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

Gun registry deadline looms 
This headline is really starting to get monotonous isn't it!
  OTTAWA - Canada's gun owners have until midnight Monday to register their guns or potentially face charges. But Wayne Easter, Canada's solicitor general, is encouraging gun owners to keep registering even after the deadline has passed. "We're not intending to go on a witch hunt," he said. "But if circumstances are such that police officers come across a weapon or gun that is not registered, then those people are eligible to be charged." However, no one registering their firearms past the June 30 deadline will be reported to police, he said. Gary Breitkreuz, the Canadian Alliance party's gun registry critic, said that stance is absurd. "Excusing people from the Criminal Code of Canada because the minister in his office said, 'Well, you know, they should do whatever they can, we won't hold it against them' – I mean that's just unheard of." Breitkreuz wants the law scrapped, noting it has cost a billion dollars and only has 80 per cent compliance. Gun control advocate Wendy Cukier said 80 per cent compliance with any other government program would be seen as a huge success. The program came under heavy fire in December when the auditor general's report attacked the way costs had ballooned.  Cukier said the auditor-general's report created something of a crisis for the registry. But things have turned around and "they're making tremendous progress," she said. Once the registry exists, it will face another problem: enforcement. At least six provinces are either considering or have decided to leave enforcement of gun registration laws up to federal officials. Those provinces are Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Ontario. Some of those provinces also called for the law to be scrapped once the cost overruns became known. (Tremendous progress my ass! The figures have been fudged by this lying, deceitful, government since day One, and this farce has a 35% compliance at best. Now, Newfoundland is looking at not wasting 'their' taxpayers money charging people for registration offences for which they have no hope of receiving a conviction. Since the government admitted loosing 'god knows' how much information in that last computer crash, courts will simply have no grounds to convict on simple registration offences. ITS TIME TO DUMP THIS RIDICULOUS LAW, AND SAVE THE 'SECOND' BILLION FROM BEING WASTED TOO!)
REPORT PROVES GUN REGISTRY PRICE TAG UP AT LEAST ANOTHER QUARTER BILLION
Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, released a preliminary analysis of firearms compliance costs by the Library of Parliament [See Note #1] that will add another quarter billion dollars to the gun registry price tag.  “The government has repeatedly refused to provide Parliament with its actual and projected enforcement costs and compliance costs as recommended in the Auditor General’s report,” said Breitkreuz.  “On March 24th, we released the Library’s estimate of enforcement costs [See Note #2], and today we’re releasing its first of many reports estimating compliance costs.  If the Research Branch of the Library of Parliament can produce these estimates in just a few weeks, why can’t the Liberal government with all their vast resources?” asked Breitkreuz.  “It’s clear from this first report that firearms licencing compliance costs alone will cost firearm owners between a quarter and a half-a-billion dollars, and all these licences have to be renewed every five years,” reported Breitkreuz.  And as the report states, this estimate does not include the licencing fees and cost of passing the firearms safety course.  When the Library finishes their reports on compliance costs for registering 6 million firearms [See Note #4], 420,000 firearms transfers [See Note #5], firearms dealer costs, registration of tens of thousands of guns that American hunters bring into Canada each year (See Note #6), and the cost to police forces for destroying tens of thousands of guns, the compliance costs alone will easily exceed another billion dollars.”(There is absolutely no end in sight! The Liberals have been spending money like drunken sailors for the past ten years. Sure, the deficit is under control(?) but even the 'debt' would be under control if the Liberals were under control.)
  Gun control rally draws four !
 Last week, the Million Mom March had a shindig on the front steps of West Palm Beach City Hall to commemorate national ASK Day, a day designed to remind parents to ask whether guns are in the houses where their children play. Four people came.(And 'those' four were probably MMM members.. It's not thak people are against keeping children safe, but rather most are wise to the propaganda, misinformation, and just plain lies these people use to promote their 'cause'. )
Liberals cry 'poor' as $2-billion health hit looms for provinces
Canada's provinces face the loss of an expected $2-billion federal injection aimed at relieving stress on their health systems thanks to dampening projections for the federal government surplus. The $2-billion, a key pillar in the federal-provincial health-care accord reached earlier this year, was a pool of extra dollars that Ottawa said it would hand over to the provinces and territories in 2004-2005 if the federal government's surplus made it affordable. The cash was to be used for core services such as nurses' and doctors' wages, and to reduce waiting lists. Loss of the money would be a blow to provincial health budgets next year -- Ontario alone stands to lose up to $700-million based on its population.(To all those folks in Toronto that vote Liberal.. Look Around! Use your Heads for once! The Liberals have Wasted BILLIONS on pet projects, and ANOTHER wasted BILLION is on the horizon to continue to float their stupid gun registry. Where are they getting the money? HEALTH CARE That's where! How can they possibly justify spending this 'horrendous' amount of money on something that is of no proven use anywhere in the world, while people will be dying in hospital corridors waiting for a bed. It's time to SLAM the lid down on the money box and take an 'exposing' look at Liberal waste and spending practices. You may die waiting for a diagnostic MRI, but the Liberals have assured, by the spending of a billion dollars, that it is now highly unlikely that you will ever be shot by a renegade duck hunter! Good job too, because hospital beds will become a scarce as Liberal Ethics)
Operation Overload 2: Do Your Part!
"Operation Overload", A highly effective program, that started in 2000, has been acknowledged by MPs and the CFC spokesperson Dave Austin as being the result of running up the costs and crashing the CFC’s computer systems. Dave Austin and MP Paul Macklin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada accused LUFA of deliberately trying to clog the system. Macklin accused LUFA of costing the registry tens of millions of dollars in a CBC debate late December 2002. Dave Austin and the RCMP commented on CTV in January 2003 that there were no criminal activities for citizens exercising their rights in contacting the CFC requesting information. Do your part and join Operation Overload 2! It will insure the sinking of the C-68 Titanic. In June of 2003, Solicitor General Wayne Easter stated, “There are some problems with some of the people whose names may have disappeared as a result of the crash Dec. 30 of the system.” This action will have concerned Canadians telephone, fax, email and write the Canadian Firearms Centre with questions and concerns about licensing and registration. When you have a few minutes, call the Canadian Firearms Centre on their toll-free line and make an inquiry. Use your imagination to come up with questions that will require action on the part of the Center’s staff and be sure to get the information you request as it is your right. (The average wait at the end of last year was two hours.. The 'music' played for 25 minutes, then a recording came on, and Hours later you were still waiting. From June 3rd 2002 until May 26 2003, According to the Liberals OWN records, 67,796 firearms have 'vanished' from the system. Seeing that previous registration records say the average gun owner owns at least 3 firearms, it would look as if the 'crash' lost a minimum of 22,598 firearm owners, and all their guns. No one knows for sure who these people are, so no court in the country could get a conviction unless your lawyer is a complete moron! Give them a call, tell them you own a single shot 46 cal. U.S. Wangflanger rifle with a 12 inch barrel, is it listed in the FaRT table?, and if not tell me the name of at least 5 public firearms verifiers in my neighbourhood.)
Our home and global arms dealer
Canadian taxpayers fund the world's fourth largest arms merchant
Perhaps 'Wendy' Should Read This, and tell me again how ALL Illegal Weapons start out as Legal Weapons, And WHY Registering MY old .22 is Important?
The F.A.Q's That 'Should' be on the C.F.C Site but Ain't

Organized crime ignored by Ottawa, Coleman says
B.C. solicitor-general slams Ottawa for wasting money on gun registry but not creating national anti-crime strategy
Provincial Solicitor-General Rich Coleman criticized the federal government Wednesday for not doing enough to fight organized crime despite heightened concerns over the alleged link between a Teamsters union official and the Hells Angels. Following a cabinet meeting Wednesday, Coleman slammed Ottawa for failing to properly fund crime fighting initiatives or develop a national strategy to combat organized crime. Coleman said he would have preferred the federal government dedicate money toward crime-fighting initiatives rather than wasting it on developing a gun registry or decriminalizing marijuana. "I'm terribly disappointed in that," Coleman said. "You have things like Bill C68 (the gun registry law) that cost a billion dollars. That could have gone into frontline policing in this country."(Part of the reason for for this HUGE waste of money, is directly attributable to the Canadian Police Association. The C.P.A. has steadfastly refused to listen to it's own rank and file members, and dump their support for this billion dollar gun farce. Their support for C68, illogically defies even ALL their own  previous prerequisites for support. Dumping C68 would then allow money to be  re-directed into programs that 'actually' control crime and criminal activities.)
 Must address registry now
Sick, remorseless predators are out there, and not just in our major cities. In Kingston recently a teacher was fired by the local school board for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl. This individual was previously suspected on another charge in another region (the parents did not lay charges in order to protect the child), but the individual lost his teaching licence and, after leaving the Kingston area, was discovered in southern Ontario teaching part-time in youth training programs for swimming and lifeguard courses. Some of the huge amounts of money directed toward useless legislation like the Gun Control Act and expenses in the Privacy Commission’s office, could go a long way in protecting our children, something we are just not doing under existing legislation.
And speaking of hot air, this is what a spokesman for the federal justice department had to say about the delay in passing amendments: “We have to make sure the legislation is adequate in due process, in judicial discretion and is a balanced, proportional response to the issue.” Sure, and while we listen to this bureaucratic malarkey, little 10-year-old girls in Toronto are being kidnapped and killed. (Of course, the liberals won't run roughshod over the 'rights' of pedophiles and other criminals, but they have no trouble curtailing the rights of any honest, law-abiding person simply because he or she owns a firearm. For some strange perverted reason, the liberals fear and control duck hunters with greater zeal than child killers. It would certainly look as if all those Liberal seats in Toronto are doing nothing as usual. We're due for a complete change of governmental direction, and that direction should be pointed 'Right' because they don't call it 'Right' for nothing!)
An Open Letter To The Canadian Police Association From The N.F.A.
