Dr. Caillin Langmann Published: June 18, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234457 Direct Download Link: PDF Canada implemented a series of laws regulating firearms including background and psychological screening, licensing, and training in the years 1991, 1994, and 2001. The effects of this legislation on suicide and homicide rates were examined over the years 1981 to … [Read more...]

Library of Parliament Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A9 19 June 2006 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz, M.P.  Room 685  Confederation Building  House of Commons  Ottawa Dear Mr. Breitkreuz: In response to your request of 14 June 2006 concerning statistics on spousal homicides by type of weapon since 1995, I am pleased to provide you with two tables prepared by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. These … [Read more...]

Bill C-68's enormous cost overruns continue to generate intense controversy over the rationale and efficacy of Canada's firearm controls.  But conflict in Canada over regulating firearms is nothing new. It has occurred many times since Confederation. In the first of two articles, I will provide a brief history of the federal government's efforts to regulate the ownership and use of firearms, and … [Read more...]

A detailed and well-researched examination of the history of "gun control" in Canada. Download Part I - Firearm Control In Canada 1867-1945 Download Part II - Firearm Control In Canada 1946-1977 … [Read more...]

That wacky "6,500 hits per day" figure. The proponents of the Gun Registry often quote various (and varying) numbers of "hits" that the Firearms Centre database receives per day from police. Presumably each hit is an instance of an officer querying the database to obtain firearms information. This bolsters their position that the registry is a "valuable policing tool." We've watched this useful … [Read more...]

Particularly in times of rare shooting tragedies, anti gun activists seize on the emotion of the moment to advance their agendas to ban guns. These special interests groups present themselves as social-engineering elitists who feel empowered to tell the vast majority of freedom-loving people how they should live their lives. Banning firearms would cost many thousands of lives annually. As many … [Read more...]

Myth #1. VERY FEW PEOPLE IN CANADA OWN FIREARMS Exactly the opposite is true: twenty-nine per cent of Canadian homes possess an estimated total of nine million firearms. Other authorities insist that even this figure is too low, and that there is at least twenty million firearms in Canada. The UN reported that Canada ranks third among the developed western countries (behind the United States and … [Read more...]

Myth #1: Semi-automatics firearms are more dangerous than other guns. False. Semi-automatic firearms are popular with many responsible Canadian gun owners because they offer reliability, accuracy, and durability. No real functional difference exists between semi-automatic rifles and shotguns commercially available today and any other type of action commercially available before 1910. The deaths … [Read more...]

A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2. Spring 2007  "Whether gun availability is viewed as a cause or as a mere coincidence, the long term macrocosmic evidence is that gun ownership spread widely throughout societies consistently correlates with stable or declining murder rates. Whether causative or not, the … [Read more...]

(The original document may be found here.) RECENT QUOTES A.B.J. (BEN) BEATTY: 23-YEAR VETERAN OF THE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE:  In June of 2006 I will be commencing my 24th year as a member of the Ontario Provincial Police. For 18 of those years I have been assigned the rank of Detective, specifically assigned to major criminal investigations. I must point out that in all my experience as a … [Read more...]