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FIREARMS QUICK FACTS
By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated November 15st, 2002

Click here for the Migratory Birds Hunting Regulations, 2002

For Absolutely NO information at All
Dial the Firearms Centre @ 1-800-731-4000, press 1 (for English) press 2 (for registration, information, or application status). Although they DO apologize for NOT being able to take your call, they make no apology for The 920,000,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Twenty Million) Over Budget Dollars, They Admit to wasting on this FARCE.. Hell, they can't even keep up on the phones, what will they do if the OTHER Ten Million firearms ever show up.. you know.. the ones they are currently ignoring to make their dismal figures look a bit better. I know people who have been dialling that number for WEEKS/Months without ANY success. And STILL the Feds. blithely prattle on about how "The  system is working well" Perhaps this should give people an idea of how well this entire government is working. REMEMBER: If you DO get through, you will be put in 'holding pattern' for 10-12-15-25-60 minutes before you may be automatically cut off.. Just lay down your phone, for 30 minutes, and go watch T.V. You might as well be doing 'something' useful with your time.. It's not as if they are 'ever' going to get back to you, and the music they play 'over and over and over' can drive you around the bend.. After 25 minutes or so, the music stops and the phone just keep right on ringing...forever...!

Liberal Fantasy Generates yet ANOTHER Prohibited gun Amnesty
The Minister also announced an extension to the amnesty period for prohibited handguns until December 31st, 2003. The licensing phase of the program has been a success(?), with over 90% of Canada's estimated 2.3 million firearm owners in compliance. So far, about 70% of licensed firearm owners have acted to comply with registration. Over 200,000 registration applications have already been submitted over the Internet. This translates into millions of firearms that are accounted for, mostly rifles and shotguns, which were difficult to trace under the old system. Minister Cauchon has announced a six-month grace period for firearm owners who submit their registration application but do not have their certificates in hand by January 1, 2003. This is part of the government's commitment to ensure that law-abiding citizens are not penalized. This is not an extension of the registration deadline but rather protection from any criminal liability for those who have complied with the law. Owners who have not applied to register by the end of December 2002 will not be protected by the grace period.(Ohhh Look!! ANOTHER amnesty for guns that are soooo dangerous as to be prohibited.. What is this one? Number 6? 7? 8? I've lost track! WE now have another years 'amnesty' for the dangerous 'prohibited guns' but can be sent to jail Jan. 1st for not registering your old single shot cooey and having it "uniquely" identified by a "Sticker"... For those of you that will NEVER get through on the phone lines etc.. Consider yourself a criminal, 'Caught between a Rock and a Cauchon'.  Public attention is shifting to the incredible mess the Liberals call a firearms control system, it's only a matter of time before this farce comes to a screeching end..)
Advice, both good and poor!
 Look around your house for things to hit people over the head with or disable their knees. In our case, my father picked up a ceramic jug with a handle and cracked the guy over the head. We have an aversion to guns, so there was no weapon to pull out. We were also told later that even if one has a gun, it is likely the intruder will use it against you, especially if there are multiple assailants. If you make a mental note of where these heavy items are around the house—vases, fireplace implements, statues—they could come in handy.(Oh Really! Criminals are Cowards. You blow a hole in the first one, the others will scatter like rats at the dump. Passing up a gun in favour of trying to hit your assailant over the head with a vase, is a sure trip to the cemetery for your whole family. Only a fool could think otherwise. Just stop and think for a moment! Are the Police armed with 'Guns' , or heavy objects from home. Think of your family first! Go buy a gun!)
U.K. Gun victims' families call for end to killing
Damian's death was not an accident - he did not die of natural causes. He was shot dead in cold blood. The bullet that killed Damian is still ricocheting, still inflicting pain. It has broken a mother's heart and ripped a family's world apart. Gunmen have taken the lives of more than 50 young black men in the capital since 1999.  Behind each death there is massive human misery - the pain of  victims' mothers, families and friends. Tomorrow (Saturday Nov 30), mothers who have lost children to shootings will march through south London calling on the Government for tougher measures to end gun violence.  Their message is simple: "Stop the killing."(This story is the same where ever a gun ban has been put into effect. When something is banned, a market ALWAYS opens up in the underground to supply a product no longer available. The black market for guns as a status symbol among young criminals has bloomed. London is feeling the direct result of 'creating' that market. You ban a book, and sales skyrocket, you ban a movie, and it's 'pirate' distribution soars, you ban guns, and you no longer have control over who buys or distributes them and people start dying. This is called successful gun control, and it's fuelled by fear and ignorance?)
Hunting: Across the Years
For three hours I have been celebrating your birth in an orderly and thorough manner. I have given  your grandmother a couple of tranquilizer pills to calm her hysterics at the good news. I have notified  all your father’s friends in town as he requested, so they can celebrate also. I have stopped at the  bank and arranged a modest trust fund which should see you through college. I have had several  drinks, and now I am writing a letter to you to open 16 years later.   I will waste neither your time nor mine in giving you advice. If by the time you are of age you do not  know the meaning and practice of truth and loyalty and courage and honesty, and the deep satisfaction of doing hard work both physical and mental, then your great-grandfather did a hell of a poor job raising me, and I did a hell of a poor job raising your father.   I am leaving you a few things. First I leave you your great-grandfather’s weapons. He taught me how to shoot a pistol with his .38  Colt Army. I have not fired it since the day he died. I will give it a real good cleaning, and put the  neat’s-foot oil to the holster, and leave it with the same loads that he put in the cylinder himself the  last time he dropped the hammer. Also you will receive his .30/30 carbine and his 12-gauge Greener.  No buck ever went very far that caught one of my dad’s .30/30s behind the foreshoulder. No goose  kept flying very long that he centered with a load of 4s. (Our liberal government is doing everything it can to destroy rural family traditions. Their urban fear of firearms and the city criminals that use them, are ripping the very fabric of freedom in this country. It's time to elect a new government that does not govern based on ignorance and irrational fears. A new government that will rebuild our military, return our freedoms, and restore the pride of the Canadian people. The Americans have seen the light and turfed 'their' Liberals, it's about time we did the same!)
Seven killed as gunmen open fire
BEIT SHEAN, Israel (AP) - Two  Palestinian gunmen opened fire Thursday on a Likud party office crowded with voters casting ballots in a leadership race and also attacked passengers at a nearby bus terminal in northern Israel. Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded.  The gunmen were killed in an ensuing firefight with police, security guards and armed bystanders. Initial witness  reports said a third gunmen fled to a nearby building but police did not find anyone else. (Considering the current threats received, something such as this happening in downtown Toronto is not beyond the realm of possibility. What IS an absolute certainty however, is the death toll would be much higher here! Police would take 15 -20 minutes to show up providing someone called 911 before they were killed,  Security personal are NOT armed, and unless there were a few criminals in the crowd, the 'bystanders' would also be unarmed. The result? A lot more dead and wounded. Do Liberal gun control laws aimed at disarming only the law abiding make YOU feel safer? I didn't think so!)
Time to ditch the gun registry(Nat. Post)
Toronto's recent wave of  street murders -- more than 40 since the beginning of 20011 -- debunks the claim that Ottawa's gun registry is making Canadians safer from crime. As the price tag for this colossal bureaucratic mess nears $1-billion, it is clearly time for the federal government to consider shutting it down and redirecting some or all of the resources to real crime-fighting measures. At best the registry is useless, but harmless. But to the extent that it is diverting resources and police officers from real security matters, it is  more of a threat to Canadians' safety than no registry at all.(Useless it is! Harmless it is NOT! There is nothing harmless about turning a million law abiding hunters and target shooters into criminals just because the Feds have spent a billion dollars and still can't make this farce perform! The Money spent on this federal joke could have bought and install 300 MRI's in this country! How many lives could THAT have saved!)
Gun registry to cost around $1-billion
OTTAWA -- Canada's firearms registry will likely cost taxpayers more than $1-billion by 2005 -- more than 10 times the amount the Liberal government said it would spend on the controversial gun-control program. Treasury Board officials expressed  concern about the rising costs of the national registry for firearms at a meeting of the Senate committee on national finance. Richard Neville, deputy comptroller of the Treasury Board Secretariat, told the committee this week that "there is a strong possibility that the final costs" of the firearms registry could be around $1-billion.(ONE BILLION is the 'Low Ball' Figure.. Here are the 'real' costs)
Dan McTeague blames handgun smuggling for a rash of killings.
