A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.”
Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of operation: semi-automatic, fully-automatic or in three-shot bursts.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is “looking at a variety of options” to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms — including enlisting outside help.
Canadian police chiefs have urged the Liberal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to deliver the coming gun buyback.
“Stephen Gutowski at The Reload, one of the rare honest voices in firearms-related journalism, published some bombshell revelations two weeks ago. What was uncovered, in my opinion, is the biggest Second Amendment story of 2022. The extent and depth of what happened at the CDC is flat-out alarming.”
A federal judge has once more found the state’s ban on carrying a gun in church, even by those with permits, violates New Yorkers’ rights.
Judge John Sinatra of the Western District of New York, a Trump appointee, again found the state’s ban unconstitutional on Thursday. The judge sided with the pastor of a church in his challenge against the state’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA) in Spencer v. Nigrelli. He ruled the ban violated worshipers’ gun rights and infringed on the free exercise of their religious beliefs.
Twenty-eight percent of Canadian firearm owners hunt for food, while another 39 percent target shoot as a hobby, according to research by the federal Public Safety department that paints a picture of typical gun owners in the country.
Half of gun owners own just one firearm, and 44 percent said they have owned their firearms for more than five years. Eight percent of firearm owners have owned their guns for less than a year. The majority have purchased their firearms legitimately from official retailers.
The CDC isn’t likely to be on many gun owners’ Christmas card lists this year. Not after revelations that they removed defensive gun use statistics at the behest of gun control advocates. The decision to do that made it very clear that while the CDC may have been prohibited from advocating for gun control, that didn’t mean they wouldn’t help push it any way they can.
In Dale Clark’s estimation, the money brought into New Brunswick by non-resident hunters — Americans or others — has never been fully appreciated.
“It is a multi-million dollar industry in the province that is not being recognized by our government, federal or provincial,” said Clark, president of the New Brunswick Professional Outfitters and Guides Association.
“We have been put on — I don’t know how you say [it] — the backburner.”
Violent crime has been a huge issue since the pandemic. Things seemed to be fine when everyone was locked down, but the moment people found an outlet to get out of the house, it seemed like a lot of them lost their damn minds.
Now, of course, we’re knee-deep in a discussion on violent crime. Democrats tend to favor gun control as the only viable solution.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently conceded that it is up to society to figure out how to define an assault weapon, saying that, “There are people who will have, right now, guns that are on the line, that are probably more powerful or more convenient than you’d really need for hunting … as a society, we have to figure out where that line is going to be.”
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States on June 24, much of the ensuing commentary expressed at least grudging respect for the Republican Party’s skill at playing “the long game.” The constitutional right to abortion, after all, was something conservatives had been chipping away at since Roe was decided back in 1973; securing its overturn, nearly five decades later, was testament to the power of staying stubbornly fixated on a political goal.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that while the federal government is not trying to go after the right to hunt through contentious gun control legislation, the Liberals “are going at some of the guns used to do it.”
Trudeau said that this is because some of these firearms “are too dangerous in other contexts.”
This fall, work in Parliament on the government’s Bill C-21—initially focused on ‘red flag’ laws and restricting legal access to handguns—became the centre of controversy after the Liberals put forward an amendment that would enshrine in law a definition for “assault-style” weapons.
“In other words, there’s almost a zero percent chance that any illegal weapons entering the country via rail will ever be found,”
Canada’s public safety department says it does not know how many guns are smuggled into the country.
In a federal briefing note obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Public Safety said the scope of gunrunning in Canada is “unknown.”
“Cross-border smuggling of firearms poses a threat to the safety and security of Canada,” said the note, titled “Efforts To Address Firearms Smuggling And Trafficking.”
A Hamilton jury has found Peter Khill not guilty of second-degree murder but guilty of manslaughter after shooting and killing Jon Styres in 2016.
After roughly 13 hours of deliberations, the 12-person jury reached the verdict on Friday afternoon.
At 5:06 p.m., Khill learned his fate.
For years, we were told that it was wrong to prohibit the CDC from doing research on guns and gun violence. I argued that nothing prohibited them from doing such research, the laws in place just prevented them from anti-gun advocacy and that it was on them to decide unbiased research equated to advocacy.
The Alberta government is taking over prosecutions of federal firearm charges, and may even decide not to take offenders to court, in its fight over Ottawa’s proposed amendments to Bill C-21.
The federal legislation has been criticized for impacting guns used by hunters.
Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro announced Thursday that the province’s Crown prosecution service would assume responsibility for prosecutions as of Jan. 1. He said federal lawyers currently handle those cases.
