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FIREARMS QUICK FACTS
By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated January 23rd, 2002

RCMP CONFIRM FIVE MILLION GUNS IN REGISTRY STILL HAVE TO BE VERIFIED
Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, released another damning report from the RCMP concerning the alarming inaccuracy of the records in the Liberal billion-dollar gun registry.  “The RCMP report that only 18% of guns registered in the system have been verified and 30% of the firearms can’t be uniquely identified from the information provided by firearms owners,” reported Breitkreuz.  “In 1999, the members of the Canadian Police Association (CPA) made accuracy and verification of firearms one of their six conditions of support for the government’s universal gun registry.  I wonder what the CPA Executive will say now that it’s been revealed that the Liberal government has broken yet another promise made to them?” asked Breitkreuz. (The volunteer Verifier Network has collapsed, and as long as it 'stays' collapsed the government will NEVER be able to adhere to their own law requiring verification of firearms. If the firearms are not verified, then there is no reason for the registry, and no reason for ANY police organization to support it. It becomes officially what it already is, a paper pushing, Liberal exercise in futility. There is no way that this farce should be allocated another single penny..Remember: Friends Don't Let Friends be Verifiers)
Unmistakable Signs That A Government  Has Been in Power Far Too Long
MPs find 'breakdown' in ethics OTTAWA - A "breakdown in ethics" inside the Public Works department then headed by Alfonso Gagliano was among the "root causes" that led to mismanagement, waste and possible fraud in the Liberal government's sponsorship program, a powerful all-party Commons committee has concluded.(Scandal, Graft, and Criminal investigation have become the 'norm' for the Liberal Government.)
Rights agency mismanaged, committee says OTTAWA - The federal government has kept a "broken" Canadian Human Rights Commission afloat with ad hoc funding to cover cost overruns without seeking Parliament's approval, says a Commons committee that compared the situation to that of the controversial firearms registry.The government tried to bury the whole thing through ad hoc funding rather than put it in the main estimates. They buried it in administrative funds, buried it in contingency funds and buried it any way, shape or form, and now we know that is how they financed the firearms registry: ad hoc funding without Parliament really knowing what is going on," Mr.Williams said. Committee members said they gave up trying to get a handle on how much extra funding went to the commission over the past four or five years, but they estimate it is in the "millions of dollars," compared to the hundreds of millions that went to the firearms registry outside of the main estimates. Government figures indicate while the commission planned to spend $17.4-million in 2001-02, actual spending was $21-million..(Well..well..well.. doesn't 'this' sound familiar! Adhoc cost overruns without seeking Parliaments approval! How many 'other' programs are being funded under the table by this deceptive government? Go Ahead Jean, do Everyone a favour and call a snap election NOW. Even the Myopic voters in Ontario would have to see that voting Liberal means stamping a seal of approval on the massive level of mismanagement, and corruption the Liberals are blessing us all with now!)
Massive identity theft feared
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are at risk of identify theft after a hard drive containing personal information was stolen from a leading data management company. Social insurance numbers, pre-authorized banking information, dates of birth and pension details are stored on a hard drive stolen from a secure area of the Regina headquarters of Information Systems Management Canada, a subsidiary of IBM Canada. In November, federal prosecutors in New York unveiled what they believed is the largest U.S. case of identity fraud, involving more than 30,000 victims who had their credit history stolen and savings looted, totalling at least US$2.7-million. Three men were arrested in the three-year nationwide case. At the centre of the alleged fraud was Philip Cummings, 33, who worked for a company that provided software for banks and other firms to obtain consumer credit information from commercial credit history bureaus. Mr. Cummings allegedly used his access to confidential passwords and codes to download credit reports and sell them for US$60 each, allowing people to raid individual bank accounts, use credit cards without authorization and drain lines of credit.(Isn't comforting to know the Liberals are going to turn all your firearms information over to a private company, that has, according to the RCMP, never had a security audit. There is a VERY good chance that a member of a criminal organization, or the girl/boy friend of a member of a criminal organization will have access to this information, and it's worth money.. A LOT of money!! Aren't YOU glad you have 'registered' firearms in this shambles of a database? )
JUSTICE MINISTER STILL KEEPING PARLIAMENT IN THE DARK
“Government’s answers provide virtually no evidence that universal gun registration is worth a billion dollars.” 
Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, provided his rebuttal to each of the responses provided by the government to four written questions reported to the House of Commons on Monday.  “The questions I asked the government to answer were very straight forward.  Unfortunately, the Justice Minister’s answers left Parliament in the dark,” commented Breitkreuz.  “Each question I asked was based on promises made to Parliament by Justice Minister Rock, claims by the Minister Cauchon’s public relations official and the program’s measures of success as reported in departmental budget documents.” (It's almost as if your talking to a programed machine.. All questions, regardless of who asks them are answered with the same drivelling propaganda.. 'Don't worry, be happy, everything is working well, It's all about safety, blah, blah, blah..etc..etc..etc..  What it 'really' interesting is this:. Garry Breitkreuz: "For example, on July 4, 2002, the RCMP provided documents with CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre) lists showing 270 firearms reported lost, 137 firearms reported stolen from the Canadian Forces since 1962 and only 3 firearms recovered since 1994.  The list of firearms lost or stolen include: 218 Lee Enfield Rifles, 17 Browning 9mm pistols, an FN Browning .50 calibre Heavy Machine Gun, an AK47, an FN Browning Canadian C9 Service Light Machine Gun 5.56mm, a Colt AR15A2 .223 calibre and many more [RCMP File: 01ATIP-3631]. On November 16, 2001, The Edmonton Sun reported the theft of a shipment of 150 to 200 Glock handguns en route to the Edmonton Police Service. With this information at their fingertips why is the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada not reporting stolen police and military firearms as a source of firearms for organized crime groups?  And why didn’t the Solicitor General correct this oversight for Parliament in his answer to this question? Why is this government keeping Parliament in the dark?(To admit that the government itself is supplying guns to the 'underworld' because of the inability to safely store and transport weapons, speaks volumes against the dubious benefit of  tracking duck hunters!)
