I really wasn’t planning on writing about this today, but since it’s been blowing up on social media I kind of feel obliged to weigh in.
The Broward County, Florida Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shooting that happened at a Walmart on Tuesday. 62-year-old Bart Diguglielmo was shot and killed by a woman as the pair were arguing about a parking space.
A Montreal police officer is dead. A civilian is dead. Another officer was seriously injured. The suspect is dead. That’s the starting point, and it’s grave enough without politicians pretending the investigation is already finished.
Canadian news outlets reported that Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, was killed after police responded to reports of a shooter near a Hilton hotel in Côte-des-Neiges.
The US supreme court will consider whether bans on semi-automatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the second amendment.
The justices said on Tuesday they will hear appeals challenging bans on the AR-15 and similar semi-automatic firearms in Connecticut and the Chicago area.
Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC. Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings. States have also continued to pass their own laws, including recent measures in Virginia and Rhode Island.
One good thing about the Wolford decision is that it’s giving us plenty to write about. Hemani gave us a bit, too, but since most of the media is pro-marijuana, it wasn’t quite as much as we might have liked. Wolford, though, has gotten all the anti-gunners wound up. When they get wound up, they start talking stupid, such as pretending that the vampire rule wasn’t a radical departure from the status quo.
We all pray that we never have to discharge our firearms in defense of our lives or the lives of someone else. Hell, most of us pray we never even have to draw our firearms. Unfortunately, I’ve had to a couple of times, though you have no idea how thankful I am that I didn’t have to pull the trigger either time.
In both cases, I was anything but cool and calm. Not internally, anyway. I had a million thoughts running through my head and my heart was racing. I was scared that everything was going to blow up in my face and someone I cared about would end up dead, even me.
Another US-to-Canada firearms trafficking case shows where the real public safety threat lives: smugglers, straw purchasers, border pipelines, and organized crime.
The latest US-to-Canada gun trafficking case does not point to hunters, sport shooters, collectors, farmers, or licenced firearms owners: the focal point of Ottawa’s firearms confiscation schemes.
A prominent gun control advocacy group is repeating its call for an immediate end to new sales of SKS rifles following the deadly shooting in Montreal on Monday.
Although police have not publicly confirmed which type of firearm was used by the suspect in the shooting that left Montreal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane and civilian Michel Mizrahi dead, Radio-Canada has confirmed it was an SKS rifle — a semi-automatic rifle of Russian origin that dates back to the 1950s.
In a media statement Thursday, the group PolySeSouvient urged the federal Liberals to halt new sales of SKS models, saying it would close an obvious gap and send a clear signal.
Can citizens who have been trained and have concealed carry licenses actually carry concealed in shops or other private property open to the public without being given express permission by the property owner?
A sport does not have to be banned outright to be killed.
It only has to be denied a future.
CBC reporter Vincent McDermott recently profiled northern Alberta IPSC competitors whose sport is being slowly strangled by Ottawa’s handgun freeze.
Toy guns–actual toy guns–aren’t something we should really have to worry about being regulated into obscurity. I’m not talking about super-realistic airsoft guns or non-firing replicas that are little more than props, but look realistic. Those might run afoul of some enterprising anti-gunner and, to some degree, already have.
A women’s advocacy organization and several other groups that support gun control are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to fully implement a key facet of firearms legislation passed 30 months ago.
The measure makes a person subject to a protection order – a legal order often issued in intimate partner violence cases – ineligible to hold a firearms licence while the order is in effect.
The provision is intended to quickly remove firearms from the hands of abusers at the time when they are often the most dangerous.
While the Liberal government has once again extended its amnesty on the possession of so-called assault weapons, there is another draconian gun law adopted a few years ago that is still actively being enforced: the ban on selling and transferring handguns put in place by then-Prime Minster Justin Trudeau in 2023.
There are limited exceptions to the ban, including for the purchase of pistols used in Olympic-style shooting. But other competitive shooting leagues, including the International Practical Shooting Confederation, that use standard handguns, are doomed to extinction if the ban remains in place.
h/t Mauser
From Ontario’s Peel Region, to Surrey and Abbotsford, BC, to Edmonton, Alberta, the pattern is impossible to dismiss.
Extortion. Shootings. Arson. Cross-border smuggling networks.
Illegal firearms are moving between provinces faster than police can trace them.
Most guns used in Canadian crimes were not smuggled in from abroad: internal reports https://t.co/GzUZknt6oH
— Judy Trinh (@judyatrinh) June 11, 2026
Community notes.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – The vast majority of crime guns traced by the RCMP to identifiable sources in 2023 and 2024 came from within Canada and were not smuggled from abroad, say internal reports prepared by the national police force.
The analyses found almost all of the long guns traced — and a substantial number of the handguns — were domestically sourced.
