TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberals and RCMP hoped to use government-licensed gun owners on P.E.I. as guinea pigs to test their confiscation tactics before going national, according to a government briefing made public two weeks ago.
TheGunBlog.ca — Saskatchewan told the province’s RCMP commander that it refuses to support or pay for any action connected to Trudeau’s political attacks on gun users., following Alberta and signaling the crackdown will fail.
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta said it will block Trudeau’s plan to use the RCMP as confiscation agents for his political attacks against gun owners and businesses, increasing the odds that Trudeau will fail.
TheGunBlog.ca — The chief of the RCMP interfered in the investigation of the 2020 Nova Scotia massacre to push Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s anti-gun agenda, the Halifax Examiner reported today.
TheGunBlog.ca — In a new advance for Canada’s government-licensed gun owners, an Ontario court ordered the disclosure of “all information” on the RCMP algorithm invented for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political attacks begun in May 2020.
TheGunBlog.ca — Good news for gun owners: In the newest sign Trudeau’s May 2020 plans for mass gun confiscations will fail, the RCMP said today the government is still working on the crackdown, with barely 4 months to the deadline.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP comments below on its 26 February 2021 “nullification” notice to 1,865 more gun owners targeted by its May 2020 regulatory attacks, after a “technical issue” led to them being missed last year.
More than 70,000 people have now been notified.
Read our Q&A with the RCMP.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which regulates Canada’s gun stores, is inviting them to apply to become licensed firearm destroyers, as it works with the government to attack gun users and businesses.
Memos Show:
– Bill C-71 to take effect over the next year
– New “Firearms Buyback Secretariat”
– RCMP prints 10,000 PAL cards per week
– May 2020 memo on CCFR’s planned court challenge
– And more
TheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which administers private gun ownership in Canada, responds below to our questions on its work to confiscate firearms from the owners it licences, and on the owners’ work to stop them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highlights from Murray Smith’s affidavit last week to support the Liberals and RCMP in Federal Court.
Includes PDF of the document.
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which administers gun users in Canada, sent the following memo to provincial Chief Firearms Officers to explain a new regulatory trap used to criminalize federally licensed firearm owners and confiscate their gear. The undated note from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – Canadian Firearms Program describes the surprise nullification of firearm-registration…
Hardly any of the 68,000 recipients of the RCMP’s July 20 firearm-registration nullification notice applied for Section 74 hearings to fight the mass gun confiscations underway.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Sixth Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court to Stop Gun Confiscations (O’Dell Engineering)
– Gary Mauser: Should Firearms Owners Be Licensed?
– RCMP ‘Has Resumed’ Processing New Gun Licences as Covid Slows
– NRA-ILA: Canadian Gun-Rights Groups Condemn RCMP Letter
– Doctors Who Hate Gun Owners Founder Wins Lobby Group Award
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP is playing politics and favourites in the mass firearm confiscations it’s running for the governing Liberal Party, signalling a breakdown in its role as federal police and regulator of gun owners.