Firing back at gun law
(Canoe Link- Will Prob. Vanish in 24 hrs or less)
Support for the registry, despite Cauchon's steadfast defence of it, is dwindling. It's even on the agenda of the Ontario Police Associations at their Feb. 2-4 convention in Chatham. If they pull their support, the registry's in deep trouble. Having to register hunting guns, however, is only part of Ottawa's faltering gun-controls that Canadians should be alarmed about. What steps on our rights and freedoms even more is the Firearms Interest Police databank, which contains names of people often at the whim of police, not because those entered in the databank have committed any crime. It's used by police when you're screened for a firearms licence. Watch for this to become a hot issue. (There is no doubt that the Ontario Police Associations will pull their support, after all The Ontario Association of  Police Chiefs, and The O.P.P. have already publicly pulled theirs(support that is)! They support licensing, safe storage, and training, but the rest has no support in Ontario.. For once, the majority of Liberal Federal Seats may actually work 'against' the government! )
Gun registry fiasco faces probe
Officials who were in charge of Canada's firearms registry will be called to appear before the parliamentary public accounts committee, the House of Commons was told Wednesday. Committee chair John Williams, an Alliance MP, confirmed during Question Period that the committee would begin hearing from witnesses Feb. 24 to examine what went wrong with the federal gun registry. The Public Accounts committee will hear from Auditor-General Sheila Fraser first, followed by Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, along with the deputy justice minister and former chief executive officers of the federal firearms program. Earlier this month, Mr. Cauchon deflected questions about how exactly the cost of the firearms registry ballooned from $2-million in 1995 to an estimated total of $1-billion by 2005 — as revealed in a report by Ms. Fraser late last year. The information scorched the federal Liberals just before Parliament broke for Christmas. Hearings into the incident will likely mean that the issue will flare up again.(The 'normal' liberal rhetoric and propaganda will be flowing here, but the public is getting wise to their B.S. We will also no doubt, hear all the wonderful findings from Cauchon's liberal buddies, 'internal audit'! You know, the one that is taking 30-60 days to find things that the Auditor General couldn't discover in a year of investigations! Waiting for that audit to tell the liberals the registry is a waste of your  money? Ya..Right!! What IS encouraging is seeing 'left' wing newspapers such as the Globe & Mail describing the registry as a "fiasco". I would love to see the results of another poll on this farce now that Canadians 'truly' know the facts surrounding the 'non benefit' of  this billion dollar waste)
Merry Gun Control
The first stages of socialist utopia are now affirmed in merry England and "down under" in Australia. "In those two nations, formerly-free people can tell you about the real nature of 'gun control' - where all schemes, no matter how benign-sounding, lead to the same ultimate end: forced disarmament of peaceable individuals by government,"writes Wayne LaPierre, quoting from an article excerpting a portion of his upcoming new book "Guns, Freedom and Terrorism," which will be published by Boru Books. "Be it in the form of gun owner licensing and registration, or safety requirements, or gun storage, or mandatory training, each step in England and Australia was followed by another, until law-abiding gun owners were forced into a final step - forfeiting their personal property, and with it their liberties." LaPierre continues:"In both nations, because of the brutal acts of lone individual criminals, legal private property of all citizens was declared contraband, then confiscated."A crime epidemic in England is now confirmed. The article states: "The London Evening Standard reported on December 19, 2001, 'Gun crime in London is rocketing, with increases of almost 90 percent in some firearm offenses, Scotland Yard reported today. New figures show London murders with guns increased by 87 percent in the first eight months of the year compared with the same period last year.'The Daily Telegraph of January 3, 2002, reported, 'Police fear a new crime explosion as school-age muggers graduate to guns. The number of people robbed of personal property rose by 53 percent. Ballistics experts warn that firearms are now cheap and easily available.'(If you were around before the mid seventies, think back to that time when guns were everywhere, very little crime was firearm related. It's clear, that guns by themselves are not the problem. Take the big cities out of the firearm crime equation in both Canada and the U.S. and there is no firearm crime equation. The violence/firearm problem is all about drugs and poverty.  And you can't keep law abiding people safe by disarming them, you only get more victims, more guns, more criminals. The proof is in any jurisdiction that bans firearms, from Washington D.C. to London England the results are the same. More gun control laws will NOT fix the problem, they only make it worse. No life has 'ever' been saved by one more gun control law added to the already over regulated pile. "The Proof is Out There".. As 'Jean the Weasel' says: "A Proof is a Proof.  What kind of a proof? A Proof is a Proof, and when you have a good proof,  it is because it's proven". We have NO Proof that's been proven more than this one! )
Criminology professor says 6 million to 9 million guns remain unregistered across the country
The Justice Department said last week 5.9 million firearms have been registered under the new program. 
But Mauser said past surveys and firearm-sales and import figures suggest between six million and nine million firearms remain unregistered. "Those guns are underground, in some way or another," he said. (And THAT is only a conservitive estimate. I think the NFA has a pretty good handle on the 'real' number of guns in this country
Database another firearms disaster
FIP is generating a lengthy list of unwarranted searches, random property seizures, firings and even arrests and detentions.  And given that the Liberals seem more determined than ever to prove their registry has merit, and since even bad arrests in the name of the registry permit the Liberals to claim the system is taking guns out of the hands of unsafe people, don't expect them to close or even correct FIP soon, or ever. (Big Liberal Brother is not only watching, he may haul your butt off to jail or get you fired.. Welcome to Chrétienadian  democracy)
BREITKREUZ'S RESPONSE TO CANADIAN POLICE ASSOCIATION
 These are the notes Garry used in responding to the CPA Executive's statement of support for the Liberal government's billion-dollar gun registry in the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday morning, January 14, 2003. (The CPA is looking more and more like a 'Liberal Funded, political organization'. What faith could you possible put in a 'organization' of police officers(?) that are this myopic)
As Dumb As the Gun Registry
Governments often embroil themselves in controversy while trying to accomplish things for all the right reasons. For instance, the federal gun registration -- it may have been introduced for all the right reasons, but now, even those the least interested in firearms (myself included) see the stupidity and waste of the registry plan.(This article is about the Ontario Governments 'Sledge Hammer' approach to street racing, But it does point out that many people who have nothing to do with guns, are increasingly becoming aware of just how stupidly wasteful the Liberal Gun Registry is, and 'other' people of their 'ilk' are listening!) 
Former boss of gun registry to testify
Liberal MPs voted with the opposition yesterday to call Maryantonett Flumian, now an associate deputy minister in the Human Resources Department, as one of several witnesses, along with Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, for an inquiry into massive overspending at the firearms registry and licensing system. Ms. Flumian, a troubleshooter and rising star under the Liberals over the last decade, became chief executive officer of the Canadian Firearms Centre in 2000, two years after the Firearms Act took effect and one year before the deadline for licensing gun owners. Under her tenure, the government gave up millions of dollars in potential revenue to fund the expensive scheme because it eliminated licensing fees for gun owners and slashed firearm registration fees to encourage participation. As well, it was under Ms. Flumian's directorship that the centre began racking up massive cost overruns for computer systems and spent millions of dollars on advertising to put a positive face on the scheme. Despite the difficulties, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien promoted Ms. Flumian in 2001 to become an associate deputy minister in human resources, reportedly to clean up mounting problems in that department.The committee is to begin its inquiry Feb. 24. Mr. Cauchon, meanwhile, returned to the Commons for the first time since the uproar over the firearms program began last month to reiterate the government's plan to press on with the registry. Mr. Cauchon promised to table reports in the "coming days" from KPMG accountants and another private-sector firm that the government hired, at a total cost of $152,000, to review the spending and management problems.('If ' Maryantonett Flumian is critical of the system, you can bet Chrétien will make sure 'her' career is over! And, anyone that believes that KPMG will come up with anything that the liberals don't want, is a fool! Democracy  has 'never' played a part in the Liberal 'hidden' Agenda, and the unofficial motto since the days of Trudeau has always been "Power at any cost". I haven't seen anything change, have you? "Press on with the registry" indeed!!! THE REGISTRY OF LONG GUNS SHOULD BE HALTED UNTIL THE INQUEST IS OVER!)
Horse shootings distress Albertans
CALGARY -- A serial sniper who may be at work targeting horses in northern Alberta could be warming up to turn the gun on people, experts say. Since the fall of 2000, 10 horses have been shot -- six have died -- along a 240-kilometre sstretch of highways between Edmonton and Bonnyville in northeastern Alberta. The pace of terror for horse owners has picked up this month with attacks on three farms, all of which allowed their horses to graze in fenced pastures that run along roadways.(Obviously a 'sicko' with an 'unregistered gun' Everyone in the Liberal Party Knows, that had this 'sicko' registered his gun, no one would be in any danger at all! Oh for the want of a piece of paper to lay beside this gun, it would solve everything!.. Perhaps some rancher will 'take out' this A-Hole with a well aimed rock! After all, this IS in abidance with "The Canadian Culture of Defencelessness")
Ontario's Police Leaders Call on Federal Government for Review of "Long-Gun" Registry Component
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, Jan. 27 /CNW/ - Ontario's police leaders continue to support most aspects of the federal gun control legislation, specifically the enhancements to public safety issues says Chief Tom Kaye, President of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP). "Gun and ammunition storage regulations, tougher licence/training requirements and stiffer penalties for unlawful use of firearms and possession of illegal firearms such as assault weapons are key components of the legislation that we feel are crucial to public safety". At a meeting held in Oakville last week, Chiefs from across the province expressed concern with reported costs, problematic deployment and lack of public compliance and resolved to call upon the federal government to (1) provide full disclosure of C68 to the Auditor-General, Sheila Fraser; and (2) undertake a thorough review of the problems associated with the "long-gun" registration component of the legislation."The OACP supports the retention of the new legislation to ensure that these public safety enhancements are not lost, however the newly legislated registration of "long-guns, that being rifles and shotguns, remains a controversial element of the program." In addition Kaye stated, "We understand that the consulting firm of KPMG will undertake such an examination and will be providing recommendations and options to deal with this contentious issue. The OACP looks forward to an open, transparent, auditable and accountable review, with public safety remaining the main focus of any cost benefit assessments."(Waiting for the results of the review by KPMG is like waiting for a internal review created by the Liberals themselves, or a review, by perhaps even Wendy! The 'Liberal Supporter' who gets 'lots' of contracts from the Liberal Government (The review of Pearson Airport was one of them) is not likely to 'bite the hand'! I fully expect this 'review' to come up with all kinds of dubious ways to keep the registry and the liberal confiscational agenda around for years wasting our money. I'm just glad the Ontario Police Chiefs have not taken the 'political low road' on this farce, and are willing to tell it like it is. But, I doubt the Liberals are listening, they never are!)
