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The 4 Rules of Handling Firearms:
Always assume all guns are loaded.
Never let the muzzle aim at anything you are not willing to destroy.
Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
A provincial or territorial court judge then determines whether there are grounds to issue an emergency prohibition order, under which guns can be seized for up to 30 days
This is the biggest issue in the law IMO. 30 days is arbitrary. The guns should not be returned until the cause of the red flag has been addressed, which I will admit would be hard to define legally.
I think the glaring issue with these “Red Flag” laws is nobody is keeping a record of who violates them.
The country's 11 provincial and territorial chief firearms officers — in charge of issuing and revoking gun licences — said they have no data on such seizures. So too did the Ontario Provincial Police, Sûreté du Québec and the federal Public Safety ministry.
Just one red flag case found
The RCMP, which oversees the Canadian Firearms Program and its database, also initially said it had no information on red flag orders. But in a subsequent email, a spokesperson said the force had found a single case.
"Since December 15, 2023, one 'red flag' order was reported to the Canadian Firearms Program and recorded in the Canadian Firearms Information System," the email noted.
That case was not the firearm seizure from the Tumbler Ridge shooter's family home that the force previously disclosed, but rather a 2025 order in Ontario.
This is a major failure on the administration and the political leaders who voted this in, but from what I can tell, orange man in the White House speaks for all conservatives apparently and nobody wants the Canadian version of orange man so I doubt things will change.