The federal government’s efforts to further restrict the purchase and ownership of firearms could push domestic extremists to launch a terror attack, according to an internal government document.
The report was prepared last October by the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC), the federal agency that assesses terrorism threats based on classified and open-source information.
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.
A bill introduced by the Alberta government to protect its lawful firearms owners from the federal government’s gun confiscation program has passed third reading.
In a 28–7 vote on March 22, Bill 8, the Alberta Firearms Act, passed third reading on division, with seven NDP MLAs voting against it.
Tracing the clandestine journey that turned a legally purchased Smith & Wesson into a crime gun.
A Smith & Wesson 9-mm semi-automatic pistol, serial number HNJ6785, flashes briefly at the end of an eight-second cellphone video featuring several guns in open boxes spread across the white covering of a bed.
The video appears to have been filmed by a person holding a cellphone in one hand and using the other to toy with some of the guns. Font on the screen reads: Houston, 2:49 p.m., June 4, 2020.
The RCMP extracted the video from the cellphone of Tony N’Zoigba after his arrest for smuggling nine pistols into Canada from the U.S. on June 10, 2020.
“If you’ve ever taken part in the weekly VIP Gold live chat with HotAir’s Ed Morrissey and myself, you’ve probably heard me utter the phrase “everything is stupid and it’s only getting worse.” I’m sure there are exceptions to that rule, but when it comes to the arguments of anti-gunners, that phrase definitely applies.”
Multiple groups and individuals, portraying themselves as experts in firearm research, have misstated the current body of comparable research on firearm deaths in Canada and continue to mislead readers at home and abroad.
Gun owners in Alberta are feeling hopeful after the provincial government tabled new firearms legislation last week, but experts say it is not yet clear if Bill 8 will have the power to trump federal legislation.
Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro introduced the legislation Tuesday, saying the goal of the bill is to offer more clarity and autonomy to Albertans over firearms regulations after amendments to the federal firearms laws received pushback
Jason Acorn was 12 years old when he first shot a deer.
He was in the McLeod River Valley area, far west of Edmonton. It was freezing cold, and snow was everywhere.
He remembers pouting, because his brother had just shot a deer and he hadn’t.
But then, just at last light, a small white-tailed doe, probably weighing about 100 pounds, appeared. Acorn’s father whispered to him: “OK, Jay. It’s your turn.”
Banning new handgun sales won’t necessarily lessen crime.
So says in-house research by the Privy Council Office, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Under new firearms legislation proposed in Alberta, Justice Minister Tyler Shandro would be granted powers to license “seizure agents” and oversee gun-related funding agreements between Ottawa and municipalities – including their police forces.
The FBI coordinated secretly with hospitals and medical centers to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, buy, or even use firearms , according to a trove of internal documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Behind closed doors and without congressional approval, the FBI has worked hand in hand with the Secret Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to strip over two dozen people of their gun rights with internal forms, records show. On the heels of this revelation by the Washington Examiner in December 2022, newly obtained documents and emails shed light on how the bureau apparently received a helping hand from medical facilities to waive gun rights from at least five people.
“There are few things I hate more than getting up first thing in the morning and learning there’s been a mass shooting somewhere overnight.
It’s not because it creates work for me or even necessarily that it renews the gun debate. It’s the senseless loss of life that takes me back to a moment I wish I could forget.”