Dealer takes aim at more gun fees
A $1-billion overrun in the cost of registering Canadians' guns is only the tip of the iceberg, says a local gun dealer. Carl Banting, owner of the Wolf's Den Sporting Supplies in Utopia, 10 kilometres west of Barrie, said there is a little-known component of the federal government's program that will make the initial costs look like a drop in the bucket - the verification stage of registering weaapons. "When Canadians - whether they agree with gun registration or not - see what verification is going to cost them, they will be up in arms," Banting said. (This is a perfect example of the stupidity of this entire farce. The 5 Million guns the feds 'say' are registered now, 'DON'T NEED VERIFICATION' what a joke!! You mean to tell me that  the majority of guns in the country {'majority' according to the hoplo's at the CFC} are 'actually' what the feds say they are? Most have no serial numbers, models, barrel length, etc. even listed with the registry, but THEY are ok.. Gimmie a break.. There are not enough cops in the country to waste their time on CFC verification when the majority of registered guns have NEVER been verified. David Austin says there is a network of 5000 verifiers! WHERE?? Anyone that would 'volunteer' to verify guns for the government would 'have' to fall into one of two groups Group ONE: Hoplophobic members of gun control groups, who by their very definition are too scared to be contaminated by the evil they seem to think radiates from firearms. This would be the same as religious fundamentalists setting out the rules for 'courtship'. The other Group, Group TWO: would be comprised of  gun owners who know 'something' about firearms, but have such low personal esteem, that they feel the job will give them some 'importance' in life, and the much needed feeling of control over others. These people were very important to Hitler during the war. They were known as "BROWN SHIRTS" DON'T BE A BROWNSHIRT FOR THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!(Download the poster) Remember: Friends Don't Let Friends be Verifiers)
B.C.'s gun fighters
He toils as a stacker and log sorter at the local sawmill, owns "several" firearms, likes to hunt deer and moose, enjoys TV westerns and speaks in raspy sentences often punctuated with eh." In most ways Rolf Pfeiffer isn't unlike a few million other rural Canadians, but this 37-year-old from 100 Mile House became a minor celebrity in the B.C. Interior last weekend after organizing and speaking at an anti-gun-registration protest rally in Kamloops that drew between 300 and 400 indignant gun owners.(It's amazing, even 'city' people are coming on-side. The government has been caught with it's pants down, stealing tax dollars for their own personal agendas, and pissing on the rights of all Canadians! People are MAD and they Ain't Gonna Take it Any More!)
Unexpected surprise for area hunter who visited Canada
BIG BROTHER seems to be showing up just about everywhere these days — even out in the middle of the wilderness.“I really love hunting up there,’’ he said. “I’d like to draw a deer tag, too, but they’re hard to acquire. Only 25 are allotted annually to the guide we hunt with.’’Canada does have some of the best hunting and most of the best fishing on the North American continent. But its political posture today turns many sportsmen away. When they began passing restrictive gun laws in the mid-1990s, that’s when my trips to Canada came to an end. Owning and using your own firearms (and taking them with you on a hunting trip) is a major part of the game for people who are serious about hunting. I don’t feel welcome in a country that doesn’t trust me, simply because I own guns.(Billions of dollars are lost from the tourism industry every year as a 'direct' result of  C-68. The Billion dollars wasted directly by the CFC is only a drop in the bucket to the 'actual' costs involved. Soon, hunting will decline even further, disease and starvation will decimate the deer herds.. But hey! at least PETA will be happy!)
Ontario Cops won't enforce gun registry laws
Ontario’s police chiefs want the federal gun registry put on hold. The “billion dollar boondoggle” is in such disarray that police in the province will not be charging people who have yet to register their guns, Owen Sound police chief Tom Kaye said. “It wouldn’t be right to prosecute someone under the circumstances,” said Kaye, who is also president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. The association will request the federal government to “step back from the gun registry,” in a letter early next week, he told the Owen Sound Police Services Board Thursday. “We’re not saying they should mothball the project, but there needs to be an independent review. Why has this gone so far off the rails?” Kaye said the police chiefs still support most aspects of the legislation, including safe storage rules and stiffer training and licence requirements for gun owners, but the out-of-control registry is impossible now to enforce and has Lost credibility. (It never 'had' any credibility! Most gun owners have no argument with Training, Safe storage, and an 'intelligent' approach to some form of licence. But the registry is a violation of  our property rights, and will actually increase the firearms black market.. It's very gratifying to see that the Police Chiefs are starting to see what their Officers on the street see every day.. In Ontario anyway!)
'He saw the gun ... and he exploded'
Mr. Lee is a slight man, barely 5'5 and 134 pounds. But he is also a career officer with the South Korean army, a Vietnam vet and the holder of a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do. The three masked men who held him up at gunpoint on Monday night probably didn't know that. The security-cam video that showed him whacking the gunman with his golf club made every newscast in Toronto. CNN called to invite him on to a talk show. He also made the front pages of two Chinese Toronto dailies -- Sing Tao and Ming Pao -- and The Toronto Sun, a tabloid, which dubbed him "Iron Man."Asked why he fought back, Mr. Lee flipped through his dog-eared Korean-English dictionary and pointed to a word rich with military overtones. "Countermove," he said haltingly.(Mr Lee did what he felt was necessary at the time. A trained soldier with a gun in his face will usually react! Someone pointing a gun at you is threatening your life, and there is every chance in the world that you 'might' end up dead. Mr. Lee would have been incapable of dying while cowering behind a counter. He is  obviously not that type of man. In this "Canadian Culture of Defencelessness" the criminal is usually assured his victim will not fight back, and therefore 'remain' the victim. This reminds me of a Ted Nugent Quote: "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." For everyone that thinks Mr. Lee did the wrong thing, read those words again, and consider how they 'might' apply to 'you'!! Accepting this "Canadian Culture of Defencelessness" will only perpetuate the "Canadian Culture of  Continued Victimization") Fight Back!! It may be the last chance you have!)
Cross-border trade in guns is keeping criminals armed, Runciman says
Ontario's security minister said his department must still research why U.S. gun dealers can sell to Canadians unfettered, but explained its origin is rooted in the military equipment trade. By sharing intelligence with U.S. agents, Mr. Runciman hopes to control gun crime, rather than guns alone. "The gun registry thing was meaningless on its impact on crime. It focused on the wrong people and it had no effect on the street. It was all politics. Regrettably, it cost a hell of a lot to learn that lesson," he said. Mr. Runciman and Chief Fantino were in Washington yesterday to discuss border security issues in light of the looming conflict in Iraq.(Mr Runciman has obviously never tried to order a gun from a U.S. Dealer, particularly a handgun! It's not that easy. Smuggled guns on the other hand don't require a licence and will no doubt ever be registered. But one thing I did notice, is how Mr. Runciman speaks of the registry like it doesn't now, or soon not to exist any more !! Does he have some information he would like to share ?)
