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FIREARMS QUICK FACTS
By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated June 11th, 2003

Dear Firearms Owner,					July 28, 2003


This is a brief reminder to support CUFOA at their firearms rally on Parliament
Hill at noon, Monday, September 29.

As you may know, CUFOA has been on a month-long rolling rally across Canada. on
your behalf, to challenge the legitimacy of C-68: The Firearms Act.

If you are in the vicinity of Ottawa at this time, you are invited to support
the cause and protect their right to defend our Canadian freedoms.


							Professor Al Dorans
							Director, RFC Ottawa
							Chairman, FED UP II

American Civilians Receive Counter-Terrorism Training in Israel

The case for maintaining the national firearms-registration system weakens with each new example of mismanagement. A well-intentioned initiative has been so wretchedly bungled it increasingly appears it would be best simply to put the costly mess out of its misery. The gun registry was proposed eight years ago as crime-fighting tool to enable police to trace stolen guns and guns used in the commission of crimes. But so far, it has proved itself primarily an annoyance for law-abiding gun owners and a classic example of profligate government spending; the registry now rivals the folly of the Olympic Stadium.(Regardless of how much money has been wasted so far, wasting even more in an attempt to avoid the unavoidable political embarrassment this government will surely face, shows the voting public of just how fiscally incompetent these liberal clowns really are.)
Redirect gun registry funds: report
City committee wants money spent on health, education, law enforcement, municipalities
The federal government should abolish the $2-billion firearms registry for long guns and redirect the tax dollars to municipalities, health care, education and law enforcement, says a report to be presented to a city committee. The money earmarked for long guns -- hunting rifles and shotguns -- in Bill C-68, the national firearms registry, could provide MRIs for every hospital in Canada or hire at least 10,000 police officers, says the report submitted by West Carleton Councillor Dwight Eastman. "Bill C-68 introduced a number of valuable provisions pertaining to gun ownership," the report says. "Few people would argue with new regulations pertaining to the safe storage of all guns and ammunition, tougher penalties for those using a firearm in the commission of a crime, or additional restrictions on the ownership of fully automatic weapons. "However, the requirement that every law-abiding Canadian who owns a hunting rifle or shotgun must register it is not only a tremendous financial waste, but it serves no purpose," it further says. "It is highly unlikely that criminals are registering their weapons."(The really sad thing is, C-68 introduced none of those things as 'new' requirements. They were ALL part of the previous law that was working well, was more effective, and far less costly. Right from the start, C-68 was just a Liberal pet project that got vastly out of hand, and became the 'latest' porkbarrel symbol for this wasteful, arrogant, government. It does absolutely nothing to make anyone safer, and never will.)
A Case of Monkey See, Monkey Do
What started off as a seemingly isolated incident of senseless violence has snowballed, with two more pellet gun shootings taking place over the last two days.  On Wednesday night a young man visiting the city from New York with his parents allegedly shot out the back window of a car. Inside, were an 8-month-pregnant woman and her husband, who were targeted while driving in the Eglinton and Weston area. The suspect has been charged and appeared in court Thursday. Amid the shock of the shootings, Police Chief Julian Fantino offers the hard truth that banning pellet guns may not make any difference. “You can ban pellet guns, you can ban anything you want. The reality is people will use other things. And not too long ago I had people asking me my view with regards to banning machetes because, as you know, there was a machete attack in the city. Where is it going to end?”(If bans worked, Teenagers wouldn't be able to buy cigarettes today would they?)
An Email Posted on the Firearms Digest and a Link to the Story

Right to carry would disprove horror stories
One particular fear raised by Holden is that right-to-carry laws would actually make police officers' jobs more dangerous by making it more likely that they would be shot. Yet research has shown that the laws make police safer. Professor David Mustard at the University of Georgia found that right-to-carry laws reduced the rate that officers were killed by about 2 percent per year for each year that the laws were in effect. Several studies find that as law-abiding citizens are allowed to defend themselves, criminals are much less likely to carry guns. Fewer criminals carrying guns makes the jobs of police less dangerous.(I don't think I would like to live in a community where I felt safer by carrying a concealed firearm. But, I HATE the fact that my government, thinks most licensed, trained firearm owners are too stupid to be trusted with a firearm to protect their lives. They will gladly trust a cop that that may only fire his sidearm once or twice a year, to 're-qualify' but no trust is granted to the IPSC shooter for example, that might fire 20,000 rounds a year with scores based on speed, accuracy, and safety! Which do you think is the most qualified & safe with a firearm?)
With 'Head' Firmly Embedded, Bureaucrat Credits The Registry
Stolen Gun Re-Registered 3 or more times
David Austin, a spokesperson with the Canadian Firearms Centre, would not comment on the case because it is under police investigation. He said verification of information such as serial numbers about guns should be done by businesses. Winkel said the information was verified before the previous owner brought the gun to the store to sell it in May. Before selling the gun in July, Winkel said he checked the information and gave the same details to call centre staff that he had also supplied by phone in May when buying it. Austin said any problems with the process could be revealed in the police investigation. He said the centre would co-operate with police and would review its procedures if problems were found. Austin said locating the stolen rifle proves the gun registry works. “In terms of the system working, it appears the fact that the gun was stolen has come to light as part of the registration process,” he said. (A 'simple' CPIC check would have identified the stolen rifle. At one time, even the public could use a CPIC Search to flag a stolen gun, but now 'that' choice has been curiously removed from the public access database. I assume they don't want the public checking their own guns, thereby denying credit to the 'boondoggle' that can't find them anyway! Only a useless bureaucrat would insist a Billion Dollar Bureaucracy, which failed to flag it in three previous registrations, should be credited with the discovery. It's just too bad this "system" and accompanying waste is so sad, or it could be hilariously funny. Perhaps a List of Stolen firearms should be quietly submitted by police as a test of this "Fantastic Registry" and see how many have been reregistered to their 'new' owners. If ONE got by, there are probably thousands of stolen firearms re-registered by this wasteful farce, and in all probability, their all over the country.)
Gun program told of flaws in external audit of registry's finances
Limited review of accounts misleading to public, MPs, federal auditor warned
Because of the amendment, KPMG was unable to conduct an "attest" audit to judge the integrity of the Canadian Firearms financial records from 1995 to 2002 and could only do a sample review of the centre's spending and invoice records for a two-year period. The amendment, which was not signed and approved until more than a month after KPMG submitted its final report to the Justice Department, cost the government an additional $30,000, raising the fee to $94,100.08 for two months work.A briefing memo prepared for Mr. Cauchon suggests that the department obtained the services of KPMG to try to restore the program's public image, rather than get to the root of spending problems.(As I've said before: If it looks like a pig, smells like a pig, and sounds like a pig it must be a pig. And, even if you glue on wings it ain't gonna fly. But these idiots keep pushing it off the roof of the barn anyway! Sooner or later, it's gonna land on a 'Rock')
Playing with guns is 'good for boys' 
Holland claims that 30 years after the ban on playing with guns and swords came into vogue, there has been no evidence of a decline in their desire to play violent games. Boys continued to play behind the backs of staff, even when they had been told it was wrong. Even when the plastic guns and swords were taken away, they did what generations of boys have done before. Pieces of wood, tennis rackets and even pens and crayons, all became guns, swords, and daggers in the fertile young imagination. Holland adds there is no evidence that boys were more or less likely to grow into aggressive men because of the games they played.(Every kid I grew up with, played 'Cowboys & Indians', or 'Cops & Robbers'. Everyone had a gun belt and six-shooter. And NO-ONE had a problem with kids randomly shooting people. That, started when the politicaly correct ended firearms education, kids became 'firearms ignorant', and guns became objects of curiosity rather than tools.)
