Canada Just Delivered The FINAL BLOW To Gun Owners..

[00:00:00]Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, Canada just delivered the final blow to gun owners in this country. And I don't think most Canadians even realize it. In fact, if you ask the average person on the street right now what the biggest threat to gun ownership in Canada is, they would probably start talking about gun confiscation, the whole gun buyback program, the gun grab, or some new law that some politician decided to come up with in Ottawa. But what if I told you the biggest threat wasn't any of these things? 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? Because that's exactly what thousands of Canadians are having to face right now. And if they're right, the consequences are much bigger than most people realize.

[00:00:51]>> I'm at Fort McMurray's gun range where more than 50 people are competing in a handgun competition.

[00:00:56]>> Stand by.

[00:01:00]They shoot their way through obstacles that test their speed, accuracy, and discipline. It's overseen by the International Practical Shooting Confederation or IPSC. They have about 6,000 Canadian members, and they say their sports days are numbered.

[00:01:14]>> It is dying because we we are stuck without having a new group of people coming up. We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.

[00:01:28]>> The federal government froze all sales, transfers, and imports of handguns for private owners and gun stores in 2022.

[00:01:36]>> Gun violence is a complex problem, but at the end of the day, the math is really quite simple.

[00:01:45]The fewer the guns in our communities, the safer everyone will be.

[00:01:53]>> People can keep the handguns they already owned legally, but there's no way to replace them if they're lost, stolen, or broken.

[00:01:59]>> Well, a handgun shooting sport is is is dead. Uh we are just waiting for the corpse to cool. There's no newcomers coming into the sport. Uh, so we are just going to it's going to be atrophy death over the next 10 years.

[00:02:14]>> And here's the part that should make people uncomfortable. These are not criminals. They're not gang members.

[00:02:19]They're not people making headlines every night. These were people following the rules, getting licensed, joining clubs, showing up to competitions, teaching newcomers, and keeping a sport alive. And now they're being told, "Don't worry, you can keep doing it."

[00:02:37]Okay, but for how long? Because if nobody can realistically come into the sport, eventually the clubs shrink, the competition disappears, and the whole thing starts to fade away. That's what makes this feel so dishonest.

[00:02:52]Politicians can stand there and say, "Ah, we didn't ban your sport." And maybe not on paper, but if you cut off the next generation, what's the difference? An exemption has been made for athletes shooting in Olympic style events.

[00:03:05]IPS asked the federal government for the same treatment, but was denied. Public Safety Canada says about 276,000 Canadians legally own handguns.

[00:03:16]The most recent data from Statistics Canada says that in 2024, handguns were used in nearly half of violent crimes involving firearms. But about 80% of people charged with using a firearm in a homicide did not have proper firearm licensing. And police agencies in Canada say more than half of illegal handguns seized in 2023 were smuggled from the US.

[00:03:39]>> We already had very strong gun laws that um ensured the right people legally handled them. Um I mean we get 120 people at a match and everybody's walking around with a handgun and nobody gets hurt.

[00:03:51]>> Campbell says this year's competition in Fort McMurray only had about 55 competitors.

[00:03:58]>> Obviously firearms are dangerous. They need to be legislated properly and effectively, but a lot of these sweeping bans have impacted more things than I think they should have.

[00:04:07]>> It's tough to stomach something that I've invested, you know, many thousands of dollars in and and many hundreds of hours in in order to improve and move up and craft skills, etc. Uh, for that just to go away from the stroke of a pen.

[00:04:22]>> Back in 2020, Ottawa outlawed many different firearms, a list that has since grown to more than 2500 types.

[00:04:29]Supreme Court of Canada is set to hear arguments against that decision. Without any changes to Canada's gun laws, the end of this sport is likely in sight.

[00:04:39]>> The thing I keep coming back to is this.

[00:04:41]What exactly was gained here? Canada is supposedly becoming safer. That's what we've been told for years. But competitive shooters were not the problem. They were never the problem.

[00:04:52]And gun clubs were not the problem either. Yet somehow they're the ones paying the price. So, let me ask you, if a government can slowly regulate illegal activity into disappearing while insisting that they never wanted to ban it, where does it stop? Let me know what you think. I'm genuinely curious where people stand on this one.