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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…

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…

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 August 10

Updated daily throughout the week.

Highlights This Week
– Sixth Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court to Stop Gun Confiscations (O’Dell Engineering)
– Gary Mauser: Should Firearms Owners Be Licensed?
– RCMP ‘Has Resumed’ Processing New Gun Licences as Covid Slows
– NRA-ILA: Canadian Gun-Rights Groups Condemn RCMP Letter
– Doctors Who Hate Gun Owners Founder Wins Lobby Group Award

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 July 13

Updated daily throughout the week.

Highlights This Week
– ‘Nullified:’ RCMP Mails Ownership Cancellations for Newly ‘Prohibited’ Guns
– Federal Court to Meet July 29 With Four Anti-Confiscation Lawsuits
– TACCOM Show Moves to April 2021 After Covid-19 Disruption
– Note on Conservative Leadership Vote
– Chrystia Freeland Values Guns for Protection, Hunting
– Vermillion Gun Club Post on Limiting Police Reached 141,714 People

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RCMP Draws Guns on Less Than 0.1% of Calls, Use-of-Force Data Show

TheGunBlog.ca — Officers with the RCMP, Canada’s largest police agency, almost never have to draw their guns on duty, according to data last month on the “use of force.” The 20,000 police officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police drew and displayed, pointed or discharged their firearms in less than 0.1% of the 8.79 million…

RCMP Publishes Expanded List of Guns Ordered for Confiscation

TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, published an expanded list of the rifles and shotguns it’s preparing to confiscate from federally licensed owners and businesses. The list of roughly 9,500 models follows rising criticism of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for secretly using its Firearms Reference Table to ban guns…

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Canada Gun News: Week of 2020 June 01

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

RCMP Says Over 100,000 Gun Owners May Be Target of Confiscation

TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, said more than 100,000 hunters, sport shooters, firearm collectors and other owners may have been targeted in this month’s order for mass confiscations. The total includes both of the following: a known number of federally licensed owners required by law to have registered 105,000…

RCMP Deletes ‘Grandfathering’ Option From Web Page on Gun Bans

(Update May 11, 15:20 Toronto time: Adds RCMP response.) TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP deleted the option for so-called “grandfathering” this week from its web page on the Canadian government’s mass gun confiscations, igniting concern owners will face jail unless we surrender our gear within two years. Two Promises The website now mentions only the first…

RCMP Firearms Program Updates on COVID-19 Impact on Services

TheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Firearms Program, which controls private gun ownership, said it’s experiencing “significant impacts” to licensing from the COVID-19 crisis. Highlights New PALs on hold PAL cards on hold PAL renewals online only, not by mail The following is reprinted from the RCMP website with a date stamp of…

RCMP: ‘It Has Been Recommended’ to Stop Gun-Safety Courses on COVID-19

TheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which controls private gun ownership in Canada, said “it has been recommended” to stop teaching the mandatory firearm-safety courses for a gun licence to avoid COVID-19 contagion. RCMP Comment “It has been recommended that the delivery of the Firearms Safety Course(s) be postponed to follow the social distancing protocols in place…

RCMP ‘Working Hard’ on Gun Licences With Delays From COVID-19

TheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which controls private gun ownership, said it’s “working hard” through the COVID-19 crisis to process firearm licences, while facing delays. Caroline Duval, a spokeswoman for the regulator in Ottawa, commented by e-mail today in response to questions from TheGunBlog.ca. Q&A With the RCMP on Licensing, Work During COVID-19…