Canada 'Safety Council' Firearms Ignorant as Usual
Mr. Thérien said the extent of the child's injuries did not surprise him. "A pellet travels 600 feet a second -- you could have a feather travelling at that velocity and it would cause very serious harm," he said. "If lawn darts are banned, how is it that these weapons are not banned or regulated?" However, Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino said banning such weapons will not necessarily cut down on dangerous incidents. "The laws are in place to deal with these issues," Chief Fantino said. "It's not the weapon per se -- it's what use is made of the weapon. You can say the same thing of a baseball bat or a garden rake."(Julian Fantino, Toronto's Police Chief, is 'again' the voice of logic speaking out to the ignorant. Perhaps no one has informed Mr. Thérien of the Canada Safety Council, That if the pellet is travelling at 600 fps, perhaps the airgun is 'already' classified as a firearm under Canada's useless firearms act. Banning them will just provide a market for smugglers, and drive 'all' sales of them underground where there is NO control. Much the same as you see in the U.K. right now! After all, isn't shooting someone already illegal, or did you simply overlook that one in favour of 'more' poorly thought out, knee-jerk legislation? After all, if Bans Worked, all bureaucrats and politicians would be honest wouldn't they? )
A good idea from Quebec?
Editorial - Jean Charest is the first Quebec premier in memory to come to a conference of his peers with a proposal that they could, and quickly did, unanimously endorse. The Council of the Federation will give the provinces and territories a common front from which to withstand federal incursions on their constitutional mandate and regional interests. The timing could not be more propitious. Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s government has become increasingly arbitrary in its efforts to resolve on its own those issues in which the provinces and territories also have a direct, and frequently conflicting, interest. Gun registration was just such an issue. Canadians may have supported its intent but were outraged by the heavy-handed violation of privacy and extravagant cost of federal implementation.(Charest, may be the light at the end of a long dismal tunnel for Quebec, and hopefully the rest of Canada as well.)
Gun registry travel bill totals $13M
Firearms centre unable to explain spending over last six years
The Canadian Firearms Centre spent $13 million on travel over six years and nearly $500,000 on hospitality during the same period, a government financial statement shows. The statement was compiled when KPMG accountants conducted an audit of the controversial gun program earlier this year, but it was not released publicly when the firm submitted its final report to Justice Minister Martin Cauchon. Communications adviser David Austin, who joined the centre three years ago, said one explanation could be that the Justice Department consulted widely with firearms stakeholder groups across Canada as regulations for the Firearms Act were being developed. "I've got no way of tracking that one down, literally, that would be a search of the records," he said. "How are they ever going to find that one? It would be individuals, going back and digging up accounts." (This is interesting in the fact that Cauchon never once, consulted the "stake holders". Unless all this money was spent on frequent dinners, trips, and perks for the coalition for gun control, as this was the only "stake holder" there is any record of him talking to! C-68 has created one of the largest pork barrels for politicians, bureaucrats, and their friends, this country has seen since the H.R.D.C., another Liberal boondoggle. Why are they not listening to Canadians, and shut this thing down? Because they don't have to, they think their invincible, and the taxpayer to stupid and/or uniformed to see the waste!)
Gun-laundering registry a farce: One billion dollars a big investment for national firearms lost and found
Wes Winkel, the manager of Ellwood Epps Sporting Goods in Orillia, Ont., -- "For all your hunting, shooting, fishing and camping needs" -- says "OPP officers were laughing their heads off," when they came this week to confiscate a hunting rifle from his store, just "two minutes north of Weber's barbeque restaurant," on Route 11. OPP stands for Ontario Provincial Police, the force that polices rural Ontario the way the RCMP polices much of Alberta outside the big cities. The rifle had been listed in the RCMP's national crime computers since it was reported stolen in Quebec in 1992. Still, the Liberals' national gun registry had registered it not once, nor twice, but three times. On the fourth, someone at the registry finally got around to matching the rifle to the RCMP's list of heisted guns and prevented its re-registration; actually, its re-re-re-registration.(A trip to Ellwood Epps should be on the list for every Ontario Gun Owner. (If only to hear the ongoing laughter about this farce from visiting police officers) If your passing by, drop in, the experience will be well worth it. Epps is a 'old time' gun shop. Need a part, thing, or widget for an old gun?  If it exists, it's probably there 'someplace'. There are displays of deactivated 'interesting stuff', exploded gun barrels, bits and pieces that will make you go 'hmmmm'! Hundreds of firearms line the walls, and always a number of sports shooters poking around in corners of the shop, looking for what they illusive item they can't find anywhere else. I try to go in at least one a month, and some of my 'hard core' gun collecting friends have wives that won't speak to them, or are kept blissfully ignorant, because they couldn't pass up the deal they found.. Ellwood Epps: It's "worth the trip to Orillia"! Take my word for it!) 
ALMOST UNANIMOUS OPPOSITION TO GUN REGISTRY IN P.E.I
The purpose of the form was to find out what the residents of P.E.I. had to say about the legislation in question. I encouraged both those in favour of and those against the legislation to respond so I could get some feeling on how the residents of this Province felt. The survey was conducted over a period of approximately six weeks. I decided not to contacts such groups as Wildlife Federations, Ducks unlimited, Enforcement Agencies, etc. as I did not want to be seen as weighting the results. I would also like to add that the form only appeared in the newspapers once. Based on the replies and comments I have received the majority of Islanders oppose this legislation. The following is a list of the major comments from the survey and attached is the complete list of comments; Survey: – Survey period - March 01, 2003 to April 15, 2003 – total number surveyed - 407.  Those in favour of the legislation - 2.  Those opposed to the legislation - 405 (And, I'm justt as sure the very same results would be found in EVERY provence and territory of the country. The taxpayers have recognized this legislation for the wasteful farce that it really is. To keep this sham operating, simply shows the disdain the Liberals have for the taxpayer's  wishes. This arrogance is absolutely astounding, just like the 'last' time they formed a majority government, and just like it will be when the taxpayers again forget, and give them another majority government sometime in the far future!) 
Philippine weapons owners stick to their guns despite calls to disarm
 MANILA (AFP) - Firearms owners in the Philippines are fighting efforts by the government and private groups to curb gun ownership. A lawsuit on the right to bear arms has been filed by a prominent gun enthusiast, and groups defending the right to own guns are recruiting members to counter rival bodies seeking to restrict the number of guns in private hands. Ironically, the campaign for the right to own guns gained strength when President Gloria Arroyo in January issued an order banning civilians from carrying their weapons outside of their homes. The order effectively revoked hundreds of permits to carry firearms that the Interior Department had already issued to private citizens who said they needed guns for self-protection or professional reasons. Pro-Gun argues that the crackdown on guns mainly affects the licensed owners of firearms and does nothing about the unlicensed guns in the hands of criminals, communist insurgents and Muslim separatists. Frank Chavez, a former chief government lawyer, filed a petition with the Supreme Court to have Arroyo's order suspended on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Carlo Ybanez, a lawyer who helped draft Chavez's petition, conceded that Filipinos, unlike Americans, do not have the right to bear arms enshrined in their constitution. "But we can argue that we have the right to carry arms because it is intertwined to our rights to protect life, especially here in the Philippines where we all know that the police cannot protect the citizens," he said. Officials said 800,000 firearms licenses had been issued this year to civilians and government officials. Another 328,000 firearms are believed held by civilians without police authorization. (The Philippines, like most countries that institute gun bans, usually have much more to fear from their governments than criminals. And, like every other place on the earth that has tried this, it only affects the law abiding and the criminals remain armed. Their whole story sounds very familiar to Canadians, I wonder if 'their' government is following the "Highly successful" Canadian model? I also wonder if the philippines can afford such a fine example of useless bureaucracy?)
