Alberta Premier Danielle Smith recently announced a plan to amend the Alberta Bill of Rights, and strengthening the right to gun ownership is one of the goals.
Alberta and Ottawa have been in a tug-of-war over guns before, and Smith says she’s ready to go to court over it if the feds challenge this new move to protect gun rights.
Both the province and the federal government claim jurisdiction over gun ownership, but on different grounds, says Calgary-based lawyer Leighton Gray. On the one hand, firearms can be considered personal property, and property rights are the province’s exclusive purview, he told The Epoch Times. On the other hand, the federal government is responsible for criminal law, and it has taken action on gun control on the grounds that guns can serve as crime tools….