TheGunBlog.ca — The Office of Public Safety Minister Bill Blair outlines the Canadian government’s planned new restrictions and prohibitions targeting federally licensed firearm owners and businesses. Highlights New powers to “restrict the storage and use of handguns”New “stricter secure storage laws” in generalPromise of compensation for victims of May 1 confiscation order (“buyback”). No mention…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ACtMzI9Dv2M&feature=youtu.be (Update May 28: Adds government response.) TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is leading a group that sued the government and federal police today, challenging the constitutionality of a gun-confiscation order targeting hunters, sport shooters and businesses. The filing asked the Federal Court: to strike down the governing Liberal Party’s May 1…

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party is preparing laws to help municipalities eliminate home handgun ownership, Minister Bill Blair told the Toronto Star in an interview published today. “While stopping short of a national handgun ban, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told the Star that new rules will allow municipalities to rule that handguns cannot…

TheGunBlog.ca — The founder of one of Canada’s biggest family-owned gun stores hired a leading firearm lawyer to fight the Liberal Party’s May 1 confiscation order, as resistance to a “flagrant abuse of government power” escalates. $100,000 Goal John Hipwell, the founder of Wolverine Supplies Ltd., aims to raise $100,000 after hiring Edward Burlew to…

TheGunBlog.ca — Solomon Friedman, a lawyer with Edelson Friedman Black in Ottawa, filed the first lawsuit against the Canadian government’s May 1 gun-confiscation order targeting federally licensed owners and businesses. Following are the highlights.

Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – RCMP Is Secretly Making Guns ‘Prohibited’ in FRT, Reports Say – RCMP Has Mailed Notices to PAL Holders About Gun Confiscations – Solomon Friedman Files Court Challenge of Gun-Confiscation Order – Liberals Plan Gun-Licence Extension of Six Months for Covid-19 – News Bullets From Other Media/Sources

TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, said more than 100,000 hunters, sport shooters, firearm collectors and other owners may have been targeted in this month’s order for mass confiscations. The total includes both of the following: a known number of federally licensed owners required by law to have registered 105,000…

TheGunBlog.ca — Black Creek Labs Inc. is exiting Canada’s semi-auto rifle market after politicians and police banned the company’s flagship product under mass confiscations to weaken citizens and cripple the firearm industry. Key Quote Black Creek Labs “has made the decision to halt all research, development and manufacturing of semi-automatic rifles made specifically for the…

Updated daily throughout the week. Highlights This Week – Gun-Ban Order Took Effect Before It Was Even Public, Government Says – RCMP Responds to TheGunBlog.ca on Deleting ‘Grandfathering’ – CSSA: Ban Covers 12-Gauge Shotguns ‘Capable Of’ 10kJ Muzzle Energy – CACP Police Lobby Says It Will Review Liberal Confiscation Order – Canada Post Requires Free…

TheGunBlog.ca — J.R. Cox, the owner of two Canadian gun stores and ranges, raised almost $60,000 in four days for a lawsuit to stop the government’s mass firearm confiscations against hunters, sport shooters and stores. More than 850 people, including the owner of TheGunBlog.ca, donated $57,418 as of 2:15 p.m. in Toronto today through GoFundMe.com.…