Mental Defectives shoot 5 year old child
TORONTO -- A five-year-old boy was in a Toronto hospital last night with a pellet lodged in his brain after an apparent shooting rampage while thousands of people walked waterfront-area streets after the Molson Indy. City police said that the boy, who was not identified, is in critical condition and faces life-threatening surgery after the pellet entered his brain through his eye socket. Pellet guns, usually powered by compressed carbon dioxide, resemble handguns and rifles but fire metal pellets instead of bullets. They are not considered firearms and as such are not subject to the regulations of the Firearms Act, however, safety advocates have long maintained pellet guns should be classified lethal weapons. But, if a pellet gun is used in the commission of an offence or to cause injury, charges can be laid under the Criminal Code, police said.(A pellet gun, or golf club for that matter, if 'used' as a weapon, IS a weapon under the law. Anyone that uses 'either' item as a 'offensive' weapon 'should' be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The criminals that injured these people, regardless of what was used as a weapon, should face the legal, and financial consequences of their indiscriminate actions. This child is now blind in one eye, and may die. God forbid the worst should happen, but if it does the 'main' charge should be 'murder' and not manslaughter.)
Saskatoon City report cautions against killing crows
The report also indicates that in Saskatoon, the discharge of firearms within the city is prohibited under a bylaw, unless permission is received from the city. Police also require individuals to have valid firearm discharge permits and the gun must be registered. "They would also require notification each time the gun is to be discharged," the report states. "The potential for property damage or wounding a bird should be a concern."(Only makes sense! Everyone knows that the 25% of Saskatoon guns that are 'registered' are so much safer than the majority of firearms in the city. And, don't forget to call the city each time you are going to fire the gun. Don't worry, the crow will wait..)
Moving van driver home after Sask. arrest for hauling guns
WALKER, Minn. (AP) -- A long-haul mover from Minnesota is back home after spending five days in Canadian jails because Canada Customs officials found a large arsenal of weapons among the household goods he was transporting for a man moving from Delaware to Alaska. Mark Eller, 36, of Walker, specializes in transporting household goods from the lower 48 states to Alaska and wasn't expecting anything unusual when he pulled his rig into Canada Customs at North Portal, Sask., on June 29. He told Customs inspectors twice he wasn't carrying any weapons. Eller said the load had been in storage for a while and he forgot one of the marked crates on his truck contained three rifles. (Perhaps the procedure has changed? 25-30 Years ago, I used to bring 'lots of stuff' across the border by truck. Usually around 2 am. When we reached the Canadian border, we would simply request that a 'customs seal' be put on the trailer, or truck box. We would then go on our way, and have the contents inspected the next day at a Mid Continent Customs inspection station. They would remove the seal, inspect the cargo, we would pay the duties required, and be off! Why would trucking companies travelling across Canada, between two states, not be bonded carriers? The entry would be recorded, the container sealed, and inspected by U.S. customs at the Alaska border?)
And The "Culture of Safety" Continues:Man, 36, killed in robbery
A business owner is dead and another man injured after a vicious robbery at an Etobicoke clearance outlet yesterday. "I hope they catch these guys.... It is utterly shocking," said police Superintendent Ron Taverner after the incident at Home Goods & More on Mars Rd. near Albion Rd. The 36-year-old proprietor of the store was pronounced dead on the way to Sunnybrook hospital about 5:40 p.m. He had been shot twice in the chest. A second victim suffered minor injuries when he was pistol-whipped by two men who burst into the store demanding cash. Employees and customers watched in disbelief. "People were traumatized. They're still in shock," Taverner said. (The picture of the button says all that I have to say! And, it's about time business owners started keeping a shotgun under the counter for fast access. They can always take it home, and put it back into 'storage' when not needed for personal defense )
Gun activist finds it's hard to get arrested 
Solicitor general says crusader likely won't get busted for 'stunt'
Truro - Canada's solicitor general doesn't expect five cross-country crusaders against his gun registry to get their day in court any time soon. "The police know the difference between a threat to public safety and a publicity stunt," Wayne Easter said Thursday. "They're on a crusade across the country trying to outline their point of view. People have a legitimate right to protest." Nova Scotian Al Muir and four other members of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners' Association are travelling across the country flaunting the fact they haven't registered their long guns. They want to be charged so they can fight firearms regulations in court. "If there is a threat to public safety, the police will act," Mr. Easter said during a telephone interview from his office on Prince Edward Island. "Thus far, from these individuals, we've not seen a threat to the public. (Talk about a sad, sad, excuse for a Solicitor General! This just shows how 'toothless' this law really is. These men have PROOF they have broken the law, not just a law, but they are in VIOLATION of the Firearms act which is part of the CRIMINAL CODE. Since when is it NOT an offence to violate any part of the criminal code even for, or particularly for, a "publicity stunt". The feds would prefer to see a "Direct Threat to the Public" then there would be charges under a 'different' portion of the Criminal Code, because they know the firearms act portion of the Criminal Code is too flawed to convict anybody! It is also against the law for a person in a position of authority to KNOW the law is being broken, and NOT report it, or take action. The Solicitor General of Canada should know that HE is also in contravention of the law for being in full knowledge of this illigal act, and ignoring it. Are the Solicitor General, and other members of the Liberal Party above the law? Do the laws of our country not apply to them as it would to others? Obviously they don't think so! But one thing is for certain.  Has The Solicitor General of Canada, just CONFIRMED that owning a unregistered firearm while NOT being a "threat to public safety" Will NOT get you  arrested?)
AGAIN! No one Listens to Wendys Weirdos
"Aggressive attacks on Canada by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Canadian gun lobby only strengthen the resolve of groups and governments around the world to tackle illegal gun running," said Professor Wendy Cukier, President of the Coalition for Gun Control (Canada), who attended the meeting.
Noting the repeated efforts in recent years of the NRA to undermine Canada's gun control program, she said: "Our success seems to make them nervous: Americans might actually realize there is another path to follow. When we compare Canada to most countries in the world, as we have over the past week, it's clear that we are on the right track".(The Coalition for gun control, put this 'news release' on the Canadian wire service July 11/03, and again, they have been ignored by the media. The public is no longer behind this farce, and the media are well aware of the twisted statistics they use in the vain attempt to push their paranoia on others. Canada has always had gun owning citizens, and has always 'generally' been a safe place to live. Nothing in their ridiculously expensive waste of tax dollars has been responsible for this. and, if they think it has, the media has been quick to realize their delusions!.)
