The group the federal government called “the primary source of information for industry” in the retail-banned firearm buyback says it still does not know when the program will begin.
This comes as the amnesty on banned firearms is set to expire on Oct. 30.
I hear they’re working on a racialized gun owner exemption for urban thugs.
A pro-gun group is suing the New Mexico governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, in an effort to block a 30-day emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque’s Bernalillo county issued last week after a spate of shootings.
The governor announced open and concealed carry restrictions on Friday in a public health order relating to gun violence after the fatal shootings of an 11-year-old boy on his way home from a minor league baseball game last week, as well as the fatal shooting of a four-year-old girl in her bed in a motor home and a 13-year-old girl in Taos county in August.
I’m one of those who believes that what stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Sometimes, that good guy is a police officer, and sometimes, the good guy is a civilian. Leftists claim that the good guys’ contribution is so inconsequential that it doesn’t justify honoring citizens’ Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. New Mexico governor Michelle Grisham certainly agrees with that viewpoint. Leftists look to FBI statistics to support their arguments—so will you be surprised to learn that the FBI’s statistics are wrong? And, as always, that the error works to support leftist ideology and political positions?
In 1938, Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) issued a requisite for his fellow ideologues, “Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’”
In July 2018, a gunman in Toronto’s Danforth district randomly fired his U.S.-made .40-calibre Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol at passersby, killing 18-year-old Reese Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis, and wounding 13 others.
The crime gun was legally purchased from a Saskatchewan retailer and was later stolen. Police chiefs responded to the Danforth tragedy by reporting that gun crimes committed with lawfully purchased imported guns were on the rise across the country. (Canada makes few guns.)
It might come as a surprise that Canada, and not a conflict region, is the biggest per capita buyer of imported U.S. guns.
OMG! There are legal gun owners in Canada and they have “Assault Pistols.”
I doubt there’s a more maligned character in the debate over gun rights than Dr. John Lott. Just ask any gun control activist. They can’t stand him. His research often refutes their favorite narratives. His command of the data often leaves them little refuge. I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with Dr. Lott on occasion since 2018. I’ve found him knowledgable, willing to test a hypothesis, willing to have his ideas and research challenged. In short, when I look back at his work, I’m convinced it’s less about defining gun policy and more about getting to a set of facts that should influence gun policy. Hence the animus.
A growing number of firearms owners say they would not voluntarily participate in the federal government’s Firearms Buyback Program, according to an internal report from the Department of Public Safety.
“Less than half of those owners with prohibited firearms would now willingly participate in a buyback program—a sharp decline over the past year. Another third would participate, but only because it was mandatory; one in ten would refuse to participate at all,” said the May 2023 report, “Buyback Program Awareness Campaign,” which was first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
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The rising tide of violent crime can’t be ignored. It’s time to ban handguns
There is not so much a violent crime wave sweeping Canada as a tide of crime that has been rising for years, and is now reaching deeply concerning levels.
The data released last month by Statistics Canada are shocking: the number of police-reported violent crimes nationwide shot up to 531,243 in 2022, an increase of almost two-fifths from 2015, all of it on the Liberals’ watch. Adjusted for population growth, the picture is nearly as bad: there were 1,365 violent crimes per 100,000 Canadians in 2022, a 27-per-cent increase since 2015, and the worst year since 2006.
The Biden administration has already put nearly 2,000 gun sellers out of business in just two years. Just a few years ago, a lawsuit helped drive the 200-year-old Remington Arms into bankruptcy. But activists won’t stop suing gun shops and anyone else that comes close to the industry.
Last week, attorneys from Everytown Law, the legal arm of Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety, filed a lawsuit against a shop that sold the gun used in the fatal shooting of 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in May 2022. The murderer is a racist who specifically targeted racial minorities. Everytown claims the attack “could have been prevented,” but in fact, the gun seller performed all of the proper background checks.
A third of guns used in Canadian crimes and then traced by authorities were legally imported from the US. That’s three times the global average.
Some 300 miles north of Canada’s border with Montana, the prairies end, the roads narrow and the rural towns give way to the vast, unbroken forests of northern Saskatchewan, where on clear nights the aurora borealis dance above pristine lakes.
This is the home of Canada’s highest rate of gun crimes.
Drive-by shootings, the latest just a few months ago, have erupted in the quiet lanes of La Ronge, which serves as an entry point to the northern expanse. In May 2022, a 32-year-old man was shot dead at a cottage. A month later, on a sunny Sunday morning, La Ronge went into lockdown as an emergency alert warned of two suspects, armed with handguns, on the loose. In a community of some 7,000 people, police in recent months have seized more than 50 rifles and handguns. The firearms now line one wall of a storage room. A dozen more are stashed, barrels down, in a blue bucket.
Must be an election looming.
Gun control groups excel at lying and deceit. Thanks to their collusion with the media, they’re also successful at spreading their lies far and wide. That’s how they manage to keep support for gun control alive in the public.
A pack of armed thugs’ “jugging” attempt failed miserably when a Texas store pulled his own gun and defended himself during a botched robbery attempt.
The owner of Ruiz Cash & Carry managed to gun down two out of three of the gang of armed robbers.
The Houston Police Department believes that the armed thugs killed outside of a family-owned convenience store were trying to rob the owner in a “jugging” attempt.
Jugging – A crime where a suspect observes a customer at a bank or high-end store and then follows the customer after they leave the establishment in order to steal their money or valuables.
The Liberal government’s approach to gun control to reduce violence is not backed by evidence, says a new report by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).
The report released on Aug. 14 goes over the various measures implemented by the government in recent years, from the ban of so-called “assault-style” firearms to the freeze of handgun transfers, and the introduction of Bill C-21.
Popular devices known as “switches” are turning ordinary pistols into fully automatic weapons, making them deadlier and a growing threat to bystanders.
Caison Robinson, 14, had just met up with a younger neighbor on their quiet street after finishing his chores when a gunman in a white car rolled up and fired a torrent of bullets in an instant.
“Mom, I’ve been shot!” he recalled crying, as his mother bolted barefoot out of their house in northwest Las Vegas. “I didn’t think I was going to make it, for how much blood was under me,” Caison said.
The Las Vegas police say the shooting in May was carried out with a pistol rigged with a small and illegal device known as a switch. Switches can transform semiautomatic handguns, which typically require a trigger pull for each shot, into fully automatic machine guns that fire dozens of bullets with one tug.
The US Supreme Court has allowed restrictions against untraceable “ghost guns” to stand while an appeal by the White House is pending.
In July, a Texas court blocked a 2022 rule requiring self-assembled “ghost gun” kits to have serial numbers – legally making them a firearm.
Gun rights groups and gun owners had sued to stop the new rule.
The decision comes as the White House faces pressure to take more action on gun violence.
