On December 15, 2016, the Czech Republic began the process to enshrine the right to bear arms in its constitution. Google Translate’s rendition of the original Czech constitutional amendment: In light of the current security situation in the world, it is proposed in the Constitutional Act on the Security of the Czech Republic to enshrine the right of citizens to use weapons … [Read more...]
Repeat Offender: Cameron Robert Vail is Reason #262 to Reform Canada’s Firearm Prohibition Order System
Canada's Firearm Prohibition Order system is broken. The latest evidence to make my case? Repeat offender Cameron Robert Vail. In February 2018, Cameron Robert Vail was convicted of assault and sentenced to probation. One of his sentencing conditions was a 5-year Firearm Prohibition Order. On January 25, 2020, Cameron Robert Vail was arrested and charged with assault … [Read more...]
Why do Criminals Go Free When Police Screw Up?
In response to my Friday column Cops Screw Up: Drug Dealer Jermaine Barrows-Taylor Escapes Illegal Handgun Conviction, one reader shared his frustration with this case specifically, as well as these types of cases in general. I do not understand why police screwups result in criminals going free. If police illegally search a vehicle and find a body, does the driver get a … [Read more...]
14-year-old with Firearms Prohibition Order Kills One Woman, Injures Three Others
On Canada Day 2020 a 14-year-old Winnipeg boy with a Firearms Prohibition Order against him murdered 27-year-old Danielle Dawn Cote in cold blood. “I think it’s going to be terrifying and concerning for a lot of Winnipeg [residents] the fact that we would have so much violence committed by such a young individual,” said Winnipeg Police Service Constable Jay Murray. Not … [Read more...]
Cops Screw Up: Drug Dealer Jermaine Barrows-Taylor Escapes Illegal Handgun Conviction
On February 20, 2020, Justice Timothy Lipson acquitted Jermaine Barrows-Taylor of all firearm-related charges, but accepted his guilty plea for drug trafficking. At the time of his arrest for a violation of the Highway Traffic Act on August 26, 2018, Jermaine Barrows-Taylor was under a Firearms Prohibition Order and his driver’s licence was revoked. When Toronto Police … [Read more...]
Michael Korenberg: Loss of Backbone Forces Immediate Resignation
I honestly don't know which I find more repulsive – Michael Korenberg’s apology and resignation for daring to hold a personal opinion (which he renounced in a heartbeat), or the Cancel Culture warriors’ belief they and they alone are the arbiters of "approved" opinions. On June 20, 2020, Michael Korenberg resigned from his position as Chair of the UBC Board of … [Read more...]
Guatemala’s Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
The right to own weapons for personal use, not prohibited by the law, in the place of habitation, is recognized. There will not be an obligation to hand them over, except in cases ordered by a competent judge. The right to bear arms is recognized, [and is] regulated by the law. Guatemala Constitution, Article 38: Possessing and Bearing of Arms (PDF) Guatemala is one … [Read more...]
Mexico’s Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
Mexico is one of three countries in the world whose constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms: United States, Mexico and Guatemala. This constitutional right is rendered all but meaningless by a host of government restrictions on it – the warm wet dreams of anti-2nd Amendment advocates. Like all limitations on civilian firearm ownership, Mexico's restrictions … [Read more...]
Police use guns designed “to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time”
On May 1, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectured Canadians on the evils of the AR-15 firearm. "These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada." Public Safety Minister Bill Blair echoed the Prime Minister's virtue-signalling … [Read more...]
Violent Repeat Offender Thomas Kruger-Allen Pleads Guilty to Assault
On April 29th I asked the question "Will the coronavirus pandemic alter the Supreme Court’s interpretation of its landmark 'justice delayed is justice denied' ruling in R. v. Jordan?" I then said a series of upcoming assault and murder trials placed in limbo by COVID-19 meant we would likely find out, since the core of the Jordan decision is our Charter section 11(b) right to … [Read more...]
