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Canada withdraws proposed measures banning certain rifles, shotguns

Critics said plan was unfair to farmers, hunters

Reuters — Canada has withdrawn proposed amendments to gun legislation that would have banned certain types of rifles and shotguns, the government said on Friday, after opponents alleged the prohibitions unfairly targeted farmers and hunters. The amendments were added to a gun control package that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced last year after the […] Read more

History: Weapons That Won the West – Part 4

History: Weapons That Won the West – Part 4

Reprinted from the April 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Weapons That Won the West By D.R. King, High River, Alta. ‘When the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot on North American soil they carried muskets and fowling pieces. Their main source of food lay in the wild game which abounded in the great forests of the new land. Most of them owned two guns which […] Read more


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History: Weapons That Won the West – Part 2

Reprinted from the February 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Weapons That Won the West By D. R. King, High River, Alta. ‘Jonathan Browning and the Winchesters The year 1831 saw the very first repeating fire-arm to be manufactured in North America. Designed and hand-made by Jonathan Browning, it featured the same simplicity and ruggedness of construction which marks today’s models. His first successful repeater […] Read more

History: Weapons That Won the West – Part 1

History: Weapons That Won the West – Part 1

Reprinted from the January 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Weapons That Won the West By D. R. King, High River, Alta. ‘It was one of those so-called “typical Alberta” days in the early summer of 1948. The Calgary Exploration Co., the seismograph outfit with which my friend Bob Cousins was powder man, had started work on a location near Edmonton. Close by their rig […] Read more


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Pioneer weapons of the Canadian Prairies

History pages reprinted from the December 1946 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Pioneer Weapons By Gwain Hamilton, Regina Sask. ‘In a pioneer country weapons often make the man. This was as true in the Canadian northwest as it was in the roaring turbulent days of the gold rush in Montana and later when the great cattle kingdoms flourished on the Cheyenne and Oregon ranges. With the coming […] Read more