RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000
TheGunBlog.ca — Q&A with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Firearms Program on its backlog processing applications for gun licences, and how it’s responding.
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RCMP Union’s Pete Merrifield Comments on Opposition to Liberal Attacks
TheGunBlog.ca — Pete Merrifield, vice president of the National Police Federation, the RCMP labour union, discusses urging Canada’s government to help police stop violent gangs instead of seizing guns from federally licensed owners and stores. Read: RCMP Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations Merrifield made the comments today in a telephone interview with TheGunBlog.ca. The…
Ministry Hires Gun-Confiscation Project Manager, Gets One Bid for Revised Tender
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government said it hired the only person who applied as the project manager for the governing Liberal Party’s mass gun-confiscations, and is now reviewing the only proposal it got for a second related contract.
‘Red-Flag’ Abuse: Police Raid ‘Kassandra’ and Take Away Her Guns
TheGunBlog.ca — “Kassandra” tells her personal story of how Canada’s “red-flag” laws empower her violent ex-husband — and the police — to abuse her.
RCMP Declines to Specify Who Nullified Gun-Registration Certificates, and How
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responds below to our questions on who nullified the firearm-registration certificates of almost 70,000 federally licensed gun owners, and when and how the change was made.
Ministry Comments on Revised Call for Bids for Gun-Confiscation Contract
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety responds below to our questions about its revised invitation to bid on a contract to design ways to pay victims of its mass-gun confiscations.
Government Wrote Firearm Laws With Coalition for Gun Control: 1996 Memo
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government wrote the country’s firearm laws with the prohibitionist Coalition for Gun Control, newly obtained internal documents show.
Ministry Comments on New Search for Gun Confiscation Project Manager
TheGunBlog.ca — Q&A with Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety on its new search for a project manager for its mass gun confiscations, after a previous call for bids failed. The seizures directly target federally licensed firearm owners.
RCMP Sent This Memo to CFOs on Nullification of Gun Registrations
TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which administers gun users in Canada, sent the following memo to provincial Chief Firearms Officers to explain a new regulatory trap used to criminalize federally licensed firearm owners and confiscate their gear. The undated note from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – Canadian Firearms Program describes the surprise nullification of firearm-registration…
Ministry Declines to Say If Nobody Bid for Confiscation Contract
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety declined to say if anyone applied to work on its mass gun confiscations, after a newspaper said nobody bid for the contract.
New Brunswick Court Says ‘No Jurisdiction’ to Review May 1 Nullifications
TheGunBlog.ca — A New Brunswick court official said it “has no jurisdiction” to review the federal government’s surprise May 1 nullification of firearm registrations, leaving gun owners looking to assert their legal rights and avoid confiscations and jail.
Ministry Says It’s Revising Bid for Confiscation Work After Failed Tender
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party will pursue plans to pay the victims of its mass gun confiscations, after its first attempt at hiring a contractor to design the seizures failed. No ‘Successful Bidder’ The Ministry of Public Safety, which is overseeing the confiscations, is revising its call for bids to develop what it calls…
NFA Buys Full-Page Ad in The Hill Times to Tell MPs: ‘We Vote’
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s National Firearms Association bought a full-page ad in today’s edition of The Hill Times newspaper, as the House of Commons starts up and the governing Liberal Party outlines its priorities. The minimalist, mostly black design is dominated by a simple message for the 338 members of parliament who are hired and fired…
Liberals Refuse to Supply Court With Documents for Confiscations
(Update Sept. 18: Adds Edward Burlew comment.)
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Liberal Party-led government refused to provide the Federal Court with documents behind its May 1 attack against innocent citizens, citing “confidentiality.”
The government’s legal team had agreed to a Sept. 11 deadline to either share the contents or to say they object to sharing them.
Government Defers ‘Firearms Marking Regulations’ Beyond Dec. 1
TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government deferred its Firearms Marking Regulations beyond Dec. 1, pushing back the start of the new restrictions on the gun industry for the 10th time since passing them in 2004.
Ministry Comments on Tasks, Scope of Gun-Confiscation Contract
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety comments on the tasks, scope and cost of a pending contract to design the mass confiscation of many rifles and shotguns from federally licensed firearm owners and businesses.
Hardly Anyone Sought Section 74 Hearings on July 20 Notice: RCMP
Hardly any of the 68,000 recipients of the RCMP’s July 20 firearm-registration nullification notice applied for Section 74 hearings to fight the mass gun confiscations underway.
Green Party’s Amita Kuttner Seeks Better Justice for Gun Owners
TheGunBlog.ca — Amita Kuttner is pledging greater justice for Canada’s millions of hunters, farmers, sport shooters and gun collectors if they win the Green Party’s leadership contest in October. Below is an exclusive short Q&A with Kuttner’s campaign manager, followed by their firearm platform. It includes recognizing “home defence as reasonable legal grounds for firearm…
Federal Court Update: Today’s Meeting, Arkadi Bouchelev Q&A on Injunction
Update on today’s Federal Court meeting with the lawyers fighting the Liberal Party of Canada’s ’s mass gun confiscations, and with lawyers defending the Liberal attacks.
Update Aug. 27:
– Adds Federal Court Procedural Order (Timeline)
– Adds clarifications by Bouchelev
National Competitor Nils Ek Q&A: Why I Took the Liberals to Court
TheGunBlog.ca — Nils Ek, a Canadian national pistol competitor, discusses why he joined a group fighting the governing Liberal Party in Federal Court, saying their mass gun confiscations are unconstitutional and illegal. TheGunBlog.ca spoke with Ek by e-mail over the past month. The editor of TheGunBlog.ca has donated to Ek’s case and others among the…