EFGA GUN BAN INFORMATION & ACTION CENTRE
Justin Trudeau and Bill Blair have launched an attack against Canadian firearm owners. A very non-democratic ‘Order in Council’ instantly banned over 1500 common and legal firearms. Canadians who complied with all the rules, have spent thousands of dollars with government permission, and practice their sport safely, are now facing serious criminal persecution. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Detailed here is EFGA’s stance, recommendations, and action items to help us contribute toward the fight to overturn the Liberal’s gun bans.
Please check back regularly for updates. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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What Can We Do?
To get started, you can help with the fight by joining our firearm organizations, signing petitions, and donating to legal challenges. Click through each tab for details.
Petitions needing your signatures:
Put forth by Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, Conservative Caucus):
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2574
Put forth by Todd Doherty (Cariboo, Prince George, Conservative Caucus):
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2576
The EFGA strongly urges all members to join our various firearm lobby groups. Membership costs are inexpensive and vital. We need to help empower ALL groups who are on the front-lines fighting for our rights and traditions.
Joining as many firearm groups as you can is also the best way to help ensure you receive accurate and up-to-date information, as well as present many different opportunities to get involved in the fight.
| CCFR: https://firearmrights.ca/en/home/ |
CSSA: https://cssa-cila.org/ |
| CSAAA: https://www.csaaa.org/ |
NFA: https://nfa.ca/ |
Over the past month, we’ve seen multiple legal challenges launched against Trudeau’s gun bans. Defending against the Liberal’s undemocratic Order In Council from multiple groups using different strategies may prove to be advantageous. Please consider supporting as many challenges as you can.
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
The CCFR is suing the Liberal government in federal court for overreaching and violating section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
National Firearms Association
Supported by the NFA, Solomon Friedman is launching a Judicial review against the OIC by demonstrate that the firearms banned are reasonable for use in Canada and do not pose any risk to public safety.
- https://nfa.ca/2020/05/07/nfa-announces-support-court-challenge-to-liberal-gun-grab/
- https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/court-challenge-seeks-to-overturn-federal-gun-ban/ar-BB14tAU1
- https://nfa.ca/contribute/
Canadian Shooting Sports Association
The CSSA has identified a couple of legal challenges that require our support.
Ontario Landowners Association Judicial Review
The OLA challenge against the government is that the OIC is an attack against private property.
- https://ontariolandowners.ca/news/may-25-2020-ola-press-release-on-ban-of-firearms-by-order-in-council/
- https://www.gofundme.com/f/gun-ban-court-challenge-judicial-review
Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply Challenge
The OIC instructed the RCMP to change the classification of over 1500 firearms. By doing changing the classification of over 1500 firearms, the RCMP directly contravened the legislation in Bill C-42
Judicial OIC Challenge – John Hipwell & Ed Burlew
John Hipwell of Wolverine Supplies, represented by Ed Burlew, has launched a Judicial review of the OIC.
Help to promote our shooting sports by engaging and educating your fellow Canadians. Both gun owners and non-gun owners may not have all the facts.
- Help educate non-gun owners as to the current political situation and our laws
- Bring new and potential gun owners to the range
- Call/write our elected officials
Contact our Local MLA and MP
Petitions are an important tool, but contacting politicians directly always sends a more powerful message. A hand written letter, phone call, or visit carries so much more weight than a signature. Direct and personal contact is remembered. Always be brief and respectful. Stay on point.
Mr. Gerald Soroka, MP for Yellowhead
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/gerald-soroka(105751)#contact
Mr. Martin Long (UCP), MLA for West Yellowhead
https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_contact&rnumber=87&leg=30
Mr. Bill Blair (LIB), MP and Minister of Public Safety
https://billblair.libparl.ca/
Justin Trudeau (LIB), Prime Minister
https://pm.gc.ca/en
Firearm Community Support and Response
We’re on the right track. With the various replies to the EFGA and all their members, we’re encouraged and motivated to remain as active with helping to protect and support our firearms communities. Click each organization to read their comments.
“Words cannot begin to convey our gratefulness of your generous donation to our legal defense fund. This truly is a fight for our lives as this proposed ban encompasses 90% our what we make.
Not only is our business on the line, our 9 employees could be jobless and some of us would lose our houses if we lose in court.
Please pass along to all of your folks our deepest Thank You!!! Wish us luck.”
– Rick
To Edson Fish & Game Association,
I would like to thank you, your executive and the members of the Edson Fish & Game Association for stepping up, especially in hard times, to help us. If you would share this letter with your members, we would be very grateful. We are a small group at the CCFR, and we are doing everything we possibly can to oppose the Liberals and their assault on our community.
In the last 3 months, we have launched the largest legal action on behalf of gun owners in Canadian history. We have amassed a social media task force of over 9000 people organized to overwhelm the online narrative of those who would lie about gun owners. We have leveraged our court case into a $200,000 media campaign to attract the interest of non-gun owning Canadians to our fight. This included an article, an infographic and an open letter published in 16 newspapers across Canada. It was supported by online advertising, a new explainer video and more. We developed and financed two 1-hour TV specials with WildTV to tell our side of the story. We are developing another 1-hour special for Sportsman channel and online distribution to air this month. We have sponsored updated television commercials on both Canadian outdoor channels to generate support from hunters for our fight. We posted townhall videos for all four Conservative Party candidates to help gun owners make an informed choice in the leadership election. We represented gun owners in over 70 mainstream media appearances since May 1st. We worked with hunting legend Jim Shockey to create and distribute three videos to raise awareness and get hunters involved. These videos have been seen over 500,000 times. The CCFR’s Canada Downrange Season 2 is now being uploaded to YouTube as a tool to be shared with all Canadians. This is an incredible resource to show non-gun owners what our community and culture really is, despite what the media wants to show them. And finally, the CCFR is organizing the Integrity March on Parliament Hill in Ottawa so that gun owners can be seen and heard on September 12th.
All of this in the last 3 months. This is possible when you have a dedicated hardworking team, but it can’t happen without support from groups like yours.
Thank you for making all this possible. I can’t tell you that everything we’re doing will work. I can only tell you that these kinds things haven’t been tried and that doing nothing is not an option.
Your donation and the trust you have in us is immensely meaningful. Thank you again.
Best Regards,
Rod M. Giltaca
CEO & Executive Director
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
A pair of posts to the CCFR Facebook page have received 930 likes:
“A big CCFR shout out and thank you to our good friends at the Edson Fish and Game Association and their members for the generous $5000 donation to the CCFR’s legal challenge fund!”
“Thank you so much for this generous donation. As you know, our community is in crisis and the CSSA is working flat out on solutions to the Liberal government’s persecution of firearms owners. Be assured this donation will be put to good use.
Thank you again,”
– Tony Bernardo, Executive Director
“The Ontario Landowners Association extends our gratitude to your Association for the generous donation of $1,000.00 towards the legal challenge to remove the Order-In-Council by Prime Minster Justin Trudeau.
The unanimous support by your organization is indicative of how lawful gun owners feel towards the removal of their lawfully purchased firearms.
The attitude of government towards private property confiscation without lawful due process, fair market value compensation and the agreement of a Private Citizen is becoming an unacceptable behaviour by the elected representatives of the people.
This attitude is occurring at all three levels of government and we are committed to protecting our Private Property from government interference.
I also thank-you for your support of other organizations that are challenging this Order-In-Council.”
– Jeff D. Bogaerts, President
Previous Posts & Details
For more information, please read the following post providing more details on the various initiatives:
