PJ The Belt - June 16, 2026


Canada Just Delivered The FINAL BLOW To Gun Owners..


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831

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The handgun shooting sport in Canada is dying out, and it s not your fault. It s the government's fault, says the International Practical Shooting Confederation, or IPSEC, which represents the sport of handgun shooting in Canada.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, Canada just delivered the final blow to gun owners in this country.
00:00:06.520 And I don't think most Canadians even realize it.
00:00:08.900 In fact, if you ask the average person on the street right now what the biggest threat to gun ownership in Canada is,
00:00:15.380 they would probably start talking about gun confiscation, the whole gun buyback program, the gun grab,
00:00:22.160 or some new law that some politician decided to come up with in Ottawa.
00:00:25.500 But what if I told you the biggest threat was in any of these things?
00:00:29.100 What if I told you the government may have found a way to make an entire part of Canada's firearm community disappear just like that without ever having to knock on a single door?
00:00:39.560 Because that's exactly what thousands of Canadians are having to face right now.
00:00:43.940 And if they're right, the consequences are much bigger than most people realize.
00:00:51.140 I'm at Fort McMurray's gun range where more than 50 people are competing in a handgun competition.
00:00:59.100 They shoot their way through obstacles that test their speed, accuracy, and discipline.
00:01:04.440 It's overseen by the International Practical Shooting Confederation, or IPSEC.
00:01:09.000 They have about 6,000 Canadian members, and they say their sports days are numbered.
00:01:14.600 It is dying because we are stuck without having a new group of people coming up.
00:01:20.620 We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.
00:01:27.420 The federal government froze all sales, transfers and imports of handguns for private owners
00:01:33.180 and gun stores in 2022.
00:01:36.600 Gun violence is a complex problem, but at the end of the day, the math is really quite
00:01:42.740 simple.
00:01:45.820 The fewer the guns in our communities, the safer everyone will be.
00:01:53.520 can keep the handguns they already owned legally, but there's no way to replace them if they're
00:01:57.920 lost, stolen, or broken. Well, the handgun shooting sport is dead. We are just waiting
00:02:03.620 for the corpse to cool. There's no newcomers coming into the sport. So we are just going to,
00:02:10.360 it's going to be atrophy death over the next 10 years. And here's the part that should make
00:02:15.540 people uncomfortable. These are not criminals. They're not gang members. They're not people
00:02:20.600 making headlines every night this is where people following the rules getting licensed
00:02:27.160 joining clubs showing up to competitions teaching newcomers and keeping a sport alive
00:02:33.420 and now they're being told don't worry you can keep doing it okay but for how long because if
00:02:39.880 nobody can realistically come into the sport eventually the clubs shrink the competition
00:02:46.420 disappears and the whole thing starts to fade away. That's what makes this feel so dishonest.
00:02:52.020 Politicians can stand there and say, yeah, we didn't ban your sport and maybe not on paper.
00:02:56.860 But if you cut off the next generation, what's the difference? An exemption has been made for 0.98
00:03:01.880 athletes shooting in Olympic style events. IPSC asked the federal government for the same treatment
00:03:07.640 but was denied. Public Safety Canada says about 276,000 Canadians legally own handguns.
00:03:16.420 The most recent data from Statistics Canada says that in 2024, handguns were used in nearly half
00:03:22.220 of violent crimes involving firearms. But about 80% of people charged with using a firearm in a
00:03:28.500 homicide did not have proper firearm licensing. And police agencies in Canada say more than half
00:03:34.340 of illegal handguns seized in 2023 were smuggled from the U.S. We already had very strong gun laws
00:03:41.380 that ensured the right people, legally handled them.
00:03:45.640 I mean, we get 120 people at a match
00:03:48.320 and everybody's walking around with a handgun
00:03:50.160 and nobody gets hurt.
00:03:51.780 Campbell says this year's competition in Fort McMurray
00:03:54.080 only had about 55 competitors.
00:03:58.780 Obviously firearms are dangerous.
00:04:00.580 They need to be legislated properly and effectively,
00:04:02.740 but a lot of these sweeping bans have impacted more things
00:04:05.980 than I think they should have.
00:04:07.680 It's tough to stomach something that I've invested,
00:04:09.940 you know many thousands of dollars in and many hundreds of hours in in order to improve and move
00:04:16.520 up and craft skills etc for that just to go away from the stroke of a pen. Back in 2020 Ottawa
00:04:24.020 outlawed many different firearms a list that has since grown to more than 2,500 types. The Supreme
00:04:30.140 Court of Canada is set to hear arguments against that decision. Without any changes to Canada's gun
00:04:35.720 laws, the end of this sport is likely in sight. The thing I keep coming back to is this. What
00:04:41.420 exactly was gain here? Canada is supposedly becoming safer. That's what we've been told
00:04:46.720 for years. But competitive shooters were not the problem. They were never the problem. And gun
00:04:52.400 clubs were not the problem either. Yet somehow they're the ones paying the price. So let me ask
00:04:57.700 you, if a government can slowly regulate illegal activity into disappearing while insisting that
00:05:04.260 they never wanted to bat it where does it stop let me know what you think i'm genuinely curious
00:05:09.880 where people stand on this one