Category: firearms

Anti-Gun Narratives Driven by “Intentional Misinformation” and Political Interests: Antonia Okafor

Second Amendment protections are under assault by anti-gun movements. This includes governments allowing gun manufacturers to be sued for crimes committed with firearms, new restrictions on high capacity magazines, and new laws on what are deemed “assault weapons.” To learn more about gun rights in the United States, and concerns that gun owners have, we…


Desmond Inquiry: Nova Scotia Firearms Official Testifies About Better Communication

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S.—Nova Scotia’s chief firearms officer told an inquiry today that communications with his colleagues in other provinces have improved since a former soldier fatally shot his family and himself in rural Nova Scotia in 2017. John Parkin was testifying at the provincial fatality inquiry investigating the death of former infantryman Lionel Desmond, who…


Can We Trust Experts?

Commentary Experts have squandered their credibility in recent public failures. The repeated misjudgments by public health experts over the past year have demonstrated that they didn’t know how to deal with the pandemic. Claiming their decisions were “backed by science,” public health experts recommended a bewildering maze of contradictory rules about masks, and closures of…


Budget Officer Says Liberals’ Gun Buyback Could Cost up to $756 Million

OTTAWA—The parliamentary budget officer says it could cost the government $756 million to buy back guns now prohibited in the country, depending on how many there are in Canada and how the Liberals structure the program. The high-end buyback figure is the budget officer’s estimate for how much it would cost for the government to…


4th Circuit Court Dismisses Challenge to Federal Bump Stock Ban

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks, which are designed to help make semi-automatic firearms behave more like fully automatic ones. When attached to a semi-automatic firearm, a bump stock uses the weapon’s recoil energy after a shot is fired to…


California Women’s Group Promotes Survival Skills, Self-Reliance

Mamalitia, a California-based community dedicated to promoting self-protection and self-sufficiency, has a message for women. “I want women to know they are fully capable of teaching their children, they’re fully capable of engaging in self-sustainability, and they do not need permission from anybody to do that,” Denise Aguilar, the group’s founder, told The Epoch Times…


Right to Bear Arms Threatened by President’s Comments, Gun Rights Advocates Say

Southern California gun rights advocates say that recent remarks made by President Joe Biden in favor of tougher gun control laws threaten the constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear firearms. Last month, Biden called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to curb the sale of homemade ghost gun kits, pushed to expand “red…


Video: Live Q&A: Biden Announces New Gun Restrictions, Says This Is the Beginning

The Biden administration announced new restrictions on firearms, including against so-called “ghost guns,” and the enhancement of red flag laws, in addition to other measures. Amid the controversy that followed, the Biden administration declared this is the beginning, and more restrictions will soon follow. In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp we’ll discuss…


Victims’ Rights Advocates Weigh in on Ottawa’s Plan to Axe Minimum Sentences

New legislation introduced by the Liberals would eliminate many minimum sentences for drug offences and some gun-related crimes, a move that has drawn a mixed response from victims’ rights advocates. Introduced Feb. 18, Bill C-22 seeks to repeal mandatory minimum penalties (MMPs) for 14 Criminal Code offences, including 11 involving firearms. All six minimum penalties…


Confiscating Firearms From Law-Abiding Owners Won’t Solve Gun Violence

Commentary The Liberal government introduced Bill C-21 in Parliament this week claiming that it would combat gun violence and keep Canadian communities safe. This is difficult to believe, because none of its provisions address violent crime or deal with the violent misuse of firearms. It does increase the maximum penalty for non-violent firearms crimes from 10…