Alberta Plans Law to Shield People Using Force for Home Defence
07 November 2019TheGunBlog.ca — The government of Alberta is planning a law to shield residents from lawsuits when they use force legitimately to protect their lives and property at home. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1192516252507496450 Government Press Release To defend the rights of law-abiding property owners, the government will introduce changes to the Occupiers’ Liability Act. These changes would eliminate the…
Guns, Family and Hunting in Canada’s Cold and Wet: Ron Shunter
31 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — The following letter from a reader shows the significance of guns and hunting for many Canadians. We are printing the text with the author’s permission. The three-dot ellipsis marks … were in the original, and we separated some into paragraphs. Send letters to: [email protected] See also our Reader Comments page of quotes from…
Most Viewed Articles in Third Quarter, First Nine Months of 2019
26 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Following are the most-viewed articles and pages at TheGunBlog.ca for the periods indicated. Notable: High Interest in Armed Protection Combining readership of these two articles would rank just outside the top-10 most-viewed of all time: Two Canadians Have ‘Authorization To Carry’ Guns, Filing Shows (08 Nov 2018) One Person in Canada Has…
Alberta Acts to Protect Residents, Trudeau Aims to Disarm Them
25 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — The Alberta government is working to protect rural residents against a wave of attacks and thefts, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is working to disarm them. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1188142459471253506 Schweitzer Doug Schweitzer, the provincial minister of justice, has said he wants to clarify rules on self-defence and boost property rights so innocent people stay…
Trudeau to Update on Gun Bans After Nov. 20, Blair’s Office Says
24 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will elaborate on his plans for mass gun bans against hunters, farmers and sport shooters after parliament resumes next month, the office of his minister for confiscation said today. Federally licensed firearm users are working to stop or avoid Trudeau’s incarceration/confiscation orders and wondering how soon they may…
Ontario Premier Ford’s Office Comments on Trudeau Gun Bans
24 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians who value safety, liberty and good government are working to stop Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plans for the biggest gun bans in the country’s history following his re-election on Oct. 21. One of their hopes is that provincial governments will refuse to enforce Trudeau’s confiscation order against hundreds of thousands of hunters,…
Liberal Gun Bans Won’t Stop Gangs, Ex-RCMP Clement Tells CBC
15 October 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaG9ESmJz_w TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada will fail to stop criminal gangs with its plans for mass gun confiscation targeting federally licensed firearm owners, Garry Clement, a former RCMP official, told Power and Politics on CBC News. Clement, a former national director of the Proceeds of Crime Program at the Ottawa-based Royal Canadian…
Trudeau’s Bulletproof Vest: Tactical, Moral, Political Questions
13 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore a bulletproof vest in response to an unspecified threat of attack at an election-campaign rally yesterday near Toronto, according to media photos and reports citing unnamed sources. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1183788964009971712 It’s important to protect innocent life. The situation and the response raise questions about tactics, morals, politics and journalism.…
Liberals to Offer $1,000/Rifle in Forced Surrender: iPolitics
04 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — A re-elected Liberal Party government will offer Canadian farmers, hunters and sport shooters $1,000 on average for each of the 250,000 rifles it will order them to surrender, iPolitics reported yesterday, citing the party. The low-ball offer means people who submit will lose most of the value of their firearms, and all of…
Trudeau Is Promising Mass Gun Confiscations He Once Mocked
02 October 2019TheGunBlog.ca — For Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, yesterday’s totalitarian dystopia is today’s campaign promise. In a 2011 interview with The Hill Times newspaper, the Liberal Party politician dismissed Conservative Party concerns that a future government might use its registry of federally licensed firearm owners to order mass gun confiscations. Two weeks ago, that’s what…