Gun owners beg to be arrested
NIAGARA FALLS – They have no intentions of dropping their weapons, but, then again, they haven’t been asked to. “Arrest us!” they threaten. “Throw us in jail!” they yell, but five provincial legislatures and a multitude of police stations later, no one has taken the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Association up on their offer. The association, comprised of six gun-owning men, is travelling across the country in an effort to be properly charged with possession of an unregistered firearm under the Firearms Act. These opponents of gun registry have staged several displays of civil disobedience in hopes of having the law subject to the proper judicial tests. Declarations of their unlawfulness has been made directly to the government and police, to no avail. “Nobody has arrested us and we want to know why,” said CUFA member Bruce Montague. “With such an expensive, fancy new law, you think they’d be willing to take it for a spin around the block.” He added: “We think the police know it wouldn’t stand up in court, and deep down, the government knows they’re right.” (The government, for all intents and purposes, has been told in no uncertain terms to shit, or get off the pot! Not one provence, has decided that it's worth the cost involved, knowing that that 'any' conviction will go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, to prosecute these men for a law that is so flawed, so invasive of our constitutional rights, that there is no hope of conviction. A toothless law that merely intimidates, causes stress, anxiety, and worry for no reason whatsoever, begs to be tested. The Government is dead wrong, and they obviously know it.)
Gun registry means some {most} owners now criminals
The 200,000 people owning an estimated 1.6 million unregistered firearms are now labelled criminals after the federally imposed grace period deadline of June 30 came and went. David Austin, spokesperson for the Canadian Firearms Centre, said people who aren’t yet in compliance with the new laws are in jeopardy of being considered unlawful. “Our recommendation to them would be to comply right away,” said Austin. “They face possible criminal charges for not complying.” Federal officials pushed the original Jan. 1, 2003 deadline back six months to protect gun owners, who have submitted an application or a letter of intent, from criminal action. Of the estimated two million licensed gun owners in Canada, about 75 per cent have a registration certificate, said Austin, adding he guesses there are about 200,000 that aren’t licensed or registered. One individual contributing to the 25 per cent of unregistered, licensed gun owners is Wild Rose MP Myron Thompson, who believes the entire registry is a feeble attempt at crime control. “I’ve put my guns down in the States with a nephew of mine to look after and he’s had them for quite some time. He’s had them in his gun cabinet and I said, ‘whenever this country smartens up on their gun laws, maybe someday I’ll come back and bring them home,’” said Thompson.(All the number above are 'government' numbers widely accepted as propaganda, gleaned from a simple telephone poll, and not from any actual import/export/distruction/manufacturing records. The 'real' number of unregistered firearms is in the 'millions', along with their owners. a 25-30 percent compliance rate clearly shows this law is a farce, and NOT supported by the public in general)
Inuit exempted from gun registration until case is resolved
In deciding whether to impose a stay, Kilpatrick had to decide whether a refusal to do so could be so harmful to Inuit that the effects could not be remedied after trial. NTI said Inuit rely on country food for cultural as well as physical survival. However, the federal government argued that Inuit could just as easily shop for food at a grocery store.(Didn't someone once lose their head for a similar statement?  "Let them eat Cake"! The Idiots from the city, who wrote these laws, who also in most cases have never set foot in the wilderness, seem to think there is a "Grocery Store" or McDonald's around every corner of Canada! Most of these people who live off the land,  do not have a steady income and could NEVER afford to pay the northern prices for the 'white mans food'. This only proves one thing: In the Liberal Government, Ignorance knows no bounds! Could the government 'also' be nervous because a 'race' of people have just been exempted from a portion of the criminal code of Canada. If one portion of the criminal code could be subject to exemption, the precedent may have been set for 'any' other portion of the criminal code to also garner an exemption.) 
South Fla. Law plans attack on gun crimes
Local, state and federal law enforcement are coming together in South Florida to fight what they say are two of the biggest scourges of society -- guns and illegal gun-toters. ''Crime in general has decreased, but the amount of gun crime remains unacceptably high,'' South Florida U.S. Attorney Marcos Daniel Jiménez said Friday. ``We're going to attack gun violence with intensity and focus.'' That's where Project Safe Neighborhoods -- part of a national $234 million initiative unveiled last year by President Bush -- comes in. The South Florida district has already received $1 million and stands to get another $1 million this year, Jiménez said. The money will pay for equipment -- such as computers to trace gun histories -- and additional staff to focus on gun violations, he said. State and federal prosecutors will take a joint look at all violent gun crimes and decide which can be prosecuted at the federal level, which generally has stiffer penalties than state courts.(Canadian courts seem to take the opinion that serious time for a crime is anything from house arrest for a child pornographer, to 3 months jail (out in 30 days) for possession of a stolen handgun. Of course, Mr. Easter is calling for prison terms and thousands of dollars in fines for farmers, hunters, target shooters, and grandmothers that may have an old. unregistered .22 in the attic. And, they've spent over a billion dollars to do it. This government 'clearly' can't identify a criminal in the general population, unless they 'create' them themselves. So, they have spent this billion and a half dollars to create a couple of million 'new' criminals who are guilty of the heinous act of 'doing nothing' instead of registering themselves like pedophiles and sex offenders... Wait a minute! The government does not register pedophiles and sex offenders, only farmers, hunters, target shooters, and grandmothers that may have an old .22 in the attic! The only thing that exceeds the level of arrogance in this Liberal government, is their level of stupidity, and incompetence?)
Wayne Easter's misplaced pride
Wayne Easter, the federal Solicitor-General, claims Ottawa's firearms registry has "stood the test." Indeed, Mr. Easter is so proud of the program, he had his officials sing its praises this week at the United Nations, and encouraged other member states to follow Canada's lead. But given the many scandals that have plagued the program, these comments raised eyebrows back home. Indeed, this month brought a fresh gun-registry outrage: Thanks to Ottawa's incompetence, 300,000 law-abiding gun owners were turned into criminals on July 1. Forget the United Nations: Mr. Easter cannot even get Canadian police to enforce his law. A half-dozen members of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association have been presenting themselves at police stations across the country since the July 1 deadline. They have been showing police that they have no registrations and asking officers to charge them. So far, no takers. Why? Because it is hard for anyone -- except Mr. Easter -- to imagine such charges not being laughed out of court. Canada's gun registry has become a sad symbol of government overspending and incompetence. The last thing Mr. Easter should be doing is encouraging other nations to copy Canada's billion-dollar folly.(These are only small excerpts from this article. The ENTIRE article is a well written condemnation of the farce that is the Canadian Gun Registry. One of the 'best' ones I have read to date, and I have read lots! BRAVO to the National Post. I hope this story gets the attention it so richly deserves.)
UnRegistered Sex Offender Released to Halfway House in Holly's Neighbourhood
 TORONTO - A Corrections Canada decision to place a convicted sex offender in the neighbourhood where 10-year-old Holly Jones was abducted and killed has angered local residents and certain officials. Ontario's Public Security Minister Bob Runciman said the decision shows a "lack of sensitivity." He plans to tell the federal government that he's gravely concerned about the move. Justice officials said they had no choice but to release the offender since he's served the required two-thirds of a five-year sentence for criminal harassment and uttering threats. The man has a lengthy criminal history stretching back 40 years that includes rape and stalking teenage girls. (This man has had 60 past convictions! WHY is he not declared and dangerous offender, and locked up for the rest of his life? They KNOW he will re-offend, the only question is WHO will the next victim be? One thing is known for sure, the victim will be unarmed, it's the Canadian way!)
