Andrew Lawton plans Assaulted firearms rights documentary

Canadian broadcaster/columnist Andrew Lawton is working on a video documentary tackling the federal government's ongoing gun control efforts. It's called Assaulted, and the trailer (below) has some familiar faces.

Lawton has been working on this project for months now, and plans to release it through the True North Centre's news website. If you're unfamiliar with the True North Centre, you can find the organization's About page here. Visit there, and you'll get a good overview of the True North Centre's values, political leanings, and personnel.
Many Canadians will recognize Lawton's name because of his columns in national newspapers, or his role as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 2018 Ontario provincial election. He also hosted the Andrew Lawton Show on 980 CFPL in London, Ontario and has many appearances on television as a commentator.
More importantly, he's also a legal firearms owner.

What can we expect from Assaulted?

What's in Lawton's documentary? Here's what the doc's webpage has to say:

Justin Trudeau has been chipping away at Canadians’ firearms rights since he first took office.
Beyond the rhetoric about “taking guns off the streets” is a battle against Canadians who happen to be law-abiding gun owners. From competition shooters and families who own firearms businesses to Indigenous Canadians and folks in the country’s north and rural areas, ordinary people who have nothing to do with the gun crime are caught in the crosshairs of the Liberal government’s attack on guns.
For these people and businesses, it isn’t about shooting, but about living their lives.
In this True North documentary, Andrew Lawton travels the country talking to the real people Trudeau’s gun grab affects and targets.

The website goes on to say the series "will tell the stories of the untold victims of Justin Trudeau’s gun policies, and show the inconvenient facts challenging the Liberal firearms narrative."
Assaulted will be released in four parts, each 10-15 minutes long. Interview subjects include Rod Giltaca of the CCFR, Olympic shooter Lynda Kiejko, Scott Carpenter of International Shooting Supplies and Terry Korth of Korth Group.
"The purpose was to tell the stories of real gun owners in this country whose voices are being ignored by the government and by the media," says Lawton via email. "Businesses with hundreds of thousands of dollars of inventory frozen, competitive shooters having to jump through more hoops, rural folks who find themselves left out of city-driven discussions. We wanted to put a human face on the victims of the Trudeau government’s gun policies, with some background about what those policies are."
The documentary is also intended "to tell a story that will appeal to gun owners and non-gun owners alike, rather than simply preaching to the choir."

When will it be released?

Lawton says Assaulted is still in editing, so he doesn't want to give a precise release date. However, we should see it by the middle of July.

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