Gun Owners' Resource

Documents of interest to Canadians.

• ATI docs for Parliamentary Information re the American NRA obtained by the NFA.
• ATI docs for Parliamentary Information re RCMP Evaluation obtained by the NFA.  Provide copies of all final documents, including reports,
 briefing notes, memos, talking points, media lines, QP cards, emails, 
correspondence, etc. regarding the evaluation conducted of the firearms registry by the RCMP, 
including reviews of the evaluation itself, from January 2010 to
 September 21, 2010. ("The applicant informed this Department that records that are
considered as Cabinet confidences need not be provided in the final
response. The Department processed 1649 pages in response to this request.  The
applicant was provided with 251 pages."
• ATI docs for Parliamentary Information re Marking Regulations obtained by the NFA.  Memos, briefing notes, House Cards and reports created by Public Safety from December 1, 2010, to the present (March 9, 2011) concerning plans/delays related to bringing firearms marking regulations 
into force.  ("The Department processed 82 pages in response to this request. 45 pages were withheld pursuant to section 69 of the Act.")
• ATI docs for Parliamentary Information re Steve Torino obtained by the NFA.  All records relating in any way to Steve Torino and the topic 
of gun control in Canada. Records should include but not be limited to all: 
briefing notes, correspondence, reports, analysis, documents,
 investigations, studies, appointments, meetings and minutes. Please provide
this information from 2005 to present day [October 8, 2010].  ("The Department processed 308 pages in response to this request. The
 applicant was provided with 206 pages.")
• audio: the Barry Morgan Show (CJAD) August 13, 2011: a discussion/debate regarding the gun registry and gun control generally on the Barry Morgan Show, with Solomon Friedman and gun-grabber mouthpiece George Stamatis.
• CACP (Bill Blair) letter to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, 19 May 2011.  Fearmongering at tis finest.
• City of Toronto: City-Based Measures to Address Gun Violence May 22, 2008.  COTU propaganda goodness.
• Firearm Homicide in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand: What Can We Learn From Long- Term International Comparisons? Samara McPhedran, Jeanine Baker, and Pooja Singh.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011.
• The Practical Firearms Control System - Not the brightest thing the NFA ever did, and a good example of what happens when gun-grabbers are allowed to slip in the thin end of the wedge.
• Public Safety Canada Response to ATI File: A-2010-00155 obtained by the NFA.  Seeking all briefing notes, memos, reports, presentations and other documents (including e-mails) that were prepared/created by Public Safety Canada Officials and were provided to the Public Safety Minister on the subject of the federal long-gun registry in the last six months, (April 1, 2010 to/including October 25, 2010). I am not seeking any records that were prepared/created for the purpose of informing or presenting to a Cabinet Committee. ("The Department processed 1079 pages in response to this request. The applicant was provided with 947 pages.")
• RCMP-Ekos ATI document.  Filed under the Access to Information Act in response to the National Demographics Behaviour Survey of Firearms Clients with Ekos (click here to find out what that fiasco was).
• RCMP Canadian Firearms Program: Program Evaluation Final Approved Report, Feb. 2010.  Interesting math.
• Risks and Benefits of Proposed Firearms Legislation.  Prepared by Peter Hall, Senior Consultant, Pleiad Canada Inc., for the RCMP/Canadian Firearms Program.  May, 2009.
• audio: the Tommy Schnurmacher Show (CJAD) July 13, 2011: guest Solomon Friedman debates the buffoonery of a Quebec provincial long gun registry.  You can almost feel sorry for the kid that was sent to represent the other side, he was in so far over his head...
• When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.  Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa.  No, seriously; they wrote this. :D
• Why Canadian Crime Statistics Don’t Add Up: Not the whole truth.  Scott Newark, True North in Canadian Public Policy, The Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy.  Feb. 2011.  Why Statistics Canada's crime numbers don't add up.
• Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence by Don B. Kates (Pacifc Research Institute) and Gary A. Mauser (Simon Fraser University), published in 2006.

CASD handouts
Printable handouts from the Canadian Association for Self Defense:

1. A two-sided informational brocure
2. Sheet of tear-off slips, version 1
3. Sheet of tear-off slips, version 2

All files are in .pdf format and perfectly sized for printing on any home computer.

For more information, and the most recent updates, see this forum thread at the CASD's website (registration required, but worth it).

Governmental Guff
Oh, the crap we have to put up with...

• The Canadian Firearms Safety Course - for non-restricted firearms (2008).  The hoops they want you to jump through.
• The Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course - for handguns and anything that looks scary.
• Safely Storing, Transporting and Displaying FIREARMS (English 2008) - an RCMP-published cheat sheet.  Because even the cops can't keep the bone-headed regs straight more than half the time.