Firearms database 'flags' innocent people
Police across the country, in many cases acting merely on a "whim" or "bad feeling," have been flagging citizens and entering their personal information into a firearms databank even though they are not under investigation or charged with a crime. In other cases, people -- including some with a history of violence -- who should have been flagged by police, were not. Two years ago, Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski told the Justice Department to resolve the system's "serious problem," but they still haven't bothered. Mr. Radwanski revealed this week that not only has the federal government not adopted his recommendations, but it has also refused to show him progress reports he requested. And, he says, there's nothing he can do about it. "I do not have the power under the Privacy Act to order (the Justice Department) to implement these and my other recommendations concerning this," Mr. Radwanski writes in a Jan. 17 letter to Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, a longtime gun registry opponent.(The F.I.P. database contains the names and information on 'anyone' the officer may feel uneasy about, for example you may have 'gunned' your engine, and this simple statement means you can be initially denied a firearms licence. Which by the way may also explain the 7000 refusals the government keeps bragging about. This is the database that the CFC says the police use 1500-2000 times a day. But what they don't tell you, is the information return is generally useless. Most police officers will avoid actually calling the CFC for information on their 'special' number, because as one officer said: "It can be a real time wasting, pain in the ass")
Storekeeper uses golf club to battle three thieves
Although he holds a black belt in tae kwon do, Mr. Lee, 56, was unable to fend off the trio, and he was wrestled to the floor. As the man with the shotgun held Mr. Lee down, one kicked him as the other struck him twice with the golf club. But Mr. Lee continued to struggle with the gunman as the other robbers turned their attention to the cash register and other items behind the counter. Mr. Lee put up such a fight that in trying to pin him to the ground, the robber broke his shotgun. The video shows pieces of the gun flying into the air as the two tussled. The robbers then ran to a car. Mr. Lee chased them, bashing the car's back window with his golf club. He noted the licence-plate number and gave it to police. Mr. Lee's daughter, Rachel, said she is proud of her father. "He felt it was time to protect himself and to protect our business," she said, adding that the store was robbed before. "He thinks it's dangerous, but he did it because he wanted to show them it's not easy to rob [his] store." Ms. Lee said her father was bruised but not badly hurt. Toronto Police Detective Sergeant John Brown lauded Mr. Lee but said, "It's not a good idea to put up a fight like that. You don't know the type of  person you're dealing with."(The 'criminals' obviously never knew what kind of person 'they' were dealing with! Mr. Lee,  was probably better trained than any police officer who 'might' have shown up in time, had he dialled 911. You can be sure of one thing, they won't be back to rob this man again. Word will spread on the street that this guy is no pushover. Perhaps it's time for Mr. Lee to buy a short shotgun, and place it 'out of storage' under his front counter. I can understand the police promoting the "Canadian Culture of  Defencelessness" but sometimes you 'have' to fight back. It's the only thing they understand!)
Don't let Ottawa brainwash us
Do all Canadians have such a low IQ that we let our politicians brainwash us and treat us like children? The federal Liberals keep saying the gun registry is doing its job, when even Toronto's chief of police, Julian Fantino, admits the registry missed its target completely and the money should have been spent more wisely. On the other hand, we have Ottawa's chief of police, Vince Bevan, stating that if this legislation saves even one life, it will have proven its worth. He must be working in the capital of Canada, close to federal politics, otherwise his conscience or the truth would tell him otherwise. Bevan should be concerned about the thousands of lives that $1 billion could have saved if it had been put to proper use. Anybody in his or her right mind can see the outrageous misuse of our taxpayer money.(This government is facing something no other Canadian Government has ever faced before! Ordinary law abiding citizens, confronting them with civil disobedience. Canadians have previously just bent over and 'taken' whatever harebrained government scheme we were told was for our own good! This is what the Liberals expected, and they are simply confounded by the lack of obedience and outright defiance! 'They' blame the "Gun Lobby", a defiant group of Canadians that are considered to be part of a "Lobby" that NEVER EVEN EXISTED  before the Liberal 'Gunstapo' started trampling on our property rights. Still in severe shock that Canadian 'Sheeple' would not simply accept the infallible Liberal Rule, they defiantly press on in ignorance, stubbornness, and a overwhelming display of arrogance. Any liberal MP that votes to keep this farce going, is committing political suicide. The Liberals say the farce is working, the Liberals are 'Whistling in the Graveyard' Canadians have had enough!)
Off target
Vancouver -- In his article Stop Firing At Gun Control (Jan. 20), criminologist Neil Boyd cites statistics purporting to prove that the embattled gun-registration program is effective in reducing firearms deaths. Gun deaths have gone down since the gun-control legislation of 1991 was enacted, and therefore, Mr. Boyd asserts, the gun-control legislation must have caused the drop. Say what? This is what logicians call the post hoc propter hoc fallacy -- because X happened after Y, Y must have caused X. This is the flavour of statistical reasoning that kept ancient Chinese priests banging gongs to ensure that eclipses of the sun came to an end. The sun always came back after they did it in the past, so banging gongs must cause the end to eclipses.(And right now, the feds are banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out how they are going to keep on funding this turkey. I have already had one person tell me that after sending in his Letter of Confession..er..Intent..  his VISA Card (which was previously on file from other registrations) received an 'unauthorized'  debited for $25.00 for his 'intended' registration.. If you have used a credit card with them in the past, and you sent a 'letter of confession..er..intent' check your statement. If they billed you, call your issuer and ask for a 'charge back' which will re-credit you the money, and charge them $5.00 for doing it! They have NO authorization to debit your card, for simply telling them you 'intend' to register firearms in the future!)
A farewell to arms
(Canoe Link- Will Prob. Vanish in 24 hrs or less)
Store destroying guns due to cost of registration
Can't sell 'em. Might as well smash 'em. An Edmonton gun seller is taking a unique approach to coping with the high cost of Canada's troubled gun registry - by liquidating its lower-priced stock under the heel of a 12-ton industrial metal press. "Thanks to the cost of registration, we can't make money on these guns," MilArm spokesman Gordon McGowan said yesterday, shortly after destroying more than 800 of the shop's long guns. Some of the guns destroyed might be considered high-quality pieces by gun fanciers. Cooey .22 rifles, for instance, did not have serial numbers. "The process of getting a registration sticker for guns without serial numbers is incredibly time-consuming," said McGowan. "We had a gun here that had no serial numbers, we were waiting on registration for seven or eight months. The feds wanted me to take photos of it and send it to a police crime lab for official identification. I just don't have time to waste on that." We have fewer guns, and we're losing our hunting culture because nobody's teaching it to the kids. "If I have two Cooey .22s and I get the registration sticker for one, I can put that sticker on either one of my guns because they don't have an identifying number of their own. Does that make any sense?" No one from the Canadian Firearms Centre could be reached. (The squad of 'anti's' that run the CFC (Canadian Firearms Confiscator) Will NEVER understand the damage they are doing to both the environment and Canadian heritage by their actions. They feel the fewer people hunting, the more animals they save! Nothing could be farther from the truth. Canada Geese, for example, were never considered to be a pest until their numbers started exploding! Why did 'that' happen? Simple, the number of migratory bird hunting permits have dropped by over 400,000 since the mid 70's. That's millions and millions of more geese! That's also why your kids can't run in the park anymore without sliding in goose crap. The Americans have never had it better, the goose hunts in the states are fantastic because virtually no one is hunting them up here anymore. The geese are also causing major pollution problems in border states  as well as Canada. As a result Millions of more dollars are lost to the economy and that's in addition  to the Billion wasted directly on this gun control farce. Kids are dying because everything they learn about firearms comes from television and movies, and 'those' sources NEVER stress safety or proper storage. The Urban gun control yuppies think "Keep em Ignorant - Keep em Safe" has worked so well for 'sex', why not apply it to guns as well! Why not indeed!)