Reform Canada’s Broken Firearm Prohibition Order System
NOTE: This is an excerpt from my 45-page Special Report "Designed to Fail: Canada’s Broken Firearm Prohibition Order System and How to Fix It." In the pages ahead I will make the case for a new firearm prohibition order system – one modeled after the United Kingdom’s Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) Units. Unlike Canada, … [Read more...]
Jennifer Quesnel’s Murder: Another Firearm Prohibition Order Failure?
June 10, 2020 Update via CBC: B.C. RCMP say they received no reports of domestic violence before Jennifer Quesnel was murdered by her estranged husband on June 1st, contradicting claims from her family. On Monday, June 1, 2020, every woman’s worst nightmare came true for Jennifer Quesnel. Her estranged husband, John Quesnel, shot and killed her with a gun he … [Read more...]
Saheed Bacchus Ali: Drug Dealer Arrested with Illegal Guns while Prohibited released on Bail
When Saheed Bacchus Ali was arrested with large quantities of illegal drugs and two illegally-possessed handguns on September 10, 2019, he violated not one but four Firearm Prohibition Orders. None of these prohibition orders stopped Saheed Ali from illegally obtaining and possessing a loaded Smith and Wesson handgun and an unloaded Glock pistol with its serial number … [Read more...]
Luke Sanocki: Another Violent Repeat Offender Released on Bail
Luke Sanocki is another poster-boy for all that’s wrong with our criminal justice system. In 2011, Sanocki attempted to run down three police officers in a bid to escape a traffic stop with his Dodge Charger, which was loaded with illegal drugs. In December, 2019, Sanocki robbed a Winnipeg hotel at gunpoint. He was arrested for that crime as well as for violating an … [Read more...]
Jason Kunnuk: 3-Year Firearms Prohibition Order for Careless Storage of a Firearm
Jason Kunnuk of Igloolik, Nunavut, has issues - lots of them - according to a recent appeal decision. First, he has a serious drinking problem. Second, he was convicted twice for drug-related offences, including a 2009 conviction of possession for the purposes of trafficking, which carries a mandatory Firearm Prohibition Order of at least 10 years. Third, he was … [Read more...]
Nicolas Bain and Monique Boyer: Canada’s Revolving Door Injustice System
Today I examine the case of two New Brunswick drug dealers and the 53 guns seized from the home where they sold cocaine, crystal meth and, yes, illegal guns. This RCMP search warrant and subsequent seizure of drugs and guns happened because someone, upset with these career drug dealers, lit two of their vehicles on fire on May 19th, sparking an RCMP investigation. Is this … [Read more...]
Bill Blair – Master of Misinformation and Misdirection
Bill Blair may only be a second-term Liberal MP but make no mistake – Bill Blair is a career politician. The Minister of Misinformation's defence of his ban on so-called “military-style assault weapons” is just the latest ideological step in Blair’s long political career. He became Chief of the Toronto Police Service on April 26, 2005. During his tenure as Toronto’s top … [Read more...]
Marquis Watkins: Gun Smuggler Nets 3 Years in Prison
On October 16, 2018, Marquis Watkins, a “former football phenom”, attempted to smuggle 20 handguns into Canada via the beautiful Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Watkins told border agents he was coming to Canada to take his girlfriend out for dinner. For reasons we’ll probably never know, the fine folks at the Canadian Border Services Agency didn’t buy it. Even … [Read more...]
Marcus Nugent: One Dead, One Injured in Toronto Shooting
Justin Trudeau and Bill Blair said their gun ban by Order in Council would prevent this from happening. Is it possible they “misled” the Canadian people? On Sunday, May 17th, one man shot two others in a Toronto housing complex near Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue East. One of the shooting victims, 24-year-old Shawn Williams, died after being taken to hospital. … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: RCMP Refuses to File Charges
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, some moron apparently fired a dozen or more shots into the air. Those bullets landed on six homes in the Forest Heights area of Edmonton, Alberta. Negligent discharge of a firearm doesn’t even begin to describe this stupidity. “My daughter woke up and she is playing in her room and she is sitting on the floor, and looked up and there is a hole … [Read more...]
