00:00:37.380The amnesty period has been extended in the Liberals' gun confiscation scheme until 90 days after the Supreme Court hears the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights challenge of the gun grab.
00:00:56.380Then new data shows that firearms licenses, as in people who are getting their license and maintaining their license, has grown substantially by tens of thousands of people across the country in spite of the liberal efforts to end firearms ownership in this country.
00:01:24.280and then we've got the data on what exactly is being turned in to the gun grabbers and it's not
00:01:35.380the weapons of war the liberals say they're working hard to get off the streets and out of
00:01:41.560the hands of canadians i've got my friend tracy wilson from the canadian coalition for firearms
00:01:46.820rights to discuss all this and more in an interview we recorded earlier today take a listen
00:01:54.280so joining me now is my good friend and good friend of firearms rights everywhere tracy wilson
00:02:05.900of the canadian coalition for firearms rights lots of things happening in the firearms rights
00:02:11.300community this week this month really but before we get started i i think we should take a minute
00:02:17.980to acknowledge the passing of Rick Igersich of the National Firearms Association. I think
00:02:25.620the firearms owning community in this country has lost a valiant fighter for our rights. And
00:02:34.020I think he fought hard and truly believed in the rights of the law abiding to be left alone
00:02:40.220by their government. And I think it's just a sad thing that we've lost him.
00:02:44.560Absolutely. I mean, there is little doubt that he cared very much about firearms owners, our community, our events, and the culture that shapes it. So yeah, it is a tragic loss for everybody.
00:02:57.620Yeah, I send my thoughts and prayers over to our friends at the NFA. Big loss for them, but I think big loss for all of us too. On that sad note, let's move into something a little bit happier.
00:03:11.640the liberals have extended their amnesty i would love to see the amnesty ended because they've
00:03:19.540dropped their gun ban but they've extended their amnesty i think thanks in a huge part
00:03:25.460to the work that you do over at the ccfr they have extended their amnesty to 90 days after
00:03:32.760the supreme court hears your challenge to the gun grab tell us all about this yeah that's right so
00:03:39.620the Liberals were very clear. They had no intention of extending the amnesty. They even
00:03:43.600said it would not be extended again. However, due to the Supreme Court taking up the challenge of
00:03:49.000the CCFR versus Canada against the gun grab, they had no choice but to extend it. We were not sitting
00:03:55.520around hoping that Liberals would do the right thing. I mean, that would be crazy talk. But we
00:04:02.240were preparing to file for an injunction. Now it's not called that in the Supreme Court, but for the
00:04:07.020sake of this conversation we'll call it that um we were preparing to file for that so they saved
00:04:11.900us a whole bunch of work and a whole bunch of money and uh that's fantastic so yes this is
00:04:17.360extended out past the eventual decision which could be well into the summer or fall of 2027
00:04:24.640so huge news but that puts us at seven ish seven and a half years post the gun grab i think it's
00:04:34.560going to be real hard for the Liberals to make the case in court about pressing public safety,
00:04:40.700given that the public safety dangers, i.e. me and you, have had these things in our possession for
00:04:47.440seven and a half-ish years. I mean, three quarters of a decade. The data, the longer this goes on,
00:04:55.600ends up being on our side. That's right. Yeah, I mean, you can exhibit the fact that these people
00:05:01.220have had these guns for seven plus years post ban. And we can now tangibly show through crime
00:05:09.380statistics that they're not the problem. So I think they're going to have a real tough time
00:05:12.520in court. Oh, I think so too. And I think that's part of it. I mean, honestly, a winning court
00:05:17.820would let Carney off the hook on this. And we've talked about that before, but you're right. These
00:05:22.060guns are so dangerous that we're not allowed to own them. However, we're forced to keep them for
00:05:26.600seven and a half years. And I mean, we own them safely and without issue for decades, if not
00:05:31.220generations before that. So this just speaks to the silliness of this policy. It's a waste of
00:05:38.460taxpayer money and resources. It's been soundly rejected by the provinces, by law enforcement,
00:05:43.860by literally everybody but the anti-gun lobby groups. And I'm sure Carney is probably quietly
00:05:51.080cheering for us as well in court. I bet he's getting an earful from Natalie Provo, though,
00:05:55.800his MP, formerly of Pauly Sissouviant, who has really been leading the charge to disarm Canadians.