Liberal MPs tell PM to 'just relax' on snap election
In an interview published in the National Post yesterday, Mr. Chrétien made clear he intends to move ahead with an overhaul of political financing laws, despite the opposition of many of his MPs. The changes include banning all trade union, and most corporate, donations. He said taxpayers will not mind paying the difference out of the public purse to eliminate the perception that politicians can be bought off with sizeable donations. Mr. Chrétien also warned that he is prepared to call a snap election on the issue if Liberal MPs vote against his proposals, which the president of the party has in the past called "dumb as a bag of hammers."("Taxpayers will not mind funding the Liberal Election Machine"? That's what 'he' thinks. Chrétien is just 'itching' for a reason to call an election. The result just in by the latest  EKOS poll that was 'shadow funded' for the Liberals by the CBC, 'Rather  Unbelievably' puts the Liberals at 53% and the Alliance in 4th place behind the NDP in their stronghold of Alberta! How dumb do they think Canadians are? Obviously pretty dumb if they think Canadians will swallow 'that' pile of crap! With poll results based on a paltry 1000 people for the whole country, Chrétien now thinks the Liberals would win an election even if  "Tequila" Sheila were at the helm, so what has he got to lose? Call the Election Jean! We'll SHOW you what you got to lose)
Gun registry targets long-dead owner
Letter sent to man who died in 1974
The federal gun registry is chasing a Colchester County man beyond the grave to make sure he registers a restricted firearm. Albert (Bert) Byers died Dec. 9, 1974, but that didn't stop the government from writing him a letter recently to get him to register his handgun. "I guess they don't check that sort of thing," said his great-nephew, Glenn Byers, whose parents received the notice in their rural mailbox. They are probably the closest living relatives of his Uncle Bert, a bachelor who would be 108 now, Mr. Byers said. Mr. Byers tried contacting the firearms registry, only to have automated voices tell him to try again. Eventually he reached someone who told him the onus is on the gun owner to notify the registry. "They must think he has a phone buried with him," Mr. Byers said. "He'd find it all amusing if he were here. . . . If it wasn't costing anything, it would be hilariously funny." (The firearms registry IS the biggest joke on parliament hill right now, but they won't think this is funny when the RCMP kick down their door in the middle of the night looking for this now illegal 'gone gun' See below!  All the faults that were in the old 1934 registry are still in the new one. "Ghost Guns", and "Gone Guns" number in the hundreds of thousands.. Uncle Bert has 'lots' of company! Beware the 'Gunstapo')
Air security full of holes
OTTAWA - Improving security at Canada's airports is a myth, according to a Senate committee examining the issue. The Committee on National Security and Defence says huge security gaps still exist despite some changes made after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,2001. The report, written by Senator Colin Kenny, says Canadians may not be getting their money's worth from air security taxes imposed last year. The fee of $12 for each one-way flight was imposed April 1 last year. It is expected to raise $2.2 billion over the next five years to cover Canada's security measures. 

Feds stick to their gun registry as opposition mounts, including Grit MPs
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There is mounting pressure on the federal government to put the brakes on the registry, expected to have massive cost overruns to the tune of $1 billion. It has prompted Justice Minister Martin Cauchon to call a news conference today to "reaffirm the government of Canada's commitment to the Canadian firearms program." But Ontario MP Joe Comuzzi says Cauchon needs to suspend the operation of the registry until the Commons finance committee does an in-depth probe of its costs. Roger Gallaway, another Ontario MP, said the costs of the registry have "blown out the door."  "They have no choice but to listen to the provinces and stop it now because there is no end in sight," argued Gallaway. (This is the 'perfect out' for the Liberals, but do they have the brains to recognize it. They simply have to comply with the wishes of the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY of Canadians  and pull the plug. In the face of all this opposition, and the incredible amount of FACTUAL information that this registry is a waste of money, the level of arrogance required to continue this farce would be the ultimate in defiance by what has become a Liberal Federal Dictatorship. To outright defy the vast majority in favour of their own 'unknown' agenda would be politically unbelievable, even for the liberals)
Suspend gun registry Sault Star Editorial Staff 
Even staunch supporters of gun control are squirming at Auditor General Sheila Fraser’s projection the program will cost more than $1 billion by 2005. On the one hand, saving that amount of money would mean a welcome tax break. On the other hand, spending that level of tax revenue on health care or education or reducing the national debt seems much  more beneficial than a gun registry.   Worse yet, it’s a registry that doesn’t work. People who have tried to comply with requirements are facing lengthy delays. The process is rife with mistakes, making it virtually useless for law enforcement personnel who were supposed to have a database to make their job safer. The federal gun registry is a lemon. We can’t afford to keep trying to fix it. Maybe we can find another way to reach the original objectives, but this ain’t it.  Meanwhile, Ottawa’s persistence defending this debacle raises serious questions about the federal government’s performance in other areas. If it is blindly carrying on with something so blatantly outrageous, how many skeletons does it have hidden in how many closets, and how much is it costing us unwitting taxpayers? (How many 'other' skeletons indeed?  Perhaps it's time for another Ipsos - Reed poll? The last one, just before Chriiiisstmas, showed 53% of  all Canadians want the registry scrapped, and THAT was well before most of the shit hit the fan! A poll now, would probably show well over 80% calling for the scrapping of this useless money sucking registry )
Would-be PM does flip-flop on registering own gun
Conservative MP and  leadership hopeful Peter MacKay came under fire Tuesday after vowing to defy the federal Firearms Act by not registering a shotgun he owns, only to back down later and promise to take "immediate" measures to register the weapon. "I will continue to fight for the repeal of this registry at every available opportunity," he added.  MacKay may still have problems complying with the law because gunowners  who had not registered prior to the deadline of Jan. 1 were supposed to have sent the government a statement by no later than Dec. 31 of intent to register. The cost of registering guns before the end of 2002 was $18 in total, no matter how many firearms were registered; after Jan. 1, it went up to $25 per gun.  Another Nova Scotia Tory, Cumberland-Colchester MP Bill Casey, said he has attempted to register his four long-barrel firearms online since Dec. 21 but without success. "Now I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know if I'm going to register them or not," he said, adding he refuses to pay any late penalties. "I tried to comply with the law, and I was not able to." .(Ok! If the CFC now accepts his registration application, it will mean the 'letter of intention' is absolutely meaningless. Unless politicians have special exemptions from the law, the CFC will HAVE to accept ANY registration application from ANYONE regardless of  whether they sent a "letter of intention" or not! Welcome to the world of the paper 'made in Ottawa' criminal Mr. MacKay! ALSO: If you sent in a 'letter of  intent' I see no point in sending any money what-so-ever. If the Government COULDN'T, because of inefficient equipment, process your free registration via the internet, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.. and you SHOULD NOT BE 'FINED' $25.00 per gun for THEIR inefficiencies.)
Halt registry, eight provinces say
Emboldened by their swelling ranks, justice  ministers from all but two provinces were calling on Ottawa yesterday to halt operations at the national gun registry, as the program increasingly becomes an outlet for pent-up provincial exasperation over federal profligacy. Manitoba, B.C. and  Saskatchewan joined the chorus of provinces calling on Martin Cauchon, the federal Justice Minister, to shut down the firearms program pending a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. Such an analysis may be even further away than was thought. The Justice department does not expect the gun registry to be fully in place for at least another three or four years, federal officials say. Justice officials have informed the office of Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General, that it will likely take at least that amount of time to  finalize major administrative changes and the completion of a new computer system costing tens of millions of dollars. The Justice department, which last March told Parliament the program was "in its final year of implementation," informed the Auditor-General later in the year its new target for a "steady state" of operations is between 2004 and 2006, a source said.(3-4 years is just a ploy to get more money, and keep this worthless program operating. And for What? We now have what is called a MAJORITY in any democratic society except Canada it would seem. The Liberal Federal Dictatorship is 'still' basically saying "NO Screw You, were going to keep wasting your money". This TRULY shows you how far democracy has eroded under the Liberals.  Canada is a Confederation of Provinces, NOT a Federal Dictatorship. If the Majority of Provinces say SHUT IT DOWN, then what part of "shut it down" does the federal government NOT UNDERSTAND?)
