TheGunBlog.ca — Edward Burlew, a leading Canadian firearm lawyer, comments below on the Liberal Party of Canada’s election plan to force hundreds of thousands of hunters, farmers and sport shooters to surrender their firearms. The Liberals said yesterday they will criminalize the federally licensed owners of certain hunting and sporting rifles for which they invented…
TheGunBlog.ca — Justin Trudeau promised the biggest instant gun bans against hunters, farmers and sport shooters in Canadian history if he is re-elected prime minister. Liberal Gun Ban Plan Take Our Poll Trudeau pitched his newest bans today in Toronto as the Liberal Party leader seeks to recover from scandals. Opinion polls show Liberal voters…
TheGunBlog.ca — Marstar Canada President Payam Khoee comments below in an interview about what’s at stake in next month’s election for his firearm business and the industry. Marstar specializes in importing and selling military-surplus firearms. The company is based in Vankleek Hill, 100 km east of Ottawa. Khoee led the employee buyout of the company…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada may further restrict hunters and sport shooters living in cities if it wins next month’s election, Bill Blair, the Liberal minister of gun bans, told CBC Radio One today. The party is looking at “additional restrictions on where a firearm can be possessed or stored within a municipality,”…
TheGunBlog.ca — Regina Police Chief Evan Bray is at least the eighth police leader in Canada opposing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Toronto Mayor John Tory’s efforts to ban hunters, farmers and sport shooters from having guns. The growing movement from the RCMP to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to Toronto’s own chief…
TheGunBlog.ca — Almost all Liberal Party of Canada supporters want gun owners evicted from cities, according to a new poll by Ekos Research Associates, confirming the party as the most-hostile political force against millions of men and women. About 86% of Liberals surveyed agreed with the statement: “I think that there should be a strict…
TheGunBlog.ca — Halifax Regional Police joined a growing movement of police groups and leaders across Canada opposing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s and Toronto Mayor John Tory’s campaigns for gun bans against hunters and sport shooters. Halifax Police Quote “We believe we have necessary laws and regulations in place in relation to firearms,” HalifaxToday reported today…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, which lobbies the government to restrict hunters and sport shooters, doesn’t support new gun bans against them, The Canadian Press reported today, citing the CACP president. Adam Palmer, also the Vancouver police chief, is among at least six active and retired police leaders who oppose the…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he will present his Liberal Party’s new proposals against firearm owners when he campaigns for re-election in October on “strengthening gun control.” He didn’t mention his June plan for the largest single gun bans in Canadian history if he wins. Trudeau promises to make gun control…
TheGunBlog.ca — Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders and at least five other active and retired Canadian police leaders have a message for politicians campaigning to ban guns from hunters, farmers and sport shooters: No. Saunders yesterday declined to support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor John Tory’s marketing for massive bans to win votes. He…
TheGunBlog.ca — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is standing up for the millions of hunters, farmers and sport shooters across Canada by opposing proposals from the prime minister and the mayor of Toronto to criminalize gun owners or seize their gear. Ford reiterated his opposition to Toronto Mayor John Tory today, the Toronto Sun reported. The…
TheGunBlog.ca — Bill C-71 began coming into force today as the governing Liberal Party of Canada’s new law against hunters, farmers, sport shooters and gun shops, with mass gun bans. The bill faced some of the broadest and most active opposition of any legislative proposal since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in October 2015….
TheGunBlog.ca — Edward Burlew, a leading Canadian firearm lawyer, sent the following letter to TheGunBlog.ca as the governing Liberal Party of Canada plans the single biggest gun confiscation in the country’s history against hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters and firearm collectors. TheGunBlog.ca added paragraph breaks and sub-headings. Background: AR-15 Selling Out in Canada on Concern Trudeau…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will order hunters, farmers and sport shooters to surrender about 200,000 of their firearms if re-elected, Global News reported today, citing Bill Blair, the minster for confiscation. The estimate covers what Blair called “assault-style weapons,” Global said, citing Blair speaking to reporters this morning. It would be the…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians should be concerned by one of the Liberal Party’s first campaign promises if they win the October election: ordering mass gun bans against hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters and gun collectors. Bill Blair, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minister for confiscation, began his media tour by talking with Canada’s two largest newspapers. The…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada will order mass gun bans against federally licensed firearm owners if re-elected to government, Minister Bill Blair told The Globe and Mail as the election campaign ramps up. Liberal Gun-Ban Plan The Liberals will order owners to surrender “some military-style assault weapons,” the Globe said in the interview…
TheGunBlog.ca — The following is a simulated policy statement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drafted by Dr. William Rees, a reader of TheGunBlog.ca. The Liberal government will be making some sort of formal announcement soon pertaining to Minister Bill Blair’s inquiry into policy, regulations and legislation on gun ownership, including possible bans on handguns…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s federal agency in charge of firearm prohibition said it doesn’t know how many CZ 858 and SAN Swiss Arms rifles are in the hands of federally licensed owners since most of the guns don’t require ownership registration. It had previously estimated 10,000 to 15,000. Owners will be required to register their guns…
TheGunBlog.ca — Tony Clement said he still believes the Canadian government plans more restrictions on federally licensed firearm owners after the member of parliament said last month new prohibitions would be announced this week. Clement, an independent member of parliament who used to be with the opposition Conservatives, spoke with TheGunBlog.ca by telephone today from…
TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada is copying the tactics and fallacies of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein by comparing hunters, farmers and sport shooters to murderers and terrorists to promote new gun bans. Many people were unsettled by a Liberal comment today on guns “designed to hunt people” such as worshippers, gays and kids….