OTTAW -- A Liberal MP is slamming the lax enforcement of the nation's gun-smuggling laws. Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge MP Dan McTeague has no doubt there's a connection  between the lack of concern for the seriousness of the handgun smuggling problem and the increasing number of young men ending up in caskets in Toronto.  Fourteen people have been shot in the city in the past two weeks, numbers that are beginning to rival those of some American cities. (But Hey! Wait a minute! Isn't our "Fantastic" Gun Registry supposed to protect us all and make us safe from things like this? If you believe THAT, you have a serious brain defect!)
HERES A LIST OF "GOOD NEWS" LINKS!
Feds helpless as gun groups attack registry

Senator refuses to back gun bill

Inuit seek exemption from gun registry bill

Gun registry being swamped by calls
David Austin, spokesperson with the Canadian Firearms Centre, said groups such as the Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association (LUFA) have set out to scuttle Ottawa's effort to register guns by urging people to deliberately clog the centre's toll-free telephone lines. LUFA is openly encouraging people to disrupt the firearms centre by calling its toll-free number (1-800-731-4000) again and again with some basic questions (such as, how much is the registration costing Canadians). LUFA has dubbed the campaign "Operation Overload." "It will insure the sinking of the (Bill) C-68 Titanic," said a recent news release. Bruce Hutton, founder of LUFA, was pleased to hear there have been lengthy delays for people phoning the firearms centre. "If they're (the government) bitching, it means this is working," he said Monday. "They haven't seen anything yet. We're really going to get the campaign rolling next month." (Perhaps just calling 1-800-731-4000 to hear the recording that tells you they can't take your call at this time, or the recording that tells you your wait will be 15-20-60 minutes or more, or simply just calling to listen to the insipid music they play is something EVERY Canadian  should do whether you have guns or not., Whether your guns are already registered or not! Remember, its only a matter of time before the government comes to register or confiscate some of  YOUR future 'Liberally deemed' politically incorrect private property too! Remember, it's ALL about votes and political  control!)
River of guns flows freely south to north
 In 1990, just 16 per cent of Toronto's 55 homicides involved guns. The homicide rate has remained relatively stable since then, but guns now account for 56 per cent of killings.  Ontario's Public Safety Minister, Robert Runciman, blames Ottawa for diverting money that could have been used to deal with the handgun problem into the program to require the registration of rifles and shotguns. "They've got a billion bucks to go after the farm widow who has a shotgun in the attic, but these are the real problems on the streets we're facing on our major cities in Canada," he said.  In the meantime, Torontonians should learn how to dive for cover. (When the MORONS in Ottawa stop blaming ordinary guns, and start targeting the real problem of Smuggled guns and the criminals that use them, maybe people will stop dying in our streets and 'law abiding' firearms users will stop being persecuted by those politicians that are simply afraid of guns no mater WHO has them!)
Gun Control Myths: The Case of England
While England has not yet reached the American level of murders, it has already surpassed the United States in rates of robbery and burglary. Moreover, in recent years the murder rate in England has been going up under still more severe gun control laws, while the murder rate in the United States has been going down as more and more states have allowed private citizens to carry concealed weapons -- and have begun locking up more criminals. (The licensing of owners, and the registration of ALL firearms in Canada, is showing to have no effect what so ever in the criminal use of firearms. Hand gun murders are now 56% of all gun murders in Toronto, and 'they' have been registered for over 60 years. If criminals are using shotguns and rifles, they are almost always 'cut down' which makes them illegal anyway. Aiming Gun control squarely at the law abiding, and not severely increasing the at the penalties for criminal use is absurd and only feeds the ever growing black market. People are dying because of it! If you don't fear a law abiding person, why would you fear a law abiding person with a firearm? It can only be a 'mental' condition, and as with all phobias, therapy can cure you!)
Gun law clarity a long shot 
Rock had promised gun owners in Arnprior, Ontario, he'd cancel the registry if total cost exceeded $150
million.  Instead, McLellan switched to saying nearly half a billion was a bargain -- even as Treasury Board figures suggested the cost was now approaching $700 million. In Question Period, Tory MP Peter MacKay said it was projected to hit $1 billion, and she replied: "Mr. Speaker, yet again the honourable member just does not get it. Gun control is about public safety ... ."(Safety? A 90% error rate, stickers to 'uniquely' identify a gun fall off or are simply peeled off by the thief, the old FAC system had a better rate of refusal than the new billion dollar farce, 15,381 Licences issued without proof of a safety course, More smuggled handguns in the country than ever before, handgun crime is soaring, there are absolutely NO controls that work to stem the use of firearms by criminals, and YOU will be a criminal on January 1st. because of cutbacks at the CFC and the inability to handle your calls. Oh ya, this system is ALL about safety.. But, not quite as much as it is about saving political face and bureaucratic jobs. The government is just too embarrassed to shut it down and your paying the price for Chrétien to keep sitting on the fence, waiting to see which way the wind will finally blow as usual. )
And now for 'Nothing' completely different
Is Monty Python calling the shots on Parliament Hill? How else to explain the  absurd situation where Canada cannot update its animal cruelty laws unless an agreement can be simultaneously reached on changes to the gun registry?(Because the ONLY way to stick another Band-Aid on the Billion Dollar waste of this absurd registry is to combine it with some legislation that makes 'more' city people'feel-good'. The senate is doing exactly what it should be doing when it is presented with bad legislation)
Welcome to Kanada: Where you have all the freedom 'They' Allow
The federal privacy watchdog lashed out yesterday at a government proposal that would give police and intelligence agencies unprecedented scrutiny over our Web browsing, personal e-mail messages and wireless phone calls. Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski, in a six-page letter addressed to the Department of Justice, Industry Canada and the Attorney General of Canada, said the government hasn't demonstrated in its "lawful access" proposal why there is a need for additional powers of surveillance that would further erode the privacy rights of Canadians. "Agents of the state in Canada cannot order Canada Post to photocopy the  address on every envelope we send, nor can they order bookstores to keep a record of every book we buy, let alone every page of every magazine we leave through," said Radwanski. "There is no reason why they should be able to exercise such powers with regard to every e-mail someone sends or every Web site he visits."(Now 'ordinary' Kanadians will see their personal information distributed across government databases even if they 'don't' own a 'evil' gun.. Keep voting Liberal, pretty soon you will be required to respond the the infamous question "Your Papers Please" at every turn in the road. Perhaps a bar-code tattooed to your forehead would make things much easier! Just give me the number 66'5'... I'm not 'that' bad...)
Phone protesters disrupt gun registry
SASKATOON -- A gun group aided by a Canadian Alliance MP is attempting to scuttle Ottawa's firearms registry, says a federal official.  David Austin, a spokesman with the Canadian Firearms Centre, said the Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms Association has been urging people to deliberately clog the centre's toll-free telephone lines.  He said a spokesman for Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz has advised owners to wait until the last moment before registering their weapons. Canadians have until the end of the year to register or face fines of up to $2,000 and jail terms.  Dennis Young denied he was trying to tie up the registry. "We said wait as long as you can because there's a chance we can kill this thing," Young said. "We never said you shouldn't comply with the legislation."  Breitkreuz has urged the government to declare an amnesty for gun owners who don't have their registration done by Jan. 1.  The unregistered firearms association is open about encouraging people to disrupt the firearms centre by repeatedly calling its toll-free number with basic questions.  The group has dubbed the campaign Operation Overload.  The strategy may be working. Saskatoon resident Warren Minish said he wanted  to change the address on his registration form. He gave up trying to do it by phone after six calls. (Only six?... You can't get through, and you wont, so why bother trying. This entire farce, and absolutely HORRENDOUS waste of money, is now based solely on the liberals saving face and preventing more embarrassment. Just the fact that you can't drive through downtown Toronto without at least considering  that someone may be pointing a gun at you, highlights the folly of persecuting law abiding duck hunters and target shooter as dangerous individuals.. If the Government can't put the necessary paperwork in your hands by the date required, ITS' NOT YOUR FAULT.... IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT SHORTCOMINGS, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.. And, the 'shortcomings' are well documented)
All I want for Christmas is a bombed-out dollhouse
It looks like Barbie went ballistic. The bombed-out dollhouse has a busted balustrade, crumbling bricks, bullet holes pockmarking its pretty pastel walls and, what's worse, it has been commandeered by fatigue-clad soldiers toting assault rifles."War toys have been around forever, but the problem here is the change in focus. Before such toys were more in line with the ideas of self-defence,"  said Eric Garris, who is webmaster of the California-based antiwar.com, which has started a campaign about against the Forward Command Post toy.  "This is not just another war toy -- it's a total paradigm shift in the war toy industry. It's setting up the young people for this new kind of war, where soldiers come into your house and take it over when they need to."(Obviously Mr Garris is of the "Keep em Ignorant - Keep em Safe" school of thought. Perhaps someone should point it out to this "Disneyite" that the paradigm has shifted, and the enemy IS coming into your house and taking it over when they want to! God forbid that children be encouraged face reality as it is today, but instead to be brought up with a mindset that will be utterly shattered when they discover first hand that world is NOT  based on the unrealistic ideals of  the "Disneyites" ). 
