Sheila Gunn-Reid slams Canada’s March 2025 firearm ban—179 new models, including the Soviet-era SKS rifle and mini 14 ranch gun—despite Indigenous exemptions disputed by the Fur Association. Overlapping amnesties (until Oct 2025 and March 2026) create chaos for law-abiding owners, while retailers face financial losses surrendering parts without full reimbursement. Gunn-Reid accuses Liberal MP Rachel Bendayan of extremism fueled by staged propaganda, like a fake gun destruction demo. The CCFR’s Toronto Sportsman Show (March 13-16) counters misinformation with events like women’s range days, while legal battles await court rulings. She ties the ban to broader media failures, citing Mark Carney’s alleged Ghislaine Maxwell links ignored by mainstream outlets but pursued by Rebel News, echoing hopes from Pam Bondi’s Epstein file release. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gun Show.
In 2022-23, our government passed legislation to freeze the market for handguns in Canada, banning the sale, transfer, and importation of handguns into the country.
Just recently, in December 2024, we went further, banning some of the additional assault-style weapons that remained in the Canadian market.
Today, our government is finishing the job, adding a further 179 unique makes and models of assault-style weapons to the list of prohibited firearms here in Canada.
This prohibition takes effect immediately.
It is our hope, our government's intention, that this be the last discrete listing of assault-style firearms for prohibition.
If we finish the job well, we have all the tools necessary to ensure that new models of assault-style weapons will be captured and denied legal entry into the Canadian market.
Let's be clear, these are weapons of war, firearms designed specifically to kill as many people as possible in the least amount of time possible.
As with previous prohibitions, the weapons we are banning today are semi-automatic firearms with sustained rapid fire capability.
Experts have told us that they exceed safe civilian use.
The Liberals are going to get smoked in the next election, whenever that is, whenever Canadians are given the ability to send a strong message to the Liberals about what they've done to this country over the last 10 years.
But every time the Liberals are having trouble in the polls, they do what's easiest, and I think probably a little bit effective in some of the larger municipalities in this country.
They are scapegoating Canadian gun owners again with a last-minute gun grab.
And I thought, who better to break this down for us than our friend Tracy Wilson from the CCFR, the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights.
I haven't spoken to my friend Tracy on air in a long time, and that is to my great regret and shame because I know you guys enjoy her just as much as I do.
Here's my interview with Tracy I recorded earlier today.
Take a listen.
So joining me now is my friend and good friend of all freedom fighters, Tracy Wilson from the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights.
Tracy, thanks for coming on the show.
I wanted to have you on because as is always the case, when the Liberals see their polling results and they suck, they launch an attack on their easy scapegoats, and that's firearms owners in this country.
Why?
Because they're the most law-abiding people in this country.
So it's easier to deal with them than it is to deal with crime.
Tell us about the latest gun grab, because it really was the last death rattle of a dying government.
Yeah, you're right.
As usual, break glass, ban guns, you know, target the people who are most unlikely to vote for them.
And that, of course, is legal licensed gun owners.
So last week, the federal liberal government banned another 179 models of firearms, models and variants.
Now, to be honest, about 150 of those on the list are the M1.
So, you know, I know they like to really puff up the numbers, but yeah, this was a really strange list.
It creates a lot of confusion.
I was in the technical briefing with the minister's staff on Monday.
And of course, there's an amnesty that protects gun owners.
Now, we've had three different gun bans.
We had the big one in May of 2020.
We had one, 324 firearms, I think, added to that one back in December of 2024.
And then this one on March 7th.
So now there's two different amnesties.
Those first two gun bans are protected by an amnesty until the end of October of this year, 2025.
But these new firearms that were just banned on March 7th are protected by an amnesty until March 1st, 2026.
So, you know, just to keep things totally simple for gun owners, now you've got to check which list your banned guns are on to know how long the amnesty protects you.
And at the end of the day, I think you and I both know they're never actually going to get this stuff done.
So yeah, just more political posturing at the expense of public safety.
The day after their announcement, we had a mass shooting in Scarborough where 12 people were injured.
