A new report from the RCMP reveals that the number of Canadians holding a government-issued firearms licence reached an all-time high in 2024.
In Dec. 2024, there were 2,412,122 Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) holders in Canada, representing a 2.5% increase from 2,352,504 in December 2023.
While headlines scream about the rising cost of groceries, power bills, and climate policy flops, something subtler is brewing in Ottawa: a quiet retreat from the Trudeau-era firearms ban.
The 2025 Liberal Pre-Budget Consultation survey offers Canadians an opportunity to influence the Mark Carney government’s public spending priorities.
When it comes to Canada’s often tense debate around gun laws, most Canadians likely will not have heard of an RCMP database called the Firearms Reference Table, or FRT.
But to people like Melody Philistin, unexpected updates to this database have a personal impact.
“Yeah. It really sucks,” she said.
Philistin is a competitive shooter who recently represented Canada at an international event in the Czech Republic.
A Calgary-based firearms company says one of its rifles being classified as prohibited by the RCMP has thrown his business into “crisis mode.”
“Right now, I’m all riled up, because I get very frustrated. I’ve been in the industry now for like 28 years,” said J.R. Cox, head of Sterling Arms International. “It’s these rulings that, to me, completely devalue and delegitimize the RCMP technical identification team.”
On June 18, 2025, President Javier Milei significantly shifted Argentina’s firearms policy.
For the first time in three decades, civilians are permitted to buy and possess semi-automatic firearms. President Milei also lowered the minimum age for firearm ownership from 21 to 18.
RCMP has declared the Sterling Arms R9 MK1 carbine a prohibited firearm, effective July 6, 2025.
This sudden reclassification impacts all models, including sub-models 198846-1 and 198846-2.
Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) alerted its members, warning the move is a major blow to owners.
Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted no time in axing a signature Justin Trudeau policy the moment he took on the job. It wasn’t that the carbon tax was bad policy, per se, or focused on the wrong target or poorly administered or needlessly bureaucratic. Indeed, Mr. Carney was broadly supportive of carbon pricing as a mechanism to curb greenhouse gas emissions right up until the moment he got the words “Right Honourable” added to his stationery.
The problem with the carbon tax, as we all know, was that it was deeply unpopular in Canada, so the new Prime Minister had no choice but to kill it if he wanted to keep his job.
The mainstream, anti-gun media lies a lot.
They don’t necessarily make up things, of course. They might misrepresent the truth, which might be intentional or might just be from ignorance, but actually fabricating things? That doesn’t happen nearly as often as many of us might like to believe.
No, they tend to be great at the lie of omission.
Throughout the tech industry, there’s a certain amount of anti-gun bias just about everywhere. Facebook used to be pretty good about the buying and selling of firearms, but now even gun stores run into advertising problems. YouTube used to be a great place to learn about firearms, and now they’re making it more and more difficult for anyone to learn anything.
And that’s just the social media companies.
On June 21, just after 4:30am, an 11-year-old and his parents were all jolted out of bed in their North Etobicoke home.
“We heard a smash,” said the homeowner, who asked not to be identified — still too shaken after the ordeal. That sound came from their rear patio door.
The police can’t protect you. They only deal with the bad guys after the fact.
Dad had a gun. Mom should have one too.
6 men in custody after Ontario police lift shelter-in-place advisory on Highway 11
h/t DS
The Liberals’ controversial, long-delayed gun grab program is expected to cost taxpayers more than $500 million in the 2025-26 fiscal year.
A recent report found the government’s Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program is widely unpopular with Canadians. The gun grab is entering its fifth year behind schedule — and is over budget and increasingly unpopular.
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she is exploring with Saskatchewan how to create their own provincial firearm licences, their newest effort to undermine and exit the Liberal Party of Canada’s anti-gun regime.
“Any guns purchased legally as of January 1, 2000, you can own, keep and use in the province of Alberta” ️
Danielle Smith speaks to Albertans about the gun bans and what an Alberta firearms license would look like. pic.twitter.com/k5DniDkRn9
— Tracey Wilson (@TWilsonOttawa) June 21, 2025
h/t Mauser
LOS ANGELES — It’s been more than three decades since Yongsik Lee grabbed a shotgun and climbed to the top of his furniture store during the 1992 Los Angeles riots — becoming one of the infamous era’s “Rooftop Koreans.”
After protesters once again squared off with cops on LA’s streets — this time over federal raids targeting migrants — the armed vigilantes who defended the city’s Koreatown are back in vogue.
The “rooftop Koreans” became a viral punchline and meme for anyone who worried LA was descending into violence, and thought Mayor Karen Bass wasn’t doing enough to crack down.
On June 12, five individuals are alleged to have attempted to steal a Lamborghini in the early hours of the morning in Vaughan and attempted to break into a person’s dwelling while wearing disguises. A resident of the home is alleged to have discharged a firearm during the incident. Now, that resident is charged with committing criminal offences relating to his possession and use of that firearm.
3D-printed guns could become “the weapon of choice” for criminals and violent extremists around the world, an expert has told the BBC. These DIY, untraceable firearms have been recovered in several recent criminal cases, including the alleged use of a partially 3D-printed gun in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
BBC Trending has investigated the global spread of 3D-printed guns across social media platforms including Telegram, Facebook and Instagram, as well as websites offering how-to guides.
