Trudeau promises more gun control and goes on the attack against Scheer

Firearms rights group to file injunction to extend amnesty on AR-15 ban​

'The criminality of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, through no fault of their own, is at risk here'

With just six weeks left before amnesty granted under a May 2020 firearms prohibition expires, a Canadian firearm owners’ advocacy group is planning to take the federal government to court.

The injunction, expected to be filed on Friday, comes courtesy of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR,) who say it’s time the Trudeau Liberals stop leaving scores of Canadian gun owners wondering if their collections will be illegal by Halloween.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the government to play politics and leave everyone hanging in the breeze, trying to figure out if they’re exposed to a 10-year prison sentence.”

An order-in-council introduced by now-ousted Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on May 1, 2020, reclassified a number of commonly owned firearms as prohibited, including variants of the AR-15 long rifle, the Ruger Mini-14, M14, SIG’s MCX and MPX family of firearms, and any firearm capable of muzzle energies greater than 10,000 joules.

A mandated grace period, which has already been extended once, is set to expire on Oct. 30.

 

Gary Mauser: The Facts Behind Canada’s So-Called 'Crime Guns'​

Canada’s legal gun owners are again being blamed for increasing criminal violence in Canada.

A recent article in the Globe and Mail pushed claims that between one-third and one-half of “crime guns” are “domestically sourced,” citing police tracking statistics first reported by Bloomberg News. The article goes on to imply that the growth in shootings and firearms-related crime is due to the increase in legally imported firearms (particularly handguns and semi-automatic long guns) over the past two decades.

It stretches credulity that Canadian duck hunters and sport shooters are somehow responsible for the current upswing in violent crime.

These claims are profoundly misleading. They fly in the face of convincing evidence that Canada’s licensed gun owners are exceptionally law-abiding. Legal guns are rarely used to commit crimes. Canada’s police chiefs have testified in Parliament that the bulk of the guns used in crime in Canada are smuggled. Statistics Canada data show that exceptionally few Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) holders are accused of murder. Even during the long-gun registry, few legally registered guns were used in gun crime—either directly or indirectly due to theft or straw purchases.

 

Liberals’ firearm ban leaves Canadian gun retailers in limbo​

Canadian gun businesses have been left with stockpiles of unsellable inventory for over 28 months since the Liberals enacted an order-in-council banning 1500 types of firearms, while the promised government “buyback” program remains unseen. Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association president Wes Winkel joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss the impact of this situation on the industry.

 

Disinvitation from École Polytechnique group sent Trudeau government into damage control mode: emails​

A Quebec-based anti-gun group declaring it would disinvite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the annual commemoration of a 1989 mass shooting because it disapproved of his latest gun-control measure sent several officials within the Public Safety Ministry into damage-control mode looking for ways to respond, documents released under access-to-information show.

 

Federal Court to Rule This Month on Liberal Gun Confiscations​

4 Oct 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Federal Court will rule this month on the governing Liberal Party’s crackdown begun in May 2020 against government-licensed gun owners, said Christine Generoux, one of the people in court challenging the attacks.

Ruling By October 31​

Justice Catherine Kane shared her decision deadline today during a Zoom video call with representatives of all the applicants, Generoux said.
“The judge promised us a final ruling on the merits before Halloween,” Generoux told TheGunBlog.ca today by telephone.
Halloween is October 31.
Rod Giltaca, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR), which is also in Federal Court to stop the Liberals, said on his personal X (Twitter) account today that Kane told he applicants she will share her decision “by the end of October.”

Why It Matters​

  • Kane’s opinion on the legality or illegality of the Liberal crackdown will affect hundreds of thousands of gun owners and businesses.
  • Generoux and her fellow challengers have been in court since then to stop what they say is an unlawful and unconstitutional attack on honest citizens. Their hearing was in April.
  • Many gun owners are skeptical of victory in what they view as a pro-Liberal and anti-gun legal system. Whichever side Kane rules against may appeal.

Injunction to Extend Confiscation Deadline​

Separately, Generoux and the CCFR asked the court for an injunction to force the Liberals to extend their confiscation deadline beyond October 30.
“I am absolutely optimistic about this injunction,” Generoux said. “We’ll have our injunction hearing on October 25. We’ll be having a ruling on that forthwith, probably from the bench.”
A ruling from the bench refers to an opinion immediately after the hearing.

