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CANADIAN MAY/JUNE 2020 FIREARMS JOURNAL JULY/AUGUST 2020 Fully Committed On All Fronts CANADA’S NATIONAL FIREARMS ASSOCIATION PM 40009473 Return undeliverable to: Canadian Firearms Journal, P.O. Box 49090, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 6H4 CFJ_JULY AUGUST20_01_COVER.indd 1 2020-06-12 1:01 PM TPR9 -THUNDER PRO REDESIGN 9MM Introducing the TPR9, an advancement upon the successful Thunder 9 Pro pistol. The improvements include a • IMPORTS slimmer grip, significantly shorter trigger re-set, frame serrations and forward slide serrations. The Thunder Pro • ONLINE RETAIL platform was developed in the 90’s for law enforcement and military service and has been tested under the most • DISTRIBUTION adverse conditions for top of the line accuracy and dependability. The fit, finish and all-around build quality of the TACTICALIMPORTS.CA TPR9 is incredible, only matched by pistols costing several times more. The pistol is 100% ambidextrous with slide [email protected] release and safety/decocker levers located on both sides of the grip as well as featuring a reversible magazine catch. 800.994.6223 The levers and magazine catch are designed and positioned for exceptional ergonomics and well suited for modern high thumb grip. Fitted with a steel guide rod and a polygonal rifled barrel for ease of cleaning as well as increased accuracy and barrel life. Controls are oversized to work well with gloves or in high-stress scenarios. New and improved trigger is crisp with one of the shortest re-sets on the market. Now available in Tan finish. Starting at just $589. 2 www.nfa.ca November/December 2019 CFJ_JULY AUGUST_02-03_CONTENTS.indd 2 2020-06-12 1:31 PM CANADIAN July/August 2020 FIREARMS JOURNAL 50 28 COLUMNS POINT BLANK SWAROVSKI OPTIK You Will Always Be Your 70 years of Austrian excellence 4 Own First Responder KEVIN WILSON ON THE COVER CHRIS MCGARRY 32 5 51 PRECISION MEASURING FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK LEGAL CORNER Forster helps shooters Confusion Surrounding The Liberal’s Gun Ban measure the impossible New Gun Laws Of May 1, 2020 AL VOTH AL VOTH GUY LAVERGNE 36 6 54 FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE NFA BOOK SHELF Video recording for No More Mr. Nice-guy Confusion By Design the shooting sports BILL RANTZ LOWELL STRAUSS SHELDON CLARE TPR9 -THUNDER PRO REDESIGN 9MM 8 FEATURES 43 THE LICENSE QUESTION Introducing the TPR9, an advancement upon the successful Thunder 9 Pro pistol. The improvements include a • IMPORTS VICE-PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE slimmer grip, significantly shorter trigger re-set, frame serrations and forward slide serrations. The Thunder Pro 16 Should firearms owners • ONLINE RETAIL platform was developed in the 90’s for law enforcement and military service and has been tested under the most The Only Solution CLAY BUSTER be licensed? • DISTRIBUTION BLAIR HAGEN adverse conditions for top of the line accuracy and dependability. The fit, finish and all-around build quality of the Reviewing the GARY MAUSER TACTICALIMPORTS.CA TPR9 is incredible, only matched by pistols costing several times more. The pistol is 100% ambidextrous with slide [email protected] Franchi Affinity Sporting release and safety/decocker levers located on both sides of the grip as well as featuring a reversible magazine catch. 800.994.6223 10 JEFF HELSDON 46 The levers and magazine catch are designed and positioned for exceptional ergonomics and well suited for modern PRESERVING OUR high thumb grip. Fitted with a steel guide rod and a polygonal rifled barrel for ease of cleaning as well as increased PANDEMIC PANIC? accuracy and barrel life. Controls are oversized to work well with gloves or in high-stress scenarios. New and improved FIREARMS HERITAGE 20 COVID-19’s effects trigger is crisp with one of the shortest re-sets on the market. Now available in Tan finish. Starting at just $589. Cap Guns – Icons Of An Era DREAM GUNS on the firearms industry GARY K. KANGAS & SYBIL KANGAS A guide to obtaining JEFF HELSDON the perfect rifle TIMOTHY FOWLER CANADIAN MAY/JUNE 2020 14 FIREARMS JOURNAL POLITICS & GUNS JULY/AUGUST 2020 Government By Dogma 24 BRUCE GOLD SHOOTABLE HISTORY Uberti’s 1860 Henry rifle 48 BY NORMAN GRAY ONE GUN'S STORY Fully Committed On All Fronts Rescue Mission CANADA’S NATIONAL FIREARMS ASSOCIATION PM 40009473 Return undeliverable to: Canadian Firearms Journal, ERIC JOUBERT P.O. Box 49090, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 6H4 CFJ_JULY AUGUST20_01_COVER.indd 1 2020-06-11 2:55 PM MISSION STATEMENT Canada’s National Firearms Association exists to promote, support and protect all safe firearms activities, including the right of self defense, firearms education for all Canadians, freedom and justice