Heading out for hunting season. A Saturday at the range. A rifle kept on the farm. For a lot of Albertans, owning a firearm safely and responsibly is just part of life.
Hunters, farmers, sport shooters and collectors who follow the law aren’t the cause of violent gun crime. Targeting them doesn’t make our communities safer.
That’s why your United Conservative government is standing up for law-abiding firearms owners at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Alberta is intervening in the appeal challenging the federal government’s 2020 firearms ban. That gives Alberta a direct opportunity to make its case before the Court, and Saskatchewan and Ontario are standing with us.
Firearms policy should focus on violent criminals and illegal firearms trafficking, not responsible Canadians who follow the law.
Last year, Alberta also used the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act to make it clear we won’t take part in the federal firearms confiscation scheme.
Law enforcement has been told their time and resources belong on violent criminals and real threats to public safety. Municipalities can’t create a patchwork of firearms policies. And anyone who seizes, stores or destroys firearms in Alberta must be licensed by Alberta’s chief firearms officer.
If you hunt, farm, shoot for sport or collect, and you follow the law, your provincial government has your back.
Standing up in court, protecting lawful firearms owners, focusing on crime and criminals. That’s your United Conservative government getting the job done.