How the NWEST wind blows (www.canadiangunnutz.com)
(Copied from CGN for those without access.)...
Handgun violence: Taking aim at which gun control strategies work and don’t work (www.thestar.com)
Ottawa plans to launch controversial firearms buyback program during election year (www.cbc.ca)
$30M (I believe, per the budget) over a year and a half is 150-200 FTE employees (aka 15 - 20 people / province) working on this from now until the end of the election… yeah, this isn’t happening.
Canada Post refusing to collect banned guns for Ottawa's buyback program (www.cbc.ca)
Gun owners remain skeptical about feds buyback program (calgary.citynews.ca)
'The costs have ballooned': Liberal government failed to anticipate difficulty of gun 'buyback,' association says (nationalpost.com)
Ottawa has already spent $42M on a Liberal gun 'buyback' that still doesn't exist (nationalpost.com)
Government Outlines Bill C-21 Coming Into Force | TheGunBlog.ca (thegunblog.ca)
An Ontario gun trafficker released on bail 3 times is nowhere to be found | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
As a licensed gun owner the government continues to indicate that this sort of thing is my fault but has yet to explain how.
Gun expert joins Bray to discuss misinformation around gun owners (www.ckom.com)
No Public Gun Buyback Planned for 2024: Public Safety Canada (www.youtube.com)
Provincial appeal on federal firearms ban keeping local conservationists 'hopeful' (discovermoosejaw.com)
Rahim Mohamed: Crime is rising in Canada, and Liberals can't seem to find a solution (nationalpost.com)
Legal firearm ownership isn’t the main focus of this article but it is a significant component of it.
Canada Gun Licences Rise to Record in 2023 With Big Annual Increase | TheGunBlog.ca (thegunblog.ca)
GUNTER: Violent criminals with illegal guns are the problem (torontosun.com)
Anyone applied for their PAL online
Apparently you can apply online for your ®PAL now. Great to hear and very convenient since I just passed my exams today, but it’s a very new process, and I’m curious about how smooth it goes vs. the old paper submission....
Ontario Opts Out (of the May 2020 gun ban confiscation) (nfa.ca)
Without ON the confiscation scheme is dead in the water from a practical/logistical point of view. ON by itself represents almost 1/3 of owners with licenses to own the R guns caught up in the ban. Collectively, all the provinces that have opted out account for nearly 2/3....
Saskatchewan Applying to Intervene in Legal Challenges to Federal Firearms Ban | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan (www.saskatchewan.ca)
Legal firearm owners are rarely involved in gun homicides: Statistics Canada (tnc.news)
Poilievre Pledges New Law to Block Arbitrary Gun Bans Via OIC | TheGunBlog.ca (thegunblog.ca)
Trudeau pays foreign hunters almost $1 million (www.youtube.com)
In your opinion, what's the best available 308 plinker in Canadian market?
I’m pretty happy with my Franken-308-Garand and Israeli 308 mauser but been thinking about modern bolt action / semi-auto in 308 for midrange plinking. What do you guys think?
POILIEVRE: Stop the attack on law-abiding firearms owners (www.youtube.com)
The Liberal Hunting Ban is NOT OVER! (www.youtube.com)
Professors, gun policy experts urge government to scrap 'flawed' Bill C-21 (nationalpost.com)