Thankfully, nobody died.
But yeah, just another result of liberal public safety policy.
Yeah, and that's the thing.
They're not ever addressed.
Like these are expensive, sweeping gun bans, if they ever get around to taking them from Canadian firearms owners.
And you can tell by the timeline, they don't ever think they're going to have to, because I think they know they're not getting reelected.
It's just how bad the blowout is going to be for the liberals.
But they never actually do anything to deal with the crime, to deal with the border, to deal with the gangs and the fentanyl and the drug trafficking and the sex trafficking.
They never actually deal with that stuff.
They just take the path of least resistance and think that this is going to appease the urban voters that they want to remain within the liberal fold in places like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Well, I'd even go a step further and say not only do they not do anything to solve the real crisis in public safety, in fact, they use it.
And I know if I would have said that a couple of years ago, people would have said I was a conspiracy theorist.
But it's bearing out for everyone to see.
You know, you look back to the Nova Scotia shooting, right?
A crime committed by a madman with illegal smuggled guns.
And that was what they used to catapult into these gun bans.
It's got nothing to do with licensed gun owners, hunters, sports shooters, ranchers.
It's got nothing to do with us, but they use that violence.
So when people say to me, why do you think they're not actually tackling the tough issues to stop the smuggled guns coming into the country and fueling gangs?
And unfortunately, I have to say, I think they're using it.
They use it to support their crazy policies.
And, you know, law enforcement agrees with me.
They agree that the liberals have not done enough.
And in fact, they've damaged public safety with bills like C5 and C75 that lowered the sentences for some violent repeat offenders committing some really serious crimes with guns.
So, yeah, it's crazy town here in Ottawa.
Now, Ottawa is crazy, but it is more sane out here in the West, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, who had their own responses to Justin Trudeau's escalating gun bans.
It started at the very beginning when they said, actually, we're going to appoint our own chief firearms officers, people who actually know something about the firearms owning culture out here.
And then both provinces have said, we're not going to direct our RCMP resources in the middle of a public safety crime crisis to go door to door to round up guns on behalf of Justin Trudeau.
And I mean, really, that's what they would have to do is just get the list of PAL and RPAL holders and then go door to door because many of these firearms have never been registered because they're moving from non-restricted over to prohibited.
And so the only way to deal with that is literally knocking doors.
And I think, and our premier thinks, and the premier of Saskatchewan also think that the cops just have far better things to do.
Well, it's really interesting because Alberta and Saskatchewan, they have a whole different level of understanding of freedom.
And, you know, God bless the West.
But they've put in some measures that actually make it very difficult for confiscators to come there and do that work.
In fact, Saskatchewan has a roadblock built into their legislation that, and I believe Alberta has it as well, where you need to get a confiscator license from the province before you start going and collecting guns.
And of course, I think we all know how many of those will be issued.
Zero.
And you're right about them not knowing who's got what.
I mean, aside from our AR-15s, which were previously registered and restricted, everything else is non-restricted for the most part.
So they have no idea who's got what.
And I think I had some stuff leaked to me that what they're going to do is the Canadian firearms program is going to send an email to, or a letter to licensed gun owners, all 2.4 million of us, and ask us to voluntarily submit lists of what we own that is now banned.
That's going to be reliant on self-reporting.
And the idea here will be if you don't give us that list, you get no compensation for those guns.
And, you know, we'll send armed cops to your door anyways to come and take your stuff.
So, yeah, it's, I can't believe this is where we're at.
I know Rod made a video a few years back talking about what a gun call looks like.
And when you are sending police to a home with guns, it's an ERT response.
They don't knock on the door and, hey, I'm your friendly sergeant just coming to see if you've got any guns that were banned.
It's not going to be like that.
And we were ridiculed for that video.
And here we are a couple of years later.
And it looks like that's exactly what they're going to do.
So, yeah, I don't know.
It's scary times for gun owners in this country for sure.
Yeah, I don't think the liberals have actually thought any of this through because they keep talking about weapons of war, weapons of war, but they didn't actually ban the one weapon of war that they've been musing about for a long time.
