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TORONTO — The Conservatives are promising mandatory minimum sentences for certain gun crimes and to list known street gangs in the Criminal Code, similar to the way terror groups are identified, as part of the party’s gun strategy unveiled Friday on the campaign trail. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s policies focus […]
Dwight Peer, the Chief Firearms Officer for Ontario, comments below on the Canada-wide surge in buying AR-15 target rifles in May and June, gun-owner licensing, and related topics. Peer spoke with TheGunBlog.ca on July 4 at his office in Orillia, about 130 km north of Toronto. Ontario Chief Firearms Officer Dwight […]
Bill C-71 passed its third and final vote in the Canadian Senate today as the governing Liberal Party’s new law to criminalize hunters, farmers and sport shooters and take away their guns. Senators voted 55 in favour and 33 against, with 2 abstentions starting at 5:34 p.m. in Ottawa. Pro-Liberal members supported […]
The number of Canadians with a gun licence rose to a record in March after 24 straight quarterly increases, RCMP data show. The surging appeal of sport shooting also drove Canadian handgun owners to a new high. The country counted 2,186,161 adults with a firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) […]
The Senate is set for a final vote Thursday on a Liberal gun-control bill that has been one of the government’s most contentious pieces of legislation since Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tabled it in the Commons more than a year ago. Conservative senators were still engaged Tuesday in a […]
OTTAWA — The federal public-safety minister suggests the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand will spur parliamentarians to take a careful look at Canada’s gun laws. Ralph Goodale says the killing of 50 people in Christchurch has sparked a global sense of concern that will prompt Canadian politicians to make some timely decisions. Goodale says his cabinet […]
L’opposition est féroce à la loi obligeant les propriétaires à enregistrer leurs armes à feu auprès du gouvernement. En date d’aujourd’hui, 140 municipalités soutiennent la cause. Ce chiffre ne cesse d’augmenter de jour en jour. “Acheter local dans une municipalité contre le registre” La bonne façon de soutenir les municipalités qui […]
OTTAWA — Federal minister Bill Blair says his ideas for new gun-control rules might come within weeks. Since August, Blair been working on ways to get handguns and assault rifles off Canada’s streets, with measures that might include anything from restrictions on sales to crackdowns on smuggling. Today he told […]
TORONTO — A uniquely violent year in Toronto marked by a major surge in gun-related crimes saw police seize an unusually high number of handguns from city streets, the force’s chief said Thursday. Mark Saunders said officers had recovered 514 handguns so far in 2018 — or 222 more than […]
Minister Geneviève Guilbault launches the moment on the gentle method to convince hunters to register their firearms on the register. “There are fines, yes, for people who have not fulfilled their obligations, but you know, before the repression, I prefer to bet on the prevention part,” she said Monday, in […]
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