Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Take OFAH’s Survey on the Gun Confiscations
– CCFR Begins National Newspaper Advertising Campaign
– ‘Coalition for Gun Control’ to Intervene in Lawsuits Against Confiscations
– Ontario Council of Shooters ‘Firmly Opposes’ Liberal Gun Confiscations
– CBC Poll Tracker Shows Trudeau Likely to Win Majority
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Download Latest RCMP Gun-Ban List Updated June 15
– Marstar Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to PolySeSouvient
– Conservative Leadership Debate: Impressions
– CCFR Raises Over $150,000 for Lawsuit Against Gun Bans
– Saskatchewan to Block Trudeau Handgun Confiscations in Law
– Alberta Passes Government Motion 20 to Defend Gun Rights
– Canada’s Gun Laws Haven’t Cut Homicide or Suicide, New Study Shows
– Federal Court Reviews CCFR Lawsuit to Stop Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Use of Force Shows Police Almost Never Unholster, Point or Fire
TheGunBlog.ca — Following is the full e-mail to TheGunBlog.ca today in response to our information request to the office of Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair, regarding his June 15 comments about the AR-15.
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of firearm policy, couldn’t provide evidence for his AR-15 comments this week to the House of Commons, the newest case of his false assertions about gun ownership. Why It Matters What Happened TheGunBlog.ca asked Blair’s office at the Ministry of Public Safety for examples…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is joining the fight to stop the governing Liberal Party’s mass gun confiscations targeting licensed firearm owners and businesses. Support Lawsuit The citizen-advocacy group said today it needs to raise $21,000 by June 30 to support the first court challenge against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s May 1 confiscation order….
TheGunBlog.ca — Saskatchewan said today it will block the mass handgun confiscations being drafted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the latest measure to stop federal attacks against firearm owners and businesses. The province proposed amendments to Bill 194, the Miscellaneous Municipal Statutes Amendment Act, 2019, which was originally introduced in the fall. Trudeau is…
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, published an expanded list of the rifles and shotguns it’s preparing to confiscate from federally licensed owners and businesses. The list of roughly 9,500 models follows rising criticism of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for secretly using its Firearms Reference Table to ban guns…
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Conservative Leadership Update & Analysis
– CSSA Says ‘Do NOT Call’ RCMP to Ask If Your Guns Are Prohibited
– ‘Gun Ban Canada’ Video Documentary Airs By Wild TV, CCFR
– ‘Grave Concern’ More Gun Stores Will Close Over Confiscations
– Invade Canada! Liberal Gun Confiscations Weaken Sovereignty
– Liberals to Win Wide Majority as Conservatives Fall, Polls Show
– Alberta MLAs Continue Debate on Government Motion 20
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
1. Protesting the Ban Order
– RCMP Confiscation Notices Being Shot, Burned
– Vermillion Gun Club Restricts Police Use
– Alberta Outlines Policy Changes
2. Solomon Friedman Starts Law Firm With Fady Mansour
3. CSSA Won’t Sue to Stop Bans, Picks Its Top-Two Lawsuits
4. Jim Shockey Calls Gun Bans ‘Breach in the Public Trust’
5. News Bullets From Other Media
TheGunBlog.ca — Opposition is rising across Canada to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s crackdown against honest citizens. The Alberta government is delivering some of the strongest words and actions against Trudeau’s May 1 order for mass confiscations targeting federally licensed gun owners and businesses. Following are excerpts from an hours-long debate yesterday on Alberta Government Motion…
Transcript of media briefing today on gun rights and gun policy with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Minister of Justice Doug Schweitzer and MLA Michaela Glasgo.
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney vowed today to use the Canadian Constitution, provincial regulations and possibly a lawsuit to defend the rights of hunters, farmers and sport shooters against the federal Liberal Party’s attacks. Why It Matters The plans show Kenney as one of the strongest and most-vocal defenders of justice and the rule…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Shooting Federation of Canada, the main government-recognized body for sport shooting, asked the government “to review and amend” its order for mass gun bans to avoid destroying Olympic careers and target sports. Shotgun Confiscation The SFC said in a May 6 letter to Minister Bill Blair that the May 1 decree to…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, one of Canada’s largest hunting groups, rejected the federal government’s order for mass gun confiscations, saying the “harmful regulations” are “unacceptable.” Contents OFAH letter overview and why it matters Excerpts of letter Q&A With Matt DeMille PDF of letter Repeal and Replace In a letter yesterday…
(Update May 28 at 20:25 Toronto time: Adds government response.) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s order for hunters, sport shooters and businesses to surrender our firearms violates the Constitution and should be struck down, said a lawsuit initiated by J.R. Cox. The Notice of Constitutional Question filed today in the Court of Queen’s…
Bill Blair. Source: OurCommons.ca TheGunBlog.ca — The Office of Public Safety Minister Bill Blair outlines the Canadian government’s planned new restrictions and prohibitions targeting federally licensed firearm . . . This content is for subscribing members. Please sign in below, or subscribe.
(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 cabinet…
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 . . . This content is…
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.