Fewer than half of pilots expected to carry guns
TSA spokesman Robert Johnson says it's too early to say what the program will look like or how many pilots will eventually qualify. But one federal official said pilots should expect rigorous training and standards that limit the number of pilots who participate.  Upward of 30,000 pilots are anticipated to apply to carry weapons, although the security chief for the nation's largest pilot union says he thinks it will be far less. "This isn't for everybody," says Steven Luckey of the Air Line Pilots Association, which joined with all of the smaller pilots unions to push for the authority. "We're not looking for quantity here. We're looking for quality." (The fact that 'some' pilots will be armed will make the American skies safer for everyone. The ticket buyer should be informed as to whether the pilot is armed or not, so that they may make an informed decision as to whether they wish to fly with a unarmed pilot! Canadians do not have that choice. So for other than a few flights to the U.S. Canadian aircraft are defensless.. Enjoy your oneway trip to the reactor site, it's going to be a 'blast')
Animal-rights group demands Ottawa speed reform
Bill C-10 passed third reading in the House of Commons last month. However, after weeks of debate in the Senate the bill was spilt in two -- Bill C-10a and Bill C-10b. The later leggislation deals primarily with proposed changes to firearms laws to streamline Ottawa's controversial gun registry. Senators said the issues of animal cruelty and firearms needed to be separated because of concern about how the laws could affect farmers and ranchers. The split essentially means neither piece of legislation will become law until sometime next year at the earliest.  The IFAW called the Senate's move "bizarre and unprecedented."  "This procedural dithering by Senators means that they should be held directly responsible for any future acts of animal cruelty that will go virtually unpunished," Smith said.(It was a  SICK and Terrible thing someone had done to this kitten. BUT, I wouldn't put it past one of these 'fringe' animal rights groups to set a kitten on fire and throw it out a a car window, JUST to put pressure passage of this legislation. Some of these people are truly sick, and would stop at nothing to force their agenda. PETA being one of the worst. )
And the "Culture of Safety Continues"
About 30 shots were fired early yesterday outside a west-end nightclub. No one was hit, but several cars were damaged. Police are looking for one suspect. In Brampton yesterday, a doorman at a private party was shot in the chest and arm with a 12-gauge shotgun at about 1:30 a.m. Police said the shots were fired from four metres away, adding they believe  the doorman may have denied entry to the person, triggering the confrontation. The victim was in stable condition while police were looking for a suspect driving a silver Honda. Hours later, a man in a silver-coloured vehicle on Highway 400 opened fire on another car. "The car did take a series of shots, but neither parties inside the vehicle were injured," Constable Anne Goodwin of the Ontario Provincial Police said. No arrests have been made and it was not known if the highway and Brampton  attacks were connected.(While driving into downtown Toronto to visit a trade show this weekend, my wife spent most of the trip staring at other cars to see if anyone was pointing a gun at us!! I must also admit, the same thought had passed through my mind as well. She made the comment that she would feel much safer if I had been carrying mine! THIS is what a visitor to Toronto experiences now. This is what people think about while driving through Toronto now! I was raised in Toronto, and I ashamed to say I don't feel safe. It's not the same place anymore. The law says I am not allowed to be armed for self defence unless I have a piece of paper that the Liberals say I must have, to carry a concealed firearm, and that the Supreme Court of Canada says may very well be "illusory" anyway. Welcome to the Liberal "Culture of Safety" where a Billion Dollars has been spent on a worthless gun control farce to ensure your vulnerability at the hands  of  the criminal population. Just for the exercise, go to any news search service, and type in: Honda Civic Toronto. The ONLY thing you will get is reports on Toronto shootings and their escape vehicles 'Honda Civics'  Using 'Liberal Logic' everyone that drives or owns a Honda Civic, is probably a murdering gun nut, and should be investigated, must apply for a special licence to buy gas, be forced to enter personal family and private information into a government database or have their cars confiscated. After all, it's for the children! )
Police battle gangs' street justice
 "One could say, in an effort to eliminate public fear, that these are not random killings, people just driving around shooting. But the subtext in saying that is that if you're not young and black and male, you have nothing to worry about — and that's the problem," Gartner said, adding the problem belongs to the entire community. With gangs come guns, and police data show that more arrests are being made each year for illegal gun possession — a rise they say is attributed both to the growing gun trade and increased attention to the problem. Last year, police laid 4,165 charges for possession of a firearm; in 1996, 809 charges were laid.(If you think about it long enough, it can make you sick! The fact that the Liberals have, while taking cops of the street to push paper, spent over ONE BILLION DOLLARS attacking law abiding hunters and target shooters. That amount of money 'could' have put THOUSANDS of police officers on the street squashing punk gangs like the ones terrorizing Toronto right now. To make a deposit at a downtown banks machine, it's not enough to be armed anymore, but you must also have someone watching your back. This weekend in Toronto, the news played a security tape of a woman standing in front of a bank machine. Behind her, a man with a gun stuck in her back demanding cash. THIS is the "Liberal Culture of Safety"..  A 515% increase in charges stemming from the use of illegal firearms in the same 6 years the Liberals have been persecuting law abiding gun owners, is a CLEAR indication that their gun control farce is a total waste of money, and directed entirely at the wrong people. But Liberals seem to be too F'n stupid to understand this!)
Chrétien to boost cash for military
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, after enduring months of criticism from the military and the Opposition — and a plea from his own defence minister — has pledged a cash infusion for Canada's beleaguered military in the February budget. Chrétien used the backdrop of the NATO summit in the capital of the Czech Republic to announce, for the first time, a move he has long resisted. "There will be some increase, yes, for defence," he said, "but by how much, the minister of finance will tell you the night of  the budget."(Anyone want to bet that it will be NOWHERE close to what the military actually needs to be effective. Every hunter and target shooter in Canada knows where they can find an extra couple of millions dollars a year! Unfortunately the BILLION they have already wasted disarming law abiding citizens will never be recoverable, and neither will the other billions lost in hunting and shooting revenues right across the country. You say your kids can't play in the park without getting covered in goose shit? Don't forget to thank a Liberal!)
Animal-rights legislation faces delay in Senate
There is also resistance from some senators to the proposed changes to the  Firearms Act. "The bill has been encountering some pretty stout and stiff opposition," said Ms. Cools, who calls the gun registry "a national disaster." "These two items [animal cruelty and the firearms registry] are not even related."  "This is great news," Canadian Alliance MP Vic Toews said of the delay. Mr. Toews opposes the proposed changes to both the Firearms Act and  animal-cruelty laws. "Our basic position is the gun registry is flawed."Mr. Cauchon defended the registry in Question Period yesterday after Mr. Toews said it cost $1-billion for a system that "does not work." "It works," he said. "We started the whole program from zero and we have built up a very good system."( The "Just-us" minister is just as far out to lunch as his predecessors and the 'Rock' they crawled out from under! If  he refers to this mess as a "very good system" I shudder to think that there might be some other farce out there that he would call a 'very bad system'?)