Our Members keep telling us when they talk face to face to frontline law enforcement officers they are told, by those officers, that the federal government's gun control program is a farce. When I talk with police officers, they tell me that this legislation does not help them to do their job and that the money spent on this legislation could have been spent in far better ways - including the hiring of more officers and the purchase of new equipment. At the Blueline Magazine Trade Show this past April, my Vice President, Wally Butts and I spoke to over 700 frontline police officers - not one single officer had anything good to say about the entire program. Yet to listen to David Griffin, the Canadian Police Association's spokesperson, in the House of Commons committee hearings, in the Senate committee hearings, or in the media, his words seem to have been drafted in the Minister of Justice's office. The voice of the Canadian Police Association sounds more like a shill for the government than the voice of Canadian Police Officers. Not one of the promises made by this government to the Canadian Police Association has been kept. Not one. Yet the Canadian Police Association continues, apparently, to blindly support this boondoggle.(The Canadian Police Association, is a 'lobby group', and obviously has a far different agenda than the various police 'services(?)' throughout Canada. It's not likely they will poll their members in regard to this, because they 'know' what the outcome will be. When the truth from the 'front line officers' is publicized, whatever perks they have been receiving by supporting the Liberals Gun Control Farce will vanish... This quote has just been released by the C.P.A. and I was right!: "Police association spokeswoman Sophie Roux would not comment on the letter. ``We have a good grasp on where our members are on this issue. We don't have to be told when to do a survey.'' If they truly have a "good grasp" why are they still supporting this farce? What are they getting in return? Obviously politics, and the C.P.A. agenda have nothing to do with what the front-line police officers really want. Staying the course for this fraud being perpetrated on the Canadian people, only shows us that the Canadian Police Association's agenda is simply maintaining it's favourable association with the ruling party, and maintaining whatever perks they are receiving in return. Nothing else makes any sense!)
Bush visit on hold until PM retires
CTV News has learned it's doubtful U.S. President George Bush will travel to Canada for a state visit in November and that any visit could be on hold until Prime Minister Jean Chretien leaves office. The delay stems from controversial remarks Chretien made about Bush's fiscal management while travelling to a G-8 Summit in Europe in late May, sources tell CTV News. Bush had postponed a planned state visit to Canada a month earlier, citing the crisis in Iraq. Officials hoped to re-schedule that visit for the week of November 15th. But, CTV News has learned those plans changed when Chretien spoke to reporters on the plane trip to Europe, criticizing American economic policy.(Of course it is! Why on Earth would he even want to associate with our 'doddling old fart'.. Martin has his problems, but at least he's capable of stringing together enough words to make a coherent sentence!)
‘The Real Deal’ on extreme gun control
 WHEN I WAS in Congress, I lived on Capitol Hill for a year. I spent the rest of my time in my office or living in Virginia.   Why? Because life three blocks from the United States Capitol was too dangerous. Neighbors working on the Hill were routinely held-up, had their cars burglarized, or their houses broken into. Many of the attacks were brazen and in broad daylight. It took me a while to figure it out, but finally, I did. These frequent attacks came in my neighborhood because Washington has the most extreme gun control laws in America. And no one working on Capitol Hill could afford to have his or her name show up in the Washington Post on an illegal weapons charge. But the thugs who victimized the neighborhood did not share the same concerns, so they roamed at will and terrorized law-abiding citizens, citizens who were not allowed to defend themselves, or their children from such attacks. It would have only taken one or two Hill staffers firing back in self-defense to send the clear message to criminals that open season was over on Capitol Hill.(Residents of large Canadian cities are also seeing the 'benefits(?)' of gun control. The number of people have been shot, robbed, and threatened by criminals with guns since the enactment of c68 the liberals "culture of safety" gun control farce has skyrocketed. The ONLY "Culture of Safety" is the one created for the criminal, by assuring all the potential victims are unarmed and defenceless. I can only surmise that since the beginning of Liberal Rule,  and the slow degradation of our "Justice System", into simply a "Legal System".  It's becoming very obvious that  criminals have a much stronger lobby group in Ottawa than their victims do!)

The Justice Department is 'Still' checking this Website
Tracker Log Entry: 23 Jun 2003 / 05:15:20 PM  URL> stop.justice.gc.ca
I've have always thought the perfect department to oversee the Firearms Farce should be Called STOP JUSTICE
Ironic Ain't it?
IMPORTANT ALLIANCE PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL PASSES
June 20, 2003, Ottawa  - Gurmant Grewal, MP for Surrey Central and Co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, was pleased to see the first Canadian Alliance private members bill passed and given Royal Assent last night in the Senate. Sponsored by Mr. Grewal, Bill C-205 now gives Parliamentarians the ability to review and revoke all federal regulations."The success of Bill C-205 comes against great odds. Private members bills are rarely passed; since 1997 there have been 1,664 introduced, but only 19 enacted into law. Until yesterday, the Liberals always voted against our bills and then later stole the ideas. It's happened to me three times, on bills dealing with firefighters, whistleblowers and foreign credentials," said Grewal.  "The enactment of my private members bill into law actually defies my own
rule that private members bills are like pacifiers given to a baby - they keep the baby quiet baby, keeping itt busy, and giving it hope, but at the end of the day the baby gets nothing for its efforts." (Regulations in Canada exist only because they bypass parliament and democracy, making the life of the dictatorial government in power much simpler. Passing regulations instead of 'law' allows the government greater freedom in foisting it's personal agenda on the public without scrutiny or interference. This has now come to an end, and democracy has taken a giant leap forward in this country, thanks to the Canadian Alliance. The firearms act is almost completely 'regulatory law', that is enter twined with criminal law, enter twined with absurd law, enter twined with ridiculous law, enter twined with just plain stupidity. NOW, perhaps some of these 'regulations' can be replaced with common sense. Well, for that to happen we would also have to replace the Liberals. Bruce Mills has put together an Excellent compilation of regulations/orders in council regarding the firearms act: Here.  After the latest slap in the face Ontario has received from Ottawa over the SARS compensation, there are more and more Ontarians 're-thinking' a Liberal government. Now, if only the Alliance would start hammering this home, they 'could' really reap the benefits.. ) 
To Serve and Protect?
B.C.'s police watchdog Dirk Ryneveld today will order a public hearing to uncover the truth about what happened the night Jeff Berg was fatally injured during his arrest by Vancouver police. Police were responding to reports of a home invasion on Oct. 22, 2000. An autopsy concluded the cause of death was an aneurism brought on by a blow to the neck. Alerted by a loud crash, Fujikawa said she peered from a dark doorway into the alley and watched, horrified, as a Vancouver police officer cracked a surrendering man across the head or neck with the butt of his gun. The man, whom she later learned was Berg, crumpled to the ground and curled into a fetal position. "Immediately after . . . the policeman kicked the male suspect twice in the back of the head with his right foot using a full kicking motion," Fujikawa told the private investigator. In an interview last week, Fujikawa said she called the private investigator after seeing one of the posters.The Berg case is the second this month where relatives claim the internal investigations unit white-washed a wrongful death probe. The other is that of Frank Paul who died of exposure after police released him from custody and dumped him in an alley, drunk and soaking wet, in near-zero temperatures. Police told internal investigators they believed Paul was able to care for himself. However, a prison guard at the jail told The Province that Paul could not walk when he left the jail and had to be dragged and lifted into the police wagon. An internal videotape confirms that account.(In the first case, the police no doubt will be exonerated because the man attacked the officers foot with the back of his head! 'Over exuberant assholes with a badge' should be exposed, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. )
Old Man Dies During NWEST Attack
Coquitlam RCMP said officers surrounded the home in the 3700-block of Quarry Road, near Minnekhada regional park, from 1 to 6:30 p.m. while the man barricaded himself inside. When police finally entered the house, he was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, she said. “What conversation or anything else that surrounds that will be part of the investigation,” Baptista said. Asked why a search warrant for firearms was executed, she said, “If we get a search warrant, then there’s been some information at some point that the person may have them and is not supposed to have them.” Coquitlam Mounties were assisting the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team with the warrant but Baptista could not say whether the warrant was connected with the National Gun Registry. A number of weapons were seized from the home, she said.
The name of the man, who is believed to be in his 60s, has not been released. (I wonder what kind of public inquisition will follow this "investigation"? Imagine this:The neighbourhood busybody calls the police, and says: "I think this man owns a gun?" NWEST (the liberal goon squad) will now kick down your door and attempt an arrest, all on the unfounded, unsubstantiated, information of some neighbourhood kook.. Great to be a Canadian eh!) 
U.S. marshals fly with guns in Canada
A secret cabinet order exempts them from Firearms Act
Gun-toting U.S. air marshals are flying into Canadian airports after the federal cabinet passed a top-secret order last month exempting them from undisclosed provisions of the Firearms Act. Government officials refused to comment on the cabinet order passed May 29, saying unauthorized disclosure was prevented by a section of the Access to Information Act dealing with international affairs and defence. "The air marshals are the defenders of our skies and one of the last lines of defence against terrorism on board an aircraft," the information sheet says, adding the marshals have the toughest shooting requirements in U.S. federal law enforcement and are trained in other self-defence techniques.(The Liberals who by the way, 'love' secret cabinet orders, have virtually assured that this makes flying a U.S. Airline 'much' safer than flying with a Canadian service.  Why? Because the 'only' plan to stop a hijacker on the Canadian plane is to shoot it down. The Liberals feel that 'Canadians' would be much too incompetent to carry a firearm on an aircraft. After all, voting in 3 successive Liberal governments kind of confirms that doesn't it?)
Fire Radwanski, MPs set to urge
 But Radwanski, accused of misleading the committee about his expenses and an altered document, has said he did nothing wrong and will fight to keep his job. Reached yesterday, he wouldn't comment on reports that he has spoken with top government officials trying to persuade him to go. "I'm right here. I'm right here. Until further notice this is where I am," he said when asked if he still planned to stay on. "I can't tell you more than that because I haven't changed my position, this is where I am." He declined to answer other questions. Radwanski has said the committee is out to get him because of his harsh attacks on government over privacy issues.(Well, it's not like he "mislead" the entire parliament.. Wait.. no that was Alan Rock and the 'liberal government' .. Or lied, and mislead the public.. Wait, that was Alan Rock and the 'liberal government' again, or directly responsible for the waste of  BILLIONS of dollars.. no, wait, that was still Alan Rock and the 'liberal government'..  Who's next? Look out Sheila Fraser..)
