The “ban our way to safety” approach adopted by Illinois Democrats has made it impossible for lawful residents to purchase commonly-owned arms, and those guns that are allowed for sale can’t be possessed without a state-issued permission slip (and only after waiting 72 hours after they’ve been purchased).
OTTAWA — A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to act swiftly to implement key Liberal election commitments on firearms.
In a letter to Carney, PolySeSouvient says the mandate letter for the next public safety minister should include a commitment to “timely delivery” of promised reforms, especially the buyback of banned firearms.
PolySeSouvient includes students and graduates of Montreal’s École Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women in 1989.
Rise in gun ownership and stand-your-ground laws drives a lucrative new market to insulate shooters from criminal and civil liability
Just after 2 a.m. on a November night, police were called to the home of Joshua Huston to respond to a shooting. Huston had camped out with his AR-15 rifle on a lot he owned next to his Florida home, hoping to catch the person who had been stealing from the property.
Yes, there are liberal gun owners. There are liberal gun rights advocates, even.
However, we all know they’re the exception, not the norm.
Further, when we hear about a sociologist, we kind of have to brace a bit. The social sciences are heavily anti-gun, so when someone who is a sociologist offers up thoughts about gun culture, we–or, at least, I–tend to have certain expectations about what I’m going to read.
OTTAWA — Devastated and concerned.
That’s how Canada’s licensed firearm owners are feeling after Monday’s Liberal victory, which dashed hopes of a new government reversing the Justin Trudeau-era gun grab and starting to focus its crime-reduction efforts on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens.
School shootings are once again in the news. There were two last week. When the pundits in the media and online talk about school attacks, a false narrative often emerges that it is a uniquely domestic “American epidemic,” fostered by widespread firearms ownership and insufficient firearms regulation.
Canada doesn’t have a gun-control problem. And Mark Carney should stop pretending it does.
We do have a problem with gun crime, particularly in some of our larger cities. And we also have a problem with intimate-partner violence. These problems need attention and, critically, more resources. What they don’t need is more gun-control laws: everything that should be illegal already is, often several times over.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dodged questions Sunday about whether he would repeal the federal government’s handgun ban, a measure brought in to tamp down on the diversion of legal firearms into the hands of bad actors.
Poilievre hasn’t said much during this campaign about what he would do with the Liberal firearms legislation he voted against while in Parliament, but he has blasted the last government’s “assault-style” firearm buyback program as a “gun grab” that he would scrap.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney rebuilt his party by scrapping failed policies like the carbon tax, but there’s one apparent failure he’s doubling down on.
Carney announced that, if elected, he will “reinvigorate the implementation” of Ottawa’s gun ban and buyback program.
Carney should be listening to law enforcement experts and scrapping the expensive and ineffective gun buyback, not doubling down on the failed policy.
Active shooter events have been tracked by the FBI for over two decades. There are interesting results when those statistics are compared to other data. A new study states that civilian responses to these events are less adverse than police responses. The April 2025 study found that “armed citizens do not interfere with police, and in active shooter situations, they reduce deaths and injuries significantly more effectively than the police.”
Firearms have been a big part of my life, even though I didn’t grow up around them.
When I was 12, I got the chance to shoot a small-bore rifle for the first time in the Air Cadet program. Target shooting demands focus, discipline and consistency. That challenge had me hooked from the start.
Mark Carney’s grand pronouncement that he will “reinvigorate the implementation of an efficient gun-buyback program for assault-style firearms” is laughable.
The Liberal government, via Bill Blair, has claimed they will impose their Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme for the past five years. They haven’t confiscated a single banned firearm from a licensed owner, despite wasting $67 million.
A lot of people have ideas of what self-defense actually means, and a lot of people have a very wrong idea.
Usually, this doesn’t matter all that much since it’s largely confined to internet discussions between people who, thankfully, will never need to act in self-defense. Many of those who do find themselves in situations where the actions are clear, so their wrong ideas about the edges of what’s legal and what isn’t don’t come into play.
Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age amid calls in firearm circles to loosen bans
Canadian-born Hashim Akbar first shot his grandfather’s gun as a child while visiting Pakistan.
“It was obviously scary. I was a small child, but it was also very exciting as well. There’s … a lot of adrenalin that goes through someone’s body,” said Akbar, 23, vice-president of the Simon Fraser Sports Shooting Club (SFSSC) in Burnaby, B.C.
As a teen, the university student tried and loved skeet shooting and now owns his own lever-action rifle. He applied for a gun licence last October, making him one of 7,446 Canadians under 30 to do so in 2024. But by the time he received the document, the guns he wanted were prohibited by the federal government.
And …
Key plank in Mark Carney’s crime platform has been Canadian law for decades
Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced his party’s new crime reduction strategy on Thursday, pledging to tackle gun violence and disrupt criminal gangs through tougher measures and increased law enforcement resources.
Central to his proposal is a reinvigorated gun grab program targeting assault-style firearms, along with a broader plan to keep drugs and illegal weapons off Canadian streets.
