TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party invited 15 companies to bid on designing and running the mass gun confiscations underway, suggesting the government didn’t have a plan when it ordered the forced surrender, and still doesn’t. The list includes some of the world’s largest consulting companies that qualified to apply as so-called “Supply Arrangement Holders.”…
(Update Aug. 14: Adds new replies starting at No. 12.) TheGunBlog.ca — An Ontario Court of Justice employee in Toronto refused repeatedly to provide the form to apply for a hearing under Section 74 of the Firearms Act, giving their opinion on the case and blocking access to a judge. Following is the e-mail correspondence…
(Update Aug. 12: We are updating the How to File section as we get more information.) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians are going to court to fight the governing Liberal Party and federal police’s mass firearm confiscations targeting hunters, farmers, sport shooters and collectors. Following is a Q&A with “CameronSS” on why and how they applied for…
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.
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Highlights This Week
– CCFR Organizes Ottawa Rally to Fight Liberal Party Attacks
– Firearm Imports Slump 23% in Second Quarter 2020
– Alberta Updates Wildlife Regulation to Boost Hunting, Conservation
– Self-Defence Shooting: Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Peter Khill
– Black Creek Labs Plans First Canada-Made Pistol in Over a Decade
– Ontario Superior Court Judge David Harris Shows His Gun Hate
TheGunBlog.ca — The town council of Huntsville, Ontario, is preparing a by-law to restrict gun users beyond what’s in federal and provincial prohibitions. Brian McRae, who oversees municipal hunting and fishing issues for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, comments below. The OFAH is one of Canada’s biggest associations of firearm users. Details The…
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Highlights This Week
– RCMP Says July 20 Nullification Notice Isn’t a Revocation Notice
– Federal Court Holds First Meeting With Teams Fighting Gun Bans
– Saskatchewan Smashes Liberal Anti-Gun Bias in Naming Freberg CFO
– OFAH Analyzes Survey on Newly Banned ‘Non-Restricted’ Guns
– NFA: Cassandra Parker Sees ‘Months of Litigation’ to Fight Confiscation
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responded July 27 to our questions about its 20 July 2020 letter to firearm owners saying their ownership certificates were nullified following a May 1 confiscation order.
TheGunBlog.ca — Rudy Venditelli, the owner of Dante Inc., one of Canada’s biggest independent gun stores, comments below on business, the market outlook, and the effects of the governing Liberal Party’s May 1 firearm-confiscation order. TheGunBlog.ca edited the interview from a series of e-mail and phone conversations from May until now. Venditelli, who took over…
Newest Update: Aug. 02
TheGunBlog.ca — The five teams fighting the governing Liberal Party of Canada’s gun-confiscation order in federal court had their first meeting with the Federal Court today.
Includes downloadable motions to intervene from:
– Canadian Taxpayers Federation
– National Firearms Association
– Coalition for Gun Control
TheGunBlog.ca — Chantal Trahan, the manager of licensing and transfers for the Ontario Chief Firearms Office, comments on firearm transfers, as well as on the May 1 federal confiscation order, and Authorizations To Transport firearms.
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Highlights This Week
– CSSA Sees ‘Trickery’ in RCMP Gun-Ownership Cancellations
– OFAH Asks Bill Blair to Extend PALs to Deal With Backlog
– CCFR Won’t Organize Mass Filing Against RCMP Ownership Cancellations
– NFA: Challenging Firearm Reclassification Under Section 74 of Firearms Act
– Liberals Hold Majority in Newest Poll Projections
– Ian Runkle, Gun Lawyer, Discusses RCMP Letter in First YouTube Video
– ‘Please Don’t Buy One’: RCMP B.C. Says to Avoid Airsoft
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Human Rights Commission rejected complaints that the governing Liberal Party’s firearm-confiscation order of May 1 is racist for creating different rules for different races of gun owner.
Following is their response to several complaints.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada uses the term “grandfathering” to conceal the reality of their instant gun prohibitions, according to from Rick Hemmingson, a lawyer swith Hemmingson Law in Lacombe, Alberta. Hemmingson e-mailed TheGunBlog.ca yesterday evening in response to our report: Liberals Plan ‘Grandfathering’ Under Bans: Minister of Justice. An early version of…
Updated July 24
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Minister of Justice said the government intends to offer a “grandfathering regime” to victims of its mass gun confiscations. It may be the first time a minister has mentioned the “grandfathering” option.
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Highlights This Week
– ‘Nullified:’ RCMP Mails Ownership Cancellations for Newly ‘Prohibited’ Guns
– Federal Court to Meet July 29 With Four Anti-Confiscation Lawsuits
– TACCOM Show Moves to April 2021 After Covid-19 Disruption
– Note on Conservative Leadership Vote
– Chrystia Freeland Values Guns for Protection, Hunting
– Vermillion Gun Club Post on Limiting Police Reached 141,714 People
TheGunBlog.ca — The town of Cold Lake in Alberta is fighting the Liberal Party of Canada’s attacks on hunters, farmers and sport shooters, and called on other municipalities to join. Why It Matters Opposition to the May 1 Liberal firearm-confiscation order is growing day by day, boosting the probability it will fail. Towns and cities…
(Update Aug. 13: Adds that Generoux isn’t a lawyer in first and third paragraphs.) TheGunBlog.ca — At least five groups or individuals have gone to Canada’s Federal Court to stop the governing Liberal Party’s gun-confiscation order, but Christine Generoux is the first one representing herself without a lawyer. Generoux submitted her so-called “Application for Judicial…
The RCMP, which controls private firearm ownership in Canada, comments below on changing its legal opinion last month on the popular Derya MK-12 shotgun to a “Prohibited variant” of the AR-15 or AR-10 rifle.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is backing the CCFR lawsuit against the governing Liberal Party’s May 1 confiscation order attacking honest citizens. Illegal, Unconstitutional “Our position is that the Order-in-Council is outside the bounds of the rule of law and the Constitution,” Jay Cameron, Litigation Manager for the Calgary-based JCCF, said in…
