Daniel Fritter, Author at Calibremag.ca

Battleground 2019: South Okanagan – West Kootenay

October 17, 2019

Just a few hours south of Calibre’s home offices in Kelowna sits a riding that’s seen tremendous swings throughout the election campaign, with the NDP and Conservatives trading blows week after week, just as th...

Battleground 2019: Yukon!

Daniel Fritter

October 17, 2019

Almost everyone in Yukon Territory has a gun. It represents one of the the last settled frontiers, if you can even call it that, and is the birthplace of the longest running Canadian firearms-centric publicatio...

Battleground 2019: Fredericton – 500 Gun Owners Needed!

Daniel Fritter

September 25, 2019

The 2019 election is weeks away. Justin Trudeau has committed to banning some 250,000 so-called "assault rifles," and plans to make further revisions to the way firearms are bought and sold, potentially bringin...

3rd Generation Smith & Wesson Handguns

Daniel Fritter

June 4, 2019

A Brief History of Nine The story of the S&W auto line begins when, shortly after WWII, the US army expressed interest in replacing the 1911 as its standard service pistol. Impressed by the German-issue Wa...

AR-15 likely target of planned OIC

Daniel Fritter

May 10, 2019

Yesterday Tony Clement rose in the House of Commons to ask Bill Blair the following: "I am told on good authority that the prime minister has a secret plan to ban legal firearms. Apparently, this secret plan is...

Almost Rifles: The ATRS Modern Sporter vs M+M M10X

Daniel Fritter

February 6, 2019

One of the strange vagaries of the Canadian firearms act is the manner in which it incentivizes innovation. While other jurisdictions can lean on existing firearm designs that have naturally risen to the top ba...

KODIAK DEFENSE WK180-C: BEST BLACK RIFLE DEAL?

Daniel Fritter

January 7, 2019

In the mid-1950s, with America's military-industrial complex embroiled in the Cold War, American rifle development was occurring at a breakneck pace, as manufacturers scrambled to satisfy the requirements of th...

MDT Introduces new Adjustable Core Competition Chassis

Daniel Fritter

October 3, 2018

Well known for producing high-quality made-in-Canada chassis systems for a myriad of rifles, Modular Driven Technologies has found great success among shooters, law enforcement, and the military alike. But few ...

Bergmann MP 18: The first submachine gun

Daniel Fritter

September 23, 2018

In the early days of World War I, German troops were in need of a weapon better capable of handling the unique and new confines of trench warfare. Having armed an army for pitched battles across open terrain, t...

Examination Underway: New Talking Points from the LPC

Daniel Fritter

September 21, 2018

It would appear that Liberal MPs have been given new "evidence-based" talking points as Bill Blair's examination gets underway. Local MP Stephen Fuhr, representing Calibre's home riding, had the following respo...

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