Firearms Act (S.C. 1995, c. 39)

Marginal note:Revocation — domestic violence

• 70.1 (1) If a chief firearms officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that an individual who holds a licence may have engaged in an act of domestic violence or stalking, the chief firearms officer must revoke the licence within 24 hours.

• Marginal note:Definition of domestic violence

  (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), domestic violence means conduct, whether or not it constitutes a criminal offence, by a family member towards another family member, including conduct by or towards an intimate partner, that is violent or threatening or that is part of a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour or that causes that other family member or intimate partner to fear for their safety or the safety of another person, and includes

  • (a) physical abuse, including forced confinement, but excluding the use of reasonable force to protect themselves or another person;

  • (b) sexual abuse;

  • (c) psychological abuse;

  • (d) financial abuse;

  • (e) threats to kill or cause bodily harm to any person;

  • (f) threats to kill or harm an animal or damage property;

  • (g) harassment, including stalking;

  • (h) the failure to provide the necessities of life; and

  • (i) the killing or harming of an animal or the damaging of property.