Gun Control
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
Liberals ban hundreds more types of firearms, look to send prohibited guns to Ukraine
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the Liberals were adding 324 more ‘unique makes and models’ of ‘assault-style’ firearms to its list of banned weapons.
ht/Mauser
Montana Attorney General Says RCMP Made Request to Conduct Surveillance at Local Gun Shows
Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen said he has received a request from the RCMP seeking to conduct surveillance at two upcoming gun shows in his state—a request that he strongly opposes.
Knudsen said the Division of Criminal Investigation in the Montana Department of Justice recently received the RCMP request regarding gun shows in Bozeman and Kalispell. Knudsen said he will try to prevent the RCMP from coming.
It Seems Others Interested in How Gallup Keeps Getting It Wrong
Gallup polls blew it. I’ve already talked a bit about that, of course. It’s kind of funny that they blew it because while they’re still claiming that people support gun control, they don’t seem to have an answer about why it played such a non-existent roll in the 2024 presidential election. I hit on part of why that’s the case.
This Is Why Guns Aren’t The Problem
It doesn’t seem like the idea that guns aren’t really the problem, people are, would be a contentious point. After all, no one seems to believe that a gun just randomly goes off and kills people. No one buys the idea that guns make people homicidal, either.
Yet some people are absolutely convinced that the issue is that guns are available. I guess they figure it’s far better to be stabbed 24 times than be shot or something.
Gary Mauser: Do Canadians Have the Right to Carry Arms?
Gun violence is on the rise in Canada. In parts of the Greater Toronto Area, it’s a record-breaking year
Melanie Ward remembers the moment she learned her son was dead with haunting clarity.
“I just dropped to my knees and screamed,” she said.
Her son, Alexander Circiumaru, was on his way to an appointment in downtown Hamilton earlier this year but never made it.
The 19-year-old was shot multiple times in broad daylight on March 6 in what Hamilton police believe was a targeted attack. Circiumaru was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Mexico sues American gun makers; the Supreme Court grants cert
In 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/gun cracktivists were pushing their latest strategy: suing gun makers for the third-party acts of people about who they had no knowledge and over who they had no control for misuse of their lawful products.
Three California Men Arrested for Making Gun Control Look Bad
One of the most ridiculous refrains I hear from gun control advocates is how we supposedly know that gun control works.
Every study they cite has massive problems, but they still cite them. However, three men in California were arrested for basically making gun control look bad.
Canadian Bust Discredits Gun Control Narrative
Once upon a time, Canadian gun laws weren’t all that bad. Sure, they restricted some stuff more than the United States did, but who doesn’t?
Since the Nova Scotia massacre, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “brown face” scandal, the Canadian government has been on a tear. They’ve restricted handguns heavily and banned so-called assault weapons. All in what they claim is an attempt to prevent violent crime.
Ottawa’s gun buyback is rightly falling apart
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun ban and buyback policy is running out of steam.
And it hasn’t even left the station.
The buyback is broken. Law-abiding firearms owners don’t want to lose their guns. It doesn’t go far enough for gun control advocates. And taxpayers don’t want to pick up the massive bill.
SCOTUS Should Strike Down the Biden Administration’s ‘Ghost Guns’ Rule
There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the executive branch to unilaterally redefine a longstanding provision within federal law.
One must wonder if, at this late stage in Joe Biden’s imperial presidency, the assorted courts of the United States have asked their I.T. mavens to install a keyboard shortcut on their computers that, if pressed in anger, outputs a reminder that Article I vests all legislative power in Congress rather than in the presidency. In theory, such a tactic could save a great deal of time. In the controversy would come, and, as might a worker on a production line, the judge could simply press Ctrl + Fn + 1 to issue forth yet another admonition that, however passionate he might be about a given topic, the American president is still not a king.
Joe ain’t there. They must have an automated rubber stamp issuing his decrees.
US supreme court will rule on $10bn suit Mexico filed against US gun makers
The US supreme court said on Friday it will decide whether to block a $10bn lawsuit Mexico filed against US gun manufacturers and distributors that argues that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have unleashed bloodshed in the country.
The lawsuit, filed in Boston in August, names Smith & Wesson, Barrett Firearms, Beretta, Colt and Glock, as well as Boston-area wholesaler Interstate Arms.
The Mexican government says it wants to “put an end to the massive damage that the Defendants cause by actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico”.