Failing Confiscation Fantasy​

  • The Liberals have pushed their confiscation fantasy for more than five years.
  • They had hoped initially to complete their forced seizures by April 2022. They have yet to announce a start date.
  • They still have zero clue how to execute their crackdown against uncooperative targets.
    • They’ve been hampered by massive provincial, police and public pushback, as well as major legislative and logistical obstacles.
  • The Liberals are on course to fail.
 

Legal Corner​

- Guy Lavergne

Two Years Into The Gun Ban: Where Do We Stand?
The Amnesty Period
Since the ban was enacted with immediate effect, the government had no choice but to also enact a general amnesty in favour of the individuals and businesses that were legally in possession of the banned firearms at the time of enactment. This was also necessary because the OIC, while prohibiting use and transfer, specifically provided that current owners were to retain possession of their newly prohibited firearms until the buy-back scheme is implemented. The government could not, on the one hand, allow owners to retain their firearms, but on the other hand make them liable to criminal prosecution for doing so.

The original amnesty period had a duration of two years. In the fall of 2021, it became increasingly clear that the two-year amnesty period would not suffice. Indeed, the government had not followed through on its plan to implement a buy-back program and there was little to no chance that it was going to be implemented before the expiry of the two-year amnesty period.

At a case management conference between the attorneys for the litigants, the federal court’s associate chief justice took the initiative of booking a temporary injunction hearing for April 11, 2022, even though no party had yet made a motion for such relief, as it had become obvious that without a court order staying some aspects of the OIC, a large number of Canadian gun owners were at risk of becoming liable to criminal prosecution upon expiry of the then current two-year amnesty period.

That April 11 hearing never took place. Instead of getting a legal slap in the face from the federal court , which looked like a near certainty, the government chose to extend the amnesty period for an extra 18 months, pretexting that gun owners needed additional time to comply with the ban. That is of course a fallacy, meant to hide the government’s own shortcomings and lack of preparedness.
Given the current pace of things, a further extension of the amnesty period is far from impossible.

Now What?

Seeing that the current Liberal government has yet to even file proposed legislation to support a buy-back program, it seems likely that the federal court will hear and decide upon the validity of the OIC before any such legislation comes into effect.

A decision favourable to gun owners would have immediate effect but could be stayed by the Federal Court of Appeal.

The government could also be waiting for a court decision on purpose, to remedy any issues that make the OIC invalid through legislation. Indeed, if the federal court finds the OIC to be invalid, parliament could then remedy the underlying invalidity through statute, if the reason for the invalidity is not a constitutional one.

In other words, the only certainty at this point is that the future is uncertain.

Guy Lavergne, Attorney at Law
 

Liberals Target a Fraction of a Fraction​

MP Raquel Dancho, Shadow Minister for Public Safety and Blaine Calkins, Shadow Minister for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation released the following statement:
"Today, the Liberal government quietly extended the amnesty period for complying with the May 2020 firearms ban to October 30, 2025.

This is critically important news for the two million trained, tested, and vetted Canadian firearms owners who Justin Trudeau has demonized for the past 8 years.

Make no mistake: Justin Trudeau and his Public Safety Ministers have promised to confiscate the firearms of millions of law-abiding Canadians and they have every intention of doing so.

This amnesty extension is an admission of Liberal incompetence, and that the Liberal government’s so-called buyback is a costly, bureaucratic boondoggle that will burn billions of taxpayer dollars for no public safety benefit whatsoever.

The date of the extended amnesty further demonstrates that Justin Trudeau plans to use Canadian hunters, farmers, and sports shooters as political props well into the next election.

Conservatives will continue to stand up for Canadian hunters, farmers, sport shooters, and Indigenous Canadians and all those who use firearms lawfully. We will tackle rising crime and gun violence by investing in frontline policing services, expanded border security, and youth diversion programs, and bringing in tough on crime measures that target criminals and gangsters. Canada's Conservatives are the only party that will implement the common sense firearms and public safety policies needed to bring home safe streets and respect law-abiding Canadians."

 
The Liberals are such a joke picking fights with law abiding gun owners - their focus needs to be on clamping down on repeat offenders and illegal guns, not wasting time and money taking guns away from those who abide by the law. Libs have been so effective taking away guns from everyone, including our military, that Canada has become an international laughing stock. Biden did't even bother including Canada in the national security call amoung core countries to garner support for Israel - we gutted our military to the point the barrel is dry. Heck, Canada couldn't even send 1,000 peace keepers to Haiti when asked to chip in - he had to rely upon Kenya to do it. Wow...has Canada ever fallen from international relevance under the Liberal watch.
 