Still trying
In what looks like an attempt to attach credibility to Ottawa's gun registry, Solicitor General Wayne Easter this week announced the formation of a 13-member committee to advise him on how to make the law work better. The committee might start by advising the government on how it can make the registry work at all. By any useful standard, the registry is an abject failure. This dismal fact becomes obvious when the two usual standards for evaluating legislation -- cost and effectiveness -- are applied. The cost is now a billion dollars and counting -- counting the millions of additional dollars as the government seeks, every few months, further financing to keep the registration effort running. While the cost is now obvious, the effectiveness of the law is more elusive. The Liberals have spent a billion dollars on a program -- a program which was supposed to pay for itself -- that has yet to register more than a fraction of gun owners.(The appointment of the '13' new members, good liberals all, will hardly make a difference. Easter has appointed 13 'Fraternity Boosters' with their own private agendas and will have as much effect as hanging new curtains in the registry office. Therefore, I present the 13 ghosts of the dead registry: A bunch of bureaucrats, a couple of 'gun banning' zealots, a Quebec 'gun collector' who has never criticized the registry is now  wearing a 'new' brownshirt, and a Yukon outfitter who's clientele would be almost 100% American.. The 'Honourable(?)' Mr. Easter is telling us they will somehow make everything better! Seeing that 'pork' is something every politician understands, lets use this analogy: Mr. Easter is a farmer, and he should know that you can put all the powder and makeup you want on a pig, and you 'still' have a pig. It looks like a pig, it acts like a pig, it smells like a pig. Even if you stick on wings it can't fly and never will,  but their gonna push it off the roof of the barn anyway! Hope it lands on a 'Rock' ! )
Gun deadline looms, but firearms office locked 
 WHITEHORSE -  The Yukon's only firearms office may reopen – but not in time for the final deadline on gun registration. hat means gun owners must call up the Surrey, B.C. firearms office to try to get their paperwork in order. Longtime hunter Ruben Huber says it was't easy trying to register his guns over the phone. "It's like trying to get an answer from the government on the telephone," Huber says. "Press this number, press this number, and then finally they say he's out – so what do you do?" Huber was able to get some help from the local firearms office in Whitehorse. But that office has been closed for the past six weeks. The national office is trying to hire someone to re-open it, but in the meantime Yukoners will find themselves dialing for answers. Kimbell says it isn't likely the Yukon Firearms office will re-open before the Canada Day deadline.(Well, Yukoners have a bright shiny new government 'brownshirt' they can call and bitch at. http://www.yukonoutfitters.net/widrig.asp He's one of the new 13 ghosts of the dead registry.. Call him, and ask what he is going to 'recommend' happens at the C.C.G.R. 'Canadian Criminal Generating Registry' )
IS THIS THE GUY?
Toronto Police Chief Chief Julian Fantino confirmed Friday morning that a man had been arrested in the slaying of Toronto girl Holly Jones. the suspect, 35-year-old Michael Briere, could be in court as early as Friday afternoon Chief Fantino made the announcement at a press conference just hours after reports began to surface that a man was arrested as he left a home in the same neighbourhood where the 10-year-old had lived.
Chief Fantino would not say how close to the Jones household the suspect lived. He said he was "not aware" of any formal relationship between the victim and Mr. Briere. Holly disappeared while walking home from a friend's house in the early evening of May 12. She vanished within blocks of her house and turned up the next morning in Lake Ontario. She had been killed, dismembered and dropped into the lake in at least two separate bags.(What kind of a mentaly defective, complete waste of skin, could do this to a child? Mabe we are about to find out! I just hope they don't screw it up like they did the Bernardo/Holmolka trial, or railroad someone as they did with Guy-Paul Moran.)
Gun law rolls back Inuit rights: NTI 
 IQALUIT, Nunavut -  Nunavut Tunngavik says the Firearms Act is contrary to the self-government rights guaranteed to Inuit under the land-claims agreement. NTI hopes to fight the gun legislation in a court case, but first it has to convince a Nunavut judge to deny the federal government's motion to have the case dismissed. The motion is being heard in the Nunavut Court of Justice this week in Iqaluit. The territorial government is an intervenor, backing NTI. The lawyer for the federal government says there are cultural differences in the North and in the way Inuit see firearms. But John Edmond argues it's important that all areas of Canada be covered by the act and the licensing scheme it puts in place.(Once the inuit win this case, it would seem that 'race based laws' will be a reality in this country. Race based laws, will be another charter violation in the multitude of charter violations the liberals are currently guilty of. )
GUN CONTROL STILL WORKING FINE IN EUROPE 
"European gun laws have everything American gun control proponents advocate. Yet, the three very worst public shootings in the last year all occurred in Europe. Indeed around the world, from Australia to England, countries that have recently strengthened gun control laws with the promise of lowering crime have instead seen violent crime soar. ..."All three killing sprees shared one thing in common: they took place in so-called gun-free "safe zones." ... "The lesson extends more broadly. Violent crime is becoming a major problem in Europe. While many factors, such as law enforcement, drug gangs, and immigration, affect crime, the lofty promises of gun controllers can no longer be taken seriously.(Gun control kills, and always will. The dog bites you because it knows your scared. The criminal attacks because he 'knows' you are defenceless. Excessive gun control does not and has never made anyone safer. Except of course for the criminal, who now has no need to fear you!)
 Domestic Disputes Bad social science and bad legal policy.
If you keep a gun in your home," a University of Pennsylvania press release said last week, "you dramatically increase the odds that you will die of a gunshot wound, according to research published in the June issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine." "Keeping guns at home is dangerous," the researcher was quoted as saying. A New York Times story likewise reported: "People with guns in their homes are almost twice as likely to be killed by guns as people who do not keep them at home." Another article echoed the same point; so do the websites of advocacy groups (here and here). Frightening results for people who own guns, or who are thinking of buying them. Frightening but, it turns out, meaningless — another example of how unsound social science is being used in public-policy debates. (Seems like another version of the New England Medical Journal 'study' That also turned ot to be 'Junk Science'..  )
POLICE - OUT OF CONTROL
Mr. Logan was not on school property at any time and did not point the rifle at the school, any person or farm animal at any time.  The rifle was transported in a safe manner at all times.  Mr. Logan stopped hunting when he noticed that children were back at the school playing soccer and it was dinnertime!  The police met him at his home and arrested him for charges that were later determined by the police to be groundless and are not being pursued.  Note that he met the police as he pulled into his driveway and was arrested as he exited the vehicle having not entered his home.  His rifle was in his vehicle, cased and unloaded and being transported safely in his vehicle when he stopped to meet the police.  While under arrest for non-existent offenses, thus making the arrest unlawful, he was placed on the ground, had a .223 calibre Ruger Mini 14 pointed at his head by a police officer and was hand-cuffed in a painful method.(This was sent to me as an email bulletin:  And it could have happened to anyone. From 'taking down' a 9 year old child with a cap pistol, to strip searching a law abiding citizen, and illegally invading his home and endangering a child. The police are becoming a force unto themselves, and not to be trusted. The police are truly out of control. Makes you wonder if calling the police to report 'anything' is worth it. YOU may be the next victim of their 'over exuberance'. After all, it seems to becoming the 'normal' course action doesn't it.)
Advisory Committee Announced As Part of Firearms Program Improvements(?)
Ottawa, June 18, 2003 –Federal Solicitor General Wayne Easter today announced the establishment of a Program Advisory Committee for the Canadian Firearms Program. The new Advisory Committee is a key element of the Action Plan announced in February by the Solicitor General of Canada and the Minister of Justice. It is comprised of experienced individuals external to government who will provide ongoing advice on quality of service, and a continuous improvement plan for the Firearms Program.(Some "Advisory committee" aside from 1 or possibly 2 firearms owners, the rest are comprised of Cops, Bureaucrats and avowed gun grabbers. Why does this not surprise me? For example, Under what stretch of the imagination would Wendy Cukier, Marilou McPhedran and numerous other bureaucrats have any expertise in the firearms field. The only thing they ALL have in common is they are ALL good Liberals, and vocally support the flawed government position. Why would they not include REAL advisory people from organizations such as OFAH, CSSA, etc.. Why? because real advisors would know the government is full of crap, and have told them as much on every conceivable occasion. So what do they do? they trot out another bunch of 'experts' {phonic translation EX= has-been or no longer able, and 'spert' is a little liberal drip under pressure!} I guess when you can't find any 'unbiased' experienced people that support your stand, you do what comes naturally to any dictatorship in support of a farce, you appoint your friends.. Just don't insult us by saying they are an 'unbiased' advisory committee when in fact all they are is a council of 'yes' men and women, good liberals all...And NOW, like many Liberal 'friends' they have been rewarded in true liberal fashion: THEIR NOW ON THE PAYROLL ) 
Is your child safe?
'American' Red Cross program teaches safety to children
The safety awareness program has been held each summer since the 1980s for children that will be entering kindergarten or first grade in the fall. Volunteers from the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office, the Coshocton City Fire Department, Coshocton County Emergency Medical Services, the local schools and Radio Emergency Association Communication Teams help educate children on safety as a pedestrian, on the school bus, playground, and as a bicyclist. Tanner Howell, 5, said he was looking forward to the lesson when they get to ride the bikes. The inside of a commercial building at the Coshocton County Fairgrounds looks like a tiny city, complete with buildings, streets, crosswalks, traffic signs and a traffic light. The children learn how to read the signs and the traffic light to know when it is safe to cross the street. Capt. Jon Mosier from the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office gave a talk on gun safety, accompanied by a video starring Eddy Eagle. The children heard what to do if they should see a gun -- stop, don't touch it, leave the area and tell an adult. (Teaching Canadian children about firearms is discouraged, because as every good liberal knows,"To Keep em ignorant, is to Keep em Safe" The fact that children are attracted by what is hidden from them, seems to have been lost on the politically correct idiots that make these decisions. You can always educate ignorance, unfortunatly there is very little that can be done about stupidity except to continually 're-elect' them. )
 Confusion delays gun buyback plan
  CONFUSION over what weapons are to be banned and how owners will be compensated will delay the much-touted national handgun buyback scheme by at least three months. South Australia and NSW will suspend their handgun buyback schemes until October, and Tasmania also plans to postpone its response to the National Handgun Control Agreement. All states and territories agreed to start confiscating registered handguns by July 1 at a Council of Australian Governments meeting last December. But COAG has yet to make a final decision on exemptions for special accreditation of sporting events, leaving the start date in limbo.(THIS is where Canada is headed. Only, there will not be a 'buy back'. They will simply use the registry to go on a confiscating roundup and collection of your private, personal, property. One more round of Liberal Government is all it will take. If you think that the liberals, under the 'next' dictator, will not pursue this United Nations Agenda, then objects in your mirror ARE dumber than they appear! The Liberals HAVE to be shown at the next election, that diverting over a billion dollars from healthcare and policing to pursue 'another' political  agenda, and falsely claim the public is in danger from hunters and target shooters, is simply an unacceptable lie!)
