Evidence-led Canadian firearms policy analysis, calmly pro-ownership and grounded in the laws, numbers, and source documents.
Advocacy
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
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.
Advocacy
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
Major Kendrick Barling's sentence leaves the Canadian Forces with a separate task: make its own firearms-accountability standard clear, public and consistent.
Advocacy
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
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
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 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
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.
Advocacy
An Ontario court reportedly imposed a conditional sentence in a firearms-trafficking conspiracy while section 99 still displays a three-year minimum. The source trail explains the gap.
Advocacy
Reddit allows links to licensed firearm dealers. Its firearm-specific guidance still defines that permission through U.S. FFL and ATF terms, leaving Canadian communities to absorb the ambiguity.
Advocacy
Eight organizations have been granted leave to intervene in the Supreme Court appeals over Canada’s firearms prohibition. Each gets ten pages and five minutes—and considerably less freedom than “intervener” might suggest.