TheGunBlog.ca Podcast
By Nicolas Johnson
TheGunBlog.ca PodcastFeb 06, 2023
NFA President Rick Igercich: In Conversation
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https://thegunblog.ca/2024/01/08/nfa-president-rick-igercich-in-conversation-video/
CSAAA’s Wes Winkel on 2023 Gun Industry Trends, CSAAA ‘Legends’
Watch: CSAAA’s Wes Winkel on 2023 Gun Industry Trends, CSAAA ‘Legends’ (Video)
https://thegunblog.ca/2023/09/11/watch-csaaas-wes-winkel-on-2023-gun-industry-trends-csaaa-legends-video/
Explainer: The Two OICs of 01 May 2020 and Why They’re Wrong
Watch: The Two OICs of 01 May 2020 and Why They’re Wrong (Video)
https://thegunblog.ca/2023/08/29/watch-the-two-oics-of-01-may-2020-and-why-theyre-wrong-video/
2023 Q1 Review and Outlook for Canadian Gun Rights
Full Article: 2023 Q1 Review and Outlook for Canadian Gun Rights (Video)
TheGunBlog.ca — Watch our review and outlook for Canadian gun rights at the end of the first quarter 2023.
It isn’t all bleak. There’s some good news.
Summary
- Budget 2023: Door-to-Door Mass Gun Confiscations on Hold
- Alberta: Passes Firearms Act to Block Confiscations
- SECU: Voter MasterClass in Political Rot
- Bill C-21: Stalled at SECU
- Liberals: Still Clueless How to Execute Their Confiscation Fantasy
- Anti-Gun Bias: Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission
- Outlook: Courts, Election, Short Term Vs. Long Term, Hope
Alberta Chief Firearms Officer (CFO) Teri Bryant
Enjoy our exclusive conversation with Alberta’s first provincially appointed Chief Firearms Officer.
Recorded: 27 January 2023
Topics Include- Starting the Alberta CFO office from ground zero.
- Working toward the complementary goals of “a flourishing firearms community and the very highest levels of public safety”
- How Alberta gun owners targeted by federal confiscation should respond
- Timing of Alberta’s provincial Firearms Act
- Personal political action, donating, volunteering
- And more!
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- Alberta Chief Firearms Officer Teri Bryant: In Conversation (Video)
- Published 06 February 2023
Bullseye North Owner Scott Patience
Enjoy our conversation with Scott Patience, the owner of Bullseye North, one of Canada’s largest independent gun stores.
This year marked the London, Ontario-based company’s 10th year of operations.
Topics Include
- Patience’s first time shooting, and starting the company
- Working through Covid-19 and Liberal confiscation orders
- Review of 2022, the company’s busiest-year yet
- Outlook for Bullseye North and the firearm industry
- What’s positive that we have to look forward to
- And more!
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CSAAA President Wes Winkel: Bill C-21 Amendments
Enjoy our conversation with Wes Winkel, the president of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA), the country’s main group for the firearm industry.
We discuss the mass gun confiscations in Bill C-21.
Topics- Bill C-21 impact on Canada’s firearm industry, including gun stores, distributors, retailers, and consumers
- How customers are responding to the planned mass firearm confiscations
- Clarifying questions on Benelli shotguns, and Weatherby Mark V and Ruger No. 1 rifles
- Responding to gun owners who say, “I don’t own any guns on the list, so I’m not affected.”
- Suggestions for gun owners and gun businesses
- And more!
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CSSA Executive Director Tony Bernardo: Bill C-21 Lawsuit, Gun-Rights Advocacy
Enjoy our exclusive conversation with Tony Bernardo, the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), one of the country’s largest and most-influential groups for gun owners.
Topics- CSSA’s legal challenge against Bill C-21 gun confiscations
- Gun politics, Conservative Party and Pierre Poilievre
- Bernardo’s journey from gun owner to technician and advocate
- What if CSSA, CCFR and NFA merged?
- And more!
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CSAAA Managing Director Jenn Gadbois: Upbeat About Canada's Gun Community
Enjoy our exclusive conversation with Jenn Gadbois, the most upbeat person we know when it comes to Canada’s gun community and our future.
She's the managing director of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA), the country’s leading association for the firearm industry.
Topics
- Experience at CSAAA
- Going public as a gun owner, and as a woman gun owner
- Future of Canadian gun ownership
- Staying positive despite hostile politicians
- And more!
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Glock Canada Sales Manager James Cassells
Enjoy our conversation with James Cassells, Glock’s Canadian sales manager, discussing the handgun market and the company’s future in Canada, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau works to kill the legal handgun market.
- Glock’s operations since Trudeau’s announcement
- Glock’s future in Canada
- Re-establishing handgun market if change in government
- Future of lawful gun ownership in Canada
- Improving the gun community’s message
- Bidding to supply RCMP’s next pistol. G45?
- Not bidding to supply Canada’s next military pistol
- TheGunBlog.ca as the “go-to” source of info
- And more!
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Beretta Canada Chief Spyros Chrysochou
Enjoy our conversation with Spyros Chrysochou, who runs the Canadian operations of Beretta Holding Group as the general manager of Stoeger Canada.
Beretta Holding is one of the world's largest gun companies.
- Its firearms and optics brands include: Beretta, Benelli, Chapuis Armes, Franchi, Holland & Holland, Sako, Stoeger, Tikka, Steiner and Burris.
Topics
- “Fantastic” year for Canadian firearm sales in 2021, and “exciting” outlook for 2022
- Rising demand for “tactical” firearms
- Benelli’s dedicated cult-like owners and the company’s commitment to innovation
- Exploding demand and record-high production for Tikka rifles
- Exceptional sales of the Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 and the Beretta A400 shotguns
- Why a $200,000 gun shoots the same as a $2,000 gun
- Bringing more Holland & Holland into Canada, and the Manurhin MR73 revolver
- Beretta Group sells more than 50,000 guns in Canada each year
- Bidding for Canada’s next military pistol, and the Beretta APX
- Navigating Canada’s volatile political-regulatory climate on personal gun ownership
- Lobbying quietly in private vs. loudly in public
- Why our passion for guns is our best defence against prohibitionists
- And more!