A Maryland jury handed down a multi-million dollar judgment against Walmart this week, finding that the company was negligent in selling a shotgun to an employee who took his life with the firearm a few hours later.
Gun Control
WIECHNIK: The absurdity of civilian resistance in a disarmed Canada
The Globe and Mail has reported that the Canadian Armed Forces quietly put together a hypothetical scenario of the United States military invading Canada.
The results — if you’ve been paying any attention to Canada’s military over the last decade — were what you probably expected.
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LILLEY: Doug Ford latest politician to say federal gun program won’t work
Doug Ford is adding his name to the list of politicians saying the federal government’s gun “buyback” program misses the mark. His comments come one day after the largest police force in the country also said they won’t be participating.
Toronto police refuse participation in Ottawa’s gun grab
TORONTO — Toronto Police Service has declined to participate in the federal government’s gun grab program, according to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree.
The decision comes as the Liberal government prepares alternative methods to collect prohibited firearms in Ontario, including the use of so-called mobile collection units. These units would be staffed by off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers or local police officers, the minister said.
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Cory Morgan: Time to Admit the Gun Ban Agenda Won’t Work
The Liberal Party of Canada has long been a political chameleon. It has been able to pragmatically adapt to contemporary issues and position itself toward the political centre of things. When the party drifts too far to one side of the spectrum, as happened under Justin Trudeau, it can reinvent itself and reset the electoral clock, as it did with Mark Carney. It’s an infuriating ability for partisan Conservatives to watch, and it has kept the Liberals as the predominant party in power for decades.
Ottawa’s gun grab program for individuals goes national, Prairies refuse to play along
CALGARY — While the Liberal government formally announced the start of its nationwide firearms gun grab program for individuals in Montreal on Saturday, it remains to be seen how enforcement will be initiated in the Prairie provinces.
A pilot for Canada’s gun buyback was a failure. The Liberals are committing anyway
When an individual falls victim to the sunk cost fallacy, the consequences that follow are generally even worse. Maybe it’s an extra few thousand wasted on a rust bucket of a car just to feel like the money invested in it wasn’t for nothing. Maybe it means staying in a bad relationship that ought to have ended years ago. Maybe it’s why – just to pick a totally random example – a columnist will persist with a snoozer of a column because she’s typed out 500 words already. These are emotional, illogical decisions, but humans are emotional, illogical creatures who often have a hard time reversing course when we feel like we’ve already invested a lot of money, time or attention.
Tasha Kheiriddin: The Liberals are well aware gun-grab is all for show — that’s the point
Twenty-five guns. That’s all the federal government collected in a recent pilot project in Nova Scotia for its new “buyback” (a.k.a. expropriation) program for prohibited firearms. “A total of 25 prohibited firearms, turned in by 16 participants, were destroyed,” spokesperson Noémie Allard said Friday. “The total compensation paid to pilot participants is $26,535.”
GUNTER: Small uptake for Liberal gun buyback no surprise
This past fall, the federal government ran a pilot program on Cape Breton for its long-delayed firearms confiscation scheme.
The six-week-long test as a colossal failure. The federal public safety department expected Cape Bretoners would turn in 200 guns during the month-and-a-half long trial. They turned in 25.
LILLEY: Gun buyback pilot nothing short of failure after netting 25 weapons
Just 25 guns. That’s how many firearms were taken in as part of the Mark Carney government’s gun “buyback” pilot program in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton region.
The government had been hoping for 200 guns collected in an area that industry experts estimate has at least 2,000 guns that the government has banned.
CTF says failed pilot shows gun grab program should be scrapped
Ottawa’s gun grab program is under renewed fire after a federal pilot project in Cape Breton netted just 25 firearms, far short of government targets, prompting critics to call the entire scheme a costly failure.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the six-week pilot project, launched in September 2025, demonstrates what law enforcement and policy experts have warned for years: confiscating firearms from licensed owners will not make communities safer.
Pilot phase of Liberal gun buyback program collects 25 firearms
The Liberal government says it’s learned some lessons after a pilot project to buy outlawed assault-style firearms from owners yielded a low uptake.
Since 2020, Ottawa has banned some 2,500 makes and models of assault-style firearms, arguing they are designed for warfare — not hunters and sport shooters.
The decision saw backlash from the Opposition Conservatives and firearms-rights groups. The government has pointed to its plan to buy back those guns as a way to fairly compensate owners.
In Canada’s defence: re-establishing a true militia
Instead of disarming law-abiding gun owners across Canada, why not offer them the opportunity to enlist in a supplementary reserve by taking an oath of allegiance and registering with a militia regiment at the local armoury?
OTTAWA—The senior leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence are presently scrambling to formulate a plan that would lead to the creation of a Supplementary Reserve.
The projected number of this force of citizen soldiers is to be a whopping 300,000 volunteers. The basic training would be a one-week course, presumably involving some measure of small arms weapon training and basic vehicle driving skills.
According to the initial plan, the Supplementary Reserve would have more lax standards of physical fitness than the regular force and the active reserves. The kicker is that there is no plan to provide these supplementary reservists with uniforms.
It’s Not About the Guns: The Wrong Lesson From the Bondi Beach Attack
It may be too early for an in-depth analysis of the horrific attack on a Hanukkah gathering at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach, beyond the obvious fact that it was yet another act of Islamist terror, the latest in a long line of attacks meant to murder Jews. But it’s not too early to draw a single, transparently obvious conclusion. The Bondi Beach attack totally undermines the common progressive focus on the guns rather than the shooters.
The guns at Bondi Beach didn’t simply jump out of a car and begin shooting on their own. They were brought to the location by a father and son team of Islamist terrorists who used them to murder 15 people, including a ten-year-old girl who was deliberately targeted as she tried to run away.
Australia was seen as a world leader in gun control – Bondi has exposed a more complicated reality
It was a Sunday afternoon in April 1996 when a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 35 people in the Australian tourist town of Port Arthur.
The massacre almost 30 years ago, which ushered in some of the strictest gun laws in the world, feels like a bygone age for many Australians.
But the Bondi Beach attack on Sunday, which left 15 dead, rekindled memories of the Tasmanian tragedy – none more so than for leading gun control advocate Roland Browne.
Making your citizens prey for Muslims is a swell idea.
h/t Mauser