TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party told an opposition MP last week it expects to confiscate about 150,000 rifles and shotguns from hunters, farmers, sport shooters and businesses under its May 1 political attacks.
(Correction Dec. 27: Corrects headline and article to delete incorrect analysis of planned handgun prohibitions.)
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Canadian Minister Bill Blair outlines the next steps in the government’s planned laws against federally licensed gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca — Greg Dunn of Dunn & Associates comments below after winning the first court case for gun owners against the May 1 regulatory attacks by Canada’s governing Liberal Party and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Dunn, based in Calgary, was the lawyer for Ryan Stark in his request to access a Section 74 hearing…
TheGunBlog.ca — An Alberta court sided with gun owners fighting the federal government and federal police’s regulatory attacks, marking a significant procedural win for the rights of Canadian hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000
– Accused Man Says He Shot Assailant in Self-Defence
– Liberals to Pay $78 Million for Contractor to Design Mass Gun Confiscations
– RCMP Publishes 2019 Commissioner of Firearms Report
Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply (ATRS) sued the Canadian government and four RCMP and Alberta CFO employees for $130 million in damages from the May 1 gun bans. It’s the first cororate case of its kind in Federal Court.
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister for the mass gun confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters, said this week it’s too expensive and inefficient for police to administer the seizures. He didn’t say who will.
TheGunBlog.ca — Pete Merrifield, vice president of the National Police Federation, the RCMP labour union, discusses urging Canada’s government to help police stop violent gangs instead of seizing guns from federally licensed owners and stores. Read: RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations Merrifield made the comments today in a telephone interview with TheGunBlog.ca. The…
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP labour union today opposed the Canadian federal government and federal police’s attacks against hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors, saying the crackdown undermines safety instead of improving it.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Ministry Hires Gun-Confiscation Project Manager, Gets One Bid for Revised Tender
– Canada Risks More Shortages of Guns and Ammo, Suppliers Say
– Federal Court Update: CCFR Objects to RCMP’s Murray Smith Pretending to Be Independent
– Conservative MP Tim Uppal Visits Gun Range, Plans CFSC
– Nova Scotia Attacker Had Colt AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Glock, Ruger P89
– Town Council Near Orillia, Ontario, Considers Banning New Gun Ranges
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government said it hired the only person who applied as the project manager for the governing Liberal Party’s mass gun-confiscations, and is now reviewing the only proposal it got for a second related contract.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Trudeau Says New Anti-Gun Legislation ‘Coming Forward Soon’
– Ontario Reiterates Opposition to Trudeau Handgun Confiscations
– Federal Court Cases Fighting Liberal Attacks May Get New Judge
– Alberta Invites Input on Gun Policy, Says Provincial CFO Will Be Operational in Summer 2021
– Confiscation Contract Notice Shows Blank List of Interested Suppliers
– Vista Outdoor Has One-Year Ammo Backlog Exceeding USD 1 Billion
– Gravel Agency Says It Will Represent Walther Guns in Canada
– Tactical Imports Offers H&K G36 ‘Non-Restricted’ Rifles for $6,000
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta today invited public input to develop gun policy that respects hunters, farmers, sport shooters and firearm collectors, and protects them from the co-ordinated attacks of the federal government and federal police.
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of suppressing gun owners, today reiterated his plans to invent a new “evergreen process” to prohibit firearms and expand the “red-flag regime” to confiscate them.
He also explained why SKS owners weren’t specifically targeted in his May 1 attacks against federally licensed firearm owners and stores.
TheGunBlog.ca — More than 120 Canadian gun owners are in provincial court fighting the May 1 attacks by the governing Liberal Party and RCMP.
They’ve applied under Section 74 of the Firearms Act to restore their nullified registration certificates.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responds below to our questions on who nullified the firearm-registration certificates of almost 70,000 federally licensed gun owners, and when and how the change was made.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety responds below to our questions about its revised invitation to bid on a contract to design ways to pay victims of its mass-gun confiscations.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Liberals Plan New Round of Mass Rifle Confiscations: CSSA
– Dennis Young Obtains 20 Years of Cabinet Secrets on Firearms Act
– More Concerning Revelations About the Liberals’ Latest Gun Bans: Toronto Sun
– Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Editorial Boards Want to Kill Handgun Ownership
– Gun Ban Case Puts Property Rights To Test, CCFR Says: Sputnik
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party invited a new group of companies to bid for a revised gun-confiscation contract after its initial invitation failed. The Ministry of Public Safety is hiring a contractor to design ways to pay off confiscation victims. It shared the new job description and invited bidders today in a Tender Notice…
Highlights from Murray Smith’s affidavit last week to support the Liberals and RCMP in Federal Court.
Includes PDF of the document.
