Highlights
– Government Declines to Detail Pending Prohibitions on Long-Gun Mags
– RCMP Responds on Nova Scotia CFO Office’s Claim to Waive Federal ATT Law
– Senator Plett Rejects Mendicino’s Call to Rush Bill C-21
TheGunBlog.ca — Nova Scotia Chief Firearms Officer John Parkin said he didn’t waive federal laws requiring an ATT for gun owners fleeing wildfires, after his office wrongly told owners it had exempted them.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Ontario CFO’s office said it hasn’t made any recent changes in policy or guidance on issuing “Restricted” PALs, amid speculation from across Canada that new measures are in place.
TheGunBlog.ca — Watch our exclusive conversation of almost 2 hours with Teri Bryant, Alberta’s first provincially appointed Chief Firearms Officer.
TheGunBlog.ca — Springfield Sports Club said today its court victory two months ago against overreach by the New Brunswick Chief Firearms Officer is confirmed, since the CFO didn’t appeal by the deadline.
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 — Springfield Sports Club’s court victory against the Chief Firearms Officer shows Canadian shooting ranges can fight CFO overreach and win.
Highlights
– Policy Summary Table of Liberal+RCMP Attacks on Gun Owners
– Court Win: Gun Club Fights CFO’s Unlawful Conditions for Shooting Range
– Mike Brake Exits Firearm Training
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta’s Chief Firearms Officer urged the federal government to delay or abandon its Bill C-71 prohibitions against government-licensed gun users set to start tomorrow, citing “intense concerns.” Details “In view of the magnitude of these changes, I call on you to immediately announce a moratorium on their introduction for at least one year to…
Highlights
– Alberta CFO Urges Feds to Cancel May 2020 Attacks
– Alberta Accepts Advisory Committee Recommendations for Gun Rights
– Saskatchewan Sets Up Firearms Advisory Committee
– RCMP Says Gun-Licence Fees Fall By a Few Cents Starting 31 March 2022
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta’s Chief Firearms Officer, backed by the province’s premier, called on the federal government to cancel its attacks begun in May 2020 against government-licensed gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta named Teri Bryant today as its first Chief Firearms Officer to defend the rights of gun owners against the federal government’s attacks.
– Ontario CFO memo on ATTs from Chantal Trahan to gun clubs and ranges.
– Trahan’s exclusive comments to TheGunBlog.ca on lifetime background checks and ATTs.
TheGunBlog.ca — The office of Alberta’s Minister of Justice comments below on plans to name its own Chief Firearms Officer, as Premier Jason Kenney works to shield gun owners from the federal government’s political attacks.
Highlights
– Blair’s Office Says Estimating Gun-Confiscation Costs ‘Underway’
– Alberta Is in ‘Final Stages’ of Naming New CFO After Law to Block Handgun Bans
– Liberal Budget 2021 Doesn’t Mention Cost of Mass Gun Confiscations
– Conservative MP Blaine Calkins Asks Blair for Cost of Gun Confiscations
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the province is in the “final stages” of hiring its own Chief Firearms Officer, as he works to block the federal government’s political attacks against hunters, farmers, ranchers and sport shooters.
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
(Update Dec. 1: Adds RCMP comment.) TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta’s Chief Firearms Office, a unit of Canada’s federal police, ordered Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply to stop making, selling or advertising its rifles, jeopardizing the company’s existence and leading to a lawsuit. Ken Dobie, a firearms officer with the Edmonton-based regulator, signed the three-page letter dated Oct….
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta today invited public input to develop gun policy that respects hunters, farmers, sport shooters and firearm collectors, and protects them from the co-ordinated attacks of the federal government and federal police.