And that's the World War II Soviet era SKS.
And I think they said, oh, we're not banning it because Indigenous people use it for sustenance hunting or whatever their dumb excuse was, because a lot of people use it for sustenance hunting.
I think they just have no clue how many of these things there are.
And because they're, you know, they're a gun show gun.
They're a lot of people's first firearms purchased because they're cheap to buy, they're cheap to shoot, and they are reliable.
That's why they've been around for the better part of 100 years.
So, you know, they had this nonsensical excuse to cover up the fact that like we don't know what to do.
We have no idea what to do.
Yeah.
Well, I'm telling you, we used to buy SKSs by the crate.
We'd get a coin.
They were the type of gun that was so cheap to use and so cheap to shoot that you'd buy a crate and you'd hand them out at Christmas as gifts.
Like it was just, you know, it's like buying a case of slippers.
But my prediction is the reason why they mentioned the SKS in the press conference, yet failed to ban it, much to the chagrin of the anti-gun lobbies, is because we're right pre-election time here, right?
And that is going to cause a massive uproar among Canadian Indigenous peoples.
So I think what they'll do is they'll wait until after the election.
They think they're going to win.
We'll see what happens, I guess.
But if they do win, they will absolutely come for it next.
They just don't want to do that pre-election and, you know, stir up problems with their path to reconciliation.
Right.
I mean, and also it just balloons the cost of the gun grab.
I think, what do they have it now?
The government has it pegged at what, $2 billion.
And you can double that easily if you throw the SKS in there.
And they've already spent like some nearly $70 million and they haven't taken a single firearm.
Yeah, it's interesting, actually.
If you watch that press conference, Rachel Bendayan, liberal MP and associate minister of public safety, she, you know, touted it as a great success, you know, stage one, where they're taking firearms from retailers, like brand new ones that have never been sold, that are sitting in their inventory for the last five years, picking those up and destroying them.
And she says, oh, it's more successful than we ever imagined.
And I think they've destroyed 7,300 firearms.
And I couldn't help but literally laugh out loud watching it because we're talking over half a million guns across the country.
And she's celebrating 7,300 that come from willing participants who are little ma and pa shops across the country who've been stuck with this inventory that's already paid for for five years, paying insurance and storage.
You know, I hate the fact that anyone participates in this, but I do look at it completely different for retailers.
And here, you know, it's like a drop in the bucket, like a needle in a haystack.
And she's celebrating like it's some huge success.
Wait until you've got to deal with individuals where you're talking about these firearms I've owned for decades, if not generations, safely and without issue.
And now you expect me to come turn them in.
Yeah, it's going to be an interesting time in Canada for sure.
Yeah.
I mean, there are people like me who I have my father and my grandfather's firearms and I will not be able to pass them along to my children.
They are family heirlooms.
They're what built the farm that I live on.
Like it's part of my family heritage, these firearms, and I will have to turn them over to the state and as meaningless, just chunks of wood and steel.
Well, and what's really crazy is if, you know, I'll remind everyone that these retailers who have submitted these 7,300 firearms, nobody's gotten paid yet.
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Right.
So that leaves some questions about the success of the program, because if you haven't paid the retailers yet who have, you know, lists submitted through global affairs, like it's very easy to track who's got what on the retailer side.
You know, how does that bear out for individual gun owners?
And like, I don't know.
I, I, here we are, you know, five years into this thing.
These guns are far too dangerous for us to own, even though we've owned them for decades without issue.
But they're so dangerous that you're forced to keep them for six and a half years, you know?
Right.
Yeah.
Well, and, you know, you're right to point out just the burden this has on retailers.
Most of these are mom and pop shops.
It's, you know, Cabela's can probably eat the stranded asset a little better than the little gun shop in Bashaw, Alberta.
And so when they do send the firearms back to the government, I understand it.
I don't like it.
I don't like that they're forced to do this, but they're losing their shirts here.
And then for the government to treat them with such disrespect to not even remit proper compensation to them, it's disgusting.