Dad's day march an insult to caring men everywhere
(Canoe Link: May vanish in 24 hrs. or Less)
The White Ribbon Campaign was born shortly after the 1989 massacre of 14 women engineering students at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal by crazed gunman Marc Lepine. Lepine is NOT, despite what some men and women would have us all believe, the poster child of manhood. Yes, he shared the same chromosome as my husband but little else. He was an aberration, a nutbar -- so anti-social that Canada's military rejected his application for service. And yet, my husband and all men were urged to spend a day which has been set aside to honour them and all the good male traits -- and they are legion -- feeling some kind of collective guilt for Lepine's crime and for every Neanderthal who uses his fists, feet or firearms to make a point. Imagine the outrage if on Mother's Day women were asked to wear some ribbon (are there any colours left for the myriad of causes?) to remember the violence of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in the bathtub of the family's Clear Lake, Tex., home June 20, 2002. Hardly appropriate.(Gamil Gharbi (AKA Marc Lepine),the son of a Algerian Muslim wife-beater, has been enshrined by fringe women groups as the icon of all that they hate in men, and by some weird extension, all that they hate in firearms. This ridiculous association has been the direct result of what could be thousands of Canadian deaths. How?  By diverting over a billion dollars from healthcare and policing, to pursue a political agenda and fictional threat falsely espousing that Canadians are in danger from any hunter, collector, or target shooter that owns a firearm.)
BassPro Stores Coming to Canada!
It has been called a fishing and hunting enthusiast's Disney World. Bass Pro Shops announced yesterday it's opening its first Canadian mega-store, complete with waterfalls, aquariums and museum-quality trophy fish, in a sprawling new mall on the road to cottage country. Comparable in size to the average Canadian Wal-Mart store, the American Bass Pro Shops plans to occupy 130,000 square feet of retail space in Vaughan Mills, scheduled to open in the fall of 2004.  "This is a historic moment for Bass. This is our first store outside the U.S. and our ninth with Mills Corp.," said Jim Hagale, Bass Pro's chief operating officer. "Ontario is an outdoor paradise, the perfect environment for Bass Pro Shops." Ontario has 1 million licensed fishers and 400,000 licensed hunters, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. Bass Pro Shops is by far the largest and most regionally significant of the major tenants the mall's developers unveiled yesterday.(BassPro is Obviously anticipating a 'Right' vote in the next federal election, returning Canada to a 'Hunting and Fishing' friendly environment once again. While looking at their television commercials on TNN, I've often wondered 'when' we will get a store like that. Bass Pro will be a welcome sight. Seeing that Walmart whimped out, once the liberals are gone here's hoping they will also stock firearms.)
 Barrie soldier receives medal for disarming Toronto man
  For most people, Sept. 11, 2001, will always be known as the day terrorist-controlled planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center and changed the world. It's the same for two Toronto-area Canadian reserve soldiers, but 2nd Lt. Peter Martinis and Master Cpl. Peter A. Stibbard will also remember that day for how they helped avert another disaster, albeit on a different scale. Because of the terrorist attacks, government buildings, like Moss Park Armoury, were being secured. Stibbard and Martinis, members of the 48th Highlanders, found themselves guarding the front gate of the armoury without weapons. A man on a bicycle came up to the two soldiers and demanded entry to the building. (These soldiers are to be commended, but I would imagine Canada is the ONLY country in the entire world where UNARMED soldiers would be "guarding(?)" an armoury on September the 11th! I can only assume the Liberal government decreed that without carrying those evil guns, our soldiers would not be in a position to hurt themselves or others. God forbid the Liberals would let our 'soldiers' be dangerous enough to thwart an attack.) 
Hey Norm, I can't keep all my guns straight, either
Big deal. Everyone knows how hard it is to keep track of things. At our house, it's a constant struggle to keep track of all the guns, to remember which ones are gifts that we have to write thank-you notes for, and which ones we're supposed to pay for and when. Just the other day, I came into the kitchen and there was this Ruger GP 100 double-action revolver on the table, and it had been sitting there a couple of days, and so I asked my wife about it. "Is this yours?"(Yes, the authors name is :LINWOOD BARCLAY His mother must have known he would grow up to be a left wing, liberal ass!)
'Please don't kill my mommy'
While it was business as usual at Jubilee Fine Jewellers yesterday, one of the owners was still trying to shake the image of an enraged man pressing a gun to her head -- right before she attempted to dial 911 during a dramatic hold-up Saturday at the Rideau Centre. But that image pales when compared with the gut-wrenching words coming from her 18-year-old daughter Sophie. "Please don't kill my mommy," the teen tearfully pleaded as she stood next to her mother. Police have charged two men in connection with the heist. A third man will face the same charges when he is released from the Ottawa Hospital, where police say he is being treated for a medical condition unrelated to his arrest at the shopping centre when he was tackled by a security guard while attempting to flee the mall moments after the heist.(911 'almost' costs another life. Unarmed store security, unarmed victims, unarmed customers, no police around. As usual in Canada, the ONLY ones armed were the criminals. I'm sure this young girl, after  pleading for her mothers life, will be comforted to know that these bastards will be through the revolving door of the Liberal legal system within 3 months. The Liberal "Culture of Safety" doing it's best to protect our criminals from sea to shining sea. Your constitutional RIGHT to Security of the person, should invalidate ANY attempt to disarm a qualified, and trained individual from possessing, and carrying the necessary means to defend life!)
Thank God and Greymatter he's almost gone!
Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson said the prime minister would probably be playing more golf in his retirement. She suggested making him honorary counsel in Miami, "where he can shoot another 18 holes in the Canada-U.S. relationship." (And WHAT a legacy to retire with; Unprecedented waste and mismanagement, Unprecedented cronyism, Unprecedented international screw ups, Unprecedented graft and corruption within his cabinet, Unprecedented dictatorial command of the Canadian government, {snip about 38,000 more unprecedented here} And last, but by all means not least: Voted the Stupidest Man in Canada. Quite a Legacy eh! It's sort of like watching "Dumb and Dumber" to the fifteenth power! Canadians can simply not wait any longer to finally say goodbye to the Shawinigan Shyster, and get on toward a 'real' federal election.)
'Defend your family, go to jail'
A Brooklyn man who shot and wounded an intruder while defending his family will spend three days in Rikers Island, the same jail housing the burglar who terrorized his home, because he owns an unregistered gun. "I went in. ... I looked in his face. I didn't know this guy; I was so shocked ... In a nervous voice I said, 'What are you doing in my house?' and he ran toward me yelling, 'Come upstairs!' like there were other people with him. I shot him 'cause I thought more people were in the house," Dixon told the New York Daily News. Dixon fired two shots from his 9 mm pistol, wounding the suspected burglar in the chest and groin. "The only thing I could think about was my family – there was no telling what he would do to my children or girlfriend," he told the paper. Authorities charged Dixon with illegal possession of a firearm when they discovered his gun was not legally registered in New York, a charge that carries up to a year in prison. (In Canada, if you dare to defend your family, rather than die or be raped like a good liberal, you 'could' get 2 years or more for ignoring the bureaucratic process required to lay a piece of paper beside a gun. The government feels that this bureaucratic process makes you safer. Canada has been registering 'handguns' for seventy years, and the benefits are obvious. What are the benefits? Liberals, liberal supporters, and their families, who would in most cases be only 'marginally' employable, now have jobs, and all their friends have lucrative contracts. Who says gun registration isn't making 'some' lives better!)
Residents foil home invasion
An attempted robbery at a home on the 15th Line of New Tecumseth Thursday after- noon, turned out badly for the perpetrator. At approximately 2:30 p.m., a man entered a home, and produced a knife demanding cash from two middle-aged people. A struggle then ensued. The suspect was chased from the home by the homeowner, who had produced a shotgun. Two warning shots were fired, and the suspect fled on foot. He was seen running into a nearby wooded area. Members of the OPP. tactics and rescue unit, K9 unit, and emergency response team, as well as an OPP. helicopter, assisted in the search. Seven hours later, a 22-year-old man from Montreal was flushed out when a neighbour saw the suspect run from the area onto a highway.(The link goes to the original newspaper clipping. This is something you don't hear happening very often. It's NOT that people do not defend their home, families, or property everyday with firearms, it's just that it very rarely, if ever, get reported by the media. If the media 'does' report 'something' they almost ALWAYS leave out the part where the homeowner used a firearm to defend themselves. The same 'badguy' from this story is a suspect in an earlier bank robbery in the same town.. No word on if the police did the wrong thing by charging this fellow with some perfunctory 'unsafe storage' charge for daring to defend himself. Hopefully Barrie police will use common sense in this case, and THANK the 'almost victims'  for helping in the apprehension, rather than charge them.)
WHEN MOMS ATTACK
That puts a pretty frightening face on the group calling itself the "Million Mom March". I wonder how many of those mothers are ticking time bombs? What sets them off and how can we protect their children? I know of at least one of those anti-gun moms who committed murder. She even spoke out against gun violence at the first Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Then, a few months later, she shot and killed a boy. Now, she didn't kill her own child, but she did murder the boy she thought had shot her son. It turned out she got the wrong guy and shot an innocent person. What that group needed to be pushing was self control not gun control. Perhaps, after reading the rest of this article, they will see the dangers within their own group and switch their efforts to mother control. ('Guns' by themselves kill no one! Blaming guns for murder, is as ridiculous as yelling at the chair and it's leg, that just injured your toe, and makes you look just as stupid!)
Hobbyists learn gunmaking methods
Many students come back for several years to learn the different processes used in making a gun. One class created a nearly functional gun in just nine days. “They’re making a tremendous amount of progress,” Leeper said. This year’s students came from all over the United States. Among the 57 of them, there was a student from England and another from Canada, doctors, lawyers, teachers and even an opera singer. Williamsburg gunsmith Wallace Gussler was one of the teachers. He was commissioned for $100,000 to make a gun over a five- or six-year period. The gun, which he brought with him to Bowling Green, has intricate gold and silver designs. “I don’t know what to say other than it’s incredible,” Leeper said. (Personal Gun 'making' is a lost art in Canada! Punishable by several years in prison I assume? It's an art that will no doubt flourish once again, when the Liberals start confiscating all the 'registered' guns.)
Alberta wants retroactive sex offender registry
Edmonton — Alberta joined Manitoba and Ontario in pressing Ottawa to strengthen its national sex offender registry law on Thursday by making it retroactive and including updated photos of offenders. In its current form, the federal registry will only provide information on offenders sentenced after Bill C-23 comes into effect. Manitoba Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh, who addressed the committee, called the registry inadequate. "We have the federal government going all the way on a silly gun registry, and yet it will only go half way, part way, on a very important sex offender registry to protect the lives and well-being of Canadians, particularly our children."(Simply owning a firearm is, according to the liberals, justification for removing many of your rights and freedoms, as well as justification for retaining your photograph, and keeping track of you under threat of imprisonment. But, Sex Offenders of whom I can only assume the liberals feel are a greater voting force than hunters and target shooters, are free to rape, murder, and mutilate your children, until they are caught 'again'. Only 'then' will they be deemed as dangerous as duck hunters, and be forced under threat of imprisonment, to provide their photograph and constant address updates to the federal government. To the people of Toronto, surrounded by  sex offenders: Don't forget to thank a liberal for this "Culture of Safety", and show them how you feel the next time you face a ballot box. Remember, no one in parliament lives in Holy Jones's neighbourhood, and none of THEIR children have been raped, murdered and mutilated! God forbid they should antagonize a criminal, particularly after they have just given them to right to vote!)
