Glock Expects Canadian G45 in Late 2020, Seeks More Local Models
24 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Glock, the maker of the world’s most-popular handgun, expects a Canadian version of its model 45 pistol to arrive in Canada late this year after delays from Covid-19, and aims to sell more country-specific editions.
Human Rights Commission Rejects Complaints That Gun-Ban Order Is Racist
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE22 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Human Rights Commission rejected complaints that the governing Liberal Party’s firearm-confiscation order of May 1 is racist for creating different rules for different races of gun owner. Following is their response to several complaints.
Liberal ‘Grandfathering’ Is Concealed Confiscation: Rick Hemmingson
22 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada uses the term “grandfathering” to conceal the reality of their instant gun prohibitions, according to from Rick Hemmingson, a lawyer swith Hemmingson Law in Lacombe, Alberta. Hemmingson e-mailed TheGunBlog.ca yesterday evening in response to our report: Liberals Plan ‘Grandfathering’ Under Bans: Minister of Justice. An early version of…
Liberals Plan ‘Grandfathering’ Under Bans: Minister of Justice
21 July 2020Updated July 24 TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Minister of Justice said the government intends to offer a “grandfathering regime” to victims of its mass gun confiscations. It may be the first time a minister has mentioned the “grandfathering” option.
Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 13
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE19 July 2020Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – ‘Nullified:’ RCMP Mails Ownership Cancellations for Newly ‘Prohibited’ Guns – Federal Court to Meet July 29 With Four Anti-Confiscation Lawsuits – TACCOM Show Moves to April 2021 After Covid-19 Disruption – Note on Conservative Leadership Vote – Chrystia Freeland Values Guns for Protection, Hunting – Vermillion…
Canadian Gun Owners Fail Again to Show Up for Conservative Party
19 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Every political party in Canada’s parliament is working to eliminate or further restrict private firearm ownership, except one: the Conservative Party. It’s beyond disheartening that the country’s millions of gun users failed again to support the party and the candidates running to lead it. Conservative Leadership Election Party HQ said July 14 it…
Cold Lake, Alberta, Asks Towns to Fight Gun-Confiscation Order
17 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — The town of Cold Lake in Alberta is fighting the Liberal Party of Canada’s attacks on hunters, farmers and sport shooters, and called on other municipalities to join. Why It Matters Opposition to the May 1 Liberal firearm-confiscation order is growing day by day, boosting the probability it will fail.Towns and cities are…
Gun Policies of Conservative Party Leadership Candidates 2020
16 July 2020TheGunBlog.ca — Following are the proposed firearm policies of the four candidates running to lead the Conservative Party of Canada.
Christine Generoux Is Her Own Lawyer in Lawsuit to Stop Gun Bans
14 July 2020(Update Aug. 13: Adds that Generoux isn’t a lawyer in first and third paragraphs.) TheGunBlog.ca — At least five groups or individuals have gone to Canada’s Federal Court to stop the governing Liberal Party’s gun-confiscation order, but Christine Generoux is the first one representing herself without a lawyer. Generoux submitted her so-called “Application for Judicial…