00:06:02.860I mean, initially it was assault style weapons. What does that even mean? But then obvious hunting
00:06:09.940rifles end up in the mix. And I think the end goal has always been to eliminate firearms ownership
00:06:16.520in this country. Yeah, that's exactly right. And in fact, this whole thing has had the opposite
00:06:22.440impact. You and I talked about this before we jumped on. But, you know, if I could go back in
00:06:27.580time, turn back the clock, and look at what it was like before 2015. If the Liberals had just
00:06:33.080focused on normal public safety policy and left the gun file alone, where would we be? Well,
00:06:38.780we would be exactly where we were before, where we had a relatively decent system that worked.
00:06:43.620The CCFR would not even exist. The only reason we exist is because we knew there was a hostile
00:06:49.780anti-gun liberal government coming into power so we wouldn't even be here right now um they would
00:06:56.260not be tied up with billions of dollars scandals and all of this stuff that's been going on in fact
00:07:02.460we wouldn't even have the run on handguns like canadians own more guns now than we ever have
00:07:08.020in recorded history and that's because of the actions of the liberal government they're the
00:07:12.620best gun salesmen uh in the country and every time they talk about banning something freezing
00:07:18.620something, you know, impacting gun owners, what do we do? We go out and buy more of them. And
00:07:25.120I know you're going to talk about some data from our friends at the gun blog, but it just shows
00:07:30.640that our community, not despite what the liberals have done, but in spite of it, just continues to
00:07:36.160grow. We've got more gun owners than ever. So it's a backfire. Yeah. Like you, every time a gun grab
00:07:43.880is threatened i skip off down to the gun counter and blow some of my rebel bucks um and it is true
00:07:49.600like the the data plays this out we already knew that just by the numbers the national unofficial
00:07:56.720sport in this country has been the shooting sports it's not hockey more people are registered
00:08:02.780firearms owners or at least licensed firearms owners then play organized hockey in this country
00:08:08.640now we're quiet about it because we're always subject to gun bans and discrimination so you
00:08:13.340know you're not as boastful about it as our american friends but as you alluded to our
00:08:19.840friends over at the gun blog got the statistics from the rcmp and i'm just going to read some of
00:08:24.660them out um there has been an increase of roughly 50 000 license holders in one year so um there
00:08:36.400were 2.4 million or nearly 2.45 million Canadians holding a PAL as of December 31st, 2025. That's
00:08:47.740an increase of 47,000 license holders from the previous year and a 1.9% annual gain. And every
00:08:56.240single province and territory saw growth. Ontario, in fact, added the largest number of new license
00:09:02.380holders with uh 15 000 pal holders followed by alberta and british columbia i'm actually
00:09:09.920surprised that we saw growth because i feel like everybody in alberta already has a pal
00:09:13.740each adding 10 000 and quebec who are really under the thumb of their provincial government
00:09:20.560and the federal government surpassed half a million licensed gun owners for the first time
00:09:25.340in nearly two decades so and it's not just in regular pal holders it's in our pal holders as
00:09:32.880well so uh and in fact our pal holders rose at a greater rate at uh 2.5 percent and so i mean it
00:09:42.400the liberals every time they try to grab guns it turns us all into evangelists for firearms rights
00:09:49.540We take a friend shooting. It reignites our passion for the thing we like to do. And it makes us really think about why we love it so much. And I hope the liberals never, you know, I was going to say, I hope the liberals never stop. I do hope they stop. But if they want to keep pushing at us, we're going to keep pushing at them.
00:10:11.540A hundred percent. And I mean, if you look at it, you know, I think part of our public relations issue we've had as gun owners over the last, you know, 30, 40 years was we did keep it quiet. We did kind of keep it on the down low. And I think that was a little bit of a tactical mistake.