You know, you've criminalized these people and then you don't even pay them for trying to do the right thing to keep their business afloat.
Well, and then there's some compensation that's supposed to flow not just for the firearms, but for parts, because of course, there are parts that are specific to the guns that you ban.
So it's not just guns in their inventory.
It's most of their store.
So originally they were told they would be compensated for unsellable parts as well.
Now they've been limited to 200 parts.
I was speaking to a retailer yesterday.
He's got 20,000 parts and he can only get compensated for 200.
Oh my goodness.
So at a time, like you think about what these businesses have gone through.
We look back to 2020 when we went through COVID lockdowns where they were forced to close their doors, you know, barely made it through that.
Gun ban after gun ban, the handgun freeze, and now this.
And then they're being limited in what they can be compensated for.
It's there is no doubt in my mind.
It is a direct attack on gun shops and businesses simply because it doesn't, you know, the liberals don't support our way of life.
And they would be, you know, all this talk of Team Canada lately, they would be more than happy to see these generational small family businesses go under.
They'd love it.
Right.
Yeah.
So it's, it's, uh, they're cutting off the supply, right?
Like, like that's what they're doing.
So they want to, they're attacking ownership on one side and then the supply on the other side.
Now, I want, I'm, I just want to go on a little side quest here because Rachel Bendayan, and we'll get to her in a second.
She, again, said, oh, we're not banning the SKS because Indigenous hunters use them.
And then the Fur Association of Canada, which is, you know, as Indigenous an industry as you can get in this country, they said, yeah, no, thanks.
You're still banning the guns we use.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, the SKS isn't the only firearm they use.
It's probably the most popular.
However, there's a variety of other firearms.
You know, they're banning stuff called, you know, ranch rifles.
And to suggest that these are any sort of assaulty style firearm or whatever term they're using, whatever made up lingo they're using, it's absolutely ridiculous.
These firearms, we have to remember every single gun that's been banned going all the way back to 2020, all the way forward to now, where they are absolutely banning hunting guns, was previously approved by the technicians in the RCMP firearms lab and deemed appropriate for civilian use for sporting and hunting and collecting.
So the only people who are saying it isn't are the liberals, are politicians in suits with zero experience in this, taking their or marching orders from anti-gun lobbyists.
Yeah, I mean, they did.
They banned the mini 14 ranch rifle.
They also banned a Turkish-made 410, which like the, that's dangerous mostly to robins and perhaps a smaller magpie.
Yeah.
But, but it looked cool.
And so that's those, that's really the requirement for prohibition at this point.
Yeah.
I, like a lot of the stuff they banned is purely just on looks.
You're banning 22 rifles.
And, you know, anybody with the tiniest amount of knowledge about firearms understands that a little 22, I mean, heck, our kids go and plank cans in the back 40 with them.
Yeah.
Did suggest this as a weapon of war as a military family over here.
I'm telling you right now, if you ever sent my daughter into combat with a five-round semi-automatic rifle, she'd never come home.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Now, I want to just talk to you real quick about Rachel Bandayan because she was appointed to part to her role in December.
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And immediately I was like, there's a gun ban coming because she has been one of the most vicious anti-gun liberals in parliament in a very long time.
Completely upfront about her extremism on this issue, which I think her extremism comes from her ignorance on this issue.
But I knew like within months there would be a gun ban.
I was just waiting for the polls to get bad enough for the liberals.
Yeah, this is a Montreal area MP.
So I believe she's got some of those anti-gun lobby groups right in her own riding.
And I had some information also leaked to me that there was, I guess, a performance put on for her where they took a few of these firearms from retailers and they put them into the machine that destroys these firearms, like a, you know, a garbureator for guns, more or less.
And she loved it.
Apparently she was squealing with delight and she wanted to keep parts of it to put on her wall like a trophy for what she's done to Canadians who dare to be so bold as to go out and get a firearms license.
So yeah, she's a special kind of special kind of politician for sure.
Yeah, that would be like Marco Mendicino keeping a photograph of the horses stomping on the convoy protesters on his wall.