The agony of Chrétien's long goodbye
With each passing week, the consequences of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's long goodbye become more clear. It's not a pretty picture. Take Alan Rock.It's like that scene in Mission Impossible,where Jon Voight rips off his face  and he's really Tom Cruise. Could this be the same Alan Rock who made Big Tobacco his cause célèbre? Who forced Prairie farmers to register their gopher guns? Who ordered a million tablets of anthrax vaccine from the wrong company? Ah, but there's an explanation. He isn't just the Industry Minister now. He's  the Industry Minister Who Wants To Be Prime Minister. His left-Liberal credentials are impeccable (see reference to gopher guns). But his business credibility? Ouch. Pass the Maalox. (God help us if he ever became P.M.. It would take 'Generations' for Canadians to crawl out from under that Rock!
PM calls Bush a friend, 'not moron'
"He is a friend of mine. He is not a moron at all," Chrétien said when asked at a news conference if he approved of  the remarks. (I would have to agree! But if  'Bush' were to say: "Jean is a friend of mine, and he is not a moron at all" He would then be a moron!)
BILL WOULD LIMIT LIBERAL’S ABILITY TO RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Liberal’s Firearms Act banned more than 500,000 legally-owned and registered firearms and refuses to
     compensate their owners for their loss in value or when they are confiscated outright.  As a Southam News
     editorial said on January 10, 2002, “Those who support this because they disapprove of guns should consider: If  you favour government authority over property that you don't like, it is harder to fend government off when it
     comes after yours." “While our party policy calls for an amendment to include property rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we will continue to pursue every legislative measure we can to strengthen property rights protection in federal law. Canada is the only modern democracy that does not include property rights in their constitution.  This bill is a first step to correct this deficiency,” concluded Breitkreuz. (Since all private members bills are now votable, it will be interesting to see what form of  threats and intimidation the liberals  will employ to entice their backbench voting machines, to vote down their very own private property rights? If it looks as if Canadian Citizens might end up actually 'having' the right to own property, I would not put it past 'Jean the Weasel' to make this a confidence vote. That would kick all the backbenchers away from the trough. A Liberal not at the 'trough' would never be recognized as a True Liberal!) 
Unsolicited U.S. advice on defence irks McCallum
As a percentage of gross domestic product -- 1.1 per cent -- Canadian defence spending ranks near the bottom of NATO countries, behind only Luxembourg and Iceland. But in actual dollars spent, Canada ranks sixth  with an annual expenditure of $12.5-billion. Mr. Chrétien refused to be apologetic when he was asked about the Canadian contribution to the alliance at a news conference. "We think it's important for Canada, we think it's important for North America, we think it's important for the world," Mr. Cellucci said of a reinforced  Canadian military. "So I will continue to respectfully urge the leaders here in Canada . . . to put more money into defence."   But Mr. McCallum said he doesn't need the foreign advice. (Of course not.. McCallum was 'head boy' at his school, and by default the leader of his schools 'cadet' group.. Why he's simply 'dripping' with military know how! It couldn't be that he was embarrassed by his own governments abandonment of the Canadian Military, and by default the abandonment of secured sovereignty for ALL Canadians could it? Are YOU embarrassed for your Country? Don't forget to thank a Liberal! )
Scarborough home invasion turns into homicide
It's a home invasion that ended as a homicide," Toronto police Inspector Len Faul told reporters at the scene in the afternoon. "It's very sad, another tragic waste." Last night, residents of the townhouse complex were anxious and looking for answers. "He was a good guy; he didn't deserve this," said a 21-year-old female resident of the complex, who didn't want to be identified.(Rules to live by: 'Unlock - Load - Dial 911' In That Order.. It's farr better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
Parliamentary Security Hampered by the Firearms Farce
OTTAWA -- John O'Reilly is a Liberal member of Parliament  whose life has been threatened by a mentally ill constituent. Some days, the man  will call Mr. O'Reilly's office up to 15 times, threatening him and his  family. The man stalks Mr. O'Reilly on  Parliament Hill; they  have almost come to  blows. Mr. O'Reilly has become an expert on parliamentary security. There is none, he says. There is the House of Commons security, and a separate one for the  Senate. The RCMP guards the Prime Minister, but not when he is in the Centre Block. Private security firms look after tour groups, and if someone tried to call 911 from Parliament Hill, the Ottawa police would not be able to respond because it's not their jurisdiction. "Do members realize that the plainclothes people can carry guns and the uniformed people cannot carry guns?" Mr. O'Reilly asked. "They [security agencies] are not in the same union. They do not have the same radio bands. They cannot talk to each other from one side of this House to the other side of the Hill." (Perhaps Mr. O'Reilly should apply for one of those "illusory" firearm carry permits. It certainly looks as if he should qualify for one! If he is unable to protect his family from his 'nutcase' stalker, perhaps he should thank his fellow liberals for hanging his ass out to dry in the wind.)
Owners under the gun (And the Farce Continues)
The Toronto Sun
It took 34 days from mailing out my applications to getting FIN stickers by return mail. Not bad, but although enclosed instructions were to  match the FINs to the guns mentioned on the certificates, no certificates were included nor was there any mention of which guns the FINs belonged too. Yet, certificate numbers differing from the FINs were listed. Why the two numbers differ doesn't make sense. Hopefully I'll get them one way or another before Jan. 1. Otherwise, along with hundreds of thousands of other honest firearm owners who  simply have waited too late to register their guns, I will be considered a  criminal on Jan. 1 by the federal government. Will the long-gun registry lower crime rates, as it's touted too? Unlikely. A handgun registry since the 1930s has done nothing to stop the  murderous riff-raff that has been terrorizing our streets with handguns.  Real criminals don't register their "pieces" or bother with niceties such as firearms licences. Hassling hunters and target shooters with long guns is just an expensive, feel-good, paperwork exercise. Scrap the registry and put the  money into policing our streets and stopping the flow of illegal handguns and real criminals into Canada.(Soon, the 'stickers' will fall off the guns, or be removed by thieves if they are stolen. A hell of a lot of good they are going to do! Only a idiot could think that this is of any use at all to hinder criminals. The liberals and their bureaucrats responsible for this farce, are living in a fantasy land, with no links to reality at all. Just running un-hindered with a whole stack of blank cheques while people are dying while waiting for something as simple as a MRI scan. The money wasted so-far could have bought and installed almost 300 of these lifesaving machines and given El-Presidenti Jean a TRUE legacy of compassion and caring. But Noooooo.. The stupidity and waste of this entire farce is just mind boggling)
Guns in the U.S. and U.K. 
Most of  'Guns and Violence' is a chronological survey of crime patterns in England since the High  Middle Ages. The big picture is fairly clear: Century by century, as guns became more widely  held, violent crime declined. In the decades since the Second World War, as British law limited  private gun ownership and largely disarmed the population, rates of violent crime have increased  dramatically. A long concluding chapter of the book sharpens the point: Over the past two  decades, as gun ownership has become more prevalent in the United States, violent crime has steadily declined here. Meanwhile it has continued to climb in Britain, amidst nearly total bans
   on private gun ownership. (Nowhere in the entire world, has banning and/or limiting the private ownership of firearms resulted in a lower crime rate. Only a complete fool could believe that disarming the public makes them safer. Disarming the public only makes them vulnerable to criminals and governments alike. Complying with ill conceived laws that guarantee your families defencelessness, is foolish beyond words.)
Merely passing new laws won't stop crime
Why the cry for more laws? To be blunt, it comes from irresponsibility. "I don't want to defend my family and I hope this outcry is a good substitute." If you choose to do nothing, that's  your choice, but why make everyone defenseless?  When your wife is beaten and raped, you can say that you did what you were allowed, an excuse to do nothing but dial 911.  When your daughter asks you how you will defend her if  something dreadful happens, is calling 911 it?  I could not live with that answer. I want everyone around me to  know that if something happens, I will be there and will do whatever I can to defend them--not just what's allowed. (Shirking ones family responsibility, and totally relying on others to save your ass is a fools plan. Armed defence is a necessity now, more than it ever was in the past. If  you won't defend your family from those that would harm them, then you should be just as willing to explain yourself, and the reasons for your in-action,  at the funeral service.)
"Gun Control"... The Nonsense Just Goes On and On...
