A 28-year-old Akwesasne man faces 126 criminal charges for allegedly smuggling dozens of firearms, magazines and ammunition into Canada through Mohawk territory in Eastern Ontario.
h/t DS
Gun Control
Ottawa will let gun shop owners use couriers for buyback program
OTTAWA — Retailers participating in the federal gun buyback scheme should be able to turn in banned firearms using courier companies starting this fall, as the Trudeau government gears up to begin the first phase of the long-awaited program.
On Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced regulatory changes that will allow retailers to surrender banned firearms using courier services, a move critics say is long overdue and that gun-control advocates celebrate as a “critical” first step in a program that has been mired in controversy.
Canada’s Gun ‘Emergency’ Not So Urgent After All
While there are profound similarities between Canada and the United States, we would do well to remember that those cultural similarities simply hide the profound differences. And, of course, there are governmental differences as well.
For example, they don’t have a Second Amendment. There is nothing there to limit the government and preserve the right to keep and bear arms.
More than that, though, in the wake of Nova Scotia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that he needed to unilaterally do something about guns. It was an emergency.
An op-ed at the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail, however, is questioning that now.
Ottawa plans to launch controversial firearms buyback program during election year
Ottawa is planning to roll out a mandatory buyback program for military-style firearms during the 2025 election year, after the program was delayed by Canada Post’s refusal to participate, sources say.
With only months to go before its launch, details of the vast logistical operation remain in flux, federal officials have told Radio-Canada.
The government likely will need to adapt the program on a province-by-province basis, due to its struggle to find partners willing to collect and transport AR-15s and other weapons that were banned in 2020.
Canada Post refusing to collect banned guns for Ottawa’s buyback program
Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa’s plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say.
The Crown corporation informed the government of its position in a recent letter. It said its decision was based on concerns about its employees’ security, according to federal sources who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
‘The costs have ballooned’: Liberal government failed to anticipate difficulty of gun ‘buyback,’ association says
OTTAWA — The organization tasked with helping retailers navigate the Trudeau Liberals’ mandatory gun “buyback” says the government has bitten off far more than it can chew and is now discovering the difficulty with the sheer volume of items it may have to expropriate.
Wes Winkel, president of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA), said the government apparently didn’t anticipate that its ban on “assault-style” firearms involved a massive number of parts and accessories that could be captured by the buyback’s planned expropriation, which will require gun owners and retailers holding inventory of those items to be compensated.
Ottawa has already spent $42M on a Liberal gun ‘buyback’ that still doesn’t exist
OTTAWA — Four years after the Trudeau Liberals announced sweeping changes to Canada’s gun laws, the government has so far spent $42 million on a federal firearms confiscation program that doesn’t yet exist.
In a response to an order paper question filed by Sen. Don Plett in September, Public Safety Canada revealed that $41,904,556 has been spent so far on the government’s “firearms buyback program,” and that 60 department employees are working on the project.
Gun Ban for Illegal Immigrants Ruled Unconstitutional
The right to keep and bear arms is a natural right, meaning all free men and women have that right, regardless of where they are on the planet. It’s part of why so many of us find other nations’ gun laws so insulting. It’s a repression of people’s right to have weapons to defend themselves and their nation.
HOLY SHlT.
Obama-appointed Federal Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman just ruled that illegal immigrants have a right to carry guns.
Buckle up, folks. pic.twitter.com/oHW83O5kc9
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2024
h/t Miss Trixie
57,000 Reasons – and Counting Every Day – Why You Need an AR-15
I don’t want to sound like an alarmist but that part of the oath our military, police, and politicians take that mentions “enemies foreign and domestic” might be more than just a phrase.
When Gropey Joe Biden isn’t fighting to keep the borders open or flying 320,000 illegal immigrants to our airports at all hours of the night, he is doing his dementia-best to disarm We the People, especially of those big, scary AR-15 rifles.
Ammo Maker Delivers Mic-Drop Moment to Detroit Rapper Partnering With Brady for Gun ‘Buyback’
The gun control group Brady isn’t just interested in passing new laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s trying to change the culture as well. The outfit has spent a lot of time, money, and energy on enlisting the entertainment industry into their anti-gun activism, but their latest partnership with Detroit rapper Skillababy is already going off the rails.
OPP announce largest gun bust in Turtle Island history
Ontario Provincial Police say a joint investigation with authorities in the United States has led to the largest bust of handguns and assault-style rifles in the province’s history.
According to police, 274 illegal firearms were seized as part of Project Saxom, an OPP-led investigation in Ontario, and Dual Approach, a U.S.-led probe by Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) Buffalo field office.
The press conference begins with a ludicrous land acknowledgement.
I Prefer a Tragedy Over a Statistic
In the wake of more gun control efforts and heated rhetoric from those who would tell you that you will be safer if you give government a monopoly on lethal force, I would like to remind anyone with ears and eyes unblinded by the emasculated compassion and empathy religion that passes for progressivism of three simple facts:
- The human race is filled with violent, ignorant, insane and avaricious people.
- It happens every day, even here in progressive USA, that innocent lives are threatened and sometimes taken by those kinds of people.
- People who are armed, trained and ready to defend themselves and their loved ones are the most likely to survive.
Football, ice hockey … shooting? Finland hopes hobby will boost national defence
Finland plans to open more than 300 new shooting ranges to encourage more citizens to take up the hobby in the interest of national defence.
It is hoped that shooting in the Nordic country – which last year became Nato’s newest member and which shares a 830-mile (1,330km) border with Russia – could become as popular as football or ice hockey.
There are about 670 shooting ranges in Finland, down from about 2,000 at the turn of the century. By 2030, the government plans to increase the number to about 1,000.
GUNTER: Violent criminals with illegal guns are the problem
At the end of January, Statistics Canada published its annual report on firearms crime in Canada. Immediately our notoriously anti-gun prime minister, Justin Trudeau, jumped on the fact that gun crimes were up nearly 9% from the previous year and called for a further clampdown on legal gun ownership in Canada.