“Action is needed now to tackle this growing gang and gun violence in Auckland and Firearm Prohibition Orders are part of the solution,” says Simeon Brown, New Zealand National Party’s Police Spokesperson. “Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPOs) would give police greater powers to take firearms of violent criminals. This is a sensible piece of legislation that would go some way … [Read more...]
Canada’s Firearm License Revocation System
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association did an in-depth writeup titled The FULL Story on Canada’s Firearm Licence Revocation System. What follows is as brief an overview of Canada's firearm license revocation system. It is not meant to replace the CSSA's resource, but to augment it. Section 70 of the Firearms Act contains Canada's licence revocation … [Read more...]
Stupid Toronto Star Reporters Shouldn’t Write About Canadian Firearms Law
You can't stop people from being stupid. You can, as a reporter writing about stupid people, base your story at least in the same universe as reality, if not on the same planet. Jacques Gallant, a staff reporter for Toronto's The Star newspaper, clearly doesn't have a clue what he's writing about in his article "Handguns Easily Resold to Potential Criminals" when he … [Read more...]
The RCMP Hates Only One Thing More Than Firearms: Firearm Owners
The priorities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are screwed up. You may think tracking down child pornographers might be a bigger priority for RCMP investigators but I suspect you would be wrong. The RCMP seems far more intent on tracking down law-abiding gun owners and building files on them instead. In 2013 and 2013, for example, the RCMP spent $1 million on … [Read more...]