Firearms have been a big part of my life, even though I didn’t grow up around them.
When I was 12, I got the chance to shoot a small-bore rifle for the first time in the Air Cadet program. Target shooting demands focus, discipline and consistency. That challenge had me hooked from the start.
Mark Carney’s grand pronouncement that he will “reinvigorate the implementation of an efficient gun-buyback program for assault-style firearms” is laughable.
The Liberal government, via Bill Blair, has claimed they will impose their Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme for the past five years. They haven’t confiscated a single banned firearm from a licensed owner, despite wasting $67 million.
A lot of people have ideas of what self-defense actually means, and a lot of people have a very wrong idea.
Usually, this doesn’t matter all that much since it’s largely confined to internet discussions between people who, thankfully, will never need to act in self-defense. Many of those who do find themselves in situations where the actions are clear, so their wrong ideas about the edges of what’s legal and what isn’t don’t come into play.
Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age amid calls in firearm circles to loosen bans
Canadian-born Hashim Akbar first shot his grandfather’s gun as a child while visiting Pakistan.
“It was obviously scary. I was a small child, but it was also very exciting as well. There’s … a lot of adrenalin that goes through someone’s body,” said Akbar, 23, vice-president of the Simon Fraser Sports Shooting Club (SFSSC) in Burnaby, B.C.
As a teen, the university student tried and loved skeet shooting and now owns his own lever-action rifle. He applied for a gun licence last October, making him one of 7,446 Canadians under 30 to do so in 2024. But by the time he received the document, the guns he wanted were prohibited by the federal government.
And …
Key plank in Mark Carney’s crime platform has been Canadian law for decades
Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced his party’s new crime reduction strategy on Thursday, pledging to tackle gun violence and disrupt criminal gangs through tougher measures and increased law enforcement resources.
Central to his proposal is a reinvigorated gun grab program targeting assault-style firearms, along with a broader plan to keep drugs and illegal weapons off Canadian streets.
A North Dakota man has been cleared of any potential charges stemming from a shooting last November, but the man who was shot could be heading to prison.
Age limits for gun purchases are very popular with anti-gunners. They love the federal age limits on handguns and they want the same limits on at least some long guns.
They’ll tell you that these age limits keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are young enough that their brains haven’t fully developed and can’t be trusted to be rational while owning guns.
Imagine you’re in the center of a mob. A bunch of punks on bicycles are beating you half to death–let’s assume you’re disarmed for some reason–and you’re not sure you’ll survive. Then you see it: A white car with flashing blue lights. You’re saved!
Only, you’re not. The officer never exits the vehicle. She just sits inside and watches, possibly recording it on the dash cam, but doing absolutely nothing else.
OTTAWA — She survived four bullets fired by a mass murderer during the 1989 Polytechnique massacre. She has campaigned for decades for stricter gun control. Now, she is a Liberal candidate.
Nathalie Provost, who recently criticized the Liberals for their slow pace on the mandatory gun buyback program and threatened not to invite former prime minister Justin Trudeau to the 35th anniversary of the Polytechnique commemoration, will run under the Liberal Party of Canada banner in the federal riding of Châteauguay–Les Jardins-de-Napierville, near Montreal.
Canada is not the 51st state. While Trump keeps talking about it, I’m sincerely hoping this is just him trolling, because I sure as heck don’t want Canada to have any say in American politics.
The last thing we need is yet another anti-gun state in the nation, especially when I’m still kind of hoping Denmark buys California.
This is the weirdest timeline ever.
The term “gun death” is fairly problematic in a lot of ways. First, guns aren’t dying, so there’s that.
Moreover, it treats all deaths resulting from a gunshot as somehow equal. We don’t see numbers for everyone who dies as the result of an edged implement like a knife or razorblade, for example. We don’t see “gravity deaths” that include people who jump off of a bridge and those tossed out of a 14th story window.
It’s just the guns.
179 new firearm models are being banned today.
This is the 3rd ban of firearms by specific make and model: May 1 2020, Dec 5 2024, and now March 7 2025.
Remember: not one firearm that has been "banned" in almost 5 years has been confiscated from a licensed individual.
Not one.…
— FirearmsInCanada (@FirearmsInCDA) March 7, 2025
h/t Mauser
Americans who have never owned guns before are now buying their first firearms and reveal they feel compelled to be armed for a variety of different reasons.
Over the Covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 7.5million American adults became new gun owners, half were women, 20 percent were black, and 20 percent were Hispanic, according to Harvard researchers.
Not only is gun ownership becoming more diverse across race and gender, but it also appears to have bridged a divide between political beliefs as more democrats arm themselves.
Media scream, “Too many people have guns!”
Second Amendment activist Maj Toure says more people should carry guns.
I’m not exactly a tech bro by any stretch of the imagination. I love seeing new technology and all the ways it can make our lives better, but I generally don’t get overly excited by new technology. I’ve seen too many things hyped up as the next big then only to fizzle on the vine. Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers Google Glass, just to name one example.