I look back in time and remember the 1950's and 1960's. I've read some of our history from the 1930's and 1940's. During those years you could buy a gun almost anywhere in America. You could order  them through the mail and have them shipped to your door. You could walk into Hardware stores, Second Hand stores, Gas Stations, and variety stores and buy firearms. The Montgomery Wards and Sears catalogs had firearms you could order. There was no waiting period, no background check, no fingerprints required, and no government forms to fill out - and guess what, we had a lower crime rate, less violence, and no school shootings for the media to plaster all over the TV screen and on the front page for weeks on end.(And not just in the U.S.A. either! In Canada, during the 50's and 60's when I was growing up, you could buy a gun in ANY hardware store at 14 years of age. Violence with firearms was virtually unheard of. Everyone had guns, and NO ONE was getting shot in the streets. Our problem today is NOT guns, it's DRUGS and GANGS. If our hoplophobic government had spent a BILLION DOLLARS on CRIME CONTROL instead  of incriminating hunters and target shooters we might be well on the way to solving a lot of the problem on our 'city' streets. The government 'depends' on citizen ignorance to win elections. As long as they keep blaming 'Objects' instead of  'Some People' they don't have to worry about being called racist, and offending anyone. Public Safety and Crime Control My Ass!!  Losing votes. THAT'S what it's all about!) 
New Jersey Passes Bill Requiring Nonexistent 'Smart Guns'
The Brady Campaign is demanding that other states follow New Jersey's lead in mandating smart-gun technology, which (theoretically) would allow only the owner of a gun to fire it. But Second Amendment supporters see such laws as just another effort to regulate gun sales. They note that smart-gun technology doesn't even exist yet. When and if it does exist, it would significantly drive up the price of pistols. But Second Amendment supporters say there's no way to make any gun completely "safe." In fact, some wonder if smart-gun technology will backfire, making a gun inoperable in cases where self-defense could mean the difference between life and death. ("Smart Guns" ! The ever popular dream of "Stupid People".. Maybe they better ban 'phaser pistols' and 'photon torpedoes' while their at it.. One never knows!!)
GUN SHY
We would like to bet on a sure thing. It is that not a single criminal in our country has registered his or her gun since since the Liberal government's Canadian Firearms Registration System was dreamed up some five years ago. Yet, come Dec. 31, an estimated 500,000 law-abiding Canadians, who own guns, will be deemed criminals because they haven't registered their firearms. These are farmers, hunters, sports-gun enthusiasts and antique collectors who are, in reality, just decent citizens fed up with Ottawa's nosey-pokey interference in their lives. Maybe even some patriotic Canadians who put their lives on the line during the Second World War and the Korean War and kept a gun as a souvenir. 
Cabby killer offers no explanation as he's sentenced for weapons offences
John Walter Brennan, 35, was sentenced to three years in prison plus the 11 months he's already spent in remand for possessing a prohibited weapon, a sawed-off .22-calibre shotgun, (?) and possessing a weapon, a .303-calibre hunting rifle, while under a court-ordered lifetime firearms prohibition. Brennan had been prohibited from possessing any guns for the rest of his life through a court order in 1986, when he was convicted of Morris's second-degree murder. (The only thing that surpasses the hilarious level of  firearms ignorance found in the media, is the stupidity of the government in believing that banning a murderer from having firearms, will prevent him from having firearms, while at the same time, wasting a BILLION DOLLARS harassing LEGAL gun owners)
Police search for submachine-guns
Winnipeg police believe two high-powered submachine-guns registered to a city gun collector have fallen into the hands of local criminals.  The weapons are an Israeli-made Uzi  submachine-gun and an American-made Ingram machine pistol.  Both are easily concealed and highly prized by criminals. (The fact that 'sub-machine guns' have been stolen from a collector, is not news enough, but the media 'always' has to use the ever present adjective, "High Powered" to add sensationalism, and a bit of hype to the crime. The reason I suppose, is so the public will not confuse 'these' firearms with the much more common 'low powered submachine guns' obviously available 'everywhere'. The investigation should focus on 'how' the criminals found out these pieces were at that location. My guess is leaked information from the security sieve of  the Firearms Centre. After all, as of june 6th 2002, there had never been a RCMP Security review of the 'private' company handling this information. Peoples lives are at stake, and the Liberals couldn't give a rats ass as long as the paper gets pushed, and the bureaucrat's keep their pointless, worthless, jobs at the government trough!)
TORONTO'S THREE-PRONGED PROBLEM
The problem, as Police Chief Julian Fantino has stated, is three-pronged: Gangs, drugs and guns. Law-abiding
citizens who think gangs are only a danger to one another are dead wrong.  Recent shootings have caught numerous innocent bystanders, including children, in the crossfire. Increasingly common gunfire has erupted in public places, clubs and even on highways. The solution to all this is also three-pronged: Cops, courts and community. Criminal gangs rule by fear - and they can no more be tolerated or appeased than terrorists can.  Sadly, Toronto is paying the price for years of lax, liberal laws and attitudes toward crime. Police make scores of drug busts, only to see the dealers reappear within days. Our gun laws, which theoretically allow severe prison terms for crimes involving firearms, aren't enforced - firearms charges are routinely plea-bargaained away in court. With such little deterrence, guns proliferate.  As today's stories show, our cops have redoubled efforts to get guns off the streets, to break up gangs and to encourage the co-operation of the communities gangsters and dealers prey on.  Meantime, our politicians, especially in Ottawa, persist in their view of Canada as a safe, gun-free paradise (after all, don't we have that great firearms registry?), turning a blind eye to cops' and citizens' need for tougher laws. (Ahhh to sleep peacefully in the fantasy land of the Liberal mind. No criminals, only unfortunates in need of rehabilitation. And naturally, if guns are banned, no one would would have guns, even the criminals would turn them in. After all, they ARE banned aren't they! Canada would be the 'peace keepers of the world, dancing though the streets of troubled nations passing out flowers and tiny maple leaf pins. But then you wakeup!!! Where the hell are we, and what are we doing in this handbasket?)
Getting gun registered is a long shot
"I phoned the 1-800 number -- 14 times -- until I got through and waited about 10 minutes ... I greeted Denise ... We went around (in a) circle several times ... I said it was obvious she didn't know what a muzzleloader was and she hadn't answered my question. ... After a short tirade about how well she knew her job and that she did too know what a muzzleloader was, she hung up ...   "I then thought I would call the chief provincial firearms officer and get an answer. Wrong! The Web site gives only the federal 1-800 number for all provinces." His is one of literally hundreds -- thousands, perhaps -- of examples of how the federal government was ill-prepared to implement this billion-dollar fiasco. When all is said and done, this will probably top the list of blunders in the sequel to Randy Richmond and Tom Villemaire's new book, Colossal Canadian Failures. (Gee!! He got though in ONLY ten minutes!! Just about everyone at the CFC is going to be out of work on December 31st, and no doubt moral is soaring..NOT.... The 'Private' company (and unknown threat to your 'personal' information) takes over on Jan. 9th. There has been no word yet as to any RCMP security check on any new employees.. Although, I'll bet any 'Hells Angel' would love to have his wife or girlfriend 'on the inside')
Gun Control! Liberal Litany of Lies and Deceptions
The sky was the limit, promise-wise, when the Liberals were trying to sell their gun control scheme in 1994 and 1995. No purported benefit was already too big that it couldn't be inflated even more. No ludicrously unlikely side effect was too outrageous to be promoted as a sure thing. Gun control was a Liberal shibboleth and the need to pass it made any tall tale justifiable. (Not unlike the government's current "full-court press" on Kyoto.) As to fabricating crime statistics to bolster its case for a registry, the government -- also famously --claimed the RCMP
had investigated more than 620 violent crimes committed with firearms in 1993, a sure sign, it claimed, of an emerging gun culture in Canada. When it was pointed out -- by the Acting Commissioner of the RCMP, no less -- that the Mounties had, in fact, investiggated just 73 violent gun crimes that year, the government plowed ahead anyway. No sense permitting such a noble cause to be derailed by the mere fact that its extreme intrusiveness was revealed by the facts to be totally unnecessary. In the Liberal world, symbolism always triumphs over substance, whether it's symbolic gun controls or symbolic emissions targets. (As they say, Figures don't lie, but Liars can figure!)
