Up In Arms follows the unfolding stories of our characters within these strikingly different communities. Despite vandals and break-ins, Al Simmons is not moving shop. Each year she sets up a booth to display her guns at the Locke Street Fair. Her neighbours want her gone, but Paulette’s more inclined to stay. Paulette’s customers run the gamut from doctors and lawyers, to retired police officers and seasoned hunters. Amidst the gentrification of Locke Street, Al Simmons Gun Shop is a beehive of activity with four salesmen on the floor and a gunsmith in the basement. She’s at war with her neighbours and politicians who want to hamper her business. In Hamilton, Paulette Langlois has been selling guns for almost 30 years. Their reality is juxtaposed against the views of law-abiding gun owners, and the call for reduced gun control legislation.
Each of them knows someone who has been shot or carried a gun for protection. They are all threatened by the presence of guns in their community. What impact will the pro-gun lobby have on Canada’s urban centres where a growing number of communities are plagued by poverty, crime and gun violence? In Toronto’s high-priority neighbourhood of Weston-Mount Dennis, we follow youths involved in a program designed to keep them away from guns, gangs and drugs. This feature documentary immerses viewers in our country’s evolving gun culture to witness the evangelical zeal with which gun owners like John Evers and Tony Bernardo are winning converts, and building a pro-gun lobby in the image of America’s National Rifle Association. For every one hundred Canadians there are 24 firearms. With an estimated 10 million guns in Canadian homes, Canada ranks 13th among gun-toting nations. Up In Arms: How the Gun Lobby is Changing Canada takes viewers inside a subculture that is just now coming out of the shadows. Tired of the stigma associated with owning guns, and emboldened by recent wins in the gun control battle, Canadian gun owners are on the offensive. Since the repeal of Canada’s long-gun registry, gun sales are up, gun clubs are booming, and a once silent minority is coming out of the closet. UP IN ARMS: How the Gun Lobby is Changing Canada Synopsis
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