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Bullet Points: Week of 2020 March 02

Updated daily throughout the week.

Highlights This Week
– SFRC Offers E-2341 Rifle to Honour Solidarity Around Petition
– Manitoba Says Municipal Gun Laws, Bans Are ‘Not Appropriate’
– Municipalities Don’t Want the Power to Confiscate Handguns: iPolitics
– O’Toole Is First Conservative ‘Verified Candidate’ With Firearm Blurb
– News Bullets From Other Media

MP Tako Van Popta Gets Surge of Support With Gun-Safety Photos

TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Member of Parliament Tako van Popta attracted a surge of online fans after sharing photos of himself taking the mandatory safety course for a federal gun licence. “This is great!” Allan Harding, a three-time national pistol champion, replied on Twitter. “Thank you for taking time to do this.” The newly elected Conservative…

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Ministry Comments Suggest 3 Steps for Rifle-Confiscation Order

Comments by Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety suggest three stages for the governing Liberal Party’s confiscation order:
1. Pre-Confiscation Order to re-classify firearms as “Prohibited” “safe queens”
2. Spending Request to Parliament
3. Confiscation/Surrender Order

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Bullet Points: Week of 2020 February 17

Updated daily throughout the week.

Highlights This Week
– Clarifying the Steps for Liberal Rifle Confiscation
– Desmond Inquiry Shines Light on Gun-Licensing System
– Petition Rises to 175,310 Signatures Following Validation
– Bill C-71: “All of the Measures” Will Take Effect After Budget, Blair Tells iPolitics

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Petition E-2341 Analysis: Risks, Benefits and What They Mean

Canadian Petition e-2341 against a Liberal order for mass gun confiscation closed yesterday with 175,310 signatures, making it the No. 1 e-petition in House of Commons history.

Following is an analysis of the petition’s risks and benefits, and significance for Canadian gun owners.

Bullseye London CEO Patience Q&A on Gun Bans, ‘Urgent’ Expansion

TheGunBlog.ca — Bullseye London, a major Canadian independent gun shop, is tripling in size as “very high levels of growth” for firearms, ammo and accessories offset concern over gun bans. The company continues to oppose the governing Liberal Party’s plans to order mass gun confiscations against federally licensed stores and hundreds of thousands of firearm…

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‘Secret’ Memo Says Most PAL Holders Aren’t Public Safety Threat

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety said in a “secret” 2018 memo that most adults with a federal firearm licence don’t pose a threat to public safety, undermining the governing Liberal Party’s plans for mass gun confiscations. First Memo “Most licenced firearms owners comply . . . This content is for subscribing members. Please…

Airbnb Pledges $300,000 to Group Campaigning Against PAL Holders

TheGunBlog.ca — Airbnb Inc. just became one of Canada’s top activists against hunters, farmers and sport shooters. The U.S. lodging company pledged $300,000 to Canadian Doctors for Protection From Guns, which lobbies the government to ban guns from the country’s 2.2 million adults with a federal firearm licence. ‘A First Step’ “I view this partnership…

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Liberal Gun-Confiscation Order Possible via Bill vs. OIC: CBC

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party has yet to decide how it will order mass rifle confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters, CBC News reported last week, citing the Ministry of Public Safety. The government “hasn’t yet determined the mechanism” for confiscation and “isn’t excluding the possibility of proposing a bill” to parliament, CBC…

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Bullet Points: Week of 2020 February 03

Highlights

– Airbnb becomes one of Canada’s top anti-gun activists
– Bill Blair gets new communications chief
– Liberals could confiscate via new bill in parliament vs. OIC
– Conservatives vs. Liberals in House of Commons on red-flag laws
– Ducks Unlimited responds to criticism for not sharing petition

‘Significant Concern’ Over Trudeau Gun Confiscation: Yukon Party

TheGunBlog.ca — Following is a letter from Yukon Party Interim Leader Stacey Hassard to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau citing “significant concern” over Trudeau’s plans to order mass firearm confiscations from hunters and sport shooters. The Yukon Party published Hassard’s letter today on Facebook and Twitter. Here's a letter from Official Opposition Leader @StaceyHassard to…

Glen Motz Comments After Petition to Stop Bans Takes First Place

TheGunBlog.ca — Following are comments by Glen Motz, the Canadian member of parliament who sponsored Petition e-2341, after it surged to become the most-signed e-petition in House of Commons history. More than 136,000 people have signed to stop the governing Liberal Party from using an executive order for mass confiscations against honest men and women….

Petition to Stop Trudeau’s Confiscation Order Surges to No. 1

TheGunBlog.ca — The petition to stop Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from ordering mass confiscations against honest men and women surged to the country’s No. 1 e-petition on record last night. Petition e-2341 on Democratic Process and Parliamentary Democracy had more than 132,540 signatures as of 12:45 p.m. Ottawa time today, the most of any…

Trudeau Faces New Blow as Toronto Mayor Scraps Call for Gun Bans

(Update 23:45: Adds that petition is now No. 1 on record.) TheGunBlog.ca — Toronto Mayor John Tory, briefly Canada’s most-vocal anti-gun activist, didn’t mention firearm bans in his new safety policy today, the third strike in a week against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plans for mass confiscations. Although Tory told the media “My own view…

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Bullet Points: Week of 2020 January 27

Highlights This Week

– Week-Ahead Agenda
– How Soon Will the Liberals Publish Their Prohibition Order?
– About That Petition — Extrapolation
– Did You Notice Blair’s Language Shift on Compensating Confiscation Victims?
– Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Firearm-Marking Regulations?
– Anti-Gun Extremists Are Trying to Smear Gun-Rights Advocates as Far-Right Extremists

Liberal Gun Confiscations Are an ‘Attack’ on PAL Holders: Scheer

TheGunBlog.ca — Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, made the following comments about the governing Liberal Party’s plans for mass gun confiscations against PAL holders. He spoke during a speech to Conservative members of parliament and senators on Jan. 24 in Ottawa.