4,000 women's shelters could have been built with firearm registry funds
FEDS SQUANDERING MONEY: Hutton, who lost his wife to cancer, is irate Ottawa invests millions more on its
 misguided gun-control measures than it does on cancer research and other vital issues. "It's a travesty really," he said.  "If it's working, why is spousal homicide up for the first time in years? The government could have built 4,000 womens' shelters across the country with  money they've spent (on gun control.)" And BEHOLD The big Lie: The Canadian Firearms Centre said the new law is working to reduce crime, safeguard citizens from shooting deaths and helping law enforcement keep track of arms movement -- and urging gun owners to register before the deadline. (Statistics Canada, and 'Liberal' Senator Anne Cools, has PROVEN that C-68 was founded on lies, and Garry Breitkreuz, continuously digging up new  information, has shown gun crimes and shootings have INCREASED since the liberals started this Billion Dollar Farce that was presented to parliament in a package of lies and falsified/ reworked statistics.. This entire program was based on lies and deceit right from the start and is now 12 times what they said it would cost. A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE WASTE. )
Idiot Terrorist Brings a Knife to a GUN Fight!
Security guards on Israel's national airline El Al overpowered a suspected hijacker who tried to storm the cockpit of a Tel Aviv to Istanbul flight yesterday, apparently armed with a penknife, officials said. El Al is widely regarded as world's most protected airline, but also one of the  most threatened. El Al's formidable security includes armed guards at check-in, on-board marshals and extensive searches of luggage. Passengers are told to arrive three hours ahead of flights to allow enough time for security checks. The first and last successful hijacking of an El Al plane was in 1968, when a flight from Rome was seized by members of the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and forced to land in Algiers. Passengers and crew were held hostage there, with the last of them released five months later. (If a terrorist can get a knife on board a El Al flight, how safe do you think you are on board a 'unarmed' Canadian Flight.. YOUR plane will be shot down into a highly populated area on it way to the closest Nuclear Reactor. The liberals feel  that having a firearm in the hands of a 'possibly unstable' Captain of a airliner, responsible for thousands of  lives both in the air and on the ground anyway, only increases the level of violence on board the aircraft. This makes a lot of sense out of the statement: "If you want to put a 'twinkle' in the eye of a Liberal Hoplophobe, simply shine a flashlight in his ear"!)
When it comes to Osama, Canada doesn't get it
 Jean Chrétien told an interviewer that Western arrogance helped to  bring on the terrorist attacks. If only we stopped abusing the poor, he suggested, such attacks might abate. Contrast that position to Tony Blair's; the British Prime Minister made it plain from the start that his country would be in the front lines against terror -- not just because of its friendship with the United States, but because Britons themselves were at risk. Only this week, Mr. Blair warned that al-Qaeda had regrouped and might attack British targets at any time. Victory in the war on terrorism, he said, "will not be without pain or come without a price. . . . As with all wars, it will test not just our ability to fight, but our character, our resilience and our belief in our own way of life." Try to imagine Mr. Chrétien saying something like that.   The war against terrorism is everybody's war. Britain gets it. So does Australia. When will Canada?(Liberal politicians are NEVER military men. Trudeau did not serve in World WarII. He was among the young French-Canadian intellectuals of the day who had doubts about Canada's involvement in a distant conflict. {Read: Coward} As Mordecai Richler recalled in Saturday Night magazine, Trudeau, around 1943, was seen riding his motorcycle, wearing a German army helmet, through the back roads of the Laurentians. This is the same politician that started the dismantling the Canadian Armed Forces, and plunging military moral to the lowest point in Canadian history. This 'Liberal Icon' has done more damage to Canadian Sovereignty and pride than any single individual in Canadian history!)
Latest FBI Bulletin Warns of  'spectacular' Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) - Al-Qaida may be planning a "spectacular" terrorist attack intended to damage the U.S. economy and inflict large-scale casualties, the FBI warns. An FBI law enforcement bulletin circulated Thursday to law enforcement officials nationwide contains no information about the timing, location or method of a possible attack. Even so, the warning is unusual because of its dire language. "Sources suggest al-Qaida may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: High symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma," says the alert, which was posted on the FBI's Web site early Friday after its existence was reported by The New York Times and The Associated Press.(A hit on the Nuke plant at Pickering would send a cloud over most of N.Y. State!)
'Armed presence' at nuclear plants
OTTAWA - Canada's nuclear power plants are now under armed guard against terrorist attack, Herb Dhaliwal, the minister of Natural Resources, revealed yesterday. Mr. Dhaliwal said the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is working closely with the RCMP and other police forces to ensure these potential  targets are well guarded. The internal notes show federal officials have examined three options for a  permanent armed presence:
                   - Make security guards, who aren't usually permitted to carry guns, "public
                   agents" under the Criminal Code, with the Nuclear Safety Commission
                   responsible for their actions.
                   - Treat nuclear facilities as "firearms bussinesses" -- a plan that would entail
                   issuing licences to each plant and individual authorizations to each security
                   guard. (they are now 'allowing' employees to be armed? It's about time!)
                   - An entirely new scheme, which could invollve a "nuclear police" force or several existing agencies.(As much as the enemy would like to blow a nuke plant, I would be more wary of being on a crowded subway platform in downtown Toronto! Hundreds of people, and 90% of the faces you see are from the middle east.  I'm sure not all of them are peace loving muslims.. Particularly the ones with the bombs strapped around them!)
Sask. native federation vice-chief says no to federal gun registration laws
David Austin of the Canadian Firearms Centre said that the federal government has every intention of defending the registry against the federation's challenge. With about 50 days left before the deadline, about 70 per cent (the governments 'low ball' estimate) of  guns have been registered in Canada, he said, and the centre has no reason to believe that non-compliance among aboriginal people will be a problem. "The problem is that, on the registration, we have no way of distinguishing between an aboriginal and a non-aboriginal," Austin said. "Looking across the country we have no reason to see that they are not part of the norm." Saskatchewan Justice Minister Chris Axworthy spoke out in favour of the federation's challenge. "We hope the FSIN challenge will be more successful and gun owners across the province support FSIN in undermining, as best they can, the firearms legislation," Axworthy said. The Canadian Alliance has been the most vocal critic of the gun laws, calling the registry a wasteful bureaucracy that does nothing to protect Canadians. A number of gun groups have balked at the laws as well. Their protests have ranged from the sensational to the frightening. In Manitoba, one man successfully registered his soldering gun in the database to point out what he called ignorance in the system, while in Edmonton, a campaign was started to mail old phone books to Ottawa in hopes the feds would have to pay for the postage. In June, the firearms processing centre in New Brunswick had to be shut down for almost a week when someone mailed two packages of white powder to the building. Local police have said the packages came from Alberta. (A Registration 'Certificate(ha)' is largely famous for what it 'doesn't' contain.. Not only can you not tell if the holder is an aboriginal, it does not even 'identify' the owner of the firearm.  Almost 60% of them do not even contain the barrel length. and most others have blank spaces with missing information. These things are a joke. What happens if the 'sticker' that "uniquely identifies firearm without a serial number" falls off [and it will], will the owner be arrested and thrown in jail for defective stickers supplied by the government? Look at your firearm serial numbers! Are those 6's or G's, are they "1"'s or "I"s,  5's or "S's, Is the barrel length 671 or 672 mm, is your tape measure accurate?  Who knows? The law says all firearms must be verified, and the government is not abiding by their own laws.. You are NOT qualified to 'verify' your own firearm and because of this, you will probably make mistakes.. It's safer just to enter "unknown" into any area you feel uncomfortable with.. Remember, they have 1.5 months to register millions firearms, and by their record, accuracy does not seem to matter one bit!)
And the "Culture of Safety" Continues
The latest shooting occurred shortly before midnight Tuesday when the victim and a friend were having a cigarette and drinking alcohol in the north parking lot outside the Brahms Rd. apartment building, in the Finch Ave.-Don Mills Rd.  area. Police said a car pulled into the parking lot behind the 14-storey building. The victim recognized the driver and went over to talk with the man. The victim's friend said the conversation became heated, but he couldn't hear what they were talking about. Seconds later, the driver reached down between the front seats and pulled out a handgun and fired at the victim, who was standing beside the driver's door. Police said the victim and his friend ran to the north door of the apartment building as the driver continued firing shots.(And, not a 'Duck Hunter is sight'.. Looks like the Feds Gun Control Farce is working!)
