Gun Control

Feds are watering down promise to fully scrutinize firearms before sale, gun control group says

A leading gun control group is accusing the Liberal government of watering down a promise to ensure firearms are properly scrutinized before entering the Canadian market.

The government recently published proposed regulations aimed at ensuring all gun makes and models for sale in Canada are known to the federal firearms registrar.

There is currently no obligation for businesses that import or manufacture firearms to share technical specifications with authorities, meaning guns could go on the market without being fully assessed

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

The US town where it’s the law to own a gun

Kennesaw, Georgia, has all the small-town fixings one might imagine in the American South.

There’s the smell of baked biscuits wafting from Honeysuckle Biscuits & Bakery and the rumble of a nearby railroad train. It’s the kind of place where newlyweds leave hand-written thank-you cards in coffee shops, praising the “cozy” atmosphere.

But there’s another aspect of Kennesaw that some might find surprising – a city law from the 1980s that legally requires residents to own guns and ammo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, Guns and Ammo

Liberals slot nearly $600M for gun confiscation in new spending

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in Monday’s Fall Economic Statement indicated plans to spend $597.9 Million over three years to confiscate Canadians’ firearms.

So far Ottawa has blown through roughly $100 million already in attempts to collect government-licensed firearms — without collecting a single gun.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Gage Haubrich: The gun ban is not working, Trudeau already knows this

Right from the beginning, experts have told the prime minister that his gun ban and buyback will divert resources away from fighting crime rather than making Canada safer.

Instead of changing course, the Trudeau government announced it’s diverting even more taxpayers’ money to its failing gun policy policy.

And it’s an expensive diversion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Government of Canada extends list of prohibited assault-style firearms and moves forward on regulatory changes to strengthen gun control

As part of its comprehensive approach, on December 5, 2024, the Government announced the prohibition of more military style assault-style firearms. Accompanying the prohibition is an amnesty order, which expires on October 30, 2025, that protects businesses and owners while they come into compliance with the law.

The amnesty also provides a temporary exception for Indigenous peoples’ exercising a right under section 35 of the Constitution Act, as well as those who use firearms for sustenance hunting, which enables them to continue to use their newly prohibited firearms to hunt (if previously non-restricted) until a suitable replacement can be found.

h/t Mauser

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control

Montana Attorney General Says RCMP Made Request to Conduct Surveillance at Local Gun Shows

Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen said he has received a request from the RCMP seeking to conduct surveillance at two upcoming gun shows in his state—a request that he strongly opposes.

Knudsen said the Division of Criminal Investigation in the Montana Department of Justice recently received the RCMP request regarding gun shows in Bozeman and Kalispell. Knudsen said he will try to prevent the RCMP from coming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, RCMP, USA

It Seems Others Interested in How Gallup Keeps Getting It Wrong

Gallup polls blew it. I’ve already talked a bit about that, of course. It’s kind of funny that they blew it because while they’re still claiming that people support gun control, they don’t seem to have an answer about why it played such a non-existent roll in the 2024 presidential election. I hit on part of why that’s the case.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Gun Control, Gun Rights

This Is Why Guns Aren’t The Problem

It doesn’t seem like the idea that guns aren’t really the problem, people are, would be a contentious point. After all, no one seems to believe that a gun just randomly goes off and kills people. No one buys the idea that guns make people homicidal, either.

Yet some people are absolutely convinced that the issue is that guns are available. I guess they figure it’s far better to be stabbed 24 times than be shot or something.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Gary Mauser: Do Canadians Have the Right to Carry Arms?

Canadians are worried about being victimized by violent criminals, according to a national survey recently released by the Canadian government. Unlike Americans, Canadians often lack the means to defend themselves against unprovoked attacks by strangers or in violent home invasions, even though the controversial law permits a robust self defence.
Both Canada and the United States inherited the right to bear arms found in the English Magna Carta of 1689, but, despite this common heritage, their paths diverged widely since their founding. While the American Constitution protects the right to bear arms, Canadian elites effectively surrendered this basic right. Canadian elites gradually abandoned their duty to uphold the basic rights outlined in the Magna Carta, despite widespread popular support for the right to bear arms. This summary is drawn from a series of articles published in the Dorchester Review.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Gun violence is on the rise in Canada. In parts of the Greater Toronto Area, it’s a record-breaking year

Melanie Ward remembers the moment she learned her son was dead with haunting clarity.

“I just dropped to my knees and screamed,” she said.

Her son, Alexander Circiumaru, was on his way to an appointment in downtown Hamilton earlier this year but never made it.

The 19-year-old was shot multiple times in broad daylight on March 6 in what Hamilton police believe was a targeted attack. Circiumaru was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Mexico sues American gun makers; the Supreme Court grants cert

In 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/gun cracktivists were pushing their latest strategy: suing gun makers for the third-party acts of people about who they had no knowledge and over who they had no control for misuse of their lawful products. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, USA