BREAKING NEWS: ONTARIO OPTS OUT
Only hours ago, during a lobby meeting with the Solicitor General of Ontario, the honourable M. Kerzner assured our lobbyist that the provincial gov would be unwilling to divert provincial resources to the LIB/NDP Federal confiscation efforts. pic.twitter.com/XqNcpajCwJ— Canada's National Firearms Association (@CanadasNFA) February 4, 2024
h/t Surele Surele
While the rate of homicides involving a firearm has increased in Canada, those crimes are not usually committed by people who have a licence for the weapon, according to a Statistics Canada report.
“The firearms used in homicides were rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners who were in good standing,” said the report, titled Firearms and Violent Crime in Canada 2022.
Violent crimes involving a firearm in Canada are increasing, a new report by Statistics Canada suggests.
According to the agency, there was an 8.9 per cent increase in firearm-related violent crimes(opens in a new tab) per 100,000 people in 2022.
“The 2022 rate of firearm-related violent crime is the highest since comparable data were first compiled in 2009,” the report published on Tuesday reads.
Could ‘smart gun’ tech have stopped the Danforth mass shooting? Smith & Wesson denies liability in $150 million Toronto lawsuit
In 2000, U.S. gunmaker Smith & Wesson acknowledged the risks posed by lost and stolen guns and entered an agreement with the U.S. government to implement “safety and design” changes to its civilian handgun products — including mechanisms that could deter unauthorized use.
That never happened, and 18 years later, a man in Toronto armed with a stolen Smith & Wesson M&P40 handgun randomly shot two young people and injured 13 others in a mass shooting on Danforth Avenue.
This was a Muslim terror attack.
Georgia United Credit Union recently updated their User Agreement — you know, that wall of text that your financial institution flashes at you from time to time and which few people bother to read. The catch: If you rely on Georgia United Credit Union for your purchasing tool, like, say, a debit card, you may no longer use that to purchase firearms, ammunition, firearms parts, or accessories, along with a host of other items.
h/t XC
The Seventh Circuit has recently ruled AR-15 pattern rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment. The lawless ruling ignores the Heller and Bruen decisions.
Leading the list of long guns sold, the ubiquitous AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in America. Circa 2023, Americans own more than 23 million. The AR-15 is also the rifle type democrats/Socialists/Communists are most desperate to ban, that and so-called “high capacity magazines,” which have been standard capacity magazines since the Vietnam War.
There are some DAs who are very tough on crime and there are others who are soft on crime. It doesn’t matter what city, county, or state you’re in. What matters is the DA in charge of prosecuting crimes in your neck of the woods.
In Ohio, though, there are a few mixed signals being sent by a prosecutor.
OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals’ contentious gun control legislation will do little to stop gun crime while ensuring the end of sport shooting in Canada, advocates say.
Bill C-21 is poised to become law after passing third reading in the Senate with an easy 60 to 24 majority Thursday evening. The legislation would freeze the sale or transfer of handguns, add a definition of what constitutes a prohibited so-called “assault rifle” to the criminal code, and introduce “yellow flag” and “red flag” laws that would allow anyone to apply for emergency prohibition orders against somebody they feel poses a danger.
A Canada Border Services Agency Report said that just over 68,000 guns were seized by federal agents in cross-border mail between 2018 and 2022.
The report, which put the total at 68,338 guns, was the first to date to identify the scope of gun smuggling.
Canadian gun rights advocates have submitted an appeal to the Federal Court’s decision in which it dismissed multiple lawsuits against the Liberal government’s May 2020 ban on more than 1,500 firearms.
The appeal was filed on Nov. 29 by the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights (CCFR) along with several firearms dealers and gun owners after Justice Catherine Kane ruled on Oct. 30 that the government had not exceeded its authority granted by Parliament by bringing forth the ban.
Los Angeles homeowner Vince Ricci says he was coming home from the gym when two intruders ran up behind him after jumping the fence in his backyard.
“Out of nowhere I felt someone run up behind me, put something to my back, put a pistol to my back and somebody running up,” the man told ABC 7.
Feel Good Friday
Vince Ricci was forced to defend himself & his family in his LA home.
To thank him for his valiant effort, @LAPDHQ presented him with the key to the city…
Sike, they actually took away his gun permit because he yelled at the dumb ass officer. pic.twitter.com/FElHeUHCeG
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 17, 2023
German Kurd Jacob Duygu, found dead in 2021, designed a semi-automatic pistol used by criminals and paramilitaries around the world
The shadowy figure behind the world’s most successful 3D-printed weapon has been unmasked as a 28-year-old “incel” who claimed gun ownership was a basic human right.
Jacob Duygu, who was known by the pseudonym JStark 1809, developed the FGC-9 [F— Gun Control 9mm] in March 2020 after becoming frustrated at the standard of existing models.
Little was known about his true identity or background, but a report published by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) has now revealed him to be the son of Kurdish immigrants who served with the German military and held deeply misogynistic, racist and anti-Semitic views.
OTTAWA — Internal government documents from 2019 put the cost of a government mandatory gun buyback at nearly $2 billion, despite assurances during the last federal election that expropriating so-called “assault rifles” from licensed Canadian firearms owners would only cost between $400 million and $600 million.
In documents published as part of an access-to-information request, an internal presentation prepared in December 2019 by the Department of Justice puts the cost of confiscating what it described as “military-style assault rifles,” with compensation for the owners, at more than double the figure touted by then public safety minister Bill Blair.
OTTAWA – The Federal Court today dismissed a legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s May 2020 regulations banning some 1,500 styles of firearms.
Justice Catherine Kane says in a decision released today that the applicants raised issues around the matter of guns and public safety but the court only explored the question of whether Trudeau’s cabinet went beyond its powers in passing the regulations.
Most news articles about the animal in Lewiston, Maine, who shot 31 people, killing 18, focus specifically on the shooter’s skin color and “AR-15 style” rifle. The media seem to have missed the ten mass shootings that have taken place in the three and a half days since the Maine massacre.
