Hockey fans across North America, especially north of the border in Canada, are in mourning today as one of that country’s highest-profile hockey figures passed away Thursday night. According to TSN in Canada, Walter Gretzky, the father of legendary superstar player Wayne Gretzky, passed away last night at the age of 82. The death was […]
Canada’s Trudeau Announces New Gun Control Scheme
There is no Second Amendment in Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just made that perfectly clear by announcing what The Hill called “sweeping gun reform legislation, including a measure that allows municipalities to ban handguns.” Down here in the U.S., municipal handgun bans are unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision. […]
Toronto Newspaper Columnist Cracks Code on Common Sense Gun Control
Following the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy in the North York area of greater Toronto, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference there will be new gun control legislation soon. But Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley essentially “cracked the code” over the weekend when he wrote, “…the Trudeau government insists they are […]
Watch Canada: Gun Ban Could Be a Bust, Perhaps Rightly So
Buried in the text of a Reason online essay about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent announcement banning some 1,500 models and variants of firearms in reaction to the murder rampage in Nova Scotia—a crime that allegedly would not have been prevented by the proposed restrictions, say critics—is a critical point gun grabbers habitually ignore. […]
Canada PM Bans Guns Although Nova Scotia Killer was Unlicensed
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban on so-called “military-grade assault weapons” in reaction to the murder rampage launched in Nova Scotia by a man who reportedly owned guns illegally, leaving rights activists hardly surprised. Trudeau’s action underscores what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said two weeks ago […]
Nova Scotia Mass Shooting More Evidence Gun Control Fails?
UPDATED 4/20 @ 4:25 p.m. PDT—When a 51-year-old Nova Scotia man went on a 12-hour rampage that began Saturday night and ended Sunday with a body count now numbering at least 19 victims, it was more evidence that strict gun control laws do not prevent violence as the authors of those laws have perennially argued, […]