Gun Control

As the Liberals’ controversial gun control bill saw itself forced out of committee early Friday morning, observers say the government’s attempt to hurry the nearly year-old bill to completion leaves behind too many concerning issues.

Firearms policy expert Tim Thurley expressed concern over the government’s application of time allocation rules that curtailed debate in favour of moving passage along.

“The federal government said they would ‘take the time to get it right,’ and took weeks to present a huge, brand-new amendment package that dramatically changes aspects of the bill,” he told the National Post.

Motions introduced Monday into the House of Commons on the government’s controversial firearms bill are engineered to limit debate and force it through the house, Conservative MPs allege.

Speaking to reporters outside of the House on Monday, Conservative Public Safety Critic Raquel Dancho said the motion was meant to move along the Trudeau Liberals’ stalled Bill C-21 and it wouldn’t have been introduced without help from the NDP.

Baz Kanda bought an AR-15 a few years ago, planning to participate in competitive shooting events. But since the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau banned a long list of firearms including the AR-15, Kanda has had to leave the country in order to train and compete in his sport.

From April 11 to 20, gun groups and owners were in Federal Court in Ottawa for an eight-day hearing after launching a court challenge against the government’s plan to bring in a gun ban through an order-in-council.

When it comes to America’s vast gun culture, no weapon has become as ubiquitous – or controversial – as the AR-15, a gun that is both lauded as “America’s Rifle” and vilified as the weapon of choice for mass shooters.

The gun, early versions of which became available in the 1950s, is one of the most popular among American gun owners, with tens of millions currently in circulation. By some estimates, one in 20 Americans owns one. The popularity of the gun even prompted some conservative lawmakers to try to officially designate the AR-15 “the National Gun of the United States”.

It’s become virtually impossible to find reliable data or polling on gun violence these days. A new Kaiser Family Foundation report being shared by virtually every major media outlet this week offers us a good example of why. The headlines report that “1 in 5 adults” in the United States claim that a “family member” has been “killed” by a gun. And, let’s just say, that’s a highly dubious claim.

Manuel Yambo had never heard of a “ghost” gun until his 16-year-old daughter was killed by one.

He was at home, getting ready for work, when he got a call that every parent dreads. His daughter Angellyh had been hit by a stray bullet near her school. Before he could get to the hospital, another call came in: She was dead. He didn’t believe it until he saw her for himself.

It was just a few months ago that Angellyh was celebrating her sixteenth birthday, dancing with her father wearing a pink gown and a crown.

The liberal media are all for live fact-checks and dishing out Pinocchios when they’re targeting conservatives, but their obsessive desire to nitpick and say “It’s accurate, but…” goes right out the window when it’s for their agenda. This was the case on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings when they pushed a dubious “gun violence” study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that wrapped firearm accidents, suicides, and defensive uses together with mass shootings and crime for an anti-gun rights message.

The legal challenge to the Liberal government’s order to ban over a thousand models of firearms is being heard in federal court this week.

Multiple suits were filed after the federal government designated in May 2020 a set of then-legal firearms as prohibited. A buyback program estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars is yet to become operational.

The Colt AR-15 looked more like a laser blaster than dad’s trusty rifle when it hit the market in 1964.

It was made from aluminum and plastic, not the heavier metals and wood used in traditional firearms. Its cartridges were tiny compared with typical hunting ammunition. And it was all black — a dour monochrome far from the rich walnut accentuating many guns at the time.

Alec Baldwin has been criticized on social media after reposting a message about gun control – after his own fatal shooting on the set of movie Rust.

The actor, who has been charged following the death of Halyna Hutchins, posted on social media following the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, where six people lost their lives.

The post, written on Twitter by rocker Peter Frampton, read: ’26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation.