Topic: RCMP
RCMP Invites Gun Stores to Apply as Gun Destroyers
17 March 2021 - NewsTheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP, which regulates Canada’s gun stores, is inviting them to apply to become licensed firearm destroyers, as it works with the government to attack gun users and businesses.
These 15 Memos to Blair Show Gun-Policy Plans, Talking Points
06 March 2021 - Member Exclusives, NewsMemos Show: – Bill C-71 to take effect over the next year – New “Firearms Buyback Secretariat” – RCMP prints 10,000 PAL cards per week – May 2020 memo on CCFR’s planned court challenge – And more
RCMP Outlines Canadian Firearms Program 2.0 to Improve Online Services
08 February 2021 - Member Exclusives, NewsTheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which administers private gun ownership, said it’s working to expand and improve online services through its Canadian Firearms Program 2.0.
RCMP Q&A on Section 74 Applications, ‘Nullification,’ OIC Costs
31 December 2020 - Member Exclusives, NewsTheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which administers private gun ownership in Canada, responds below to our questions on its work to confiscate firearms from the owners it licences, and on the owners’ work to stop them.
Liberals Aim to Confiscate 150,000 Rifles and Shotguns, They Tell Stubbs
08 December 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s governing Liberal Party told an opposition MP last week it expects to confiscate about 150,000 rifles and shotguns from hunters, farmers, sport shooters and businesses under its May 1 political attacks.
Court Win: Judge Sides With Gun Owners on ‘Nullification’ Notices
01 December 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.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.
RCMP Q&A: Backlog for New Gun Licences Rises to 4 Months, 32,000
25 November 2020 - Member Exclusives, NewsTheGunBlog.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.
RCMP Union’s Pete Merrifield Comments on Opposition to Liberal Attacks
23 November 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.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 Labour Union Opposes Liberal-RCMP Mass Gun Confiscations
23 November 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP labour union today opposed the Canadian federal government and federal police’s attacks against hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors, saying the crackdown undermines safety instead of improving it.
RCMP Declines to Specify Who Nullified Gun-Registration Certificates, and How
22 October 2020 - Member Exclusives, NewsTheGunBlog.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.
Murray Smith, RCMP FRT Ex-Chief, Helps Liberals and RCMP Suppress Gun Owners
13 October 2020 - NewsHighlights from Murray Smith’s affidavit last week to support the Liberals and RCMP in Federal Court. Includes PDF of the document.
RCMP Sent This Memo to CFOs on Nullification of Gun Registrations
09 October 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.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…
Hardly Anyone Sought Section 74 Hearings on July 20 Notice: RCMP
01 September 2020 - Member Exclusives, NewsHardly 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.
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…
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.
RCMP Responds to Questions on 20 July 2020 Nullification Notice
31 July 2020 - Member Exclusives, NewsTheGunBlog.ca — The RCMP responded July 27 to our questions about its 20 July 2020 letter to firearm owners saying their ownership certificates were nullified following a May 1 confiscation order.
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…
RCMP Comments on Prohibiting Derya MK-12 Shotgun as AR-15 Variant
13 July 2020 - NewsThe RCMP, which controls private firearm ownership in Canada, comments below on changing its legal opinion last month on the popular Derya MK-12 shotgun to a “Prohibited variant” of the AR-15 or AR-10 rifle.
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
16 June 2020 - NewsTheGunBlog.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…