00:10:28.680In fact, we have a strategy to be loud and proud now because we failed to normalize gun ownership. However, we've been working hard at that over the last few years. We developed National Range Day, which has caught on across the country. These ladies range days are, I'm telling you, they sell out no matter where they are. And we sponsor or host like 100 events a year for this. And it's very important. There's a strategy to that as well. And that's women vote. They're decision makers.
00:16:56.560So this is just a very, very small data point.
00:16:59.620And then, of course, of that small percentage, most of those are domestically sourced.
00:17:06.260But that also includes things like things that are not guns, like toy guns or replicas.
00:17:12.080So it's, you know, it's a very manipulative way of displaying the data. And of course, you know, Polly jumped on this. They want Canadians to think that your average hunter, sport shooter or farmer is a threat to public safety.
00:17:29.420But yeah, we debunked that pretty quickly.
00:17:31.920There's a web story up on ccfr.ca and the government's own information was my sources for it.0.92
00:17:38.120So yeah, easily debunked, but it's just wild how these girls, you know, have no scruples1.00
00:17:46.880And it's the Canadian press actually went to the RCMP for comment and they declined
00:17:51.260to comment because they knew exactly what Polly had done here.
00:17:54.220My phone rang off the hook from officers after I put out the video and the web story debunking what they were saying. So, yeah.
00:18:02.640Oh, well, and I'm glad you did. Like every single order paper response that comes in when the conservatives ask about sources of guns that are involved in criminality, it's always like a fractional rounding error that belong to licensed firearms owners.
00:18:20.020some of them are stolen from licensed firearms owners but you would never blame the victim of
00:18:25.320a crime right yeah for the subsequent crime committed with their stolen property that's
00:18:31.580like if some meth head steals my vehicle and then runs somebody over with it what has that got to do
00:18:37.680with me I'm I'm the first victim that led to the second victim exactly yeah but they they never
00:18:43.700apply that logic with firearms owners who are the victim of theft or other crimes well they're
00:18:49.280taking the amount of rcmp traced guns crime guns that is a very small data point from a very small
00:18:59.040area and then applying that you know wanting you to think that that is representative of all crime
00:19:06.260guns and it's completely ridiculous so yeah i i know that law enforcement across the country has
00:19:12.440been sort of outraged at their ridiculous insinuations and yeah my phone my email
00:19:17.980everything's just been blowing up ever since so um one more thing uh i wanted to talk to you about
00:19:24.600is um i think it came from an order paper question last week uh where they identified the most
00:19:33.860commonly surrendered model of firearms and you would think it were would be you know the ars
00:19:41.560or AR style firearms, but that wasn't it at all, was it?
00:19:47.260No, of course, the most commonly declared firearm
00:19:50.460in the assault style firearm compensation program
00:21:02.520I wish it were cancelled because the gun grab is cancelled.
00:21:06.120And, you know, if you guys went at the Supreme Court and here's hoping that will be the case.
00:21:10.780But you're still putting pressure on police services to not participate in this because the program, the compensation program, it's still happening.
00:21:21.840So what do firearms owners do in the meantime?
00:21:25.160Well, you remember, so that declaration period, if you wanted to take part in this buyback, they call it, or whatever the gun grab, that's closed and gone. But they still have all the people who declare. Now, a lot of those people were scared of that impending, looming date of the amnesty expiring at the end of October.
00:21:44.280Well, that data is now blown out of the water, probably by at least a year. Worst case scenario, if we lost, if we win, well, we're all going to the range. So it's irrelevant. But for those who did declare and are now like, oh, geez, wait a minute, it is not too late to withdraw from that program, unless you've had an appointment.
00:22:04.480So what they're doing is those people who did fill out a declaration, they're contacting them. Of course, they're trying to grab whatever they can grab in the meantime, and asking these gun owners to come down to these RCMP mobile checkpoints. I've actually got some video that's been sent to me of somebody going to one. And they're trying to grab those guns and have them destroyed.