'ANOTHER' Government computer theft sparks privacy concerns 
Technology expert Jim Carroll says the theft of the computers shows how lax computer security in the government is. "A lot of what organizations figure out they should be doing from a security perspective only happens when something goes wrong," said Carroll. (Offices for the CFC are now being shuffled around to adhere to "The Plan"! How long before one of their computers go missing and more people are attacked in their homes by criminals with a government supplied shopping list?)
The Toronto Star Continues their 'witch hunt'
The OPP began investigating the incident after overhearing a conversation during a wiretap last winter of the United Sports Shooting Range in Gormley — part of a larger probe into the illegal sale of firearms — that indicated Gardner was given a gun by Polyzos, which was "transferred" to him by United Sports. Gardner is one of the few civilians in Canada ever granted a licence to carry a concealed firearm, which he used in 1992 to shoot a fleeing robbery suspect at a bakery he formerly owned. At that time, only 20 people in the province had such a licence.(Never to be confused by facts, the Toronto Star presses on, grasping at 'any' straw to make this situation look as bad as they can, and ONLY because the gift was a liberally declared 'evil gun'. Example: The felon in question that was shot, was quite a bit larger than Mr. Gardner, and 'fleeing' toward him. The shooting report surmised that the perp was as little as a foot away when shot in the leg, and then turned and ran out the door. Had Mr Gardner not been in possession of a firearm, he would today, just be another 'liberal' statistic. Many 'other' Canadians are not so fortunate, and they are buried in several locations throughout the city! Would this felon have even attempted to rob the store had he known the owner was one of 'very few' people in the provence licensed to 'carry'? Not likely, nor would many others be robbing stores if more proprietors were allowed to be armed. That's probably why you never hear the term "Armed Victim" They used the word 'transferred' in quotes, to knowingly infer that something shady was happening, rather than noting "transferred" refers to the government controlled legal process of changing ownership of a firearm. But I guess if they did that, the public just might discover: "hey, there's nothing happening here"! And THAT just won't sell papers will it?)
LIBERALS UNABLE TO DEFEND THEIR CLAIMS
ABOUT POLICE USE OF THE GUN REGISTRY SYSTEM
The other problem is the government’s complete non-response to part 8 of our question.  What does it matter how many times police “et al” are accessing the system if they aren’t successful at retrieving the information they requested?  The Minister would be foolhardy to make such claims in Parliament without having some reports on the success rate experienced by the requestors.  For example, one Saskatoon City Police officer told us he checked one name in the system and it took more than 6 hours and it came back negative.  On January 22, 2003, CBC Radio in Saskatchewan reported: "Police in Regina say they haven't yet had a lot of use for the new gun registry.  The Canadian Police Association claims the controversial database provides useful information in less than one second.  However, Regina officials cannot confirm that figure.  Sgt. Rick Bourassa says officers in his city do not use the data-base very often.”  On December 4, 2002, CFRA talk show host Michael Harris reported that officials from the Police Association of Ontario told him that they fail to get the information requested from the registration system 95% of the time.(The exaggerations surrounding the information doled out by this bureaucracy, are exceeded only by the exaggerations used, and money wasted, to pass this entire farce in to law in the first place. The only thing Canadians can be 100% sure of, is the Government is lying to them!)
Shooting our mouths off again about right guy ... wrong gun
Hang on. Now I think about it, that wasn't my first instinct. My first instinct was to wonder what in hell the chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, even if he is a respected gun collector and shooting enthusiast, would want with a Tech-9, the preferred weapon of gang-bangers and crack dealers and those young lads who got some funny ideas in their heads and went haywire at Columbine High School, since it is nothing more than a cheap hunk of plastic and aluminum foil that is easily converted to fully automatic fire and, as a result, is at least momentarily banned as an assault weapon in the United States? I was wrong. Of course I was wrong. And it goes to show how we in the liberal media, whenever Norm Gardner's name comes up, automatically distort and take out of context everything we hear because we are predisposed to believe the only word in the English language that can ever possibly come after the word "gun'' is "nut.'' It wasn't a Tech-9, which is a scumbag weapon, it was a Tac-Four, which is a nice weapon manufactured by a nice company in Scarborough that the company was nice enough to sell to Norm wholesale ($700, which is still a nice piece of change compared to the Tech-9 which probably wholesales for around $12 to anybody who buys one instead of steals it, the more usual means of acquisition) after he was nice enough to do them a favour.(This article is interesting, if only because your not really sure if 'Slinger' is being truthful, or just 'liberal snide'. Everything he says is true, but most urban liberals will interpret it as 'snide', because as every good urban liberals knows, there is no such thing as a 'nice gun' their all F'n evil! Well, wait.. May I'm just being 'snide')
Octagenarian inventor's vest repels armor-piercing bullets
  The 86-year-old Mt. Lebanon man, who holds a doctorate in engineering, and his associate, Richard Parobeck of Brackenridge, relish the skepticism they generate when they describe Shorr's lightweight glass-plastic laminates and compounds that repel armor-piercing bullets and rocket-propelled grenades. His new-age bulletproof vest can protect a person against any handgun bullet, and he's working on a composite material he hopes will protect infrastructure against terrorist attacks. During test firings at the H.P. White Laboratory in Street, Md., 16 Kozap bullets -- described by Shorr as the world's hardest 9 mm armor-piercing handgun projectiles -- were fired at his 6 1/2-pound vests without one failure. The laboratory tests bulletproof vests to determine whether they meet National Institute of Justice standards.  His glass composites also are used in airplane windshields to prevent decompression of cockpits when birds slam into them. Shorr tested his windshields with 4-pound electrocuted chickens hurtled at 600 mph. Those tests were done at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. (And, continues to this day as the 'Air Farce Chicken Cannon'. If it's all the same with you, I'd just as soon someone else test it first thanks!)
Waste: Where tax dollars go to die
Government misspending dampens the economy and hurts public faith in our system
Mr. Robinson defines government waste as egregious waste of money, as in buying stuff that is never used either because it is no longer needed or is outdated before anyone gets around to using it. There are gross examples of cost overruns, such as the federal Firearms Registry, but it's the smaller, chronic waste that is more insidious, says Mr. Robinson. "The Canada Firearms Centre bought hundreds of scanners to scan bar-codes," he says. "They cost $500 to $800, and most were never used. They are now in surplus stores."(Tax dollars, are not real dollars once liberated from the "funding units" of the country. Bureaucrats that waste money, should be fired, not promoted as would seem to be the case with the Liberals. Reward waste, and promote incompetence. 'Another' aspect of the "Chrétien legacy")
WHY ALL INFORMATION IN THE GUN REGISTRY
MUST BE “VERIFIED” AS ACCURATE!
Faith in the data contained in the system is mission critical for everyone who will use the data. - Implementing a registry will mean that we have collected some information about gun owners.  Confirming this information greatly increases the trust we place on the data. - Police need to have faith in the registry system.  Even the NFA agrees that unconfirmed information reduces the usefulness of the registry. (The NFA has already suggested that people might as well register toasters if we are not confirming the data sent by owners).  Verifying will avoid phony registrations. - Without the means of confirming information, we loose support from police forces (including the RCMP), provinces and coalition members.(The registration of soldering guns is proven, the registration of toasters is probable.  I would even bet that someone's 'dog' has a registered firearm. There is simply no way of knowing for sure, until the dog is arrested ) 
NOW PROOF THAT LIBERALS BOTCHED FIREARMS LICENCING TOO
“Government documents prove the Justice Minister’s promises to Parliament have been broken.” 
Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, released a trail of documents obtained over the last two years that the Liberals botched the firearm licencing program and compromised their public safety assurances in the process.  “The documents I have obtained through hundreds of Access to Information Act requests prove that they didn’t do the reference and background checks that they said they did,” stated Breitkreuz.  “They were so focused on the most useless part of the program – gun registration – that they forgot to do job-one properly.  Now we know why the firearm licence refusal and revocation rate was more than twice as good under the old FAC [Firearm Acquisition Certificate] program as it is under their new licencing scheme.  Who knows how many Marc Lepines have slipped through such a slipshod firearm licencing system?” (No matter how much proof is gathered, the Liberals keep parroting the same 'public safety' mantra over and over again. The quest is obviously not, and never has been "public safety". The quest is to blindly follow the dictates of a world-wide liberal catastrophe, called The United Nations. Chrétien, rightfully designated as the stupidest man in Canada, lives up to that designation by blindly ignoring the pubic, and continuing to pursue the social re-engineering of of our country and it's people into some pie in the sky liberal utopia. There is an old story about quasi dictators and their revolutions: "Come the Revolution, you will all live in fine houses. Come the revolution you will all eat the finest foods. Come the revolution you will have everything you ever wanted." When the response came as :" I don't necessarily want to live in a fine house, eat the finest foods, or have 'everything' I have ever wanted." The answer was: "That may be true, but Come the revolution, you will do as your told!" And THAT my friends is where this government is headed)
This dog won't hunt
If you're applying for a firearms licence in Canada, you'd better be more accurate in filling out your form than the people who run the long-gun registry. And more consistent. Bureaucratic bungling, huge cost overruns, no accountability for mistakes: Surely even the Liberals must now admit that it's time to end this fiasco, once and for all.(All promoted and encouraged by "The Stupidest Person In Canada" Call me crazy, but doesn't this sound logical? Who else but "The stupidest person in Canada" would continue with this farce. I would say that Mr. Chrétien has indeed found his legacy. And fitting it is! Will Martin do the right thing when he comes to bat? or is Martin just another Liberal weasel)
Postcards from Pam tout vegetarian fare
Canadian starlet Pamela Anderson wants restaurants in Saint John, the nation's third-fattest city, to turn stop serving fattening foods and put more vegetarian dishes on their menus. Postcards in Anderson's name have been sent to 50 popular Saint John eateries asking them to "turn over a new leaf try vegetarian." The former Baywatch and V.I.P. star has been a vegetarian since high school.(Well, 'that's' not entirely true! I, once out of curiosity, download a short video clip of her eating something made of meat! This woman will eat 'anything' to gain attention, and I'm sure 'thats' on a postcard out there someplace!)