'They're wearing guns like jewellery'
Robbery and serious crime squad commander Superintendent Bob Inkster said the victims such as the customer and store attendant are being forgotten because of the frequency of attacks. "Many of these offenders are wearing firearms as though they were a piece of jewellery," he said. Armed robbery with a firearm has escalated by 34 per cent in the most recent figures provided by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, with 880 offences during 2001.  Supt Inkster believes the 2002 statistics to be released in March this year will be higher. "An armed robbery used to make the front page of the newspaper," he said. "There are so many robberies now that they are no longer of interest."(The Benefits of gun control in Australia, and the U.K. are Obvious. Once the gun bans were initiated, the crime rate started to soar. No longer do the criminals fear being shot by their victim, or the homeowner during a robbery. In BOTH countries, the crime rate 'took off' at almost exactly the same time as the gun bans for law abiding citizens came into effect. This is what the Liberals want for Canada. This is what happens when criminals feel safe!)
Police to use 'discretion' in enforcing 'this' part of the Criminal Code
To benefit from the protection of the grace period, individuals must have  applied for a registration certificate on or before December 31, 2002. The  recent amendments to the grace period extend protection to those individuals who notify the Canadian Firearms Centre in writing of their intent to comply with the registration requirements of the Firearms Act, and who subsequently  register their firearms by June 30, 2003. In order to benefit from this additional protection, individuals must indicate in writing that they intend to apply to register their firearms, and subsequently submit a registration application. (What 'other' part of the criminal code are police allowed to use discretion in an arrest? This incompetent bunch has lost entire files on people, and no doubt they will also lose hundreds of letters. Police are to use discretion, because the police know the government is incompetent. Precisely why they are not pressing charges under the firearms act for having an unregistered 'dangerous' duck gun.. The clock is ticking, and its a 'coo-koo clock'. The only problem, is it pops out every hour or so, and shits on someone rights) 
ANNIE UNDER THE GUN
"There will be focus on her because she is the health minister for the whole country. She's in a very critical decision-making position."  Lawn signs and door-knocking in her Edmonton West constituency will be part of the campaign urging adoption of recommendations in the Romanow report on health care, said  Notley. "Right now this (Romanow) report lies with the federal government - and so we want to make sure our message gets to the federal government," said Notley. "If that happens through Anne, then so be it."  That's exactly how gun registry opponents feel, said Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz,  who charges that McLellan shares the blame for the registry's ballooning cost.  "In fact, she was in charge of it longer, probably, than any other justice minister," said Breitkreuz.  "And she was aware of the cost overruns." (She won her first election with 12 votes, and her second with 750, not exactly a huge round of approval. Her government has become to arrogant and dictatorial to stay in power.)
Register guns or face law, 'Just-us' officials say
Ottawa -- Defiant gun owners trying to flout unpopular legislation that requires all firearms in Canada to be registered will face the consequences of breaking the law, federal justice officials warned yesterday. Gun owners opposed to the registry, which came into effect last week, are hoping to challenge the law. Several hundred thousand owners have yet to register their firearms.(The TRUE estimate of firearms owners that have NOT registered their personal private property with our federal dictatorship is more like 6 Million. The government will be forced to spend ANOTHER billion on court cases unless they listen to the majority and dump this farce)
Link #1:Firearms registry complete in 4 years
Link #2:Gun registry still years from reality: Justice Dept.
Link#3:Firearms registry misses target
The new timetable for full implementation means even Fraser's projected  cost of $1 billion over 10 years may be short of the eventual cost.  As well, the delay means the auditor general may have to postpone a value-for-money" audit of the registry. Fraser said in December she would not attempt to evaluate the program on that basis until it is fully in place.  The news comes as New Brunswick and Newfoundland have joined Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia to call for the suspension of the registry. The federal government says suspending the federal gun registry program is not the way to address the system's massive cost overruns. Manitoba Attorney General Gord Mackintosh said forget delaying the  registry -- he suggested it be trashed altogether because it isn't working now  and has no hope of working in the future.(More than a billion dollars down the drain for a worthless 'Liberal feel good project' just because it would 'embarrass' the government to shut it down.. Perhaps it's time the 'POLICE OFFICERS' are polled individually by secret ballot. These are the guys that the government say 'need' this farce. I have not met one yet that thinks it a good idea and worth the money. I'll say it again! CANADA IS A CONFEDERATION OF PROVINCES NOT A FEDERAL DICTATORSHIP. The majority of provinces say shut it down, but the federal dictatorship that loves to waste your money on THEIR personal agendas is too F'n arrogant to do what their told. Keep pressuring your MP's, the 'backbenchers' have to take control even if it means bringing down the government) 
Ottawa thinks suspending gun registry would save no money, serve no purpose
A growing list of provinces, however, is saying enough is enough. And Liberal  backbenchers who have been getting an earful from constituents during the  Christmas break are also growing restless. Liberal MP Alex Shepherd said in an interview Monday the gun registry fiasco  has been the top constituent complaint during the parliamentary break at his  constituency office in Port Perry, Ont., northeast of Toronto. Shepherd, who voted against his government's original gun registry law in 1995, said the system "has some merit." "I don't think the merit is worth a billion dollars, but we already spent the  billion dollars. If you tell me it's going to cost $500 million more to implement,  I think we should scrap it. But I don't think it's that bad."(Wanna bet?)  The justice department has responded by saying the vast majority of  Canadians are complying with the 1995 legislation. More than 5.9 million firearms have been fully registered of a federal estimate of about eight million in total.(5.9 Million firearms registered out of a TRUE total of 19 to 21 million firearms, and 2 million out of the 8 million true number of firearms owners licenced, is a dismal failure. Bureaucrats that blindly parrot the government propaganda to stave off the loss of their jobs, are not, and never will be, a credible source of information. )
Gun registry will lose money yearly says David Austin
The government has said it will continue to run the gun  registry despite the cost overruns. But critics like  Calgary's deputy police chief say there's no need to  toughen existing laws. "When those laws are properly applied ... a lot of protection for the citizens," says Rick Hansen. He says the biggest problem for police is unregistered guns entering Canada, usually  from the United States. David Austin, a communications adviser with the Justice  Department, says the way the program is currently structured means it will never bring in enough revenue to cover its annual operating costs. He admits the program is doomed to lose money indefinitely. "I don't see a point where you're going to find that revenue will offset all of the costs of the program, all of the operating costs." (Gee David are you actually allowed to say that? This is the very first time anyone has heard you say something that was truly based on REAL FACTS! .. The registry is a Billion dollars in the black hole, and doomed to continue to lose money indefinitely.. Well, you heard it folks OFFICIAL recognition of failure by their own communications director)
Quick to Exploit the Death of a Child For their own Cause
'Wendy' jumps on the Bandwagon
Incidents of children shooting children are more common than Canadians might think, said Wendy Cukier, president of Coalition for Gun Control. She pointed to a 1996 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that ranks Canada fifth among 26 industrialized countries for children under 14 killed with firearms. Although the United States ranks well in front, Canada is ahead of Germany, Italy and England. Incidents of children killed with guns include unintentional shootings, youngsters caught in crossfires during domestic violence and suicides. "The availability of guns increases the chances that children will be killed accidently," Ms. Cukier said. "I'm discouraged about how short people's memories are."  The Coalition for Gun Control cites a number of incidents involving guns and children.(What she fails to point out, is 'accidents' are almost exclusively caused by improperly stored, loaded firearms. You can't legislate against stupidity and the 'availability of illegal guns. Particularly when the government is WASTING all the money going after the average hunter and target shooter because they can't do anything about the other. The rest of the children are 'murdered', and thats a problem with 'people' not guns.  More children die in unsupervised swimming pools every year! Why not Ban Pools? It would obviously save many more children. This is NOT about children this is about the paranoid fears of  ignorant people who would exploit the tragic death of a child to achieve a false level of perceived stability in their own tiny little mind.)