00:22:26.360But if you want to hold the line and wait it out just a little bit longer and see what
00:22:31.100happens in court, it's easy to withdraw.
00:22:46.960You will not face any consequences for it.
00:22:49.440So yeah, in the meantime, they are still scaring some people into doing that.
00:22:54.520and I mean everyone has to make their own decision what's right for them but I am asking gun owners
00:22:59.700just to hold the line hold out and let's see how we do in court and let's see what we can do with
00:23:05.280this. Now one more thing my brain is turning because I wanted to talk to you about this when
00:23:11.700I first saw it about 10 days ago the SQ so that's the police in Quebec yeah they yeah they have
00:23:22.300taken the pal in our palace, and now they are going door to door and asking people's spouses
00:23:31.860slash conjugal partners. That's how they, that's what they call it on the firearms license form
00:23:37.560and asking them if they have been victims of domestic abuse at the hands of their firearms
00:23:44.500owning spouse. For me, this just shows how low the criminality is for firearms owners that the
00:23:52.000Police are now coming to you and interviewing your spouse, apropos of absolutely nothing, starting investigations out of nowhere.
00:24:00.100But what an extreme violation of people's right to fair treatment under the law, that they would just assume that by virtue of owning firearms, that you're all of a sudden some domestically violent maniac.
00:24:18.300Yeah, well, it's crazy to me because, first of all, I think we can all agree, and I'm sure I speak for all Canadians when I say that we don't want women or anybody, for that matter, to be threatened or abused or any of those things.
00:24:33.940And they literally just passed C-21 and increased the red flag and yellow flag laws.
00:24:53.460And trust me, when they get a call about that, they take it extremely seriously.
00:24:58.160So this, to me, I feel like it's like a fishing expedition.
00:25:02.180And, you know, I recognize that sometimes maybe there are people out there who struggle
00:25:08.440to be able to be strong enough to reach out and get that help that they need.
00:25:12.360But when you open the door this way, and you're just reaching out randomly to, you know, the spouses of gun owners, it's sort of ripe for abuse. And, you know, I hate when systems like this are abused. But there are, I read stories every day that come in to the CCFR inbox, where you've got, you know, an angry ex or somebody who's been jilted.
00:25:37.680And this is a perfect way to get revenge on somebody if you're upset with them.
00:25:45.420But at the same time, it sucks away all the resources from law enforcement who should be responding to the real calls.
00:25:53.400So, yeah, it's like a problem looking for a solution, you know, or a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
00:26:01.280and I think it's a total violation of the you know just the privacy of Quebec gun owners and
00:26:08.160yeah what an what an absolute insult to our community yeah it's the bigotry of low expectations
00:26:14.520and I'm reliably informed that the police in Quebec have other things to do with their time
00:26:20.940I've I've seen Montreal on the weekends okay you guys have other things to do oh yeah
00:26:26.100yeah i don't know yeah it's i i think it's despicable um before i let you go let people0.54
00:26:33.540know how they can get involved with the ccfr um because i mean just and we've done it at rebel
00:26:41.140news so i know just the resources and money required to take on the government um it's
00:26:48.460enormous the government has all of our money to fight us and it's really a david and goliath
00:26:54.400fight that you have ahead of you, but you've been so successful so far. So tell us how people can
00:26:59.840help you. Yeah. I mean, really the only way to support the challenge against the gun grab
00:27:05.480is to donate or become a member of the CCFR. And it's important that you do that because when you
00:27:11.640become a member of the CCFR, this isn't our core challenge, it's yours, right? As a single
00:27:17.480individual, it's very difficult to take on the behemoth of the government. You're right. They
00:27:22.060We have an unlimited amount of our resources with which to fight us with.
00:27:25.960So when we band together under the banner of a group like the CCFR, we're able to do really big things with that help.
00:27:32.020So you can donate or join up at ccfr.ca.
00:27:37.520And then if you want to volunteer, send an email to volunteer at ccfr.ca.
00:27:42.400We've got events and shows and range days and all kinds of things going on all across the country.