In the First of Many, Court rules against Ottawa in gun registry fight
Inuit representatives have long argued that the registry not only violates their land claim, but also has been implemented in Nunavut in such a way as to make compliance difficult or impossible. Guns are present in nearly every Inuk home, but few registration forms have been made available. Those that are available are not in Inuktitut, the language of many Inuit hunters, and the Canadian Firearms Centre closed its Iqaluit office. The registry legislation affects nearly every Inuit home. Nearly every family hunts to supplement expensive store-bought groceries and hunting is a crucial part of Inuit culture.(Soon to spread over the entire country)
And the "Culture of Safety Continues":Thug blasts merchant
Shotguns Winnipeg North End store owner after he refuses to give up cash
(Canoe link, will vanish in 24 hrs or less)
The owner of a North End convenience store is recovering from a gunshot wound to his left arm after two thugs tried to rob him late Tuesday night. About 11 p.m. Tuesday, two men -- one brandishing a shotgun, the other armed with a baseball bat -- walked into Charles Lucky Dollar Food Store at 291 Selkirk Ave. and confronted the lone owner, police said yesterday. The shop owner armed himself with a bat and refused to turn over any money. "During this confrontation, a shotgun was fired at close range, striking him in the left arm," Const. Bob Johnson said. The suspects ran from the store empty-handed. The owner, meanwhile, was rushed in unstable condition to Health Sciences Centre, where he underwent emergency surgery. He was listed in stable condition yesterday. (The store owner would have been 'much' better off to take 'his' shot gun out of storage, and keep it handy for defensive purposes. The courts have already exonerated a pharmacist for doing this.)
Gun fight goes to court in November
   Edmonton -   A former sargeant-at-arms will have the opportunity to fight the new federal gun registry when he goes on trial in November. Oscar Lacombe, charged with carrying a weapon to a public meeting and being unlawfully in possession of a weapon without a licence or a registration certificate, will stand trial Nov. 7. He wasn't charged under the new federal firearms act. On New Year's Day, Lacombe, 74, brought his gun to a protest against the federal gun registry at the Alberta legislature. Opponents of the federal gun registry had started raising money for Lacombe's defence long before he was charged.(He wasn't charged under the firearms act because the feds know it's so full of holes no court in the land will support it!)
UN gun control forum told of Ottawa's registry woes
Critic tells of huge costs: International lobbyists 'had' praised Canada's efforts
Canadian government officials watched straight-faced at a United Nations conference on gun control yesterday as a leading opponent of Ottawa's gun registry recounted its cost overruns and questioned its effectiveness. "I know you have heard many reports of its technological brilliance and its unmitigated success," Tony Bernardo told delegates representing the UN's 192 member countries. "I might suggest to you that the government of Canada has been less than transparent in its reporting of the accomplishments of its domestic firearms control system." Mr. Bernardo, speaking as executive director for the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, challenged Ottawa's claims about the efficiency of its domestic gun registration system. He also pointed out the system has been much more expensive than expected, and warned poorly thought-out programs can deny money for other projects, such as fighting poverty, without solving the problem of illicit arms trafficking. "I am not saying this to antagonize anyone. This is the truth," he said in an interview at the conference hall. The money could have been better spent, he said. "Our country has seen a continuous erosion of its much vaunted health care system, a dramatic lowering of school standards ... and our once-proud military has been reduced to an international joke," he told delegates. "Canadians do not applaud the spending of $1.25-billion of our taxes on feel-good legislation designed to vindicate the international aspirations of our current government." (Canadians have lost much more than they would ever hope to gain from this farce. Can you imagine how many lives saved, and how much suffering 'could' have been avoided if this billion and a quarter dollars had bought, installed, and staffed 230-250 hospital based MRI machines ? This would have 'tripled' the number of these lifesaving diagnostic tools in Canada, and reduced the current 3 'month' waiting period for a scan, to mere days.. Do you 'really' think the gun registry is of comparable, or better value? I doubt it, considering that it exists simply to support the lies and ideals of a  Liberal Government that is trying so very hard to empress the misguided efforts of the United Nations. And, perhaps secure a future post for the likes of Jean Chrétien!)
Kirkland Lake Council Votes NO to Firearms Registry
Kirkland Lake council met last night with the topics of the skateboard park, the long guns registry, mobile multi-use live fire-training unit for Northern College and a tax exemption for the Legion.  Council voted unanimously for the federal government to abolish the federal gun registry on long guns, as it is felt by members of council that Bill C-68 was a very bad decision on behalf of the federal government, as if it continues, it will end up costing Ontario Taxpayers $2 billion. The Town of Kirkland Lake is calling upon parliament to retain the licensing component of Bill C-65, to strengthen the sentencing and penalties associated with the use of firearms in the commission of a crime, abolish the unworkable national firearms registry for long guns and redirect the tax dollars being spent on the registry to programs in support of municipal infrastructure, health care, education and local law enforcement. (Kirkland lake may be a small town compared to Ottawa, but they certainly have more 'smarts')
 Gun Culture In Some European Countries Rivals That of U.S.
London (CNSNews.com) - Despite the popular view of Europe as a bastion of tight gun control laws, a study due to be released next week says firearm ownership is widespread and that some European countries have developed a gun culture rivalling that of the United States. European Union residents own a total of 67 million registered guns, but the real total is probably much higher, according to this year's Small Arms Survey. Ownership is most prevalent in Finland, France and Germany. "Contrary to widely accepted national myths, public gun ownership is commonplace," researchers wrote. "It may appear to some outside observers -- especially Americans -- that Europeans have blindly surrendered their gun rights." "The reality is that the citizens of most European countries are better armed than they realize," the report said.(Politicians that tell us Gun Control Works, Gun Registration is Effective, are simply whistling in the graveyard. There is not one single country in the entire world, where gun registration has resulted in reduced crime. Registering cars, dogs, snowmobiles, and personal watercraft, do not make them safer.  It only makes them taxable, and confiscatable. Why would registering firearms make them safer? The owner of those firearms has already been deemed safe by the government because you can't register a firearm until you have a licence issued by the government.  This is about as logical as finding it surprising that criminals 'always' go after the unarmed 'first'.. Real research, (as opposed to cold call telephone polls favoured by the Liberals) tell us there are vastly more firearms 'outside' the useless registry than inside. However, out of embarrassment over the predicted very low 'real' compliance rate, the Liberals treat these firearms as 'vapour arms'. For obvious political reasons, it's better if they don't exist, so ignoring them is the politically correct thing to do. Actually registering them, won't make them any safer and they know it!)
