Zac Kurylyk, Author at Calibremag.ca

Aaaaand here’s some more OIC-related silliness

December 15, 2020

More than seven months after the original Order In Council bans were handed down, the mix-ups continue. Now, the federal government is telling sustenance hunters and native hunters who use firearms banned by th...

AR alternatives: Spectre Ballistics, Maple Ridge Armoury options

Zac Kurylyk

December 10, 2020

Despite court battles challenging last spring's Order In Council ban, the AR-15 and other tactical-style rifles are still locked up in legal limbo. So, what's a Canadian to do, if you want to shoot a black rifl...

Altis won’t help feds firearms confiscation, buyback plan

Zac Kurylyk

December 9, 2020

To paraphrase Mark Twain: Reports of Altis Human Resources' involvement with the federal firearms confiscation and buyback plan have been greatly exaggerated. Altis did have a contract to help the feds find an ...

Is your firearm banned? Armalytics keeps Canadian shooters informed, when the feds don’t

Zac Kurylyk

December 4, 2020

Throughout the never-ending mess of this year's Order In Council firearms bans, there's been a common thread: Government disorganization. That's resulted in some embarrassing errors in the ban list. It's also r...

Canadian government defers marking of imported firearms until 2023

Zac Kurylyk

December 1, 2020

Once again, the Canadian federal government has put off its planned marking program for imported firearms. For years, the feds have been working on a plan to stamp every firearm imported to Canada with a uni...

Henry adds loading gate to most of its lever-action rifles

Zac Kurylyk

November 26, 2020

Henry Repeating Arms just made the biggest lineup overhaul in its recent history. The US-based gunmaker now has loading gates on the receivers of all its lever-action rifles with steel receivers, including rifl...

National Police Federation statement says OIC diverts resources from more effective crime-fighting

Zac Kurylyk

November 23, 2020

This spring, Canada's federal government announced a massive ban on a wide range of firearms, regardless of their intended sporting/tactical/hunting use. At that time, the feds played up the move as important i...

Vista Outdoors is a year, $1 billion behind in its ammunition orders

Zac Kurylyk

November 18, 2020

Thanks to COVID-19 and other mayhem in the US, ammunition supply is dropping while prices are rising. Our neighbours to the south have it particularly bad, but it's increasingly noticeable here in Canada. Now, ...

SAAMI approves three new cartridges

Zac Kurylyk

November 17, 2020

The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) just announced approval for three new rifle cartridges, all aimed at sporting use. .277 SIG Fury First off, the new .277 SIG Fury, developed b...

Once again, nobody bids on federal firearms buyback program

Zac Kurylyk

November 12, 2020

Can you hear it—that womp-womp, sad horn sound? Once again, the federal firearms buyback program apparently failed to attract any bidders; no private company wants to design and manage the program, it seems. Th...

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