Like that is a little bit crazy, I think, and a little bit radical to keep a trophy of how poorly you plan to treat the most law-abiding segment of Canadian society.
But yeah, as soon as I saw her, I was like, ah, hunker down.
There's a gun grab coming.
Let's move ahead because despite the liberals' treatment of the most law-abiding sector of Canadian society, we refuse to be silent or cowed by the liberals.
And the largest sporting show in the country is coming up in Toronto, which always bemuses me because I'm like, really, Calgary should be the biggest.
But no, it's in Toronto.
Tell us.
So we've got the Toronto Sportsman Show coming up March 13th through the 16th in Toronto.
Well, in Mississauga, kind of a suburb of Toronto, at the International Center.
And you're right.
This is a massive event.
There's always a few protesters outside.
I love honking at them as I drive by in full camo.
They hate me, of course.
But yeah, the CCFR will be there.
In fact, this show is so big.
It's like five halls long.
If you've ever gone to some of these big venues, you know, it's a massive hall.
They've got five.
So there will be all kinds of other outdoor adventure stuff and boats and ATVs and tents and all that.
But one of these halls is called the Hunting Hall.
And that's where the gun groups will be and all the firearm retailers.
And yeah, it's massive.
It's sold out as far as exhibitors go.
And the CCFR is proud to once again sponsor that hunting hall.
So I want to thank all the other exhibitors who are participating.
So we'll be there.
We've got our booth going all weekend.
Rod's flying in from BC.
We'll be selling swag.
We're going to be doing a draw for a crazy, beautiful 6.5 Creedmoor rifle.
And then I got my calendar girls coming on Saturday to put some smiles on faces.
So that's always fun because that supports our women's program.
And through that, we fund range days for women who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to try guns and women vote.
So there's a method to my madness and it's all going to bear out this weekend.
So come on down.
Well, I think it's great for you to sort of break through that stereotype that women don't own firearms, that we're scared of firearms, that we support these gun grabs because the liberals often stand on violence against women.
to support basically stripping women of their property rights by taking away our firearms and scapegoating us for the things that they've done in Canada's big city.
So I like the fact that you bring out the calendar girls and encourage these range days for women because I think it is very empowering.
And if you are a conservative woman or just a politically agnostic woman in the firearms owning community, bring a liberal friend.
Bring your urban liberal friend to a CCFR range day for women because it changes them damn near instantly.
It does.
And I'm telling you, well, you know full well I'm on Twitter all the time and I'm fighting with people and, you know, you can spend all day doing that, but the most effective way to influence somebody's opinions about guns and gun ownership is to take them out to the range.
They see the, you know, protocols for safety.
They see how careful we are, but then they get to shoot the guns and they love it.
I have never in all the years I've been doing this, ever had somebody, especially a woman, walk away and say, I'm never going to do that again.
They absolutely love it.
So that's, that's the way we break through these people and get lasting change is we have to change people's perceptions about gun owners.
And I'm going to keep doing it one lady at a time.
Do you think that anybody's ever taken Rachel Bunday into the gun range?
She'd never go.
No, she'd never go.
She looks down her nose at people like you and I.
So she would never lower herself to come out and, you know, talk to average, hardworking Canadians and see what we're all about.
She'd never do it.
That's right.
Now, Tracy, you fight for average, hardworking Canadians every single day.
I think you are involved in a human rights organization, I would describe it as.
Not just a firearms rights organization.
How do people get involved in the good work that the CCFR does?
Because it's not just about advocacy.
It's not just about events.
You also take the fight to the courts.
Yeah, we're actually waiting right now for a decision out of the federal appeals court.
I kind of thought we'd have it by now, but I don't know.
Maybe taking extra time is a good thing because it's a very difficult decision to write.
So anyways, we're waiting for that decision out of the federal court, but you can find the CCFR and support us at ccfr.ca.
We're on every social media platform.
We've got a huge YouTube channel.
We've got a national TV show on Wild TV.
And of course, we've also got the brand new CCFR app.
And it's available for iPhone and for the Androids.
So just go on where you find your apps and punch in CCFR app.
