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 Canadian government’s Bill C-21 against licensed firearm owners will invent new rules for the thickness and locks of our handgun safes and let cities and towns require mandatory gun insurance, Minister Bill Blair said today.
TheGunBlog.ca — Conservative Party MP Shannon Stubbs said a comment by Liberal Minister Bill Blair to the House of Commons today was “frankly frickin ridiculous,” as he presented his new draft law to criminalize Canadian gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Liberal Party-led government will present its new law against federally licensed gun owners on February 16, the House of Commons agenda shows. The Liberals have also organized media briefings on the topic.
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of restricting federally licensed gun users and businesses, reiterated plans for further laws and prohibitions today after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Supplementary Mandate Letters last week.
(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 — 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 — 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 — Following is the full e-mail to TheGunBlog.ca today in response to our information request to the office of Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair, regarding his June 15 comments about the AR-15.
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Bill Blair, Canada’s minister in charge of firearm policy, couldn’t provide evidence for his AR-15 comments this week to the House of Commons, the newest case of his false assertions about gun ownership. Why It Matters What Happened TheGunBlog.ca asked Blair’s office at the Ministry of Public Safety for examples…
Bill Blair. Source: OurCommons.ca TheGunBlog.ca — The Office of Public Safety Minister Bill Blair outlines the Canadian government’s planned new restrictions and prohibitions targeting federally licensed firearm . . . This content is for subscribing members. Please sign in below, or subscribe.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party is preparing laws to help municipalities eliminate home handgun ownership, Minister Bill Blair told the Toronto Star in an interview published today. “While stopping short of a national handgun ban, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told the Star that new rules will allow . . . This content is…
Canadian Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair has a new director of communications.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s minister for mass gun confiscation said he expects a prohibition order against federally licensed firearm users and stores “in the near term,” and is working to further restrict home gun ownership.
(Update Dec. 23: Adds mandate letter to Freeland.) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially instructed Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair to pass new laws for mass gun confiscations against hunters, farmers, sport shooters and other safe and responsible firearm users. Update Dec. 23: He directed Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to work…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to order mass rifle confiscations against hunters, farmers and sport shooters requires a new law and could take two years to set up, Bill Blair, the minister for firearm bans, told iPolitics. Why It Matters The timing and risks to pass new legislation raise optimism the gun-ban…
(Update Dec. 8: Expands Blair quotes, adds context.) TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government will order federally licensed firearm owners to surrender 250,000 of their hunting and sporting rifles “as quickly as possible,” Bill Blair, the minister for gun bans, told reporters yesterday. It’s the first time the government said it will use an “order in…
(Update Nov. 21 at 10:30 Toronto time: Adds Blair quote via CBC News: “There is a sense of urgency.”) TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promoted Bill Blair, his chief for mass gun confiscation, to Minister of Public Safety today in Ottawa, as the new cabinet was sworn in following the Oct. 21 election….
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 — 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…
