TheGunBlog.ca — Tony Bernardo, the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, urged senators studying Bill C-21 to change the governing Liberal Party’s “fraudulent” legislative attack against licensed gun users.
TheGunBlog.ca — Watch our video conversation with Tony Bernardo, the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), one of the country’s largest and most-influential groups for gun owners.
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) said today it filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mass handgun confiscations targeting government-licensed owners.
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
– CSSA Sees ‘Trickery’ in RCMP Gun-Ownership Cancellations
– OFAH Asks Bill Blair to Extend PALs to Deal With Backlog
– CCFR Won’t Organize Mass Filing Against RCMP Ownership Cancellations
– NFA: Challenging Firearm Reclassification Under Section 74 of Firearms Act
– Liberals Hold Majority in Newest Poll Projections
– Ian Runkle, Gun Lawyer, Discusses RCMP Letter in First YouTube Video
– ‘Please Don’t Buy One’: RCMP B.C. Says to Avoid Airsoft
Updated daily throughout the week.
Highlights This Week
1. Protesting the Ban Order
– RCMP Confiscation Notices Being Shot, Burned
– Vermillion Gun Club Restricts Police Use
– Alberta Outlines Policy Changes
2. Solomon Friedman Starts Law Firm With Fady Mansour
3. CSSA Won’t Sue to Stop Bans, Picks Its Top-Two Lawsuits
4. Jim Shockey Calls Gun Bans ‘Breach in the Public Trust’
5. News Bullets From Other Media
TheGunBlog.ca — The trade group for the world’s largest gun industry warned shotgun exporters to Canada they risk confiscation after last week’s surprise bans by the Liberal Party. The U.S. National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “important alert” shows how the prohibitions could batter firearm companies worldwide. In the middle of business on May 1, Prime Minister…
TheGunBlog.ca — Tony Bernardo, the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, comments below on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Firearms Reference Table. We spoke with him by phone on Nov. 25. The Q&A was edited for clarity. What is the Firearms Reference Table? It is the No. 1 catalogue of guns in…
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s largest shooters’ rights groups and the Conservative Party are continuing to urge voters and parliamentarians to oppose Bill C-71, the Hill Times reported today, citing the organizations. Every national association of hunters and sport shooters has spoken out against Bill C-71. The editor of TheGunBlog.ca is a current or past member of…
More than 100 members of parliament, senators and their staff went shooting this week at an annual range day organized by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association in what the group said is one of the largest non-partisan events on Parliament Hill.
(Update: CBC temporarily removed the video on April 12 after a complaint to its ombudsman. Christopher di Armani saw that as a victory for shooters. I agree and develop that theme here.) The Canadian Shooting Sports Association did a superb point-by-point takedown of a CBC video on gun laws packed with errors, misleading suggestions and possibly a wrongful confiscation by law-enforcement officers.
The RCMP’s ban on Ruger 10/22 magazines capable of holding more than 10 cartridges is unconstitutional, the lawyer for the Canadian Shooting Sports Association said, urging owners, importers and sellers of the products to join a legal defence.
The RCMP’s attack on owners of the popular Ruger 10/22 small-calibre rifle is prompting Canadian gun-rights groups to unite in opposition. The RCMP plans to reclassify 10/22 magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of the .22 LR cartridge as “prohibited devices,” Calibre Magazine said July 18, potentially leading to criminal charges for anyone who owns, transports or sells them….
Canada’s Liberal Party and New Democratic Party support gun bans and other restrictions on firearm users, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association said, leaving the Conservative Party as the best option for gun owners in this year’s federal election.