Gun Control

‘Radical’ gun control activist runs for Liberal seat near Montreal

OTTAWA — She survived four bullets fired by a mass murderer during the 1989 Polytechnique massacre. She has campaigned for decades for stricter gun control. Now, she is a Liberal candidate.

Nathalie Provost, who recently criticized the Liberals for their slow pace on the mandatory gun buyback program and threatened not to invite former prime minister Justin Trudeau to the 35th anniversary of the Polytechnique commemoration, will run under the Liberal Party of Canada banner in the federal riding of Châteauguay–Les Jardins-de-Napierville, near Montreal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Canada: A Sign of Things to Come

Canada is not the 51st state. While Trump keeps talking about it, I’m sincerely hoping this is just him trolling, because I sure as heck don’t want Canada to have any say in American politics.

The last thing we need is yet another anti-gun state in the nation, especially when I’m still kind of hoping Denmark buys California.

This is the weirdest timeline ever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, USA

An Interesting, Fact-Based Perspective on ‘Gun Deaths’ We Almost Never See

The term “gun death” is fairly problematic in a lot of ways. First, guns aren’t dying, so there’s that.

Moreover, it treats all deaths resulting from a gunshot as somehow equal. We don’t see numbers for everyone who dies as the result of an edged implement like a knife or razorblade, for example. We don’t see “gravity deaths” that include people who jump off of a bridge and those tossed out of a 14th story window.

It’s just the guns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

The changing face of gun ownership… Liberals reveal the bold reasons they’re taking up arms

Americans who have never owned guns before are now buying their first firearms and reveal they feel compelled to be armed for a variety of different reasons.

Over the Covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 7.5million American adults became new gun owners, half were women, 20 percent were black, and 20 percent were Hispanic, according to Harvard researchers.

Not only is gun ownership becoming more diverse across race and gender, but it also appears to have bridged a divide between political beliefs as more democrats arm themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

When Will They Get the Message With 3D-Printed Guns

I’m not exactly a tech bro by any stretch of the imagination. I love seeing new technology and all the ways it can make our lives better, but I generally don’t get overly excited by new technology. I’ve seen too many things hyped up as the next big then only to fizzle on the vine. Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers Google Glass, just to name one example.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Feds are watering down promise to fully scrutinize firearms before sale, gun control group says

A leading gun control group is accusing the Liberal government of watering down a promise to ensure firearms are properly scrutinized before entering the Canadian market.

The government recently published proposed regulations aimed at ensuring all gun makes and models for sale in Canada are known to the federal firearms registrar.

There is currently no obligation for businesses that import or manufacture firearms to share technical specifications with authorities, meaning guns could go on the market without being fully assessed

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

The US town where it’s the law to own a gun

Kennesaw, Georgia, has all the small-town fixings one might imagine in the American South.

There’s the smell of baked biscuits wafting from Honeysuckle Biscuits & Bakery and the rumble of a nearby railroad train. It’s the kind of place where newlyweds leave hand-written thank-you cards in coffee shops, praising the “cozy” atmosphere.

But there’s another aspect of Kennesaw that some might find surprising – a city law from the 1980s that legally requires residents to own guns and ammo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, Guns and Ammo

Liberals slot nearly $600M for gun confiscation in new spending

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in Monday’s Fall Economic Statement indicated plans to spend $597.9 Million over three years to confiscate Canadians’ firearms.

So far Ottawa has blown through roughly $100 million already in attempts to collect government-licensed firearms — without collecting a single gun.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Gage Haubrich: The gun ban is not working, Trudeau already knows this

Right from the beginning, experts have told the prime minister that his gun ban and buyback will divert resources away from fighting crime rather than making Canada safer.

Instead of changing course, the Trudeau government announced it’s diverting even more taxpayers’ money to its failing gun policy policy.

And it’s an expensive diversion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Government of Canada extends list of prohibited assault-style firearms and moves forward on regulatory changes to strengthen gun control

As part of its comprehensive approach, on December 5, 2024, the Government announced the prohibition of more military style assault-style firearms. Accompanying the prohibition is an amnesty order, which expires on October 30, 2025, that protects businesses and owners while they come into compliance with the law.

The amnesty also provides a temporary exception for Indigenous peoples’ exercising a right under section 35 of the Constitution Act, as well as those who use firearms for sustenance hunting, which enables them to continue to use their newly prohibited firearms to hunt (if previously non-restricted) until a suitable replacement can be found.

h/t Mauser

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control