Drivers blamed as theft from cars rises
Theft of items from parked cars is way up in the city this year, and the police say it is the fault of the victims. So far this year, 7,525 items like laptop computers, cell phones and purses have been reported stolen from cars. That represents an increase of almost 20 per cent from the corresponding period last year. "This phenomenon is particularly due to the fact that motorists are leaving objects in view of thieves. Often the doors aren't even locked or, if they are, the thieves smash the window," said commander Pierre Paré, head of investigations at the police operations centre on Guy St. " It's a big problem right now."Paré insisted, it is common sense measures - like stowing valuables in a trunk and locking car doors - that will stop the growing problem.(Oh I see, if you inadvertently leave something in your car and forget to lock the door, and some low life thief steals it, it's 'YOUR' fault? What the hell kind of 'liberal speak' is this crap. If your a 'victim' it's YOUR fault? And I suppose if a woman in a miniskirt is raped, it's her fault because "The bitch was asking for it"? If someone breaks into my home and robs me, it's MY FAULT for having possessions? Perhaps if people like commander Pierre Paré, head of investigations at the police operations centre on Guy St. and all the judges in our revolving door legal system were doing their jobs, they wouldn't have to blame the victim. And if their excuse is not enough money, Canadian taxpayers have just watched the police associations support the HUGE waste of a gun registry that only tracks and harasses the law abiding. Why not track and harass the criminal for a change? Or is it because the Liberal Government values THEIR rights more the the rights of honest citizens.)
Aussies amongst most heavily armed
 AUSTRALIANS rank among the world's most heavily armed citizens despite the Federal Government's efforts to tighten gun laws. There are an estimated 2.1 million private firearms in Australia, according to the Small Arms Survey 2003 by the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. Gun ownership in Australia surpasses the global ratio by more than 50 per cent with roughly one gun for every nine people, according to the study released overnight at a UN conference. And from 1999 to 2002 the number of robberies involving firearms in Sydney's most populated areas rose by 34 per cent, while handgun homicide has grown from 13 to 50 per cent since Martin Bryant killed 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in Tasmania in April 1996.(Well ! This calls for even 'more' useless laws doesn't it!  Australia, is just the latest country to prove that reoccurring fact, every time you introduce a gun ban, only the law abiding give up their guns, and gun crimes soar! Why? Simple! Unarmed citizens make the very best victims. )
The 'All New' National Association of Professional Police (NAPP)
 The National Association of Professional Police (NAPP) was initiated in 1998 as a voice that would represent the interests of officers and civilians across our great Country. The founding organizations included the Ontario Provincial Police Association, members of the RCMP's association, the Association des Policiers Provinciaux du Quebec, and the Niagara Region Police Association. Since the beginning other associations have joined from Calgary, Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver. NAPP has recently begun a nation-wide public awareness campaign to generate grassroots support for an initiative that will profoundly affect the safety of all Canadians, and of the police officers members of the many associations that constitute NAPP.(Hmmm. The C.P.A. are just lobbyists, and mouthpieces for the Liberal Government! We all know they are not stupid, and truly see the gun registry for the sham it really is, but will this group 'also' 'kiss ass' the Liberals for whatever reason, and support this farce? Only time and Honesty will tell!.. By the way, they have a section where you can leave your comments. It's 'moderated' so we'll see just how well their 'willing' to listen! NOTE (July 12/03) I left a Polite, appropriate, comment when I posted this a week ago, and their system still says "No Records" Do YOU think their listening? I doubt it!)
Nearly one gun for every American, but Europeans also heavily armed
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States has by far the largest number of publicly owned firearms in the world and is approaching the point where there is one gun for every American, according to the Small Arms Survey 2003 released Tuesday. But in surprise findings, the UN survey found that Europeans are more heavily armed than commonly believed, while there are far fewer small arms in Afghanistan and sub-Saharan Africa than previously estimated.(The liberals won't admit it, but genuine 'real' research says there are 17-21 million guns in 'this' country. That's one gun for every 1.5 - 3 Canadians, and 'that's' only the guns that are here legally! No one has 'any' idea of the number of smuggled guns, but is probably in the millions. The vast majority of firearms are in the hands of ordinary hunters, collectors, and target shooters. This vast majority of firearms  will never be a problem to society, except in the little minds of the paranoids, and control freaks)
And the "Culture of Safety" Continues
The 28-year-old Nationex delivery man was shot in the back when he intervened during a mid-morning armed robbery at a Ste. Catherine St. W. foreign exchange office. As he arrived, he saw two robbers trying to rip a bag of cash out of the hands of the woman, kicking and punching her outside the échange Net foreign exchange office next door, on Ste. Catherine near Fort St.   Hulbar didn't hesitate before dropping his delivery parcel and entering the melee. "I didn't see if they had a gun or if they were trying to rob the woman," a stern-faced Hulbar told The Gazette last night in an interview at his company's office in St. Hubert. "My mind was thinking: 'I must help this woman.' " The woman and her son, who is in his mid-20s and was working inside the exchange when his mother was assaulted, were fighting back when Hulbar got involved. Hulbar said he went after the robber who had taken the bag. When he grabbed for it, he felt a sharp pain below his right shoulder blade. One of the robbers had shot him, the bullet piercing his flesh but miraculously not hitting any internal organs and exiting through his right shoulder.(This man acted like a 'man' and possible saved this woman's life. Had he acted like the politically correct would dictate, he would have done nothing but call 911 and standby as the woman was beaten and possible killed. Had he been armed, NO ONE but the criminal would have been injured, and there is a 99% chance even the criminal would have turned and ran when confronted by a 'armed' citizen. It may be distasteful for some, but thousands of lives are saved every year in the U.S. by Law Abiding persons who have conceal carry permits. Far more lives are saved every year by firearms, than are taken in either country. Gun control zealots, who think they would be safer 'without' law abiding armed citizens in their community fail to consider this simple fact, because it interferes with their dogma that its the 'guns' that are the problem, and not the criminals.)
Judge extends Inuit gun law exemption
 IQALUIT, Nunavut -  Inuit in Nunavut are still protected, at least temporarily, from prosecution under the federal gun registry as the result of a ruling by Judge Robert Kilpatrick Tuesday. It extends an injunction that protects Inuit from prosecution until another case goes to court. Nunavut Tunngavik is suing for full exemption from the law. It says the registry infringes on Inuit rights granted under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
In his ruling, Judge Kilpatrick says forcing Inuit to register their guns would interfere with Inuit harvesting and could impact on their quality of life. He says it "may cause long term damage to a defining or core social value of Inuit society." The judge also rejected a request by Ottawa to have Nunavut Tunngavik's main lawsuit dismissed. (It sure doesn't look as if the feds are going to win this one! Once the S.C.C. rules the gun law does not apply to the Inuit, we will then have a 'race' based law, with no chance of survival. Giving guns to the Natives 'could' be the wisest choice our forefathers have ever made!)