Background checks optional for gun licences, Ottawa says
"One of the myths that Breitkreuz and opponents have been propagating is that every reference gets a phone call from a firearms officer," said spokesman David Austin. He explained that what really happens is "every reference signs a declaration; they provide their full name, address, and they sign a declaration saying they've known the person for three years and they don't consider him to be a risk, and then that is filed." Austin said the firearms officer "decides whether or not to call the person for further information." But in May 2002, the justice department advised then justice minister Anne McLellan, in a briefing note for question period, that "reference and background checks are done on each possession and acquisition licence (PAL) application," according to documents Breitkreuz obtained through the Access to Information Act.(Think back to your first FAC; I'll bet EVERY one of your references was contacted by the local firearms officer. THIS was called safety. What you have now is called FARCE. There are cases where known criminals have been used as references, and made absolutely no difference to the issuance of a firearms licence. This "Liberal Culture of Safety" can be depended upon to make everyone a little less safe than they were before!)
Take law into own hands: Officer suggests civilians detain anyone who resembles suspect.
TORONTO - Residents of a west-end neighbourhood reeling from the murder of Holly Jones and a spate of attempted child abductions must do more to protect the community from harm, a Toronto Police staff sergeant said yesterday. "We can't be there 24 hours a day, and we can't provide bodyguards, so we need the community to help us out, too," Staff Sergeant Jamal Khan said in a telephone interview, adding that civilians should consider detaining people who match the suspect's description. "I would hate to see normal people get jumped by other people thinking that [they're] one of the suspects, but if he fits the description, then I guess you have reason to hold him. Police can't be there all the time."(Now that police finally 'admit' they can't protect everyone, they are looking to the 'unarmed public' to apprehend or detain someone who thinks nothing of killing, raping and dismembering a child. I can see a number of 'vigilantes' who are going to be facing law suits in the future. If someone sees a stranger leading a child away from their parent, and he runs when confronted, many men would not hesitate to beat the living shit out of him! That may or may not leave them open to legal problems. But damn! Wouldn't it feel good to do it anyway?)
Federal gun registry doesn't make sense, but ignoring it does
Why hasn't Ottawa just killed the joke known as the federal gun registry? It has already cost taxpayers $1 billion, and it's doing little, if anything to enhance public safety. Is it myopic conviction that Father Knows Best? The empire-building imperative in an ethos where success is measured by money spent? Inability to understand how irredeemably flawed the program is? Or mere inertia? Whatever the reason, if Ottawa won't officially put this misbegotten monster out of its misery, the provinces should unofficially do so.(Provincial Governments should Ignore it! "It's The Right Thing To Do". The Canadian Police Association 'CPA' backs the gun law. and is making waves in the effort to tell people they will be charged. What most people DON'T know, is the CPA is only a Government LOBBY GROUP and has no power to direct the police to do anything. As a matter of fact, most cops couldn't give a rats ass what the CPA wants. They take their orders from the Chief, and even the Ontario Chiefs Association condemns the law! Turning a Million Canadians into criminals for a 'paper offence' is a politically stupid thing to do. But then again, didn't Chrétien just get an award for being the Stupidest person in Canada? Hell, even Mulroney didn't get THAT!)
Bad law just got worse 
It would be nice to think Ottawa's obduracy grows out of a conviction the registry will do something to prevent such horrors as the mass murder of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1989 and the murder of four professors at Concordia University in 1992. But the sad fact is there's no evidence at all it will accomplish any such thing. What's keeping this law on the books is merely, shamefully, this government's inability to admit it made an enormous mistake.(How this government thinks is beyond the comprehension of any rational person! Even after an admitted  failure of the system, losing god knows how much information, Easter is stubbornly, stupidly, blundering on, with the direct, unmitigated attempt to turn law abiding people into criminals for being unable to comply with this nonsensical farce. The arrogance of this government is simply astounding. They have LOST all right to govern, so now they RULE!) 
Gardner faces gun probe
The Toronto Police Services Board voted last night to have chair Norm Gardner investigated for accepting a handgun as a gift from a Scarborough firearms company. The board will ask the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services to investigate Gardner's accepting a .45-calibre TAC-Four handgun from Thanos Polyzos of Para-Ordnance in February. Gardner said an Ontario Provincial Police wiretap of a Stouffville gun store revealed the transaction. "I've done nothing wrong," Gardner said, explaining that he had intended to pay for the gun. "I wanted to pay for it." While Gardner first told the Star he would temporarily stand aside if the matter was referred to the civilian oversight agency, he later said he will seek legal advice on Monday to decide what he must do. Gardner said the board hadn't informed him of its decision late last night. Gardner said he paid Polyzos more than $700 for the gun on June 3, which he described as "the dealer's price" and that he doesn't think of it as a gift because he paid for it. "Yeah, I paid a dealer's price for it. Hey, I'm a collector. I shoot." The handgun gift came to the board's attention as a result of an OPP wiretap of a Stouffville sporting goods store, Gardner explained. To comply with laws, Gardner said the gun had to be transferred to him by a registered firearms dealer. Polyzos arranged for a sporting goods store in Stouffville, which Gardner refused to name, to provide him with the gun, but since it was a deal between him and Polyzos, he didn't pay the store for the gun. Between February and May, he concedes he made no attempt to pay for the gun. It was only when two investigators from the OPP firearms enforcement unit came to see him on May 16 that he realized he had a problem, he said. Gardner said the OPP told him they had been conducting a wiretap of the gun store and overheard him making arrangements to pick up the gun.(Boy, if they had a wiretap going, then they certainly got an 'earful' when I called 'that store' in January!. I had a .40 LDA Ltd on order for 12 weeks, when Para informed me that 'that store' had none on order?.. I went ballistic and told 'that store' exactly were they could stick their gun! A few emails back and forth with Para, and cooler heads prevailed. Para Ordinance is an absolutely AMAZING company to deal with. They totally bend over backwards to make sure their customer is happy. The Canadian Market is minuscule compared to the U.S. Market, but they sure know how to keep their Canadian customers happy as well.. Their firearms are a true work of art, and anyone that does not consider this product before buying a new handgun, is missing a wonderful opportunity to not only support Canada's only handgun manufacturer, but will also be missing the opportunity to own one of the finest guns in the world.. why buy a piece of crap, when you can own a 'PARA'... Can you tell I'm happy with mine?)
Troy man gave intruder a surprise
 The ordeal began early last Thursday morning as the wiry, tough-as-nails Nispel slept. At about 2:15 a.m., he was awakened by the barking of his small, long-haired dachshund, Rusty, whom Nispel refers to as often as not as "my little dog." Though Rusty had been known to be a little vocal in the wee hours before, this time the alarm didn't flag. Wondering if there was reason to be alarmed himself, Nispel, 76, hopped out of bed, stopping long enough to pull on a pair of pants and reach for a .25 calibre Colt automatic in a drawer near the bed before venturing into the hallway. From his bedroom door he saw the living room lights were burning and wondered why. At first he thought maybe a relative had arrived and let themselves in. A nice surprise visit. Instead "this guy came from behind me and hit me on the head, put a knife to my throat and told me to get down on my knees," charged Nispel. A week later, he bears stitches in one ear from the slashing of that knife along with a grape-sized deep purple-black bruise near his temple. (This man is lucky to be alive, and so is his intruder. Sometimes I think it's always a wise idea to take a firearm out of storage, just so you can admire it on your bed table from time to time right up until dawn.. There is no law that says a gun must be in storage 24 hrs a day, and gun owners are being targeted more and more by criminals. It sure doesn't help that the government keeps a 'shopping list' of what you own, available to god knows who either.)
 And the " Culture of Safety" Continues: Durham under the gun
  DURHAM-- Roy Jones, 28, shot to death on an Ajax street Feb. 4, 2001. Teran Richards, 22, shot four times - and survived - playing pickup basketball in the gymnasium at Pine Ridge High School April 3, 2001. A 17-year-old boy charged with firing a sawed-off rifle in the lobby at Pickering High School, missing a crowd of students Jan. 11, 2002. A 15-year-old Bowmanville boy, days later, arrested with a semi-automatic handgun. A 24-year-old shot in the leg and hand leaving an Oshawa tavern in March, 2002; a 25-year-old shot in the leg outside a Pickering pub in May of that year. The list goes on and on. "Alarming" is how police describe increasing gunplay in Durham, a once sleepy suburban haven from city violence to which so many moved to escape. "It used to be incidents involving guns were few and far between," says Detective Stan Pinkney, a 23-year Durham Regional Police veteran. "Not any more." (While 'criminals' run rampant with firearms, thankfully the Liberals have spent a BILLION DOLLARS to keep everyone safe from the law abiding hunters, target shooters, and collectors. God forbid they antagonize the criminals by spending that BILLION DOLLARS beefing up our police forces, securing our boarders, and revitalizing our court systems to deprive them of 'their' rights! It's impossible to rationalize how any thinking person could justify persecuting the innocent to control crime. Particularly when the very law they are using has created the largest firearms black market Canada has ever seen.. Logic was NEVER a Liberal strong point) 
Lacombe charged for unregistered gun
   Edmonton -   A former sargeant-at-arms is facing gun charges more than five months after he brought an uregistered rifle, wrapped in plastic, to a firearms protest.  Opponents of the federal gun registry had started raising money for Lacombe's defence long before he was charged. They would like to take the new law to the Supreme Court, which the Law-abiding Unregistered Gun Owners Association (LUFA) says will cost $250,000.(Finally!!! The government got the balls to charge somebody. Personally, I think the charges will be 'stayed'. There is no way the Liberals want this farce before the Supreme Court, they have no chance of winning. I think it was strictly a matter for the government to "Crap or get off the pot". However, it's interesting that the charges were NOT laid under the Firearms Act, but rather the criminal code that was changed to 'reflect' the firearms act.: Edmonton police spokesman Wes Bellmore said Lacombe has not been charged under the Firearms Act but the Criminal Code of Canada. Carrying a firearm while attending a public meeting is under Section 89 (1), and unauthorized possession of a firearm is under Section 91 (1), said Bellmore. )
Company says link to Web site promoting jihad a 'sick joke'
The president of an Eastern Ontario company that sells mail-order firearms says it's a sick joke that his company is linked to a Middle Eastern Web site dedicated to an Islamic holy war. "We have our own suspicions. I think it's someone's idea of a sick joke," said John St. Amour of Marstar Canada, a company in Vankleek Hill that sells guns to collectors, firearm dealers, police and military forces. The Internet link is on a Web site claiming to be the official site of Osama bin Laden and provides do-it-yourself manuals describing how to build a bomb, use a gun and become a martyr. It was spotted by the SITE Institute -- a Washington D.C.-based agency that monitors Web sites to track terrorist movement for the media and the U.S. government.Mr. St. Amour has not been contacted by police and doesn't expect he will be. "I can't see them being interested in this. Anyone aware of the regulations knows this can't be real, someone put it there," he said. "There is no way we could ever export there." Mr. St. Amour said his business is one of the most heavily scrutinized in Canada. Each order received by Marstar Canada must be submitted to the Federal Firearms Registry for approval, and only after it is approved is it shipped to the buyer. Its inventories are also audited regularly by authorities, he said. (Any one that thinks Marstar would be selling gun to terrorists would have to truly live in some fantasy world. There is no way you can stop someone from linking to your site, but your isp can certainly block unwanted connections, and I assume Marstar immediately took this step. By the way, they have great prices on Norinco stuff!)