It's free to download.
And there's all kinds of good deals and breaking news on there for you.
Right.
And also one of the best merch stores in the entire country.
I've got new shirts.
I just wanted to tell you.
So I sent the store a note this morning and said, send Sheila one of each of the new shirts.
I can't wait, but I have to fight my daughters for them when they come in.
Yeah.
That's great.
Tracy, thanks so much for coming on the show.
I know I leave too long in between your visits on the show and people complain at me and rightfully so.
Oh good.
But I love hanging out with you.
Just two girls talking about guns.
Right.
Yeah.
But I'm just so grateful for the work that the CCFR does on behalf of families just like mine who just want to hang on to their hunting heritage and their family heritage because the liberals are seeking to destroy that too.
So appreciate you so much.
We're going to keep at it.
The last portion of the show is yours.
I turn it over to you.
That's why I give you my email address right now.
Let me know what you think about my interview with my friend Tracy Wilson from the CCFR.
It's Sheila at RebelNews.com.
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So today's letter comes to me by way of Altena.
And she wrote to me this week.
So it could be in relation to my interview with my friend Ray Humphrey from last week, but it really has no tie to the show.
But I'll read it anyway because I have some things to say about it.
It's from, as I said, Altena.
And she said, good morning.
Brian Lilly uncovered the photo showing Mark Carnage with Ghillane Maxwell.
Now, sorry, Brian Lilly didn't uncover that.
That photo was in the Daily Mail, which is, I think, the world's widest read publication.
So, but the Canadian mainstream media, by and large, is ignoring it.
Now, Angelika Toy, she is a journalist who works for us in Calgary, and she is asking Mark Carney about his relationship, if any, with convicted sex trafficker, Ghillaine Maxwell.
Take a look.
Mark Carney, why did you lie about moving the head office of Brookfield?
she just an acquaintance.
So while it is all fair and good for Brian Lilly to point out that there have been photos published in other publications of Kearney laid out on the grass with Epstein's pimp, I would call her, Ghislaine Maxwell.
He's not asking the questions.
And Brian Lilly has access to Mark Carney.
He can go to Mark Carney events and ask these questions.
He's not.
It is Rebel News journalists who are going to these events being kept out of the events precisely because they are going to ask those questions.
And to their credit, they still do their best to ask those questions of Mark Carney.
And Mark Carney has never addressed them.
And it's also interesting to note that the tie between Mark Carney and Ghillane Maxwell is Mark Carney's wife who went to school with Ghylaine Maxwell.
And guess who you didn't see on the campaign trail?
Mark Carney's wife.
Why?
Because someone might ask her, what is your relationship with convicted sex trafficker Ghylaine Maxwell?
So you would never see her on the campaign trail, ever.
I don't think she's in any sort of an idea polyev either, right?
And a polyev is a well-spoken, sharp cookie, photogenic, warm people person.
I'm not sure Mark Carney's wife is any of those things.
Plus, she's got that dark cloud of Ghylaine Maxwell hanging over her either.
Altina continues to write.
Currently in the States, Pam Bondi is working at releasing the Epstein files.
I hope it happens soon.
Perhaps Carney has enough of a connection that the liberals cannot brush the facts under the rug.
Enjoy your show, especially your investigative journalism.
Stay warm, Altina.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I'm interested to see where, if at all, Mark Carney is in the Epstein files.
I know, I think there was a couple different phone numbers for Mark Carney that were in the initial dump of Epstein files documents.
I wouldn't want my phone number to turn up in Epstein's black book, would you?
The weird, again, weird.
The mainstream media, they aren't asking these questions.
It's only the independent journalists who are.
And that is precisely why Mark Carney is keeping the independent journalists out of all of this.
And we all continue to ask the questions the mainstream media won't.
And the greatest thing that the mainstream media has ever done for independent journalism is, I guess, not do their jobs.
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It gives us job security.
We exist to fill a space the mainstream media just refuses to.
So thank you, I guess, mainstream media.
Thank you, Toronto Star, for my job security.
Appreciate it.
Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same space next week.