TheGunBlog.ca — It’s impossible to talk with Fred Pellegrino without feeling excited about the future of Canada’s shooting community. Pellegrino is the owner and organizer of TACCOM, the Tactical & Competitive Sport Shooting Show. The September 2019 edition was the first and largest expo of its kind ever held in Canada. Optimism, Enthusiasm It filled…

TheGunBlog.ca — Following is a letter from Yukon Party Interim Leader Stacey Hassard to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau citing “significant concern” over Trudeau’s plans to order mass firearm confiscations from hunters and sport shooters. The Yukon Party published Hassard’s letter today on Facebook and Twitter. https://twitter.com/yukonparty/status/1222982254978310144 Context The opposition movement against Trudeau’s planned seizures…

TheGunBlog.ca — Following are comments by Glen Motz, the Canadian member of parliament who sponsored Petition e-2341, after it surged to become the most-signed e-petition in House of Commons history. More than 136,000 people have signed to stop the governing Liberal Party from using an executive order for mass confiscations against honest men and women.…

TheGunBlog.ca — The petition to stop Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from ordering mass confiscations against honest men and women surged to the country’s No. 1 e-petition on record last night. Petition e-2341 on Democratic Process and Parliamentary Democracy had more than 132,540 signatures as of 12:45 p.m. Ottawa time today, the most of any…

(Update 23:45: Adds that petition is now No. 1 on record.) TheGunBlog.ca — Toronto Mayor John Tory, briefly Canada’s most-vocal anti-gun activist, didn’t mention firearm bans in his new safety policy today, the third strike in a week against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plans for mass confiscations. Although Tory told the media “My own view…

TheGunBlog.ca — Peter MacKay, a top candidate to lead the Conservative Party of Canada, promised to “undo” the governing Liberal Party’s gun confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters if he is elected prime minister. “Whatever they do, we will undo,” MacKay said on Twitter today, sharing an article from The Post Millennial about Liberal…

Highlights This Week – Week-Ahead Agenda – How Soon Will the Liberals Publish Their Prohibition Order? – About That Petition — Extrapolation – Did You Notice Blair’s Language Shift on Compensating Confiscation Victims? – Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Firearm-Marking Regulations? – Anti-Gun Extremists Are Trying to Smear Gun-Rights Advocates as Far-Right Extremists

TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Joël Lightbound last month as Parliamentary Secretary to help Minister Bill Blair confiscate a quarter-million rifles from hunters, farmers and sport shooters. Here’s some background.

TheGunBlog.ca — Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, made the following comments about the governing Liberal Party’s plans for mass gun confiscations against PAL holders. He spoke during a speech to Conservative members of parliament and senators on Jan. 24 in Ottawa.

TheGunBlog.ca — A report by Canada’s firearm regulator shows there are “no reasons why” the country’s 2.2 million men and women with a gun licence shouldn’t have firearms, suggesting the prime minister’s plans for mass confiscations are unjustified.