And the "Quest for Arrest" Continues
 Approximately ten protesters appeared in front of the legislature with affadavits saying they had unregistered firearms. They asked to speak with the Premier who was not there at the time. The Premier's office sent a representative who met with the protesters, but no arrests were made. Similar protests in British Columbia and Alberta did not result in charges either, but the gun protesters say they'll visit every provincial capital in an attempt to get their cause heard by a judge.(Trying to get arrested for breaking the firearms law, seems to be a futile effort! The Government has passed a law, that it does not have the guts to enforce, because it knows the law is wrong, and has been told as much by all but two provinces in the entire country! The liberals passed this stupid act to kiss ass the United Nations, and won't repeal it because it will not admit that the law is wrong, and unenforceable. The very 'last' thing the government wants, is a Supreme Court Challenge because it KNOWS it will loose. This is a perfect example of uncontrolled politicians passing laws based on politics, political correctness, and the vocal pressure of special interest groups with 'other' agendas. No, these guys will NOT get arrested. They are not carrying firearms, and can 'only' be charged under the incredibly flawed firearms act. If  by some fluke they 'do' get arrested, it will only serve to shine a very bright light into the warped corners of this tangled web of laws and regulations, thereby exposing the utter incompetence of the government for pursuing this farce in the first place. )
Liberal Bureaucrats 'Raid' the Treasury to Give Each Other Raises
"It is clear that these so-called 'performance bonuses' are nothing but an excuse for public service executives to give each other raises," says Williams. "When 96 per cent of all executives are getting the raises, you have to wonder how bad of a job one has to do not to get the raise." Williams notes that bonuses were awarded to all 11 judges at the Immigration and Refugee Board, even though some judges are under investigation for bribery. "When the Immigration and Refugee Board has people under investigation for alleged bribery, why is everybody getting a raise?" he wonders. Other recent federal government scandals that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars include mismanagement of the gun registry program and bureaucrat bungling at Human Resources Canada, where 296 of 305 executives received performance pay. "Usually this kind of behaviour gets you fired in the real world, not a bonus," Williams says.(With all the waste at the gun registry, it makes you wonder just how stupid the 9 bureaucrats that 'didn't' get raises are? How stupid do you have to be, to be one of the 'lonely' 4% that will miss out on the annual trip to the trough. Call me a cynic, but I'm pretty sure there is a bigger percentage of Liberal bureaucratic incompetence than 4%! Obviously ANOTHER incredibly underestimated liberal accounting. A "Proof  IS a Proof" ain't it Jean? But hey, as they say: Just ignore the uncontrolled criminals running around with smuggled handguns. Just ignore the HUGE increase in urban drug trade shootings. Going after, and  controlling law abiding hunters and target shooters is the important thing here, "It's for the children", "We're creating a 'culture of safety'", "What's a Billion dollars if it only saves one life", ..etc..etc..etc..)
Also, The 'Main' Reason The Gun Registry Bureaucracy Exists
According to David Miller, an assistant CCRA commissioner, "the [auditors'] offices were looking at this as a great way to get additional resources." That is, by inflating the size of the non-compliance problem, the auditors could make a clear-cut case for an increase in their budget and staffing complement. In an ideal world, each of our politicians and bureaucrats would be a selfless servant to that worthy abstraction, "the public interest." But the principles of organizational behavior, with all the various modes of self-interested chicanery they imply, apply as much to public bureaucrats as to the rest of us: The desire for a greater fiefdom and budget is apparently a universal constant of managers worldwide.(Un elected bureaucrats lie, simply to increase their local power, and domain. AND, the politicians we elect seem to be stupid enough to believe them. Ministers  then waste billions  without proper investigations. Remember, 'bureaucrats', after seeing the government kiss ass the United Nations over small arms control. They grasped the golden ring of opportunity and told the politicians that 'they' were "world class experts", and could eliminate gun crime for only 2 million dollars. They of course knowing full well their fiefdoms would increase by a hundred fold. In Canada, un-elected bureaucrats run this country, by lying to incredibly gullible elected politicians. The problem is, Canadians keep electing these incredibly gullible politicians)
A creeping 'ethical malaise'
Parliament must hold bureaucrats to account before it's too late, MPs say
Public servants tossed out their old values for private sector values. Citizens became clients; rules were loosened; hiring practices relaxed; managers were empowered and oversight was reduced, "I hate to say I told you so, but these are the dangers of importing private sector values into government. You remove the rules, red tape and due process and tell them to treat citizens like clients then there's a price to pay and we're seeing the evidence of that now ... So am I surprised by what's happening? No not at all," Mr. Savoie said.(I'm no Goddamn "Client" of the Federal Government. I'm a TAXPAYER and demand to be treated as one. A "Client" is defined as "One who engages the services of any professional adviser; loosely, a customer or patron" {Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnalls} I am neither a "customer" OR "Patron" of the Liberal government. 'I AM A TAXPAYER' and WILL not be treated as a "Client" of ANY  department of the government, unless I am WILLING to use their 'services' and NOT COMMANDED  by the constitutionally challenged laws decreed by the dictator in charge! Being a "CLIENT", denotes a mutual, consent to supply a service for a fee. If the service is 'substandard', as a "CLIENT"  I have the choice of not using that service. If the government is so quick to adapt private industry rules, what happened to the one where you get your ass fired for lying to management about the 'worthiness' of your project, to be implemented at a reasonable low cost, and then hide the real numbers as it goes 500 times over budget, and can't even be properly audited because the whole department is a shambles? I think the several Million firearms owners who are now criminals, have a right to decline your "Service" and have no desire to be a "Client" of such a disorganized, dysfunctional, ethically challenged, dis-organization. )
Liberal Waste Rewarded As Usual
Ninety-six per cent of senior federal bureaucrats get bonuses
Williams has long argued bonuses should only be used judiciously as rewards for the star performers and not doled out to everyone. He said the latest payouts are all the more galling on the heels of a string of high-profile controversies. "When 96 per cent of all executives are getting the raises, you have to wonder how bad of a job one has to do not to get the raise," he said in a release. "I mean, 96 per cent of bureaucrats at the Department of Justice, who saw the gun registry grow from $2 million to over $1 billion, got bonuses for performance? That's outrageous." (Remember, they are rewarded with 'tax dollars' and as every good Liberal knows, 'tax dollars' are not real 'dollars' after they leave the hand of the taxpayer. They are now, rewardable 'funding units'. These 'funding units' exist to support the party line, give freely to friends, relatives, and political supporters, and to use against any organization that would defy the Liberal Agenda, hidden or otherwise.)
200,000 more lawbreakers here
The deadline for registering guns has passed, but the government doesn't seem concerned
Is it possible that these officials believe that those who have registered their weapons were the most dangerous or irresponsible gun-owners in the country, and that those who have defied the law are otherwise law-abiding citizens who are a threat to nobody? The feds are looking pretty foolish. Even if unregistered weapons are found by police in this province, Crown attorneys won't prosecute them. Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba authorities have also announced they won't prosecute offenders of the gun registry law.(The Liberals are discovering that they really stepped in a big pile, and are desperately trying to save face.. It ain't gonna happen! They have created a whole new class of criminal in Canada. Lifetime law-abiding citizens, guilty of owning property they and their families may have owned unfettered for generations. Now, they must have a piece of paper which contains virtually no useful information whatsoever, and keep this 'piece of paper' with the property or face upto 5 years in prison. This has cost all canadians 1 billion dollars to date. We have lost a billion dollars worth of lifesaving medical equipment, a billion dollars worth of 'real' crime control and/or border protection, all to protect the people of large cities from duck hunters.)
