Executive Summary
Much of the impetus behind Canada’s 1995 firearm law was not ‘crime control’ per se, but strategic political concerns contained within a value driven, urban-oriented social reform agenda…
"Propaganda does not deceive people, it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
- Eric Hoffer, US Philosopher, 1955.
In the last week of September 2000, the Canadian Firearms Centre…
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Surveys of the Canadian population suggest that gun ownership ranges between 17 per cent and 34 per cent of all households. It is…
This paper provides a brief review of a 2003 study by Alpers and Twyford in which they claim that the availability of civilian firearms contributes to criminal violence in the…
The RCMP's 1994 Annual Firearms Report stated that in 1994 ". . . there are more than 1.2 million restricted weapons registered in Canada. Of these, 950,000 handguns are registered…
Map showing distribution of households with licenced firearms, with totals by type (restricted, non-restricted, etc.). (PDF) 86 kB.
Data Source: Ontario CFO, CFC, 2004.