TheGunBlog.ca — What is a hunting firearm? It’s a simple question with high stakes in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is threatening hundreds of thousands of hunters and other government-approved gun owners with criminal charges, police raids, and jail over the answer. Six groups of people targeted by Trudeau are fighting him in Federal Court…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Federal Court said today it’ll be a year before a hearing to stop the government’s May 2020 politically motivated attacks against honest citizens, missing a crucial deadline next April 30.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s government refused a Federal Court order to produce the evidence that led to its political attacks begun in May 2020 against gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Federal Court ordered the government to hand over all documents leading to its May 2020 political attacks against licensed gun owners and businesses, in a major procedural win for the teams fighting the crackdown.
Highlights
– Section 74 Win: Ontario Court to Hear Two More Cases Against RCMP ‘Nullification‘ Tactic
– Saskatchewan Reiterates Opposition to Trudeau’s Crackdowns on Gun Users, Including Bill C-21
– Saskatchewan Says New Provincial CFO to Be In Place by September
– CCFR, CGC Named to Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission
– Pitt Meadows Gun Club in B.C. Gets $20,000 Grant to Replace Trap Machine
– I Took an ATC Requal Taught By the Owner of Burke’s Gun Oil
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun owners took a step forward today in the Federal Court cases fighting the government’s May 2020 political attacks against hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors.
They’ll be allowed to argue the RCMP’s Firearms Reference Table aided the crackdown.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian gun owners won a new procedural victory in court today in their fight to stop the federal police and federal government crackdowns against honest citizens.
(Update Feb. 19: Adds in last paragraph that Burlew filed second appeal.) TheGunBlog.ca — The court fight escalated this week to restore justice for Canadian hunters, farmers and sport shooters and stop the federal government’s and federal police’s regulatory attacks. Edward Burlew, one of the country’s leading firearm lawyers, filed the first court appeal on…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Federal Court dismissed three injunction motions to temporarily freeze the federal government’s and federal police’s politically motivated attacks against hunters, farmers and sport shooters.
TheGunBlog.ca — An Ontario Superior Court found a man “not guilty” of murder this month for shooting someone who died moments later, allowing the accused’s claim of self-defence.
We look at the judge’s decision for insight into how courts analyze and interpret the legal defence of Self-Defence.
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Federal Court held an all-day hearing today on the injunction motion to stop the Liberal-RCMP mass gun confiscations underway.
Here’s a summary of what happened.
Highlights This Week
– Attorney General of Canada Responds in Section 74 Application: PDF
– Attorney General: Over 140 Gun Owners Have Applied for Section 74 Court Hearings to Fight ‘Nullification’
– Liberals Stop Mentioning ‘Grandfathering’ As Confiscation Option
– Liberals Invite Candidates for Next Election
– Calgary Police Say January Shooting Deemed ‘Non-Culpable Homicide’
TheGunBlog.ca — Following is a 22-page PDF response by the Attorney General of Canada seeking to block a Nova Scotia resident from justice in the fight against the federal government and federal police’s “nullification” attacks.
TheGunBlog.ca — Greg Dunn of Dunn & Associates comments below after winning the first court case for gun owners against the May 1 regulatory attacks by Canada’s governing Liberal Party and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Dunn, based in Calgary, was the lawyer for Ryan Stark in his request to access a Section 74 hearing…
TheGunBlog.ca — An Alberta court sided with gun owners fighting the federal government and federal police’s regulatory attacks, marking a significant procedural win for the rights of Canadian hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors.
Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply (ATRS) sued the Canadian government and four RCMP and Alberta CFO employees for $130 million in damages from the May 1 gun bans. It’s the first cororate case of its kind in Federal Court.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– Ministry Hires Gun-Confiscation Project Manager, Gets One Bid for Revised Tender
– Canada Risks More Shortages of Guns and Ammo, Suppliers Say
– Federal Court Update: CCFR Objects to RCMP’s Murray Smith Pretending to Be Independent
– Conservative MP Tim Uppal Visits Gun Range, Plans CFSC
– Nova Scotia Attacker Had Colt AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Glock, Ruger P89
– Town Council Near Orillia, Ontario, Considers Banning New Gun Ranges
TheGunBlog.ca — More than 120 Canadian gun owners are in provincial court fighting the May 1 attacks by the governing Liberal Party and RCMP.
They’ve applied under Section 74 of the Firearms Act to restore their nullified registration certificates.
Highlights from Murray Smith’s affidavit last week to support the Liberals and RCMP in Federal Court.
Includes PDF of the document.
Update following today’s Federal Court meeting on the six cases challenging the Liberal May 1 Orders in Council.