This is what happens when governments try to ban guns 
You would think if "gun control" was going to work anywhere it would be on a small island. Particularly a small island at whose ports of entry the zealots of HM Customs like nothing better than performing intimate cavity searches on the off-chance you've got an extra bottle of duty-free Beaujolais tucked away up there. Surely, if you also had a Walther PPK parked out of sight, these exhaustive inspectors would be the first to notice. The gangs on Birmingham's streets instinctively understand this. They know, even if the Government doesn't, that the Blairite "total" ban, which sounds so butch and macho when you do your soundbite on the telly, is a cop-out: it makes the general population the target, not the criminals. And once that happens it's always easier to hassle the cranky farmer with the unlicensed shotgun than the Yardies with the Uzis. When you disarm the citizenry, when you prosecute them for being so foolish as to believe they have a right to self-defence, when you issue warnings that they should "walk on by" if they happen to see a burglary or rape in progress, the main beneficiaries will obviously be the criminals. Aston is the logical reductio of British policing: rival bad guys with state-of-the-art hardware, a cowed populace, and a remote constabulary tucked up in bed with the answering machine on.(This is an EXCELLENT article on life in the gun banning UK and how it is affecting everyone particularly the criminal!)
Nova Scotia joins call to suspend gun registry
Nova Scotia is joining other provinces in calling for a suspension of Ottawa's $1-billion program to register rifles and shotguns. The province's justice minister Jamie Muir is calling the program "the prototype government  foul-up." In another example of the bumbling that has gone on with the program, The Globe and Mail reported Saturday that the federal government spent almost $160 million for a computer system to manage the embattled national gun registry and is now spending another $36  million to replace the system. The database keeps track  of firearms and licensed gun owners. Also see the National Post Article that says, the 'Justice Department says:"police are using the registry an average of 1,500 times a day  and have revoked 5,000 gun licences as part of the process, while the number of stolen, missing and lost firearms is declining.(And I agree! The police 'may' use the registry 1500 times a day, but I'll bet almost 100% of the queries come back and "Not Found" and THAT'S the only useful information they get! As for the 5000 rejects? It used to be 7000, what happened to the other 2000, are they now acceptable citizens? The number of stolen, missing, and lost firearms will continue to decline, and 'rapidly'. Who the hell is going to risk imprisonment for admitting they had an 'unregistered' firearm in their possession? Probably the same guy who would call the cops to complain that someone has stolen almost all of their dope. Well, that's Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and now Nova Scotia. It's only a mater of time before the rest of the provinces and territories sign on as well.)
Civils rights vs. the gun law
Citizens of a civil  society are constantly  accepting limitations on their freedom for the common good. Indeed, the measure of a civil society is the degree to which it makes informed decisions about the limitations of personal freedoms for the public good, and the degree to  which these limitations are adhered to.  The federal government’s gun registry simply does not pass this test. So few violent crimes are committed with legally-owned firearms, and so many are committed with firearms that are illegally smuggled into Canada and
                      are in the hands of people who intend to commit crimes with them, that the idea of a workable registry seems laughable. (Never confuse a Liberal with facts. It does no good. For some reason, they simply can't understand pure logic! But the DO like to spend money!)
Boy 6 shot by 7 year old sister with Brothers Illegal Handgun
Investigation has revealed that the young boy and his 7-year-old sister were under the care of their 18-year-old sister who was elsewhere in the home. The two young children were playing in a bedroom when they discovered a semi-automatic .45 calibre handgun owned by their 22-year-old brother. The girl pointed the gun at her brother and shot him. The victim sustained serious head trauma and was pronounced dead at Credit Valley Hospital a short time later.  No charges are possible against the 7-year-old. Police investigators are working in concert with the Children's Aid Society to identify the best course of action regarding the young girl.   Peel Regional Police Chief Noel Catney stated, "I am deeply saddened by the tragic death of this child and the trauma this event has visited upon the family. At the same time, it underscores the danger of firearms and the onus placed on all gun owners to ensure firearms are stored and handled safely."  The 22-year-old brother is in custody and will be charged with Criminal Negligence Causing Death and various firearms offences. He will be appearing in the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton on Saturday, January 4th, 2003.  Investigation suggests the handgun was not registered and its history is currently being examined.(The little girl is probably in shock, and will require a great deal of help to get through this. As for the 22 year old brother, he should be facing the same charge as if he pulled the trigger himself. It's absolutely beyond belief the stupidity of someone that would leave a loaded gun unattended. I have no sympathy for him, he should spend the next 25 years 'minimum' in prison thinking about his stupidity, and the life it cost! Illegal guns smuggled into the county are available to just about anyone that wants one, and the government spends a billion going after the law abiding owners. This is called 'Liberal' thinking! because it only makes sense to a liberal!)
After all the crap about needing a 'personalized' application
The registry is still in a state of denial, and final death throws.. You can 'now' download a registration application! However, they seem to think that "single shot' is a type of  'action'? If I register a Cooey 'bolt action' that is also a single shot rifle, is it a 'BA' or an 'SS' or maybe I would be a BigASS is I even bothered with this farce. Why waste the time and money. Even Police CHIEFS are starting to see the folly in all of this! I don't know about you, but if they want If they want $25.00 from me, they would have to pry it from my cold, dead, fingers.. Oh ya and by the way firearms will have to be 'verified'.. What about the millions they say have been registered WITHOUT any verification. I guess if you fell into line early, they don't give damn what kind of soldering gun you actually registered. And just where do they think their going to find all these verifiers? NO Self respecting gun owner will ever again volunteer to be a Government 'Brownshirt' and aid in the future planned confiscation of your property. Remember! "Friends Don't Let Friends Be Verifiers"
Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino Says:
"We have an ongoing gun crisis including firearms-related homicides lately in Toronto, and a law registering firearms has neither deterred these crimes nor helped us solve any of them," said Toronto Police Chief Julian
Fantino. "None of the guns we know to have been used were registered, although we believe that more than half of them were smuggled into Canada from the United States. The firearms registry is long on philosophy and short on practical results considering the money could be more effectively used for security against terrorism as well as a host of other public safety initiatives."(And THIS from the CHIEF of the largest police force in Canada. So much for the police chiefs supporting this farce, and so much for David Austin saying the police find the registry useful.. By the way! I sent a copy of this to David Austin, and The Justice Minister, just to be sure they didn't  miss it, and inadvertently continue to tell people the police find this farce useful!)
'New' gun fee will provoke rebellion
The federal government is inviting a "full-scale rebellion"  among gun owners by  increasing the fee for registering firearms to $25 for each rifle or shotgun as of this week, says Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz. The new fee, imposed on New  Year's Day, could cost hunters and farmers hundreds of  dollars each if they had not registered their guns under a special rate that ended Dec.  31, Breitkreuz said yesterday. Firearms owners could have  registered all their rifles and shotguns for $18 under a schedule the Justice Department introduced in  2001 to entice gun owners into the federal program. Registration by the Internet  was free until Dec. 31. But gun owners were shocked to learn from the Canadian Firearms Centre Web site yesterday that the registration or transfer of firearms will now  cost $25 per weapon, regardless of how many guns each person has, said Breitkreuz.(Canadians were under NO obligation to register anything before December 31. And, now because the government had laid off hundreds of workers last year, and their multimillion dollar computer system is too obsolete to handle the load, Canadian firearms owners are being penalized for a lot of the costs. Now, the rest of Canadian taxpayers are getting stuck with the balance and future costs of this massive politically instigated waste which many feel has exceeded Billions dollars to the direct spending, and the overal losses to the economy. Directing this money 'away' from health care has cost the lives of thousands and thousands of Canadians.)
