Advocacy
Who can keep a *borrowed handgun* when its owner dies?
I rent a CZ handgun. A reader's question about an owner's death exposes a practical gap between Canada's borrowing rules and its restrictions on handgun inheritance.
Advocacy
Evidence-led Canadian firearms policy analysis, calmly pro-ownership and grounded in the laws, numbers, and source documents.
Advocacy
Inside July's *amended* buyback recommendation
Public Safety lists an amended buyback recommendation sent for signature in July. Owners can see its title and routing, while the proposed change and decision remain unexplained.
Advocacy
Public Safety *advanced* $90.3 million to ESDC
Public Safety's newest quarterly report records a $90.3 million advance to ESDC for the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program. The entry shows the payment infrastructure moving. The report still leaves individual outcome reporting for the next quarter.
Advocacy
Postal code assigns *the collection site*
Public Safety assigns ASFCP collection sites from the postal code in a participant's account. Its current guidance also warns that local appointment windows can be limited. For an Ontario owner, the route belongs in the plan from the first screen.
Gear
Nothing in section 10 says case
Subsection 10(1) of SOR/98-209 requires one thing to transport a non-restricted rifle: that it be unloaded. No case, no trigger lock, no separate ammunition. The case rule Canadians recite at each other is real, but in Ontario it comes from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.
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2,473,661 firearms licence holders belong in Canada's gun story
Canada ended 2025 with 2,473,661 firearms licence holders. The number describes a trained, screened culture of hunting and sport that belongs in Canada's own story.
Advocacy
A uniform cannot excuse concealment
Major Kendrick Barling's sentence leaves the Canadian Forces with a separate task: make its own firearms-accountability standard clear, public and consistent.
Advocacy
Buckshot counts as shot.
B.C. put its province-wide lead-shot proposal on hold, but the current file still leaves an eight-pellet buckshot question for the next version to answer.
Advocacy
Fifteen lanes, one guest pass
Ajax is getting a 15-lane range. The guest pass attached to that idea has a legal meaning: a supervised guest may use a restricted firearm at an approved range, even though individual handgun ownership remains largely closed.
Advocacy
An April note, an unopened firearms review
Public Safety's records show planning and technical-group member selection for the firearms review. Owners still have no published route into the promised engagement.
Advocacy
Whitby drew the line at the porch
Whitby shows why Canadian self-defence should protect reasonable force against an immediate threat and punish gunfire after the danger passes. The people who created the confrontation still demand serious accountability.
Gear
Your scope needs its own answer
Public Safety Canada says accessories submitted outside the individual firearm list will be destroyed without compensation. Its collection instructions also require a firearm to be complete and fully assembled. Get the answer about attached gear in writing before an appointment.