After reading Bill C-71, The Firearms Owners Harassment Act, and digging into its details, I teamed up with Nicolas Johnson (TheGunBlog.ca) to write the book on Bill C-71. Our goal: help liberty lovers connect with their MPs, engage in the political process and make our views known. We are grateful to former MP Garry Breitkreuz for writing the Foreword and to the Canadian … [Read more...]
Andrew Scheer’s Keynote Address to CSSA Stick To Your Guns Fundraising Dinner
Andrew Scheer was the keynote speaker at the CSSA's annual Stick To Your Guns fundraising dinner held in Saskatoon on April 22, 2017. While he was there to talk politics, specifically his candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, his talk focused far more on himself and his admiration for the firearms community's culture of safety. "...the one thing … [Read more...]
CBC Backs Down – Guns in Canada 101 Vanishes From the Internet
UPDATE #3: TheGunBlog.ca reports the CBC has now re-issued the video on their "Keeping Canada Safe" portal with two text updates and a disclaimer below the video. Not good enough. Keep up the pressure on the CBC to either pull the video completely or redo the segment with accurate information. UPDATE #2: The CBC pulled it from the other link on the CBC website … [Read more...]
TheGunBlog.ca’s Excellent Idea – File Complaint with CBC Ombudsman over CBC Video
UPDATED: CBC Ombudsman: http://www.ombudsman.cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/contact-us/ TheGunBlog.ca (an excellent website) wants gun owners to file complaints with the CBC Ombudsman Office over all the factual errors in the CBC video "Guns in Canada 101", part of their Keeping Canada Safe series. It's a brilliant idea and one I think we all can get behind. The CBC is no friend … [Read more...]
Team CSSA and CSAAA Join Forces to File Class Action Lawsuit against RCMP for Ruger 10/22 Magazine Reclassification
CSSA Press Release for Class Action Lawsuit against the RCMP. My commentary and thoughts on how to help reverse this decision are in the next article. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 28, 2016 ETOBICOKE, ONTARIO - The Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), representing recreational firearms owners, has joined with the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association … [Read more...]
Awesome Button given away at CSSA AGM in Oshawa, Ontario
Some days are just fun and today at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association's 2016 AGM in Ottawa is no exception. In addition to a well attended AGM in the morning, the presentation by Faith Goldy and Brian Lilley of TheRebel.media was fantastic. Having two of the shooting sports best friends presenting a panel on media relations to the CSSA was a real treat, not to … [Read more...]
CSSA 2016 Annual General Meeting and Banquet
I'll be there. Hopefully I will see you there too! The 2016 Canadian Shooting Sports Annual General Meeting (AGM) is scheduled for May 14, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Quality Hotel & Conference Centre, Salon ABC in Oshawa, Ontario. To reserve rooms at the special CSSA rate contact the Quality Hotel & Conference Centre, 1011 … [Read more...]
Canadian Shooting Sports Assn’s Excellent Job of Educating Canadian Politicians Continues
by Tony Bernardo, CSSA/CILA What better way to have politicians from every party understand the failings and foibles of Canadian firearms laws than to invite them to the shooting range? The Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA) held the 2nd Annual … [Read more...]
Canadian Government will finally repeal gun show regulations
It's about time... too. This is one of the holdovers from the Liberals' failed Firearms Act. They had hoped to effectively ban Canadian gun shows by regulating them out of existence. Even the Liberals knew they faced an uphill battle with these and deferred them for years before eventually losing power to Stephen Harper's Conservative government, who has also deferred them … [Read more...]
Adam Vaughan: Ontario Gun Owners and Gun Clubs – Know Thine Enemy
As many Canadians may not know, in 2008 the Toronto City Council passed a bylaw banning shooting ranges on city property as well as businesses that manufacture firearms from operating within the city limits. Shooting ranges operated by governments are okay under the bylaw. Shooting ranges operated by private individuals or non-profit groups are not. This is, of course, … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to the OFAH, the CSSA, the NFA, and…
and All Canadian Wildlife and Sporting Organizations by Al Muir On 15 May 1995 Parliament’s Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs held a hearing on the Liberals’ Bill C-68. Speaking for the National Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Wildlife Federations in vehement opposition to this unjust law, Mr. Rick Morgan of the Ontario Federation of Anglers … [Read more...]
John Holdstock, long-time pro-gun guy, dies suddenly
I got an email yesterday from the BC Wildlife Federation that shocked me, because I'd just emailed back and forth with John a few times just before Christmas. So getting the notice that he had passed away on Christmas Day from a heart attack was quite the shock. I always hate it when I have to update the In Memoriam page over at diArmani.com. Every year more and more names … [Read more...]
Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case
Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario's Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada's Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie's letter, dated the day the Supreme … [Read more...]
Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 4 of 4
And what happens to all the money and property seized? Well, of the $13.4 million seized in Ontario since 2003, only $1.2 million has been turned over as compensation to "victims of unlawful activity", whatever that phrase means. Almost half of it, $5.7 million has been handed back to law enforcement agencies in the form of grants. Five times as much money is given … [Read more...]
Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 3 of 4
Donna Montague was not impressed. "At every stage of this process, whenever we've 'negotiated' with them, we've been railroaded," she said. "The search warrants were illegal. They said that for our Constitutional challenge to go forward we had to drop our challenge of them. After they arrested Bruce, did the first search and were holding Bruce in jail, they threatened … [Read more...]
Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 2 of 4
McKeachie, and through him the Attorney General's office as a whole, was being forced to answer for his actions to the public. He doesn't like that at all. Why should the Ontario Attorney General's office or McKeachie personally be upset about public scrutiny of this case? Openness and transparency should be the hallmark of government. After all, the Attorney General … [Read more...]
Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 1 of 4
Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario's Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada's Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie's letter, dated the day the Supreme … [Read more...]
BCWF Political Action Alliance Press Release
NDP MP Charlie Angus’ ‘Fix’ the Long Gun Registry Bill (Part 1) Canadian Shooting Sports Association FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NDP’s Bill C-580 gives gun owners renewed energy for election fight Sport shooters show disgust at feeble ploy to “fix” gun registry (Vaughan ON – October 21, 2010) Private Members’ Bill C-580 tabled by NDP MP Charlie Angus earlier this month … [Read more...]
Bill C-580 Press Release from CSSA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NDP’s Bill C-580 gives gun owners renewed energy for election fight Sport shooters show disgust at feeble ploy to “fix” gun registry (Vaughan ON – October 21, 2010) Private Members’ Bill C-580 tabled by NDP MP Charlie Angus earlier this month is ill-conceived and leaves firearms owners to conclude it is nothing more than a confiscation … [Read more...]
A Message to All NFA and CSSA Members
A Message to All NFA and CSSA Members by Norman "Griffon" Lapierre, President, Canadian Association for Self Defense Dear member of the firearms community, I am writing these lines while trying to remain as non-partisan as possible. The following message addresses itself to members of the CSSA and NFA equally. The focus on firearms will soon fade from the media over … [Read more...]
It’s about People Control, not Gun Control…
I can't say it any better than Garry Breitkreuz already did, so here's his editorial... The registry isn't about reducing crime. It's about public control. The media war over the hotly contested long-gun registry is in full swing, and it isn’t pretty. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) is lobbying hard to keep our tax dollars flowing into the black hole … [Read more...]