In the last two weeks of October 2025, criminal violence with illegal guns has reached a fever pitch, which exposes (yet again) the stark hypocrisy of federal Liberal firearms policy.
While Mark Carney’s Liberal government pours hundreds of millions into a useless Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme that only targets licenced owners — hunters, sport shooters, and rural residents — violent crime involving smuggled illegal guns surges unchecked.
If you walk into a car dealership to ask about the price of the car out front and the answer is, “Probably tens of thousands of dollars,” it’s unlikely you’re going to buy that car.
Consumers need the full information on the price of something before they can decide if it’s a good decision. The same goes for taxpayers and proposed government programs.
As most affected firearms owners already know, Ottawa placed a funding cap on its “voluntary” Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme, saying if you wait too long to surrender your guns, you’ll get nothing.
They’ve announced $742 million for compensation, but even federal officials acknowledge that this falls far short of full compensation for affected firearms owners.
Police investigating College Street homicide
THUNDER BAY – Police say the death of a 67-year-old male has been ruled a homicide.
City police, in a release issued on Friday, Oct. 31, say they responded to a call at about 3 p.m. on Thursday at a residence in the 100 block of College Street.
Police say they believe the victim may have interrupted a break-and-enter and stressed it was not a targeted incident.
The police will not be there when you need them most.
h/t SM
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner has told MPs that Ottawa should crack down on illegal guns coming over the U.S. border instead of collecting guns from law-abiding citizens through its buyback program, saying 91 percent of guns used in crime come from the United States.
“We will exceed over 2,000 crime guns this year again—91 percent of them are coming in from the U.S.,” OPP Commissioner and Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police president Thomas Carrique told MPs at a House of Commons justice committee meeting on Oct. 28.
“These are the dangers. These are the strains and drains on our resources, and this is where we need to be spending our time and our attention.”
When criminal violence strikes, no one is coming to save you. That’s the uncomfortable truth most people don’t want to face.
It’s not because police or regular folks don’t care. It’s impossible for anyone to predict it and be there in the terrible moment when violence strikes.
The Gun Violence Archive is the preferred source for information among almost every media outlet I seem to come across. There are a handful of exceptions, but those are generally outlets that have their own tracking efforts.
Interestingly, every single one of those tends to have a far lower number of things like mass shootings than the Gun Violence Archive has.
The accused listened to proceedings with his eyes closed and his mouth open.
It appeared that 43-year-old Richard Edwin, whose trial began this week, was heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs.
Certainly projecting as narcotized — someone in need of mental stabilizing — would be fitting when the core substance of the defence is that Edwin should be found not criminally responsible (NCR) in the shooting deaths of two men he didn’t even know within a span of two days in downtown Toronto in 2022.
The chances of being shot by some drugged up rando remains pretty remote in Canada.
But it is impossible for the police to bend space and time to protect you when you’re being victimized.
At best you’ll likely contribute a positive stat to the TPS’ excellent homicide closure rate.
In this instance the shooter was in possession of legally obtained weapons despite a history of mental illness.
Who do gun laws protect? Not you and not me.
They make life easier for criminals who appreciate the unlikely possibility of return fire.
In the effort to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence you’re just unarmed collateral damage.
Public Safety Canada has announced that the amnesty period for owners of recently designated prohibited firearms has been extended by another year, to Oct. 30, 2026.
The federal department said on Oct. 15 that licensed owners and businesses who possess prohibited, “assault-style” firearms must dispose of or deactivate them before the amnesty period expires, “or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm.”
Instead of crushing crime and those who commit it, Ottawa insists on focusing its wrath on the compliant.
The Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Program is a monument to this stupidity.
Broken trust with government and its citizens is the result.
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On October 1, gunfire ripped through a Laval Starbucks.
Charalambos “Bobby the Greek” Theologou, gang leader, drug trafficker, repeat offender, was executed in front of undercover police officers.
“A team of at least five cars, including an operations supervisor, was deployed on the ground to monitor Theologou’s movements. Around ten police officers were therefore observing the gang leader.”
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It never fails to amaze me how many defensive gun uses never capture the attention of national media, no matter how compelling the circumstances might be. Take this recent incident out of Florida that I stumbled across, for example. An armed felon drags a woman at gunpoint into a grocery store, only to be confronted and ultimately disarmed by an employee who had a gun of her own.
The federal government’s gun buyback pilot project to compensate legal owners who turn in prohibited firearms is facing opposition in Cape Breton, N.S., where it’s being rolled out.
“They got us backed into a corner,” says John Campbell, owner of The Bullet Box, a gun store and indoor range in Sydney, Cape Breton.
Campbell started his business six years ago out of a passion for sport shooting.
Now, he says his six-year-old business faces closure.
An estimated 250 rally-goers gathered in Sydney on Thursday to let the Cape Breton Regional Police Service chief and federal government officials know they’re wasting their time and money on a federal buyback program targeting prohibited firearms.
“It’s a waste of police resources and of tax dollars,” said Tracey Wilson, vice-president of public relations for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, who flew in from Ottawa to attend the rally outside the Myles F. Burke Police Headquarters on Grand Lake Road.
Audio isn't great, but here's a look from @TWilsonOttawa's view of today's Cape Breton Rally against the Liberals gun confiscation.
Organized by @MorienPort President, Jeff McNeil!
MP @BlaineFCalkins and lawyer @nnamanley were onsite to support Cape Bretoners and supporters! pic.twitter.com/64DJbxozaM
— CCFR/CCDAF (@CCFR_CCDAF) October 2, 2025
Is CZ (Through Colt Canada) The Company Destroying Guns For the Canadian Gun Ban?
h/t Neocon
The federal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme is not about public safety. It’s about control, optics, and votes.
Canadians aren’t stupid.
They know the difference between chasing violent criminals and harassing law-abiding sport shooters.
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