for Canada’s firearms community and to advocate for legislative change to ensure the right of all Canadians to own and use firearms is protected. The contents of the Canadian Firearms Journal are copyrighted and may be reproduced only when written permission is obtained from the publisher. July/August 2020 www.nfa.ca 3 CFJ_JULY AUGUST_02-03_CONTENTS.indd 3 2020-06-12 1:32 PM On The Cover his issue’s cover has a fittingly Tdark theme to it, as it shows a western turkey vulture cruising a storm front, looking for something dead to become its next meal. The storm clouds and this legendary harbinger of death symbolize the fight Canadian gun owners find themselves in. The storm is here, and our enemies are hovering, waiting for firearms ownership in this country to die a slow, incre- mental death. To the informed, this isn’t a surprise. It’s the fight for life we’ve been expecting, and which we will win. We look forward to the day when our cover will feature a sun rising into a clear sky, without a vulture in sight. Thanks to Lowell Strauss for this bit of image poetry captured on the Saskatchewan plains. Canadian Firearms Journal The Official Magazine of Editor Al Voth [email protected] General Manager [email protected] Ginger Fournier 780-439-1394 Accounts/Membership [email protected] General Information [email protected] Legal Inquiries [email protected] National Executive National President 1-877-818-0393 Sheldon Clare [email protected] EVP, Communications 1-877-818-0393 Blair Hagen [email protected] Treasurer 1-877-818-0393 PM 40009473 Bill Rantz [email protected] Return undeliverable to: Secretary 1-877-818-0393 Canadian Firearms Journal, P.O. Box 49090, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 6H4 Jerrold Lundgard [email protected] PRINTED IN CANADA 4 www.nfa.ca July/August 2020 CFJ_JULYAUGUST20_04-09_EDITOR_PRESIDENT_FINAL.indd 4 2020-06-12 1:02 PM From The Editor’s Desk Al Voth Confusion Surrounding New Gun Laws he old cliché about transitioning know 8 gauge and larger shotguns are thering will look like. Never mind the Tfrom the frying pan into the fire prohibited, but the 10 and 12-gauge promise (threat) to allow cities to ban seems to fit the situation gun owners models remain in a grey area. It’s clear handguns from inside their borders, find themselves in these days. There that some large-calibre rifles are now as soon as legislatively possible. The we were, navigating our way through illegal, but we don’t know where the uncertainties and the level of confusion a world-wide pandemic by caring for line is or how to measure a firearm to are both enormous. At least one thing ourselves, our families and our neigh- determine if it’s “capable” of reaching is constant and unchanging, it’s the cry bours, when the government dumped the evil 10,000 joule energy limit. It’s of the anti-gun lobby that this is “just us into the fire. The only thing I can also clear some of the black powder a good first step.” Which, notably, is think of which would rate higher on the cannons used by hobbyists and re- what they said of all the other gun laws scale of political opportunism is if the enactors are now prohibited, but some passed in the last 40 years. That recur- Liberals were to call an election before might be exempt as antiques and some ring phrase makes it clear their final they have to raise taxes to pay for all might fall under the “designed for step is complete civilian disarmament. the benefits being handed out these signalling” exemption in Section 84(3) However, the shooting ranges are days. But then, I expect that call will of the Criminal Code. Do you want to reopening from the COVID-19 shut- occur this fall. bet a criminal record and perhaps a down as I write this, and the weather As this issue goes to print, the level prison term that your interpretation of is turning summery. So, I refuse to let of confusion surrounding the May this confusion is the same one a judge the politicians dictate my mood. I’m 1 Order in Council is still at a fever would arrive at? going to do some shooting myself, and pitch. Yes, we know lots of modern And then there’s the issue of com- introduce some new people to the gun sporting rifles are banned, but other pensation in the promised buy-back sports as well. Recruiting new shooters similar rifles aren’t, and there’s no program, as well as the uncertainty who vote is one effective strategy for clear reasoning why the difference. We about what the promised grandfa- defeating this government. July/August 2020 www.nfa.ca 5 CFJ_JULYAUGUST20_04-09_EDITOR_PRESIDENT_FINAL.indd 5 2020-06-12 1:02 PM President’s Message Sheldon Clare Confusion By Design We have initiated a significant legal challenge of the Liberal Order in Council, which we, and our dream team of legal experts, have carefully considered.