Liberals prohibit Calgary-made rifle designed to comply with their regulations
They followed the rules. They built the gun. And the government banned it anyway.
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What happens when you follow every rule, design a Canadian-made sporting rifle to comply with the law, and build a business around it? If you're J.R. Cox and the team at Sterling Arms in Calgary, you get banned anyway. No warning, no consultation — just a bureaucratic stroke of the pen that labels your compliant firearm 'prohibited' and shutters your shop.
It’s the R9 Mk1 — a non-restricted, non-military-style rifle that the Liberals suddenly decided looks too scary. And just like that, workers are laid off, shelves are empty, and another Canadian firearms business is crushed under the weight of arbitrary regulation.
Joining me tonight is Tracey Wilson from the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR), to break down this targeted attack on legal gun owners and manufacturers, and to ask the question we’re all thinking: if obeying the law isn't enough to stay in business, what hope does anyone in the firearms community have left?
GUEST: Tracey Wilson from the CCFR.
COMMENTS
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Karoll Brinton commented 2025-07-23 16:53:10 -0400We should be banning the Liberal government. -
Paul Scofield commented 2025-07-17 12:14:15 -0400Regardless of where Alberta ends up after of Confederation — even outside of the United States — may I suggest that you include something akin to the [U.S.] Second Amendment in your new “charter”:
Amendment 2 – Right to Bear Arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not
be infringed.
Just a suggestion. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-07-16 22:14:01 -0400RCMP deciding on their own which guns should be banned is so Soviet. Yet another reason Alberta must leave Confederation.
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Renaud Gagne commented 2025-07-16 21:33:58 -0400TURN THE SOUND UP. WE CAN BARELY F’ING HEAR YOU. -
Robert Pariseau commented 2025-07-16 21:33:16 -0400Calgary, right?
Need I go on?