Gun registry rejection rises
The two other dissenters — Nova Scotia and Ontario — were somewhat unexpected. It’s not often that Upper Canada, a Maritime province and the Prairies can agree on much of anything, and most of the time, those regions are at loggerheads over everything from transfer payments to management of natural resources to the Atlantic Canadian work ethic. Anger over the gun registry, however, has united these Five Musketeers. Obviously, the registry needs to be reconsidered. But that is not likely to occur until after Prime Minister Jean Chretien leaves office. By the end of this month, owners who have not complied will face the legal action the five provinces have eschewed. According to the Canadian Firearms Centre, 500,000 people have not yet registered their long guns. But that figure will need to be revised in the wake of a computer crash that may have invalidated some people’s registrations. This latest glitch provides even more ammunition for the anti-registry lobby.(Chrétien can't leave office fast enough to suit most people, even those with-in his own party. The incessant parroting of public safety platitudes, blithely spilling from the mouths of those bureaucrats and MP's most in danger of job loss or political embarrassment, is now reaching the level of incredibility previously only equalled by the Iraqi information minister. The liberal government has dug a hole so deep, their entire political future may depend on how gracefully they are able to stagger out of it!)
National Experiances with Firearms Regulation(.pdf file)
Abstract: Activist promise the tightening up on firearms regulations will make society safer by reducing criminal violence and even suicide rates. This brief review of selected countries in the British Commonwealth suggests the recently introduced firearm legislation has failed to reduce either violent crime rates or suicide rates in any of these countries. If the goal is to improve public safety, governments are urged to seek more cost effective approaches.(An excellent paper that shows criminal violence increasing everywhere but in the U.S.A., which is actually declining. 33-34 states now allow qualified citizens to carry a concealed handgun for protection, and its working! Other governments continue to proceed with a firearms restrictive, and  ineffective type of legislation because of either a: They think that 'their' law will be different, and therefore work. Or b: There is an entirely different reason for the disarming of citizens, that has nothing to do with public safety. All governments can't be as incredibly naive and stupid as it looks, so most people have a tendency to believe there is some 'other' underlying reason with emphasis on the 'lying' portion) 
COUNTDOWN TO DISASTER
It's time for the federal government to toss its ill-fated gun registry where it belongs. On the trash heap. After pouring more than $1 billion into this bottomless money pit, the Chretien Liberals should cut taxpayers' losses and admit the entire exercise has been a bureaucratic nightmare and a political failure. Federal Solicitor General Wayne Easter cast even more doubt about the viability of this ill-fated scheme yesterday when he admitted an untold number of gun owners' names may have been deleted from the registry after a computer crash.  Easter said the computer system could not handle the intake as gun owners scrambled to register before the Jan. 1 deadline, which was later extended to June 30. As the new deadline looms, about one quarter of an estimated 1.9 million gun owners have yet to register their rifles and shotguns.(1.9 million gun owners is a 'government' estimate that has been kept low, to bolster their  disappointing figures, and make the registry look as if it might work. The Liberals were told right from the start that this was a fools plan. They were told that it would cost vastly more that their ignorance estimated. They were told that the majority of law abiding gun owner would not comply willingly. They were told that persecuting law abiding citizens for the acts of criminals was wrong. They were told that several portions of this law would violate the charter of rights and freedoms. They were told it would never work. As the old saying goes, "You can always tell a liberal, but you can't tell them much" This whole fiasco is very like trying to curb prostitution, by ordering every sexually active woman in the country to register with the government. Their not 'all' prostitutes, but they have the equipment necessary, and therefore should be controlled and monitored.)
Marie Curtis park slated for expansion 
 A 39-acre plot of land adjacent Marie Curtis Park that was once home to a factory that produced more than one million guns during the Second World War will in fact become part of Marie Curtis Park within two years.
During the Second World War, Small Arms Ltd. (SAL) located at Dixie Road and Lake Shore Boulevard produced more than one million Enfield rifles and Sten sub-machine guns and employed about 5,000 people.(Ahh nostalgia.. Two things come to mind here! The first was when I met Marie Curtis in the early 60's. She was visiting some friends near Euginia Lake by Flesherton Ontario.. I was 17 and trying desperately to woo some young ladies with my guitar at the same gathering. She was introduced to me by one of the young ladies as the person who had a park named after her on the Toronto water front.. My response.. "Cool".. When your 17, it takes a lot to be impressed by an older person! The second thing that comes to mind was the shooting range at the old armoury, A long dusty, low ceiling 'tunnel' that was like firing your gun in an echo chamber.. No such thing as ear protection back then, You just left the building saying Huh? a lot!) 
Easter Admits: Names of gun owners wiped out Gun registry computer crash
(Canoe Link: May vanish in 24 hrs. or Less)
Easter couldn't say how many names disappeared from the registry system during the network crash last Dec. 28-31. Various MPs have been bringing forward names of gun owners who are confused because they haven't yet received confirmation of their registration, he said.  Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, his party's justice critic who has been pushing to scrap the $1-billion gun registry, called for an amnesty for late registrants and said no court in the country would prosecute now. "This is a very serious bungling of an issue that has become a joke," he said. "It brings in disrepute the Criminal Code of Canada. The solicitor general has unwittingly created a whole new class of criminals." But Easter isn't willing to budge from the June 30 deadline. "We will not be extending the deadline," he said. (Oh, I see, he's able and willing to prosecute 600,000+ people? Ya Right!.. Why I'll just bet that at least 600,000 gun owners had registered online, and were lost in the crash! Prove it's not true! There was a big rumour at the end of the year that the CFC had had a major computer crash and a LOT of info was lost. By actually admitting the truth (a rare liberal occurrence) Easter ended up with egg on his face and the general public, thankfully' now has more ammunition against this liberal farce!)
Poor training, funding, hinder crime busters
Proceeds of Crime units unable to effectively fight crime syndicates, extremist groups, audit reveals
Uncertain funding, poor training and weak direction have undermined the elite national units set up to zero in on the illicit profits of organized crime and terrorist groups, says an internal review of the program. The auditors also noted insufficient training, particularly in complex areas such as money laundering, international criminal operations, and foreign legislative and investigative approaches. "Staff have expressed a need for more (training) resources, including increased personnel, office space and support services." The report calls for several other improvements to the program, including a solid national management structure, a strategic business plan, strengthened accountability and a clearer sense of purpose.(REAL Crime control goes wanting, while the Liberals pursue the law abiding gun owner with billions of dollars in funding.. Anyone that believe that this would be supported by 'law abiding' Canadians is too stupid even for a political career! The billion plus dollars wasted chasing duck hunters might have made a difference in REAL crime control, but only a liberal would be too stupid to understand this! )
P.E.I. Att. Gen. Jeff Lantz stands by Ottawa on gun registration
 CHARLOTTETOWN — P.E.I. Attorney General Jeff Lantz admits much of the new federal gun registry system is "a mess", but it's not the place of provinces and their attorneys general, to "pick and choose" which parts of the Criminal Code to enforce. Otherwise, that would lead to an even greater "mess", said Lantz, in a phone interview this morning. (You don't fix a "mess" by adding to it either! It's a bad law, and it is not the responsibility of Provinces to blindly support politically motivated bad laws. Particularly the ones that will be unbelievably expensive to prosecute, and have no chance of being a useful tool to society.
Link #1: Ontario won't support firearms registry law 
Link #2: Ontario won't prosecute over unregistered guns
Link #3: Ontario defies gun registry law
Link #4: Ontario won't enforce gun registry law
TORONTO  - The Ontario government says it will not prosecute anyone breaking the federal firearms registry law. According to the law, rifle owners have until July 1 to register. Ontario Attorney General Norm Sterling says he believes the law is a waste of time and money. He says the federal government should concentrate on more serious crime. Sterling, who is also the MPP for Lanark-Carleton, says the gun-registry law will only discourage people from participating in firearms sports. He says police don't believe gun registry will make much of a dent in the number of weapons on the street. Ontario is not the first province to say it won't cooperate with the federal government. At a news conference Tuesday, Nova Scotia Justice Minister Jamie Muir said it will be up to federal lawyers — not provincial prosecutors — to charge gun owners who miss the registration deadline. Manitoba was the first to make this commitment. Alberta will act under the Criminal Code but is advising police to use discretion, and only lay charges under the Firearms Act, which it will not prosecute.(Yea Ontario.. Is Easter also going to tell Ontario's Solicitor General to "get up to speed"? I doubt it!)
STATUS OF FIREARMS “VERIFIER NETWORK”Updated: May 30, 2003 
BREITKREUZ ATI REQUEST – Dated April 29, 2003: “Reference is being made to the RCMP’s response to ATIP2002-44709 dated January 23, 2003 and complaints we are receiving from firearms owners across Canada who are unable to contact verifiers from lists provided by the Canadian Firearms Registry and complaints about verifiers from those same lists who refuse to verify firearms when requested.  Please provide copies of reports showing the number of “active” Volunteer Verifiers in each province and territory.  For the purposes of this request an “active” volunteer verifier would be an individual who has agreed to verify firearms for the general public (as opposed to verifying only for his personal use or business) and has verified firearms in the last year.” (Verifiers are rarer than 'hens teeth' and it SHOULD REMAIN THAT WAY.. Friends don't let friends be verifiers. My general consensus is: Public verifiers are poor insecure little buggers, that think verifying firearms for the government is a step to a feeling of importance that is otherwise missing from their lives. Don't use them, pity them, look down on them, for they are truly missing something that will give them a perception of esteem) 
 Suburban wives arm themselves against terror
It is midweek night at the Blue Ridge Arsenal and Ginger Wright, passionate gun owner and professional shooting coach, cannot seem to hit the centre of the target. "I'm shooting in heels," she says with a laugh. "I don't usually shoot in heels." She steadies her .45 calibre Sig Sauer once more and the spent cartridges fly. Mrs Wright is shooting in a smart blue business suit, a pink blouse and heels. At her feet sits a canvas holdall with two more handguns. On the side is printed: "Refuse to be a victim".(More and more Canadian women are getting interested in shooting sports. If only more would "Refuse to be a victim"! Successive Canadian governments have decreed that it's much better to be raped or dead, than armed. The gun control fanatics continuously point to the thousands that die every year in the U.S.A. because of firearms. But, what they continuously ignore, are the hundreds of thousands of lives that are 'saved' every year in the U.S.A. because of firearms. Here's something that you will never hear in the Canadian media : "A life was saved today by quick thinking, and a handy firearm!" even though, it happens thousands of times every year. Reporting that you Pulled a gun, and your attacker ran away when he seen it, is not marketable news. This story will never sell advertising, but it will get you arrested for some trumped up unsafe storage charge, or simply hassled for thinking you actually have the 'right' not to be raped or murdered!)
