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Solomon Friedman

Solomon Friedman is a criminal defence lawyer practising in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. He is an associate with the prominent Ottawa firm Edelson Clifford D’Angelo and runs the website FirearmsLaw.ca.

Aside from his comprehensive criminal law practice, Solomon focuses on firearms law, particularly on issues confronting otherwise law-abiding gun owners, such as safe storage, registration, transportation, seizures and public safety warrants.

As a sportsman, target shooter and firearms advocate, Solomon is uniquely positioned to understand the issues faced by firearms owners.

Solomon attended the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law, where he graduated magna cum laude. Upon graduation, he was selected to clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honourable Mr. Justice Morris Fish. He is called to the Bar of Ontario.

Solomon has represented his clients at trial  before the Ontario Court of Justice and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.  He uses his experience, together with his talent for effective written advocacy, to create persuasive and innovative legal arguments, both at trial and on appeal.

While at law school, Solomon was the recipient of the prize for the highest grade in the Advanced Criminal Procedure course. He also had the distinction of receiving the Law Society of Upper Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Legal Studies, the Osgoode Society Prize for Canadian Legal History and the Law Foundation of Ontario Award for academic excellence. In addition to obtaining the University of Ottawa Merit Scholarship for each of his years of study at law school, Solomon was also awarded the Catherine Helen Maclean Upper Year Award for his academic achievement and class standing.

Solomon is a member of the following professional organizations: Criminal Lawyers’ Association, County of Carleton Law Association, Ontario Bar Association , Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa and the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers.

Long gun registry debate misses the point

by Solomon Friedman
The Landowner

The failure of Bill C-391, which proposed the scrapping of the federal long gun registry, has drawn renewed interest to a subject which has lain virtually dormant for much of the last decade – gun control. The new Conservative majority government, which has promised to end the registry once and for all, has further enflamed debate on this controversial topic.

Quebec Long Gun Registry: Constitutional?

by Solomon Friedman
Firearms Law Canada

After reading the various news items in which the idea of a Quebec-only long gun registry has been floated, I have been considering the fascinating constitutional implications of such a move.

As firearms owners are well aware, the constitutional challenge against the federal Firearms Act on the grounds that it encroached on provincial jurisdiction ultimately failed at the Supreme Court of Canada.

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