Noise Suppressors for Firearms
Pressure is building for removing the requirement for an ATF $200 excise tax stamp for firearms noise suppressors (also called “silencers”). See the article in…
Canada
Hubris: Evaluating the Canadian Firearms Program
The Canada Firearms Centre (CFC) claims that over 90% of Canadian firearm owners have a license (either a POL or PAL), but these claims…
Armed self-defence: the Canadian case
Canada’s firearm owners are a public safety resource, not a threat to public safety. Although, reporting a legitimate defensive use of a firearm to the authorities could…
Review of “Reforming CPIC” by Library of Parliament Legal Analyst
Can mandating that CPIC maintain the addresses of violent offenders, once released from custody, be challenged under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? This was…
Arming and Disarming: A Book Review
R. B. Brown is to be commended for writing the first comprehensive history of gun control in Canada. He shows how governmental attempts to manage…
Did Deinstitutionalization increase suicide by cop?
In the 1980s and 1990s governments around the world decided to shut down public mental institutions, releasing the inmates to fend for themselves, even those…
Some thoughts about reforming CPIC
There are two interrelated problems with the Canadian Police Information Centre [or CPIC] that demand to be solved: (1) the unacceptably low priority assigned to collecting…
Do Canadian gun laws save women’s lives?
Lethal Firearm-Related Violence Against Canadian Women: Did Tightening Gun Laws Have an Impact on Women’s Health and Safety? Domestic violence remains a significant public health…
The Liberals’ Gun Control Regime Still Missing the Real Target!
Dennis R. Young just wrote a great article. Firearms laws control law-abiding gun owners but those too dangerous to own firearms, not so much. More…
Calibre rates Minister Goodale’s new Firearms Advisory Committee
CANADA’S FIREARMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE: THE SCORECARD Daniel Fritter March 3, 2017 Of the ten members, five represent organizations that are themselves members of the…