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…
Trudeau Suggests Vz. 58, Ruger Mini-14 Among Mass Confiscations
01 October 2019https://youtu.be/OC1M06psbOQ?t=570 (Correction 30 April 2020: Corrects headline and article to correct name of rifle possessed by Quebec mosque attacker.) TheGunBlog.ca — Justin Trudeau suggested he will order farmers, hunters and sport shooters to surrender their CSA Vz. 58 and Ruger Mini-14 rifles among the 250,000 rifles he wants to confiscate if re-elected prime minister of Canada…
‘Where Does This Stop?’ Pistol Champ Harding Responds to Trudeau
28 September 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian National Pistol Champion Allan Harding is speaking out against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election-campaign threats to jail hundreds of thousands of sport shooters, farmers and hunters unless they surrender their guns. “More than anything, my concern is: Where does this stop?” Harding, a two-time national gold medalist in 50-metre pistol, told TheGunBlog.ca…
Trudeau and Blair’s AR-15 Bashing Puts Police in a Pickle
27 September 2019TheGunBlog.ca — If Justin Trudeau and Bill Blair are right about the AR-15 rifle, Canadians should be scrambling to protect themselves against imminent massacres by police. https://twitter.com/liberal_party/status/1178666751569121280 Almost every police cruiser in Canada is equipped with a semi-automatic AR-15, Blue Line, the country’s police magazine, reported in December 2017. AR-15s Galore The Royal Canadian Mounted…
RCMP to Pick Which Guns to Confiscate Under Trudeau, CTV Reports
26 September 2019TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP will decide which rifles to confiscate from hunters, farmers and sport shooters if Justin Trudeau is re-elected prime minister of Canada next month, CTV News reported, citing Trudeau’s Liberal Party. The comment seems to contradict election promises made Sept. 20 by Trudeau and Bill Blair, his minister for confiscation. Mass Incarceration…
Ministry Comments on Bill C-71 Procedures for Coming Into Force
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE26 September 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety comments below on the steps for the coming into force of Bill C-71, the governing Liberal Party’s new law against federally licensed hunters, sport shooters and gun shops. TheGunBlog.ca asked about the procedures, steps and timing, such as if provisions in the new law could come into force…
Kenney Calls Robber Suing Maurice ‘Harassment’: Calgary Herald
25 September 2019TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said it’s “legal harassment” and “an outrage” that a robber who broke into the property of Edouard Maurice is now suing the homeowner, the Calgary Herald reported today. The intruder filed a lawsuit against Maurice of Okotoks, south of Calgary, for $100,000 alleging ricochet injuries after Maurice fired two…
Vancouver Police Opposes Trudeau-Stewart Calls for Handgun Ban
24 September 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noo1Gy9Kvsg&feature=youtu.be&t=820 TheGunBlog.ca — The Vancouver Police Department opposes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s goal of banning federally licensed handgun owners and stores from Canada’s third-largest city. The VPD is part of a growing country-wide movement of police leaders and organizations against politicians working to criminalize lawful, legitimate and licensed hunters, farmers…