What We Mean By ‘Gun Rights’ in Canada
TheGunBlog.ca — Many Canadian gun owners are unsure about what “gun rights” means under Canada’s anti-gun laws. If you believe gun owners have the same rights as anyone else, then you support “gun rights.”
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Five Points Gun Owners Get Wrong About the Liberal+RCMP Attacks
TheGunBlog.ca — Many Canadian gun owners are confused about the Liberal+RCMP political attacks begun in May 2020. Here are five points to help you get what they are, and what they aren’t.
Black Creek Labs Owner Rob MacIntyre Q&A: Business, NEA, PX19
Black Creek Labs CEO Rob MacIntyre discusses topics including:
– working as a security contractor in Iraq
– early involvement with Northeastern Arms
– how he’s responding to the Liberal confiscations
– BCL’s new PX19 pistol
– Possible collaboration on a new semi-auto rifle
RCMP Plays Politics on Gun Confiscations By Payoff Vs. Lockup
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP is playing politics and favourites in the mass firearm confiscations it’s running for the governing Liberal Party, signalling a breakdown in its role as federal police and regulator of gun owners.
Why You Should Never Call Yourself a ‘Law-Abiding’ Gun Owner
TheGunBlog.ca — If you ever call yourself a “law-abiding” gun owner, stop.
We do not kneel and we do not “abide.”
We are gun owners. Period.
Trudeau Just Killed My Trust in Government, the RCMP and the Law
TheGunBlog.ca — Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I’ll always remember May 01, 2020. It’s the day you set me free. I trusted our system of government and our parliamentary democracy. On May 01, 2020, you showed me my mistake and set me free. I trusted the RCMP, I believed they worked to…
Canada’s Gun Industry Could Mimic FedEx Reply to New York Times
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s firearm industry is often silent against inaccurate or biased media reports pushing gun bans. It could mimic FedEx Corp.’s firm and unapologetic response to a New York Times article saying the U.S. parcel-delivery company paid no federal taxes last year. “The New York Times published a distorted and factually incorrect story on…
Trudeau and Blair’s AR-15 Bashing Puts Police in a Pickle
TheGunBlog.ca — If Justin Trudeau and Bill Blair are right about the AR-15 rifle, Canadians should be scrambling to protect themselves against imminent massacres by police. Military-style assault rifles are designed to cause mass human casualties, and they have no place in Canada. So we’re going to ban them. More on our plan to strengthen…
Five Realities to Stop Ignoring If We Aim to Stop Mass Attackers
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadian and U.S. politicians and mass media are acting out their usual routine following the weekend massacres in the U.S. and a few attacks across Toronto. Politicians exploit the events to win votes. Media exploit the events to win eyeballs. Everyone blames everyone except the person who pulled the trigger. (Blame: Trump, Scheer,…
Dangerous Fallacies at the Heart of the Gun Debate
TheGunBlog.ca — Here are a few dangerous fallacies at the heart of discussions about guns and gun ownership. Introduction Where do these fallacies come from? What makes these statements fallacies? Why are these fallacies dangerous? Fallacies Fallacy: We have gun laws. (We have gun control.) Reality: We have people laws. (We have people control.) The…
How Statistics Canada Shapes Gun Politics and Perceptions
TheGunBlog.ca — On Aug. 27, less than 24 hours before Canada’s prime minister ordered the examination of a “full ban” on more than a million guns owned by hunters, farmers and sport shooters, Statistics Canada published a special report: “Firearm-related violent crime, 2009 to 2017.” On Sept. 4, StatCan Chief Statistician Anil Arora wrote to…
You Started It
TheGunBlog.ca — I was talking about you when I said this on Twitter: You Started It It started with You. ——— I was talking about you. Yes, really. You. That e-mail you sent, that you thought nobody read. That comment you made, that you thought nobody noticed. That post you shared, that you thought nobody saw….
A Canadian Approach to Public Safety (Humour)
TheGunBlog.ca — Following is an imaginary conversation based on real laws for Canada’s 2.2 million men and women hunters, farmers and sport shooters with police authorizations to own guns. Albert: If we want to improve public safety, what if we tracked the people who threaten it? We know a lot of them, but we won’t touch…
PAL Application Form Written as a Letter (Humour)
TheGunBlog.ca — Canadians need a licence authorized by the federal police to legally buy, sell, own or transport any gun, and to buy ammunition. Here’s a humorous take on what a licence application might say if it were written as a letter. Dear Federal Police, I’d like to please request your permission to own firearms….
Handgun, Semi-Auto Ban Could Wipe Out $2 Billion From Gun Owners
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government’s possible ban on handguns and semi-automatic long guns such as SKS, AR-15 and FN-FAL rifles could wipe out more than $2 billion of guns and gear in private hands, based on estimates by TheGunBlog.ca. The estimates project only the value of firearms and equipment such as cartridge magazines, holsters and specialized…
How Quiet Gun Owners Become Former Gun Owners
TheGunBlog.ca — Gun owners believe keeping a low profile will guarantee our survival. It’s more likely to guarantee our extinction. Individuals Keeping quiet makes sense for a lot of people in a lot of cases. “My guns are nobody’s business.” “I don’t want to attract thieves.” “My [girlfriend, spouse, boss, …] hates guns and I…
More Than a Third of Toronto Police ‘Crime Guns’ Aren’t Firearms
TheGunBlog.ca — More than a third of the so-called “crime guns” seized by Toronto police last year weren’t firearms, and many were never used in a crime, according to an analysis of police data obtained by Dennis Young, fuelling new concern about the reliability of statistics. The data show 469, or 65 percent, of the…
The Scary Part Isn’t a Gun Ban, It’s That Our Leaders Want One
TheGunBlog.ca — The scary thing about living in Canada today isn’t only the threat of gun confiscation, it’s that our leaders want it so badly and nobody is standing in the way. This is our country today: the municipal councils of the two largest and most influential cities, the editors of the No. 2 newspaper,…
‘I Hope He Isn’t One of Us’: When ‘Good Guys’ Go Bad
TheGunBlog.ca — I’m crying again. Four people were shot dead this morning in Fredericton, New Brunswick, including two police officers. No other info yet. I want to vomit. I want to comfort the families. I want to protect the people I love. I want the killer to pay. And I hope he isn’t one of…
Be Dangerous: Jordan Peterson, Robert Heinlein, ‘Act of Valor’
TheGunBlog.ca — Following are quotes on being dangerous by Jordan Peterson, a novel by Robert Heinlein, the movie “Act of Valor,” and others. #BeDangerous Act of Valor (2012), Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stopped seeing you as dangerous….