Gun Rights

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

A judge in Lonoke County, Arkansas, on Thursday dismissed second-degree murder charges against Army veteran Aaron Spencer, who was facing charges for fatally shooting Michael Fosler, who allegedly sexually abused and kidnapped his minor daughter.

Every year I reflect on gun ownership and, more specifically, carrying a concealed handgun. The Second Amendment acknowledges, but does not bestow, the natural, unalienable right to keep and bear arms, based in self-defense and given by God. It cannot be granted by government, nor taken away by government. No government has ever disarmed its people for good and altruistic reasons, and history records that a disarmed people are a people under tyranny.

OTTAWA — It’s time for Queen’s Park to holster Canada’s gun grab.

That’s the message the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is sending to Ontario Premier Doug Ford after a late-May Leger poll showed that more than half of respondents with an opinion were in favour of the Ontario government passing legislation to block the federal government’s beleaguered gun “buyback” program, following similar legislation tabled and adopted in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

When a gun is pointed at you, even for a split second, the barrel seems a whole lot larger than it really is. I’ve been unfortunate enough to experience that due to someone’s unsafe gun handling, so I’m talking from first-hand experience. Because of that, I don’t get worked up when there’s an officer-involved shooting, and the person shot by the police has a BB gun. I hate that it happened, and I feel awful for the officer, because I know that’s got to screw with a person’s head.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to go beyond joining a court challenge against Ottawa’s firearm ban and pass legislation blocking federal gun grab efforts in the province.

The taxpayer advocacy group praised Ford’s decision to intervene in a Supreme Court challenge against the Liberal government’s gun prohibition scheme but said Ontario should follow Alberta and Saskatchewan by formally preventing provincial participation in the program.

It will alienate his liberal base.

The gun control lobby has done a pretty good job of masking its true intentions behind a veneer of “gun safety.” Even though advocates like Gabby Giffords have proclaimed at times that the goal is “no more guns,” folks like Brady’s Kris Brown regularly claim that they’re not opposed to gun ownership but are just in favor of a few “reasonable, common sense gun regulations.”