Policy
Inside the *211,000-record table* behind your rifle's class
Canada's firearm table is administrative, enormous, and practically decisive. A promised classification review should make its reasoning visible.
Policy
Canadian firearms policy analysis, source documents, enforcement questions, and evidence-led commentary from Holdover.
Policy
Legal ownership rose. The study found *little crime link*
A new Canadian preprint links direct RCMP ownership measures with deaths and crime. Its restrained finding deserves a careful read.
Advocacy
Who belongs in Saskatchewan's gun-ban *class*?
CCFR says it filed a Saskatchewan compensation class action. The fair-value theory is public; the pleading that defines the proposed class remains out of view.
Advocacy
Two days in November will test Ottawa's *gun-ban power*
CCFR says November 9-10 are set for its Supreme Court appeal. The dates matter because Cabinet must defend how it used delegated power to prohibit lawfully owned firearms.
Advocacy
Gun shops got the *error screen*
The buyback's business portal turned retailers into deadline managers, inventory clerks, and support-ticket writers. That is not background admin. It is the policy.
Advocacy
10,353 signatures chose the harder *target*
E-petition e-7232 closed with 10,353 validated signatures and a better public-safety instinct: stop processing licensed owners and fund the harder problems.
Advocacy
Ottawa found the owners, then lost the *who*
Q-1053 shows the buyback can find licensed owners well enough to process them, but not readily describe who is actually in the program.
Advocacy
Ontario put its name on the Supreme Court *record*
Ontario's Supreme Court intervention turns Ford's anti-buyback line into a legal position. Now the province has to decide what that filing means before SCC + 90-day amnesty.
Advocacy
Ford said the easy part out loud
Doug Ford is right that Ottawa is focusing on the wrong people. Ontario gun owners still need more than a useful clip.
Advocacy
Stop Crediting the Buyback for *Police Work*
Recent Canadian enforcement against smuggling, drugs, and illegal firearms should be credited honestly. Do the police work, then do not sell it as buyback success.
Advocacy
Twenty-four handguns, wrong target
Halton police found 24 U.S.-sourced handguns in a trafficking file. Ottawa should notice the difference between a criminal pipeline and licensed-owner paperwork.
Advocacy
The evidence should exist before the *cheque*
A $742 million firearms program should not need an access request to find its public-safety argument. Licensed owners deserve evidence before policy burden.