TheGunBlog.ca — Yellowknife Shooting Club ran its second Ladies’ Fun Shoot last week as ranges across Canada introduce women to target sports. Eight women from their 20s to their 40s learned the basics of pistol handling and marksmanship at the July 6 event outside Canada’s northernmost territorial capital, said Robert Anderson, who helped run the…

TheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s largest police agency, comments below on its guns, firearm training, support and requirements for officers involved in shootings, and related topics. Caroline Duval, a spokeswoman for the Ottawa-based RCMP, sent the comments to TheGunBlog.ca by e-mail on July 3 in response to our questions. We summarize our…

TheGunBlog.ca — Following are the most-viewed articles and pages at TheGunBlog.ca for the periods indicated.   Second Quarter: April – June 2019 Bill C-71 Passes Final Vote in Senate as New Law to Ban Guns (28 May 2019) Trudeau Has ‘Secret Plan’ on ‘Sweeping Gun Ban,’ MP Clement Says (09 May 2019) AR-15 Selling Out…

TheGunBlog.ca — Bill C-71 began coming into force today as the governing Liberal Party of Canada’s new law against hunters, farmers, sport shooters and gun shops, with mass gun bans. The bill faced some of the broadest and most active opposition of any legislative proposal since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in October 2015.…

TheGunBlog.ca — Edward Burlew, a leading Canadian firearm lawyer, sent the following letter to TheGunBlog.ca as the governing Liberal Party of Canada plans the single biggest gun confiscation in the country’s history against hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters and firearm collectors. TheGunBlog.ca added paragraph breaks and sub-headings. Background: AR-15 Selling Out in Canada on Concern Trudeau…

TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will order hunters, farmers and sport shooters to surrender about 200,000 of their firearms if re-elected, Global News reported today, citing Bill Blair, the minster for confiscation. The estimate covers what Blair called “assault-style weapons,” Global said, citing Blair speaking to reporters this morning. It would be the…

TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians should be concerned by one of the Liberal Party’s first campaign promises if they win the October election: ordering mass gun bans against hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters and gun collectors. Bill Blair, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minister for confiscation, began his media tour by talking with Canada’s two largest newspapers. The…

TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada will order mass gun bans against federally licensed firearm owners if re-elected to government, Minister Bill Blair told The Globe and Mail as the election campaign ramps up. Liberal Gun-Ban Plan The Liberals will order owners to surrender “some military-style assault weapons,” the Globe said in the interview…

TheGunBlog.ca — Following is a letter sent to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by Edith Iwama, a 94-year-old former law-enforcement officer who also lived through Nazi Germany. Iwama sent a copy of her letter to TheGunBlog.ca and authorized us to publish it. We added the subheadings and extra paragraph breaks for readability. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1138237780142821377 Dear Right…

TheGunBlog.ca — Two of Canada’s leading groups for hunters and anglers and the firearm industry are inviting people across the country to take a 5-minute survey on their spending patterns to assess the size of the market. The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) and the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA) promoted…