Your News About Guns – Vos Nouvelles Sur Les Armes À Feu
Most Canadians are shocked to hear that Canada has the fourth highest level of gun violence amongst OECD nations. A revealing comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on firearms. Japan reports an average of 0.005 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, averages 0.48, nearly […]
Saskatoon police will host social media Q&A on firearms storage after Jordan Lafond inquest recommendation Saskatoon police plan to hold a Q&A day on social media in the New Year on unsafe firearms storage. It stems from the coroner’s inquest held earlier this year into the death of 22-year-old Jordan […]
The government has indicated that it will provide more details regarding the postponement of a regulation on the marking of firearms during the month of November. The Trudeau government again postponed the introduction of a gun-marking regulation to help police find weapons used for criminal purposes, despite the fact that […]
A six-year-old child and a man in his fifties were shot dead Friday night at a Montreal Island residence. The suspect was controlled shortly before 8:30 pm QMI, it is the father of the child who would have made 19h towards his son and the other victim, who would have […]
The Ministry of Environment is looking to buy 147 semi-automatic carbines for conservation officers in Saskatchewan. In a request for proposals posted this week, the ministry said the weapons are needed to keep officers safe, noting they often deal with “high risk individuals, that are often armed.” Assistant deputy minister […]
Senator Dean twisted statistics on the Senate floor. He incorrectly said that shooting was the most common way to commit suicide in Canada. It is not. According to Cause of Death statistics reported by Statistics Canada, hanging has been the most common suicide method for decades, accounting for an average 47% of all suicides […]
Trudeau proposes banning guns in order to win seat on UN Security Council Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun ban is not likely to be effective. Banning what is already illegal does not sound like a smart way to keep guns out of the hands of gangsters. Despite Canada’s strict controls on firearms, gangsters still seem […]
An investigation by the Stony Plain/Spruce Grove/Enoch RCMP Drug Section led to a significant firearms seizure. Staff Sergeant Mike Lokken (Acting Detachment Commander, Spruce Grove RCMP) provided the details about this seizure at the Spruce Grove RCMP detachment on Monday April 30, 2018.Larry Wong / POSTMEDIA NETWORK We are your friends, […]
Ottawa will spend $ 86 million to stem the flow of illegal arms into the country and fight the resurgence of gun violence. The Canada Border Services Agency will receive 60% of this amount – $ 51.5 million over five years – to enhance its Detector Dog Service, which helps […]
The Canadian government said its survey on banning guns is an “open, anonymous and barrier-free tool” as it responded to concern of biased questions and unreliable answers. Background Gun owners across the country criticized the relevance and methodology of the online questionnaire after it went live on Oct. 11. They […]
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