Halt gun registry: Ontario Wants audit of cost overruns finished first
OTTAWA—The Ontario government is calling on Ottawa to shut down its contentious gun registry until an internal audit can get to the bottom of massive  cost overruns.  Public Safety Minister Bob Runciman will make a formal call today at an Ottawa press conference, demanding Justice Minister Martin Cauchon close the registry until the "real costs to taxpayers" are determined and a cost-benefit analysis has been completed. "We want to find out exactly where the money has been spent because that is an awful lot of money," said Meaghan McFedries, a spokesperson for Runciman. Ontario has long opposed the gun control legislation, but Runciman is stepping up the campaign in the wake of a devastating report by Auditor-General Sheila Fraser indicating the $2 million program could end up costing $1 billion. Austin said 5.83 million of an estimated 8 million firearms in Canada are now registered. Some 3,000 pieces of mail arrived yesterday at the Miramichi, N.B., centre, he said, most of which are completed registration forms. There were two many faxes to count, he said. Police in Toronto now have instant access to information on 2 million gun owners, totalling 6 million firearms, he said.(Too many faxes to count, also equals too many faxes to 'read'.. Only the government estimates the low number of  8 million guns, and that number has only a dubious telephone poll to back it up. they KNOW there are twice that many guns out there, but to admit it, would be admitting failure. Sure the Toronto police have access to info on 2 million law abiding owners and their guns, but what the hell good does THAT do, when THOSE owners and their guns are not the problem in Toronto, or anywhere else for that matter. Is simply ownig a gun reason enough for our government to be suspicious? Will Bob Runciman  direct his prosecutors, and conservation officers to suspend any charges until the government can prove it's case?)
McLellan's Kyoto decision! Screw You, I'm Keeping My Job!
Anne (get your gun) McLellan said Canada must do nothing that will undermine, or limit the country's economic growth. And she said no one region or province should bear the brunt of cutting greenhouse emissions. McLellan was put under a lot of pressure in Alberta to vote against the accord. Instead she decided she could do more for Albertans by expressing their interests from within the system than from outside. (Ya! That's what Albertans want, Anne (get your gun) McLellan doing more for them from the inside! Got another spare billion or two Anne?)
Gun registry extension ‘scam for more money,’ frustrated hunter says
When asked if the Firearms Centre will call police about late registrations  from owners without letters of intent on file, Austin said “if we receive late  applications, no we would not. We would try to process them.”  And Bill Rantz, Ontario president of the National Firearms Association said, “I don’t think the average policeman on the street really has the internal fortitude to run around bothering people they know aren’t the problem.”  He estimates it would cost “a minimum of $3,000 to $5,000 to take each case to court,” if the government decides to prosecute firearms owners for missing the deadline. (They blame the inability for registering on line for free, as the fault of the gun owners for waiting too long, and because of the rush the system was overloaded. Well, the CFC 'ALSO' knew there would be a rush at the end, and THEY failed to upgrade the system to account for it. Their failure to provide the free registration service, by blaming the users is unacceptable. The handgun registry worked for over 60 years with no charges to the gun owner. Canadians have already been financially raped for this ineffective farce, by the Governments hiding the REAL cost from parliament and funding 70% of it through the back door. This was done entirely because they KNEW Canadians would scream to have it shut down immediately and the self-serving bureaucrat would be out on their collective asses. Most owners will balk at paying these inefficient bureaucrats anything, and the sooner this colossal waste ends, the better.)
Possession of under 30 grams of marijuana is 'now' legal in Canada
WINDSOR, ONT. - Canada's law on possession of small amounts of marijuana is no longer valid, an Ontario judge ruled Thursday. Windsor Justice Douglas Phillips made the decision as he dismissed two drug charges against a 16-year-old local  boy.  Parliament has failed to address problems with Canada's marijuana laws, Phillips said in his ruling. The teen's lawyer, Brian McAllister, argued there is effectively no law in Canada prohibiting the possession of 30 grams of marijuana or less. His client was accused of possessing five grams of pot.  "I think it's also satisfying to know that this particular law has been declared invalid, particularly given how burdensome it is in terms of criminalizing the behaviour that hundreds of thousands of Canadians engage in," he said. (I guess Cauchon does not have to stick his neck out and make it legal anymore! Now the focus will be OFF the controversial 'legal pot thing' It can be focussed back where it belongs, on the incrimination of Canadains for continuing to own property their families may have owned for generations. Without having to ask the government for permission. C-68 should be repealed for the same reason: "given how burdensome it is in terms of criminalizing the behaviour that hundreds of thousands of Canadians engage in,") 
National gun tracking team better value than registry 
In the nearly two years since it was formed in January  2001, the team has made a dent in the country's black market gun trade.  "From April (2002) through to Dec. 19, they have already dealt with over 2,800 matters with respect to the possession of illegal  firearms across the country," said Peel Regional Police Chief Noel Catney.  The team has seized nearly 2,000 guns and laid hundreds of charges for possessing weapons, and for trying to bring weapons into the country. (Will the 'Gun Cops' now shift their focus to the million or so hunters and sport shooters that are of no danger to anyone, but simply failed to register their guns within this well publicized overblown/over budget/over complicated/inefficient  farce? Or, will they do what they have 'mostly' been doing in the past, and target the criminals? Time will tell, but remember, they ARE funded by the firearms farce, and unless they do the bidding of the left wing extreme hoplophobes that run this fiasco, they may find their funding cut off! Even the Auditor General made the comment that the target of the CFC has shifted from trying to deter criminals, to targeting everyone's guns.. The true sign of a department full of hoplophobic paranoids.. The asylum inmates are desperately trying to keep their control over millions and millions of Canadians. Pretty sick Eh!)
Gun-owner arrested on Parliament Hill while flouting firearms law
OTTAWA (CP) - One gun-owning protester was arrested and several others tried unsuccessfully to draw police charges as they flouted Canada's firearms legislation  at a New Year's Day protest on Parliament Hill. Jim Turnbull, head of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association, was arrested for handling a receiver - an unloaded part of a handgun.  To chants of "shame" from  some 150 protesters huddled  near the Centennial Flame, RCMP escorted Turnbull, 70, to a police car, searched him and drove him away. Six other members of the group who  handled the receiver were not arrested. An RCMP spokesman said Turnbull was arrested for  having a firearm at a public gathering, not for possessing  an unregistered weapon under the 1995 Firearms Act. (A  handgun 'receiver' is a simple metal frame without barrel, hand grips, or cylinder (if a revolver), that any 'normal' person would see as a harmless chunk of metal. But only the hoplophobes that wrote our stupid gun laws are capable of detecting the evil, that radiate from such an object(?) The choice of a 'receiver' was no doubt a compromise with the police who know, that its a harmless chunk of metal, but will legally serve the purpose of a firearm to highlight the absurdity of these laws. The simple fact that he was NOT arrested for being in possession of a 'un-registered' firearm shows the government does not want a Supreme Court showdown that will result in the dismissal of the charges, and an end to this firearms farce. Very much the same tact they have taken in not prosecuting anyone for concealed carry because of an earlier S.C. decision on other Illusory permits & certificates. Once one of these possession cases comes to court, the chance of  the charge passing a constitutional challenge is pretty slim, and the Liberals know it! Look for a lot of Liberal 'backpedalling' soon)
The gun in the labourer's house
There are many reasons to resist C-68. It forces any individual who even only wants to keep his hunting gun at home to apply for a personal  licence every five years, and tell the police about his depressions and his  love life. It forces 10% of the Canadian adult population to notify the police when they change addresses. It grants the police arbitrary powers to seize guns and to deny or revoke licences. In certain circumstances, it allows searches (rechristened "inspections") without warrants. C-68 also forces the registration of all individual guns, and prepares the sort of confiscation that the British and the Australians have recently suffered (like, before them, subjects of all totalitarian countries). It is one of the last nails in the coffin of the right of individuals to defend their lives if the police cannot (or will not) intervene. C-68 will have also created, from a few hundreds of thousands (according to government estimates) to a few millions, of instant,  peaceful, paper criminals. George Orwell, the author of 1984, wrote: "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."(Simply Accepting this 'bad' law and allowing the government confiscation of your property, is the first footstep onto the 'slippery slope'. A 'citizen' CAN own a gun, a 'subject' CAN NOT! It's as simple as that.)

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