Saini's defence
(See link on story below as well)
In recent years, it has become increasingly evident that legislators, judges, bureaucrats, prosecutors and police brass are more eager to punish law-abiding citizens who defend their own property against robbers than they are to prosecute the robbers themselves. A Montreal convenience store owner who used a baseball bat to deter a tire-iron- wielding robber a week ago has become a victim of this maddening trend. But the thieves were armed -- both of them -- and they were after Messrs. Saini and Valcha's livelihoods, not just a pack of cigarettes. One or two more robberies of the magnitude the new store owners suffered in their first 19 days in business and they might well have lost their investment and their dream. Prior to this current, emasculated generation, police, editorialists, politicians and prosecutors would have instinctively understood that using a baseball bat to defend against armed thieves easily met the Criminal Code's test that self-defensive force must be proportionate to the threat of bodily harm or property loss presented. Until relatively recently, it was understood that the justice system is merely a collectivized deputy or surrogate for every individual's ultimate right to defend himself against criminals.(The courts 'should' be quick to put a stop to this type of charge. Self defence is STILL allowed in this country, and I fear the day when the right to defend yourself, is no longer allowed (two or three more Liberal Governments is all it will take!) If you are found innocent, then the charge was unjustified, and there should be public financial restitution for the 'politically' victimized victim. And, in extreme cases, the right to sue the authorities responsible for allowing indiscriminate charges to proceed.)
Shopkeeper charged after rough justice
Burglary suspect decked with bat. St. Hubert dépanneur robbed three times since new owners took over in June
Saini and Bassi, who were in the storage room, surprised the thieves. One, armed with a knife, was scared away by Bassi. Saini said the other thief took a swipe at him with the crowbar. Saini, armed with an aluminum baseball bat, swung back. The 45-year-old suspect suffered head, neck and leg injuries, but was well enough to be arraigned Monday on multiple charges including breaking and entering, parole violation, receiving stolen goods and possession of burglary tools. "I didn't have any choice but to hit him - he had a metal bar and they would have killed me," Saini said. "I don't understand why they arrested me, because I was only trying to protect myself."(Trial by jury is all this man needs, because it was 'clearly' self defence. But unfortunately, some over zealous cop, wanting to pad his arrest record is going to cost this poor fellow 'additional' thousands in legal fees. The thieves have made him a victim, now the Quebec legal system will victimize him again. You also can't help but notice that the thieves were not charged with assault, I presume they were only defending themselves! I wonder if the shopkeeper would have avoided these charges, if only he had been able to explain himself to the arresting cop, 'in french')
Gun registry survives late rush(?)
Despite the crush, the Canadian Firearms Centre central computer system did not fail as registry opponents were claiming the day after the deadline expired, Mr. Easter said yesterday. As of June 30, when the grace period passed, 6.4 million firearms had been registered, he said in an interview. Combined with a total of 613,000 guns that have been exported, destroyed or deactivated, the figures mean the government is close to accounting for nearly all of the estimated 7.9 million firearms in Canada. Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz mounted a fresh offensive against the registry yesterday, releasing a letter that the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters sent to Mr. Easter criticizing an advisory committee that the solicitor general recently announced for the program. The federation accused Mr. Easter of stacking the committee with "academics, experts in the field of domestic violence, advocates of tough gun laws, and ardent supporters of the national firearms system."(Gee!! Only 14 or fifteen Million Guns, and 4 or five million owners to go.. Oh ya and a couple more BILLION dollars as well.. But hey! The Liberals 'know' it's not 'real' money, it only tax dollars and once it leaves the taxpayers hands, it ceases to be 'real' money to the Liberals, and they dispose of it accordingly)
A tradition becomes a crime
 Federal gun registry passes another milestone, making criminals out of 300,000 people 
Now, the federal government would have you believe these “scofflaw” gun owners are the root cause of firearm-related offences in this country. Old Uncle Al, who likes to go after the odd deer every couple of years but never bothered to register the rifle he’s used since 1965? A criminal. Your friend Pete, who keeps his grandfather’s old shotgun mounted above the fireplace in his rec room? A criminal. The real criminals, meanwhile, continue to operate in the shadows, slipping right under the Canadian Firearm Centre’s radar and right past the rules and regulations of the controversial gun registry. They’re the gang members, the drug dealers, the burglars, bikers and hoodlums who walk around with handguns and other illegal weapons that will never be registered, never be licensed. If someone in your neighbourhood is shot and killed this year, the odds are it will not be with Uncle Al’s deer rifle. There’s a huge difference between the real criminals and these new “criminals” the federal government is talking about. One learned how to operate a firearm at his father’s knee, taking up a time-honoured Canadian tradition. He took hunter safety courses, takes care of his weapons and stores them safely. He uses them only in the pursuit of game. The other learned about weapons in a back alley, or a cramped basement apartment. He bought his weapon from another criminal, or stole it. He’s never taken a firearms safety course because he just doesn’t care about safety. His weapon is dirty, unreliable and kept in a glove compartment or jacket pocket. He uses it to intimidate, wound and kill. Who scares you most?(People should also understand that 300,000 is a 'minimum' number based on the number of guns discovered by the famous Liberal phone poll that asked the naive question "do you have guns in your house?". The REAL number of new criminals is in the MILLIONS. When you consider the REAL figures from import/ export/ destruction and manufacturing records for the last 3 decades, say between 17 and 21 million firearms are in the country. Then, divided by the universally accepted average of 3 firearms per owner, there are 6 or 7 MILLION firearm owners.  With only a total of 6-7 million firearms currently in the registry,  there are 10 - 14 MILLION firearms, and their 3.3 to 4.6 MILLION owners refusing, or unable to comply. Considering all the problems the government has had just trying to register the firearms it 'says' are out there, if the 'real' numbers ever tried to comply the entire system would freeze, malfunction, or keep crashing for years... Back to the question: "Who scares me most?" That would have to be the Canadian Liberal Government, and their lack of foresight, thought and intelligence for thinking that the majority of Canadian people would simply roll over and believe that this absurd, astronomically expensive, and possibly constitutionally illegal, firearms act is having any effect on criminals and their weapons, thereby making 'you' safer.)
  Nault's bill promotion goes too far
  WINNIPEG - The minister of Indian Affairs is facing allegations his department has gone to extraordinary lengths to win support for the long-promised bill to change the Indian Act.  New Democrat MP Pat Martin, also at the demonstration, calls it an "intrusion" and "an offensive practice." He says the government has gone to unreasonable lengths to promote the legislation, including giving a new women's group that supports the bill $1 million in funding. The money was originally intended to go to a different native women's group. Martin says that is no coincidence. The NDP says it has obtained a note from Nault to cabinet that says: "The Native Women's Association of Canada opposed the initiative; as a result the National Aboriginal Women's Association was formed…" to take part in the bill's consultation process. Adrienne Batra, with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says it's "typical" of the federal government to reward those who support their policies. (This is NOT Democracy! This a a corrupt government again, using taxpayers money to buy support from special interest groups. This is no different than the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to the coalition for gun control, because they support 'that' wasteful government policy. There unfortunately is no record of what, or how much, the Liberals gave the Canadian Police Association to ignore it's members and support the gun farce as well!)
And the "Culture of Safety Continues"
   OSHAWA - The attendant of a gas station at Bloor and Simcoe streets was held at gunpoint early Monday morning. Durham Regional Police say a lone man, whose face was covered with a bandana, pointed a handgun at an employee at Ultramar at 1:20 a.m. The suspect requested money from the attendant, but was denied, driving away in a vehicle, say police. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Durham Regional Police, 905-579-1520. (Why did this robbery happen? It happened because the criminal knew that the victim would be unarmed and defensless. Thankfully, the criminal did not want to become a murderer, so he ran off. This potential victim was very very lucky. The 'next' unarmed victim may not be.)

1976 LIBERAL ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF GUNS IN CANADA = 10.5 Million 

NUMBER OF GUNS REGISTERED = 6,019,925 

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