Ontario man acquitted of charges in home attack hopes self defence precedent bolstered (http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ontario+acquitted+charges+home+attack+hopes+self+defence+precedent+bolstered/7780220/story.html#ixzz2H90uDGJ4) By Jeff Davis, The Canadian Press, www.vancouversun.com | January 5, 2013

‘… Ian Thomson says a judge in Welland acquitted him on Thursday of firearms-related charges in connection from a 2010 incident in which he fired three warning shots at a group of men who set his Ontario home ablaze with firebombs…

‘Thomson described the two-and-a-half-year legal battle as a “horrible ordeal”…

‘“I firmly believe they wanted to make an example of me, and to put the fear into every Canadian firearm owner that you are not allowed to defend yourself with a firearm,” he said….’

The National Firearms Association, the Canadian Sports Shooting Association (CSSA) and readers of CanadianGunNutz.com helped him with legal costs.