RCMP Responds to Reports It’s Misusing ‘Long-Gun Registry’ Data
TheGunBlog.ca — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police responds below to reports saying it’s misusing data from the so-called “Long-Gun Registry” that the government ordered deleted in 2012.
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RCMP Firearms Program Comments on Notice About Quebec Registry
TheGunBlog.ca — The following is a comment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about how it works with provincial authorities on licensing firearm owners and registering their guns. TheGunBlog.ca asked the Ottawa-based federal agency for information after it published a notice on its website related to Quebec’s provincial gun registry. https://twitter.com/TheGunBlog/status/1108277100962680832 Michelle Schmidt, a spokeswoman…
‘Restricted’ Firearm Ownership Rose to Record in June
TheGunBlog.ca — The number of so-called “Restricted” handguns and rifles owned by Canadian individuals rose to a record in June after more than five years of uninterrupted monthly increases, as federally licensed gun owners bought semi-automatic pistols and rifles for plinking, recreation and competition.
CCFR Latest Video: ‘Register Your Car, Why Not Your Gun!’
TheGunBlog.ca — The latest video by the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights tackles a simple question that gets asked often: We register our cars with the government, so why not register our guns?
RCMP Kept Half of Long-Gun Registry Data, 2015 Transcript Shows
The RCMP kept almost half the data from Canada’s so-called “Long-gun Registry” that was stopped by law in 2012, a two-year-old official transcript shows. The law ordered all registration records destroyed. Gun owners are concerned about government’s plans for registry data and suspicious of RCMP statements about what was or wasn’t erased. RCMP kept what…
Anti-Gun Government Advisor Thanks Trudeau for Old Quebec Data
An anti-gun campaigner and government advisor thanked the government for helping to provide Quebec with inaccurate, incomplete and obsolete data on licensed gun owners, saying the flawed list will make people safer.
New Law Won’t Recreate Long-Gun Registry, Goodale’s Office Says
The Canadian government said it won’t recreate a database of gun owners and many of our rifles and shotguns when it proposes a new law tomorrow to change legislation that ended the so-called “long-gun registry.”
Do Police Really Trust Their Lives to a Flawed Gun Database?
A deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police said he supports Quebec’s plans to recreate an expanded firearms registry and would like Ontario to do the same because it increases safety for the police and the public, Orillia Today reported today. “We are not supportive of the elimination of the firearms registry in any way,” Scott Tod…
Reminder: NDP Favours Gun Registration
“The NDP favours the registration of guns,” Thomas Mulcair, the party leader, said in December 2012, according to an article at the time by Maclean’s magazine. “We would bring back a form of registration.” Canadian gun owners and enthusiasts need to remember that when we elect our next government in October. The Conservative Party of Canada…