Canadian firearms opinion

An instructor gestures beside the open action of a supported chassis rifle in a firearms safety classroom.

Advocacy

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

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.

A fictional outdoor-sports retail employee checks a phone outside a locked shop at dusk.

Advocacy

Reddit's gun-vendor rule was written for somewhere else

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.

Two range-club volunteers read a legal update together on a laptop in a worn clubhouse.

Advocacy

Five minutes. Ten pages. Eight interveners.

The Supreme Court admitted eight private interveners to the firearms appeals and dismissed one application. Their role is broad in perspective and narrow in scope.

A polling interviewer listens through a wired headset while marking an unbranded response sheet.

Advocacy

I would have said important, too.

Nanos found 88% of Canadians want illegal firearm trafficking in future continental trade talks. Read the exact question before anyone spends that number on a domestic policy claim.

A stock clerk safely lifts an unloaded pump shotgun from a plain shipping carton toward an empty rack slot.

Gear

June's 22,890 shotguns were an autumn bet

A record month of Canadian shotgun imports landed before fall. The number reads like inventory money, with the retail verdict still ahead.

Gear

At $15,000, ask who will tighten the action

Five-figure clay shotguns make sense through fit, volume, and service. Price the people and parts that keep the action working.

A shooter checks a handheld weather meter at an outdoor range before a session.

Precision

An August zero carries two temperatures

A cold-season zero changes through the powder and the atmosphere. Write both conditions down before November asks the rifle to prove them.

A trainee and coach inspect one target pistol at a quiet firing point.

Advocacy

BCTSA narrowed the training letter to one handgun

BCTSA's current exemption page generally limits a training-only applicant to one handgun. The federal law supplies no numeric cap.

A fictional licensed owner works at a desktop with an unreadable phone set aside.

Advocacy

RCMP's 99.01 per cent result ends at received

The CFP met its 35-day application standard 99.01 per cent of the time. That clock ends when the file enters processing.

Two shooters check an unreadable phone together in a quiet range clubhouse.

Advocacy

Docket 41859: five corrections

A July 28 firearms article turned a federal response into a Court decision. The public docket corrects five claims.

Advocacy

One Ontario buyback contact, six unpublished totals

One Ontario owner says the buyback program contacted him. Ottawa's current workflow now needs public counts for agreements, kits, appointments, validation, destruction, and payment.