Heard in The House!
Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, last week the first of many charter challenges was launched against the gun registry.Courts will not begin to hear these challenges until the fall. However, the government has imposed an arbitrary registration deadline of June 30. Courts may rule that the registry violates the charter.  Will the government extend the registration deadline until a court decision has been reached?  Hon. Wayne Easter (Solicitor General of Canada, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the government on this side of the House has argued a number of times that we are trying to work with gun owners to have them understand that the intent of the system is not to penalize hunters and legitimate gun owners. The intent of the system is to make our streets safer.  Specifically in answer to the member's question, no, the deadline will not be extended.(So Mr. Easter thinks that the problems with firearms in our streets is the fault of legitimate target shooters, and duck hunters, and if they only look after these folks, our streets will be safer? Well I guess they had a hard choice to make! Drugs and Guns are inseparable according to Chief Fantino. So, I guess if you think like a dumbass Liberal, and decriminalize the drugs, the guns will go away too! As for extending the deadline.. No way, we will give up the chance to score a few bucks to offset our fiscal incompetence. When the Supreme Court finally tells the liberals to cease and desist, will every one get their money back? Don't hold your breath, they've already spent it on Corporate Jets, Golf Courses, Shawinigan Fountains, Canoe Museums, and Ottawa Political Museums. It's not as if their buying helicopters, healthcare or anything useful is it? Remember:ONLY THOSE 70,000 LICENSED GUN OWNERS THAT HAVE FILED "LETTERS OF INTENT" BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2002 ARE ABLE TO REGISTER THEIR FIREARMS: The Rest? Well, all criminals every one of them.. How many ? Minimum 600,000 Canadian patriots, but we know there are a hell of a lot more!)
Global tax on guns?
The very thought of a global tax on arms sales and possibly even on individual gun purchases is like walking on glass to many, who feel doubly threatened by a global tax and by another encroachment on private gun-ownership. Although many in public policy positions might downplay such concerns as overblown or even paranoid, global bodies do have a long, if rarely reported, history of trying to foster various sorts of international gun bans. (This article ALSO lists some of the recommendations by the U.N. in their ongoing quest for gun control, and a global government domination. Reading this list certainly answers a number of questions as to way the liberals are doing some things in the firearms registry that make no sense at all to anyone not familiar with 'the agenda' )
Do YOU Have the "Safety Gene"
Notice concerning Prohibited 12(6) Handguns: This notice is to advise that Bill C-10A, amending the Firearms Act and Criminal Code, has received Royal Assent. However, it will take some time for most of the amendments contained in Bill C-10A to take effect. Many of the amendments require new regulations before they can be brought into force. Among other things, Bill C-10A includes amendments to section 12(6) of the Firearms Act. These relate to prohibited handguns that have a barrel length of 105 mm or less or that discharge 25 or 32 calibre ammunition. (Using the fuzzy logic of the liberal regime, YOU can't own one of these firearms, unless you owned one on a particular date, that was later changed to another particular date, or your firearm was one of the far less dangerous type made in 1946 or earlier . If you own one of the pre 47 firearms, then by some magical liberal wand thump, your "safety gene" can be passed on like the others in your family gene pool, and will allow you to no doubt, produce much safer progeny than the rest of us peons.. Your current restricted licence, will allow you to own a .44 cal. (and now thanks to S&W a .50 cal.) magnum handgun capable of stopping a charging grizzly bear. But denies you access to a tiny .22 cal handgun with a 2 inch barrel, that fires a projectile which in all likelihood would bounce off a balloon at 50 yards. Why? Because the government says you are not trustworthy enough if you lack the "safety gene". As the NFA says, it doesn't 'have' to make sense - it's Government Policy. I wonder if the Supreme Court would consider this a form of  blatant discrimination, only because there is no charge for blatant liberal stupidity?)
Gun registration clogs up the legal system
Also See:Nova Scotia won't prosecute gun-registry offenders 
And: Nova Scotia defies Ottawa on gun registry
And: NS won't charge owners of unregistered guns
TRURO, N.S. - Nova Scotia will not prosecute registration offences for rifles and shotguns. At a news conference this morning Justice Minister Jamie Muir called Ottawa's gun registry a ''bad law'', a ''boondoggle'' and ''unnecessary red tape.'' Muir says he is directing provincial prosecutors to refer any charges relating to long guns to their federal counterparts. He says he doesn't want to clog up the legal system with unnecessary cases because there's a lot of serious criminal matters that have to be dealt with. Muir says those who use long guns to commit crimes will still be hit hard under the law. He adds the current law was created for downtown Toronto by a big city politician, ignoring the concerns of rural Canada. Nova Scotia is one of eight provinces that have called for the suspension of the gun registry.(And Easter STILL refuses to suspend this farce until the Supreme Court rules on it's constitutionality. This law tramples on so many rights, it smacks of third world dictatorship practices. No wonder over a million gun owners have refused to comply, and most provinces are refusing to support it. Prove it's legal FIRST, then see if people will comply. The big problem here is the Liberals KNOW the Supreme Court will eventually shoot it down, yet they continue to have no regard for your rights)
Up in Smoke? or Smoking Up?
It was the announcement by Health Minister Anne McLellan that her department was allocating $245-million — please stare at that figure — to advertise the dangers of smoking the pot that her colleagues were by implication proclaiming innocuous. There was a time when $1-million was thought to be an immense amount of money. But here is a government, on one of its off days, proposing as a side bar, as a mere sputtering afterthought, to toss 245 million dollars, 245 million, to blunt the portended impact of some of its own most progressive legislation. A quarter of a billion dollars. Enough for 24½ Rolling Stones SARS-relief concerts. When did money cease to mean any­thing? When did expenditures of hundreds of millions of dollars, merely to deflect the impact of another government program, become so insanely trivial that the amount at stake barely crawled into some newscasts? When did they, meaning the politicians, or the citizenry, become so numb, dare I say narcotized, to such vast expenditures? Was it the estimated price of almost one billion dollars, one thousand million, to construct a useless list of the country's firearms? Was it the other billion dollars that went sluicing through Human Re­sources and Development Canada? The rhetorical question that screams to be asked is: What are they smoking?:Rex Murphy (Money, it would seem, ceases to mean anything when it leaves the pocket of the taxpayer, and enters the black funding box of the Liberal Government! Imagine a magic box that produces cash to fund any nonsensical whim that could possibly enter the human mind, and you have a good idea of what the liberals consider tax dollars to be! When the magic box gets stingy, pass a law that allows it to be topped up with even more money. Magic money, magic money from the 'pavlovian funding units' trained and depended upon to bleed forth whatever is commanded of them. Those that do not comply! Let them become criminals on July First. A fitting example of a Liberal Canada Day!)
And the "Culture of Safety" Continues: Shooting last straw for neighbours
(Canoe Link: May vanish in 24 hrs. or Less)
 The second shooting in two years at a Hamilton Road building left a 19-year-old man in hospital yesterday with a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. Police responded to the disturbance above the now-closed Caribbean Restaurant at 96 Hamilton Rd. about 3:30 a.m. They said the victim's injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. His condition was stable. "This is the last straw," said the mother of two teens. "I've had guys walk right in my door in broad daylight, looking for somebody. I caught them smoking crack in my basement once and all the time there's fights and people coming and going at all hours." Plett, who's been in her rented home since September, said she plans to start apartment-hunting immediately. "I'm out of here." Two men were shot at close range at the same address in January 2001 when about 20 people gathered in what appears to have been the same apartment unit for an after-hours party. (The Liberal Firearms Act and a 70 year old handgun registry: Clearly making it safer for everyone)
G8 leaders all smiles and 'some' endorse a tax on Stupidity
During an afternoon session, Mr. Chirac enthusiastically endorsed a suggestion from Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, who was attending an enlarged, presummit session, that countries should tax firearms to help pay for Third World aid. "I think that if there was taxation on arms, that would not be at all unjustified, and therefore I am totally in favour of examining that," Mr. Chirac told a news conference. Another French official noted later the idea was sure to anger the U.S. National Rifle Association, seen as a key supporter of Mr. Bush.(Seeing that the French have already sold their firearms to the Middle East.. {Great Deal on Guns: Only dropped once} Perhaps a better idea would be to only tax those that are running backwards whenever a fight breaks out! Outside of sinking 'The Rainbow Warrior', what fight has France ever won? 'Of course' "Black Jaque Chirac" would be willing to tax firearms! France was always the first country to throw them down anyway! )
On first day of amnesty
 BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqis ordered by the U.S.-led occupation force to begin turning in their weapons showed little sign of compliance Sunday, the first day of a two-week amnesty period designed to make the streets of postwar Iraq safer. Two weeks ago, Iraq's U.S. occupiers issued an order demanding that citizens hand in everything but light weapons, which are permitted for protection in homes and businesses. Anyone who doesn't comply by sunset June 14 could be sentenced to a year in prison plus a $1,000 US fine.  But on Sunday, the first day of the gun handover period, few Iraqis seemed to be taking the U.S. order very seriously. Barely anyone showed up at Baghdad police stations, the city's main weapons-collection points.  By late afternoon, not a single gun had been turned in at the al-Sadar police station in al-Thawra. The commander, Brigadier Ali al-Yassiri, suggested a reward be established as incentive.  The scene was similar at the Hay al-Aamil police station, where Iraqi policemen posted banners on razor wire outside the station, urging people to hand over any forbidden arms. Nobody showed. The station's commander, Col. Ali Mohammed, said the low turnout was the result of bad publicity. "It is a good decision," he said of the coalition order. "Only ill-intentioned people will keep their weapons."(Sounds like the liberals DID send someone to iraq! The gun amnesty and collection sounds like the same success it has here.. Only, we have until 'Canada Day' to become criminals. Ho Hum another arbitrary  date for the paper criminalization of a million citizens in the name of 'crime control'. The Liberals credo: If we 'can't' control real crime, lets make some criminals we 'can' control.. If the Liberals really  want a response, most will even add an appropriate P.S. (Pound Salt)

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