Gun Control
Non-Firearm Owners Should Care About Trudeau Grabbing Guns
One of the things law-abiding Canadian firearms owners find most frustrating about the Liberal federal government attempting to take away their property is the non-gun owning publics’ naive approval of the whole situation.
Kyle Rittenhouse to stand trial after motion to dismiss charges fails
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will stand trial.
Rittenhouse’s defense team had filed motions to dismiss two of the charges their client faces, possession of a deadly weapon by a minor and one of the two reckless endangerment charges, but Kenosha County Court Commissioner Loren Keating rejected them on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. The teenager appeared via video with an attorney at the preliminary court hearing.
Environment Minister defends purchase of AR-10 rifles for conservation officers
The Department of Environment intends to purchase 20 semi-automatic AR-10 rifles, despite the inclusion of the weapons in a recently released ban introduced by the federal government.
Environment Minister Pauline Frost said the federal government has a specific exemption for peace officers, such as conservation officers, and the employees equipped with the weapons will be trained.
H/T Mauser
Feds’ Firearm Ban Does Not Address Root Causes of Gun Violence: RCMP Union
The RCMP union says the Liberal government’s firearm ban targeted at legal firearm owners, does not address the “more immediate and growing threat of criminal use of illegal firearms.”
The National Police Federation (NPF), a union that represents 20,000 RCMP members, issued a statement (pdf) on Monday to express their concern over the rising number of illegal guns and shootings in Canada. It says the firearm bans by the liberal government have in fact diverted “extremely important personnel, resources, and funding” away from addressing the root causes of gun violence—illegal guns trafficked across the Canada-U.S. border and criminals using the firearms to commit crimes eventually.
Joe Biden will Take Your Guns Away if He’s Elected in 2020
A constant feature of Democrat policy over the last three decades has been its constant, steady move to the left on gun issues, hence why it is now realistic to say that “Joe Biden will take your guns away if he is elected.”