Police step up anti-gun project
"The word on the street during Operation Gun Stop was that it wasn't safe for people to walk around with their guns," said Gauthier, who oversees both the gun and gang task forces. "As the project ends, sometimes the comfort level increases with people and they're back at it."(This certainly highlights the fact that targeting the punishment at the criminal instead of the legal gun owner works!! Why can't the Feds see this? Maybe they just don't want to!)
U.S. lists 22 targets in Canada
John Manley, the Deputy Prime Minister, read a statement condemning the "global scourge" of terrorism. But he said while the  government was taking the threat seriously he did not believe Canadians need to take special precautions. "There is no indication that there is anything imminent that we need to put Canadians on a greater level of security vigilance," he said in Lethbridge, Alta. "The information that we received, which we received with the rest of the planet, is of a general nature. Our security forces continue to use the usual sources of intelligence to try to determine if there are any particular measures that need be taken." Experts pointed out, however, that bin Laden has historically followed  through on his threats. The broadcast of his denunciation of Canada on Al-Jazeera, which is watched by millions of Muslims, would be interpreted by his followers that Canadians are now legitimate targets.(It could also be a signal to millions of Muslim Extremists to go find targets) Mr. Chrétien's silence was condemned by Stephen Harper, the Canadian Alliance leader, who said the Prime Minister should have been "standing on guard, not standing on the golf course. "It wouldn't be an issue if this were an isolated thing, but it is a general pattern of him just not seeming to take this whole security file and threat seriously. I think he should respond."(I doubt very much if Chrétien himself would be a target, after all, terrorists are supposed to do things that would actually 'harm' the country! But I can envision a suicide bomber on a Toronto subway train, knowing that he cannot be stopped even if seen,  because our government has assured him that ordinary citizens are unarmed and of no danger to him at all. We are the first generation of Canadians to be threatened with death, well inside our borders, and the 'government' has taken the stance of "Don't Worry - Be Happy" you are not in danger. And, WE ALL KNOW how accurate government predictions are.. Armed citizens have saved hundreds of  lives in Israel,
DON'T BE A VICTIM OF LIBERAL GOVERNMENT APATHY!
 BE PREPARED!
BE ALERT!
YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN THREATENED, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND YOURSELF!
ACT APPROPRIATELY!)
Chretien accused of delivering post office plum
ean Chrétien has ensured Canada Post president André Ouellet, one of the more prominent Liberals from Quebec of the last quarter-century, will keep his powerful and lucrative post as head of the postal service until well after the Prime Minister retires in 2004.Cabinet last week  approved a four-year extension to Mr. Ouellet's term, along with a modest salary increase to take his income up to a  maximum of $354,000  annually once the routine 20% public service performance bonus is taken into account. John Williams, a Canadian Alliance MP, denounced the reappointment as "cronyism at its worst" and predicted it is just the beginning of an  avalanche of patronage plums Mr. Chrétien will hand out before his self-imposed retirement deadline of February, 2004. "The bad news is we're going to see an awful lot more of it in the next year or so," Mr. Williams said. "He [Chrétien] is taking care of friends, not taking care of business." (The Chrétien Legacy will be the same as the Trudeau 'Legacy'.. A tax bill  extending well into the lifetime of your grandchildren. )
Anti-gun movie under fire for bullets-buying scene
In the movie, in which American filmmaker Michael Moore examines the United States' obsession with guns, he walks into what he says is an Ontario Wal-Mart store and buys ammunition.  The clerk hands it over without question.  But under Canadian law, anyone buying ammunition must show identification, said David Austin, a spokesman for the firearms centre, a division of the federal Department of Justice.  Austin wants to know whether Moore was asked who he was when he bought the bullets or if that part was edited out of the movie. He said the scene misrepresents the process of buying ammunition in Canada. What is unfortunate is there is misinformation out there -- not only for viewers who see the movie in Canada but the rest of the world -- that it is relatively easy to buy ammunition in Canada and that is not the case." (Well, I'm sure while peering through through David Austin's Rose Coloured Bureaucratic Glasses, every thing looks just peachy! But, if he ever pulled them off and had a look at the REAL world he would find things are quite different indeed! For one, he would find that ONLY legal gun owners, and other law abiding people have trouble buying ammunition. The rest! Well, if they can't find ammunition for the smuggled or stolen handgun they carry, their probably too stupid to keep breathing , and they won't last long on the street anyway! )
Saskatchewan natives continue challenge to gun law 
SASKATOON - A vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians says he will not register his guns.  The federation is challenging the federal government's gun control law, arguing that it infringes on treaty rights.  Bill C-68 requires all firearms to be registered by Jan. 1.  Greg Ahenakew says he is confident the federation will win its case. But, Ahenakew says he cannot counsel  other natives to break the law.  He does say, however, that the federation will give legal support to natives in the province who choose not to register their guns. (It would look as if the White Man gave guns to the Indians for all the right reasons.. Including protecting us from our own governments idiotic laws..)
PETA Sinks to a All Time NEW Low!
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) says the full-page ad is a legitimate campaign, but the families of the murdered women say it's disgusting.  The Vancouver Province was to have run the ad Wednesday, but decided to pull it.   The ad featured a series of headlines describing the B.C.  murder victims, who were drugged and slaughtered,  their heads sawed off and their body parts refrigerated.  It doesn't refer specifically to accused killer Robert  Pickton, but the allusions to the case are clear, referring to unconfirmed reports of body parts being found on Pickton's pig farm.  PETA says the comparison is justified. (This should convince even the most idiotic that this 'fringe' organization is comprised of morons and mental defectives. Before, they were just accosting and intimidating children outside of  schools, but THIS really shines a light on the level of mentality that makes up this bunch of  losers.. PETA 'really' stands for 'Pathetic Eclectics and Total Assholes' )
NASA and Pentagon Computers HACKED!
Gary McKinnon, 36, of London was indicted in federal courts in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday on  eight counts of computer-related crimes. These included break-ins over 12 months at 92 separate U.S. military and National Aeronautics and Space Administration networks across 14 states, including two at the Pentagon. Mr. McKinnon also was accused of hacking the networks of six private companies and organizations.(Is the Canadian Firearms Centre Computers MORE secure than NASA or the Pentagon? I doubt it.. Your personal information is out there folks.. Don't forget to thank a Liberal!)
Text of the tape broadcast on al-Jazeera
"Why did your governments ally themselves with America to attack us in Afghanistan, and I cite in particular Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia. "Australia was warned about its participation in Afghanistan and its ignoble contribution to the separation of East Timor. But it ignored this warning until it  was awakened by the echoes of explosions in Bali. Its government subsequently pretended, falsely, that its citizens were not targeted.(Unfortunately, it will take a terrorist attack on Canadian soil before our government will move to re-arm this country. And, when that happens, the re-arming will be a 'political decision' based not on saving Canadian Lives, but based, designed, and implemented entirely on the hope of getting re-elected, and nothing more. Trudeau and Chrétien both promoted the pacifist, socialist, agenda that has driven our country into utter defencelessness, and I doubt Martin will be any improvement at all. With our borders so pourious, and our military looking like "The Antique Road Show", we might be about to suffer the consequences of electoral stupidity)
World Trade Center attacks costs could top $36B
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. government experts say the financial toll of the terrorist attacks on New York City amounts to $33 billion to $36 billion in lost wages and business, property damage and cleanup. The losses, estimated from October 2001 through June, include $7.8 billion the  2,795 people killed at the World Trade Center would have earned and $21.6 billion to clean up and replace the twin towers.(To put this in another perspective: This is almost exactly the same amount of debt, mismanagement by Ontario Hydro has burdened Ontario taxpayers with.. The only bright spot is that because of  Federal liberal financial planning(?)  We are paying it off in sixty four cent Canadian Dollars)
There used to be Canada: a perspective
In the year 2002, the Americans were armed and ready to attack Iraq. Canada said it would be glad to tag along, but it couldn't offer much in the way of guns and bullets and soldiers – perhaps nothing at all if the Senate prevailed and all Canadian soldiers were brought home to serve as snow-shovellers for Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman.  The sad truth was even if Canada managed to send a ship into action there would be no Sea King helicopters aboard because they required 38 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air. Sailors often amused themselves by taking bets to see if they could hold their breath longer than a Sea King could stay up.(If Canada was a Tom Clancy Book made into a movie, everyone would be booing the Liberals for allowing us to become so defenceless in a hostile world, that we have literally turned ourselves over to the Americans pleading for sanctuary. Liberal pacifistic policies have converted this once strong country into the unarmed little wimp hiding behind the big guy, sticking our tongues out at the enemy hoping we won't get sucker punched! It's enough to make any veteran puke!)
