Your News About Guns – Vos Nouvelles Sur Les Armes À Feu
Canada’s Senate is likely to approve Bill C-71 in winter or early spring, CTV News reported today, citing the sponsor of the planned law to further curtail the privacy and freedom of hunters and sport shooters. “I am confident that it will pass, eventually,” Senator André Pratte told CTV News in an interview […]
The PolySeSouvient group traveled to Ottawa on Monday to reiterate the urgency of adopting greater gun control. He denounces that Bill C-71, introduced at the beginning of the year, is still not in force. On the eve of the 29th anniversary of the Polytechnique tragedy, the group fears that the […]
Displaying information on its website that gave the public and gun store owners the impression Bill C-71 was already in force has landed the RCMP in trouble. An RCMP bulletin to gun stores and placed on their public website said the Swiss Arms and some Czech CZ 858 rifles are […]
The RCMP has improved its internal approval process for online postings after sending out a potentially misleading message on firearms earlier this year, a House of Commons committee heard this week. The procedure and house affairs committee has been hearing testimony about whether an RCMP post about Bill C-71 was in contempt of Parliament for treating the Liberals’ […]
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 […]
To refresh your memory, this petition was launched by Ryan Slingerland of Coalhurst, Alberta on March 28, 2018 at 10:55 am (EDT) Summary of this petition: Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain firearms laws and regulations, will have no effect on gun violence, but will impose new red tape […]
You are a firearms owner, you want to make your opinion known about the possible ban on handguns and weapons that the Ministry of Public Security calls “assault weapons”. The online mobilization ends on November 10, 2018. Here is an excerpt from their website: Ensuring community safety and reducing violent […]
A parliamentary committee is looking into whether the RCMP should be found in contempt of Parliament for posting potentially misleading advice to firearm and gun shop owners regarding the Liberals’ gun legislation. At the centre of the dispute is the question of whether the Canadian firearms program’s website anticipated a decision of Parliament by […]
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