06/18/2026
Data from the RCMP's 2025 Commissioner of Fi****ms Report, first reported by TheGunBlog, shows there were 2,458,677 Canadians holding a PAL as of Dec. 31, 2025.
That's an increase of nearly 47,000 licence holders from the previous year and a 1.9% annual gain.
Every province and territory saw growth.
Ontario added the largest number of new licence holders, with 15,221 additional PAL holders, followed by Alberta and British Columbia, each adding more than 10,000. Quebec surpassed 500,000 licensed gun owners for the first time in nearly two decades.
The figures come after years of federal efforts to restrict fi****ms ownership, including the 2020 Order-in-Council gun ban, a national handgun freeze, ongoing confiscation plans and repeated attempts to portray licensed gun owners as a public safety problem.
Instead, the number of licensed fi****ms owners has continued to climb.
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