Toronto’s last shooting range has won a legal battle against Ontario’s chief firearms officer. Article content

The Toronto Revolver Club (TRC) took the province’s chief firearms officer (CFO) to Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice after a 2024 inspection where the Ontario Provincial Police inspector who holds the position visited the 120-year-old non-profit’s facility and issued a new shooting range approval containing several conditions. Article content

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“One of these conditions required the closure of two of the TRC’s ten firing lanes for safety reasons,” Justice Shaun Nakatsuru wrote in a recent decision.

But the judge found the CFO “has no authority to attach conditions to the shooting range approval,” according to his decision dated Aug. 25.

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