Minister Blair spends $125k on consultations, stacks attendance list

Tracey Wilson 2018-11-30 Bill Blair, Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime has been hosting “invite only public consultations” across the country in an effort to gauge the benefit of a “handgun and assault rifle” ban. In all, the Minister only visited 4 major city centres, with 2 consultations a day for a total of... Read more

Anti-Gun Researchers Undermine the Anti-Gun Narrative

We have good news from a joint effort between the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins University. Comprehensive background checks and prohibitions based on violent misdemeanors had no effect on homicide rates in California. The latest study published... Read more

Engineering Professor Shares Thoughts on Constitutional Law, Calls for Handgun Ban

In a recent piece for the Bangor Daily News ironically titled, “Why banning handguns makes sense,” Associate University of Maine Electrical Engineering Professor George Elliott struggled to argue why the tools of self-defense have no place in civilized society and are unworthy of constitutional protection. Unsurprisingly, some of the academic’s own statements refute his thesis.... Read more

Retired Anti-Gun Justice Reveals Attempts to Thwart Landmark Heller Decision

Few Supreme Court justices have been as avowedly opposed to the Second Amendment as John Paul Stevens, who retired from the high court in June 2010. Stevens wrote a lengthy dissent to the landmark decision of District of Columbia v. Heller and to its follow-up, McDonald v. Chicago. He then continued to advocate against those... Read more

Mayor Tory’s “handgun ban” shot down by Municipalities

Tracey Wilson 2018-11-22 The tragic shooting on the Danforth this summer was the climax for the gun debate in Canada. A violent, mass shooting, committed by an unlicensed criminal, with a firearm he legally obtained through his brother’s gang connection, has somehow become the pivotal point where virtue signalling politicians like John Tory demand bans... Read more

MP Rachael Harder goes toe to toe with Minister Blair, and wins

Tracey Wilson 2018-11-22 MP Rachael Harder has become a real source of common sense in the gun debate that wages across the country, fueled by misinformation, fear mongering and downright virtue signalling. Well, this week was no different. Last weekend, out in Alberta, Harder hosted a fundraiser in true western style, complete with a day... Read more