Brittany Smith Case Update: Woman Who Killed Her Rapist Still Fighting for her Freedom
I first wrote about Brittany Smith’s Alabama self-defence nightmare on April 16, 2020, in my column “Brittany Smith’s Nightmare is Alabama’s Epic Fail on Stand Your Ground Ruling.” I encourage you to read the full story of her case, referenced above but, in a nutshell, Brittany Smith shot and killed the man who raped her twice and was in the process of strangling her brother … [Read more...]
Gun Bans in Canada’s Two-Tiered Justice System
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm “The Governor in Council is not of the opinion that any thing prescribed to be a prohibited firearm or a prohibited device, in the Annexed Regulations, is reasonable for use in Canada for hunting or sporting purposes...” – SOR/2020-96: The Liberal government's Order in … [Read more...]
Liberal Gun Bans, Opinion Polls and The Truth
On May 1st, 2020, the Liberal Government banned over 1,500 makes and models of guns they labelled “military-style assault rifles.” The same day, Angus Reid Institute trotted out a poll to support the ban, saying “an overwhelming majority” of poll respondents – 78% – “support or strongly support” the ban on assault-style weapons.[i] Interestingly, the Angus Reid poll also … [Read more...]
Canadian Gun Laws: A Primer for People Who Don’t Know Much About Gun Laws
This primer on Canadian firearm law is intended for anyone who Doesn’t know much about guns; Doesn’t know much about Canada’s firearm owner licensing system; Doesn’t know much about Canada’s legislative framework for controlling access to firearms; Wants to learn a little bit about how Canada deals with firearms and access to them. If any of the above applies … [Read more...]
Centerton Police Officer Blake Almond and Someone’s Negligent Discharge
Safe storage laws have their place - especially when children are in the home. On January 20, 2020, in Centerton City, Arkansas, an unidentified person fired Officer Blake Almond’s service pistol, sending a bullet out of his home and through three walls of his neighbour’s home. The neighbour immediately called police to report the crime. Neighbour: “a bullet just shot … [Read more...]
Officer Down: Calgary Police Service Constable Darren Beatty
In an age where politicians and gun control advocates, no matter how well intentioned, insist only the police and military should have guns, we must acknowledge the fact these brave men and women are still mere mortals – just like the rest of us. They are not endowed with any magical properties, nor are they somehow “better” than anyone else. Yet no matter how experienced or … [Read more...]
Democracy Doesn’t Need Blunt Instruments by Rob Sciuk
Canada’s constitutional democracy was carefully fashioned by balancing the jurisdiction of the Provinces and the Federal government, and it works best when a critical eye is cast upon the ruling class. There is a disturbing tendency to try and accrue additional powers and, in recent years, to concentrate those powers in the very small circle known as the Prime Minister’s … [Read more...]
Analysis of CPC Leadership Candidate’s Firearm Policy Statements
Before We Begin This is a lengthy and detailed evaluation of the firearm policy statements made by each candidate in the Conservative Party's leadership race. To cast your ballot for leader you must be a member in good standing and the deadline for purchasing your CPC membership is May 15th, 2020 - just four days away as of today, Monday, May 11, … [Read more...]
RCMP and CBSA Contradict Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, RCMP Relents
Late Friday night the RCMP declared all 12-gauge and 10-gauge shotguns are legal "because we say so." Please read my assessment of Minister Blair's similarly worded legal advice on Facebook and Twitter at the end of this article. My thoughts there apply to the RCMP's latest as well. Friday was not a good day for Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. The Canadian … [Read more...]
If You Own Guns Sign These FIVE Petitions (plus one for UNIFOR members)
UPDATE: May 19 | Added MP Cheryl Gallant's petition to fire Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. UPDATE: May 9 | Added petition for UNIFOR Members against the union using their member dues to promote gun bans from honest people. If you read The Bill C-71 Book, you already know what I think about petitions, so the obvious question becomes ... “Christopher, why … [Read more...]