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Fatal bear attack spurs conversation on guns for self-defence in national parks

A double fatal grizzly bear attack in Banff National Park emphasizes the need to review the ban on guns for self-defence in Canada’s national parks, a firearm rights group says.

National Parks wildlife regulations forbid firearm use in Banff, despite risks posed to hikers and campers by animals such as bears, cougars and coyotes.

The Sept. 29 deaths of campers Doug Inglis and Jenny Gusse aren’t the first and won’t be the last, according to Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights spokesperson Tracey Wilson.

“It amplifies the necessity for Canadians to be able to protect themselves against wildlife,” she says. “We have the tools and the technology to protect ourselves. We just don’t have the legal ability to do so.”

According to Wilson, things could have “absolutely” ended differently if the couple had firearms instead of bear spray, which failed to deter the bear from killing them or their dog.

While some view the national park gun ban as being about wildlife protection, Wilson noted laws against poaching and hunting already exist. If someone were to break one of these laws, Wilson argues, the government would throw the book at them.

“But to just ban the use and carry of a firearm in a national park is a danger to human life,” she says.

Inglis and Jenny Gusse, along with their border collie, were discovered by the Wildlife Human Attack response team with an empty canister of bear deterrent spray nearby.

Despite being labelled as ‘bear spray,’ Wilson says this deterrent would be more effective against a dog or a smaller animal.
“A hungry grizzly bear is not going to be stopped by bear spray,” she says. “When you’ve got a giant charging grizzly coming at you, a can of bear spray is like throwing marbles in a war.”

The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights advocates for gun owners in an increasingly hostile regulatory climate. In May 2020, the federal government prohibited 1500 variants of what it called “military-style assault weapons,” though many of the guns on the list were used by hunters.

The government put in place a two year amnesty period, which was renewed in 2022 and again this week and now is set to lapse in 2025.

“Canadians know it’s not licensed gun owners, hunters, and trappers out there shooting up the streets of Toronto,” says Wilson.

She believes that the Conservative government, should they win the next election, would take a far more focused approach to targeting actual crime, violence, and gun smuggling instead of gun owners.

“I think you would see a total 180 on the way things are done on the public safety file. I think with the rising crime and violence across Canada, Canadians are ready for it.”

National parks are meant to preserve the land and wildlife within them. However, if humans are allowed to enter these areas, Wilson says, “it only makes sense to me that they should have the ability to protect their own lives should they find themselves in that unfortunate circumstance.”

The prohibition doesn’t apply to superintendents, park wardens, or peace officers, which Wilson suggests is a recognition by the government that firearms serve an important purpose.

“Self-defence against wildlife in remote situations should be a right for every Canadian.”

https://tnc.news/2023/10/13/fatal-bear-attack-conversation-guns-self-defence-national-parks2/
 

Trudeau's gun ban extension shows it was always about politics​

PM banned 1,500 types of guns more than three years ago but just announced owners can keep them for at least two more years

On May 1, 2020, Justin Trudeau told the Canadian people he was banning the legal possession of thousands of legally owned guns to keep our streets safe.

Last week, his government extended the amnesty for legal gun owners to keep those very same rifles and shotguns until Oct. 30, 2025.

For those keeping track, that means the government has no plans to deal with the guns they said were so dangerous they must be seized until five and half years after they banned them.

Not that any thinking person believed that Trudeau’s announcement in May 2020 would actually improve public safety. As usual, Trudeau was using a tragedy to play politics with legal gun owners, something those of us paying attention had seen again and again.

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The fact is that of the 1,500 types of guns he banned that day through regulation, there was no history of gun crime with them. They were rifles and shotguns used for hunting and for target shooting, but the guns belonging to licensed owners were not the crime guns most people were concerned about.

Yet, here we are, almost three and a half years later and those guns that Trudeau said were so dangerous they must be confiscated are still in a gun safe in your neighbour’s basement. That is where they will stay for another two years as the feds continue to try to figure out how to confiscate them in their so-called “buy-back” program.

The feds have asked the Canadian military if they could help and have been turned down, they’ve asked Canada Post and been rejected as well. The RCMP doesn’t have the ability, money or human resources to carry out such a program and provincial police forces in Ontario and Quebec aren’t about to do the work of the federal government.

The bottom line is, three and half years ago, Justin Trudeau said he was banning these guns to improve public safety. The guns remain where they were and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, until after the next election, and public safety has not improved.

 
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