UPDATE: The post was first published on June 2nd, 2022. New information has been added.
Beginning yesterday Canada officially began a freeze on the sale, selling, and transfer of any and all handguns, as announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
‘Under the regulations, people can still own and use their existing registered handguns and sell or transfer handguns to “exempted individuals or businesses,”‘ CBC reported.
Canadian-based The Gun Blog provides more details on what this gun freeze entails:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finished killing the country’s legal handgun market today, as he works to weaken citizens, cripple the firearm industry, and wipe out shooting sports.
Details
- His arbitrary, unilateral, and widely opposed new regulations took effect this morning at 00:01.
- He outlined them on May 30, and activated them yesterday through a cabinet “Order in Council” to bypass parliament.
- They target only government-licensed handgun users and businesses in good standing.
Criminalize And Confiscate
- You risk criminal charges and jail if you buy, sell, give away, or inherit any pistol or revolver.
- When you die, police will confiscate your handguns without compensation.
- For now, you’re allowed to keep and use your handguns.
- If you applied to transfer handguns before today, you may still get the authorizations.
‘No Longer Legal’
“From today forward, it is no longer legal to buy, sell, or transfer a handgun in Canada,” Trudeau said at a briefing near Vancouver.
Broken Trust
- Trudeau’s Liberal Party, assisted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have destroyed trust in politicians, police, and regulators.
- Many gun owners had believed that if we get our paperwork and obey the rules, we’d be allowed to use and keep our safety, sporting, and hunting gear.
- The Liberals+RCMP keep proving that to be false.
Wealth Destruction
- Today’s regulatory attacks instantly wiped out more than $1 billion in wealth for Canada’s roughly 300,000 handgunners and our families, as the market value of our goods suddenly plunged to zero.
- Canadians with a government-issued firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) own about 1.2 million handguns registered with the RCMP.
- We applied for 246,058 handgun transfers from May 23 to September 27, the Department of Public Safety said today. Many of the requests have yet to be approved.
Killing Jobs and Industry
- Trudeau’s actions forced most gun stores to shut down their handgun operations before today, eliminating more than 30% of Canada’s firearm industry.
- He prohibited handgun imports in August.
- He began publicly considering handgun prohibitions and confiscations in 2018.
Limited Exemptions
A limited number of people are exempt from the new prohibition on handgun transfers:
- About 8,000 high-level shooting athletes.
- About 6,000 security guards and people authorized for so-called “wilderness carry.”
- The film and TV industry.
What’s Next
- Today’s crackdown on honest citizens is part of Trudeau’s expanding legislative and regulatory attacks to suppress firearm users and the businesses that serve them.
- The same day he filed today’s regulations, he also filed Bill C-21 to put the prohibitions and confiscations in legislation, and to expand the rifle and shotgun confiscations he ordered in May 2020.
- To learn more about the Liberal+RCMP plans, see our page on Liberal Gun Bans.
Today’s Documents
- Prime Minister’s Office: Freezing the Market on Handguns
- Department of Public Safety: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Firearms Act
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police: What You Need to Know: Recent Changes in Handgun Regulations
In the wake of a string of shootings in the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will be initiating a “national freeze” on the sale and ownership of handguns, to “protect communities” per the purported counsel of doctors and police.
During the announcement, Justin Trudeau stated:
Two years ago, our government banned 1,500 models of assault-style weapons. We also expanded background checks to keep firearms out of the wrong hands. Now, as we see gun violence continue to rise, it is our duty to keep taking action.
As a further part of this new legislation, we’re also fighting gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing maximum criminal penalties and providing more tools for law enforcement to investigate firearm crimes. We’ll require the permanent alteration of long gun magazines so they can never hold more than five rounds. These are actions that doctors, experts, and chiefs of police have been calling for for years, and we’re acting on their advice.
I also want to thank the advocates, many of whom are here today, for your tireless efforts.
Our agencies intercepted nearly double the number of firearms than the year before. We’ll continue doing more to support law enforcement as they tackle the illegal gun market.
The vast majority of gun owners use them safely and in accordance with the law, but other than using firearms for sport shooting and hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their every day lives, and Canadians certainly don’t need assault-style weapons that were designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. Canadians are united in wanting more done to keep communities safe and prevent suicides and gender-based violence, and that’s exactly why we’re here today.
The consequences are real. Today, we’re joined by families and friends of victims of gun violence including the mass shootings at Polytechnique, on the Danforth, and at the Quebec City Mosque. Losing a child to gun violence should never happen.
Read more about it here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
And just like vast majority of Canadians who obeyed their slave masters with the Covid war, they will sit idly by as even more of their freedoms are literally yanked and dangled away in front of them. Canada was already very strict on guns to begin with, and I presume this would end them all together, as the government will not cease to keep these bans in place, even if they have to reinstate it several times over.
For readers everywhere, including Americans, while I still endorse owning firearms and stocking up on ammo, it will eventually run out. Therefore, investing in a well-crafted sword, or a good bow, would be wise. Always have something to protect yourself with.
[35] And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. [36] Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. [38] And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.Luke 22:35-36, 38
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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How’s it going, eh?
Reading what the Bible says about corruption of rulers and history of communist Russia; I’m not surprised one bit. Canada is a communist country, the World is fallen and let every man be a liar and let God be true. (Psalms 9 brings some piece of mind).
AMEN to that Mark Be Blessed
Does anybody sell or have a gun they can sell to me? I’ll pay ya in cash. I’m not joking. Just show me how to legally do it and if I need to talk to ATF or local police.
Andy, go to a local sporting goods store, they will set you up,and some sporting good stores have a range and will teach you to shoot.
Great advice!
All according to plan…and with ancient precedent as the Philistines took all the weapons of the Israelites leaving them nothing but plowshares, ox goads and such. Book of Judges and 1 Samuel.
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The Assyrians did the same, and practiced forced removal and resettlement, manipulating immigration…..evidence scripturally & historically.
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Mohammed & his armies did the same…..and Rome: only sorted Rome-approved vassals, crony warriors like the Templars etc, were to have arms of war. Same antichrist empire by hook or by crook, by violence and craft, spirit.
Further showing there’s no new thing under the sun. Confiscating arms and also in addition, King James Bibles-it’s called the sword for a reason, a spiritual sword but still. If not by force, then by persuasion and bribes.
Like the verse says I forgot which one and how it exactly goes “peace and safety then sudden destruction shall come upon them.”