Gun bill could turn law abiders into criminals: Axworthy
Axworthy says he doesn't think the federal government's computer system will be able to handle all the last minute registration requests.  He says that means even though people may have registered their guns, it may not show up in the computer.  Axworthy maintains Saskatchewan won't enforce the new federal law.  He says provincial conservation officers will not be checking for gun registration in the new year.   Axworthy says the legislation does nothing to cut down on the use of guns by criminals. (The registration 'certificates'(ha)  are so simple, what's to stop some people from simple printing a few up, filling in the blanks, and laminating them.. Unless you have committed a crime, it's highly unlikely that anyone is going to 'run' the damn thing. There are no security features at all! In provinces where conservation officers 'are' checking at game stops, they won't be running any thing unless the owner is charged with an offence. The police or conservation officer has no idea if the certificate presented is valid or not unless they waste a HUGE amount of time back checking. Particularly if the firearm has been borrowed, and the user is unaware they are in possession of a phoney registration 'certificate'(ha). Like everything else in this firearms farce, the emphasis has been on pushing paper, and saving bureaucrat's jobs. It has NOTHING to do with safety or tracking firearms. If it did, you wouldn't have the absolute chaos happening at the firearms farce now, and there would be 'some' sort of security features on your registration 'certificates'(ha)!)
Toronto Seeks Stricter Gun Laws in Wake of Violence
Officials in Toronto, Canada, are considering stricter gun laws following a recent wave of shootings, the Canadian
     Press reported Nov. 5. "It's important that we get after the people with the guns," said Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman. "We've got to get the guns off the street. We can't have kids killing kids. And look, other people get in between too, people who aren't part of these gangs." Toronto, the largest city in Canada, has seen six violent shootings in recent weeks. Two were drive-by shootings, three took place in separate nightclubs, and one occurred in the streets of the city's entertainment district. Lastman is calling for more severe penalties for crimes involving firearms. (Ahhh the simple minded are always in control!! MORE LAWS ARE NEEDED.. WHY? It's simple, the criminals won't obey the old ones so lets ad a bunch of new ones, and mabe they'll obey those? Hey Mel..! We already HAVE more severe penelties! The problem is , the courts are still alowing the criminals to bargan away the gun charges FIRST! WHO the hell are your advisors? Obviously "NooooooBody"!)
Gun-control logic fails
It takes little journalistic sweat to reel off another tired litany of sound bites that smear lawful gun owners as simple-minded obstructionists  to whatever the anti-gun proposal du jour happens to be. Why, despite their investigative resources, do media types rarely trouble themselves to evaluate firearm policy beyond, "Hey, that sounds good to me"? Maybe because they'd find that "gun-control" proposals always collapse under the gentlest burden of common sense.(The logic of most Canadian newspapers, and  'Gun Control' groups is not any better.. The Coalition for gun control, is 'still' trying to convince the ignorant that the most common guns left at crime scenes are rifles and shotguns when statistics Canada CLEARLY has pointed out that handguns now comprise 64% of homicides, and 75% of those guns are not even registered in the 68 year old handgun registry. The problem is ILLEGAL GUNS you would 'think' that even an academic from Ryerson would be able to grasp that simple fact.. But  Nooooooo.. They certainly don't want to be confused with any 'real' facts!)
Afghan war reports reveal army troubles
Intelligence officers, medical personnel and trades people, all in short supply in Canada's cash-strapped military, are so busy with their specialist duties that basic skills suffer, one report suggested.  For example, all specialists sent to Canadian Forces Base Edmonton to train before leaving for Afghanistan to bolster the mission had "a shocking degree of ignorance ... with regard to weapon training." (Is it any wonder! Years of pacifist brainwashing has created a generation that is convinced 'guns are bad', People don't kill, 'Guns Do', Guns are evil, If you 'touch' one it might go off and shoot you!, A criminal will take it away from you and use it against you, The police are there to protect YOU.. Remember: A GUN killed Bambi's Mom..  Unlike all previous generations, many of these soldiers were raised by families that had NO outdoors or hunting experience at all.  The proliferation of guns on the street is largely a direct result of firearms ignorance. In the 50's 60's, even the toughest young hoods in the city did not carry a gun, somehow that would make them less of a man,  even though they were available everywhere. Hell, when I was a kid, even 'puffed wheat' was shot from guns!.. How do you insure guns are flooding the cities? Simple you Ban them, make legal ownership difficult, and make them a status symbol among the less intelligent, less educated gang members. Just like the Government is doing right now!)
12 November 2002 NFA Newswire
My concerns began when a friend showed me the new serial number stickers he received for his old shotgun and .22 which had no numbers. The stickers didn't even survive the mail process. Each digit on both ends of the number was rubbed off, making them useless. Years ago the firearm community asked how the stickers would 
stick to oiled, metal surfaces. They also asked whether the government really believed criminals were so stupid they would leave a sticky number on as the only source of identification. (Periodically, I will post the NFAnews wire bulletins for those that do not subscribe themselves.. Please help spread the news!)
Lib. Politics Fuelled Canada's Only Secret Wartime Military Execution 
Clark’s research shows that Pte. Pringle’s execution might have had more to do with politics than murder or desertion. He says Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s government and military leadership faced pressure from the British to execute the Canadian after his trial. The two British co-accused had been dealt with this way.  According to Clark, King agreed to the execution only if it took place after the general election in June of 1945 that saw King returned to power.  No one, it seems, thought it a wise idea to execute a Canadian soldier after the war and while an election campaign was under way.   So the book says King agreed to a plan that would see the death sentence carried out in a remote area of Italy in absolute secrecy, after Canadians went to the polls and re-elected King. All involved would be prohibited from talking about it, and all  records would be sealed.  Though the military campaign was over, 30  Canadian soldiers were deliberately left in Italy to execute Pte. Pringle when the time was right. (Liberal wartime Politics, another 'continuing' Canadian Shame!.. After all, Liberals 'themselves' don't go to war.. )
The Warped Mind of a Sniper
Among the items, Singh says, were a shiny 8-inch pistol silencer, a blueprint for a rifle silencer and a 20-inch axle rod that Muhammad said could be bored and  converted into a rifle silencer.  Muhammad asked Singh if he knew anyone in the Sikh community in Canada who could do the job. Singh said he didn't, and besides, why did Muhammad need a silencer? Singh says Muhammad replied that he wanted to shoot a tanker truck on the highway and make it explode, or shoot a police officer and then, as officers gathered for the memorial service, set off a bomb, killing as many officers as possible. (The prosecution would argue that this was just a 'downtrodden' individual that simply 'snapped' as we all could do under the same type of pressure. And, if  all that's needed are  more gun laws to protect us from poor unfortunate people such as this.. Only hoplophobes, Liberal apologists, and gun control freaks could believe crap like this and ignore the fact this wacko, like all the other wackos, has been a criminal for years!)
Heavy D is dead and nobody is talking
(Pardon me if I don't shed a tear)
Heavy D, whose baby face and faint mustache belied his propensity for violence, was spotted crouched behind a car in the parking lot of the little mall on Danforth Road around 12:50 p.m. last Saturday. "He pulled out a handgun and fired at least one shot" at a trio of young men who had just arrived and were standing beside their car.  One of this threesome -- described by witnesses as a black man inn his very early 20s with a medium complexion -- then pulled out his handgun and, Staff-Insp. Clarke said, "in the ensuing gun battle, a total of about 20 shots were fired." (As the Liberals keep saying "The Firearms Act is Making a Difference". I have to agree! There were NEVER this many guns, or gun deaths on the street before the Feds spent a BILLION DOLLARS protecting everyone from duck hunters and target shooters. While at the same time, seeing that 'criminals' get off with the lightest sentence possible. If it were not for "Gun Laws" and the resulting charges, criminals would have no bargaining power at all!)

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