I retired as a constable from my position at the Pacific Region Training Center(PRTC) as a member of the Firearms Training Unit (FTU) in January of 2019 after 32 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). I served HM Queen Elizabeth II and my adopted nation of Canada in many different roles; all but 4 years in uniform, as well as a volunteer police association director and advocate for non-commissioned police officers within the RCMP.

Since 1994,  I have enjoyed training police officers on  the Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver  all  the way up to the Colt C8 Carbine and 40MM H&K less-than-lethal launcher and other firearms in my work life.

I embrace shooting as a sport as well as a hunter. I dabble in 3-gun, 2-gun as well as IPSC, and enjoy the sport and the sheer peace shooting brings me. 32 years as a policeman changes you. Time behind a scope, doing pistol or carbine drills and connecting with the wonderful community of firearms enthusiasts in Canada on both  East and West coasts allow me to connect with independent ethical people who value Canada’s gun culture.

Since the late 1960s, our community has been under attack by successive left-wing politicians federally and provincially.

Since the 1990s, ridiculous magazine restrictions and increasing numbers of bans of types of handguns were complemented with mandatory national licensing and mandatory training and range membership for people who owned handguns and AR15s.

In 2020, AR-15s were banned by left-wing politicians in the Liberal Government of Canada after a mass murder of 22 Canadians, including a member of the RCMP in Nova Scotia, perpetrated by a predicate criminal with smuggled weapons. There were no measures to prevent further such murders, merely punishment of my community of sportsmen and hunters, people proven least likely to commit crimes in Canada.

Since 2020, licensed and trained firearms owners have had their property increasingly banned, including 22 caliber firearms that looked scary to these same virtue-signalling politicians. Violent crime has increased leaps and bounds. Our PRC-infiltrated federal government, their submissive courts, and our legal industry have become suspect and accused-centric and have abandoned victims of crime completely with the complicity of the government-owned and government-funded legacy media.

In my 32-year career, I was shot at once and was involved in one fatal police shooting. Thankfully, I have never shot another human being, but have been close.  I produced reports as an internal use of force trainer and training consultant for the force or the courts in the rare cases of the police use of lethal force. I never once learned of a single police officer or civilian being threatened, injured or killed by a lawful Canadian firearms owner. Every threat to civilians or police I have investigated, examined or learned of has been the result of the actions of predicate criminals. Predicate criminals are people who have already come to the attention of police, courts and prison officials.