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Canadian Gun Owners: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

May 29, 2012 by ttag

Shooters up North celebrated a rare gun-rights victory in April, when the Canadian federal government finally euthanized its expensive and useless ‘Long Gun Registry.’ The celebrations were short, however. Eager to appease suburban voters and swinging liberals, Ottawa promptly moved to ban ‘body armour.’ Then PM Stephen Harper’s ‘Conservative’ party has quietly announced that all Canadian gun owners will have to start paying a $60 fee to renew their firearm licenses every five years. It gets better: owners of handguns and other ‘restricted’ firearms (ooh, that sounds evil, doesn’t it?) have to fork over $80 . . .

Ontario Landowners’ Association to MPs: Abolish Long Gun Registry Or Else

June 11, 2010 by Robert Farago

We spied a news report at canadafreepress.com on the ongoing battle to abolish Canada’s long gun registry. The Ontario Landowners’ Association wrote an open letter to MP’s requesting their vote to abolish the government program. The article didn’t include the source document, so we called the Association for a copy [posted below]. Member Gerry Jette launched a long yet fascinating diatribe about the Canadian government’s encroachment on land owners’ rights, including the news that one of the Liberal MPs has expressed his intention to “do the right thing”—despite the whip imposed on their votes. Seems our neighbor to the north is experiencing the same big government backlash sweeping The Land of the Free. Well, except for California, whose legislature is bound and determined to put a long gun registry bill on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk. Go figure. Meanwhile, a more “candid” comment after the letter . . .

Calgary Police Chief: Kill Canada’s Long Gun Registry

April 27, 2010 by Robert Farago

While the vast majority of Canada’s top cops are ranged against moves to kill Canada’s Long Gun Registry, Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson has broke ranks and publicly declared that it’s time to “review” the legislation. “The gun registry has done little to make the streets safer,” Chief Hanson told CTV.ca. “”For the years it’s been in effect, there are more guns on the street today – handguns and prohibited weapons – than I can ever recall, and that’s since the gun registry has been implemented.” By why let a little thing like the facts get in the way of a bigger thing called political correctness, which says that the only reason draconian laws don’t work is because they’re not draconian enough? “Chief Hanson says . . . it’s not about politics, it’s about safety. ‘It’s not helping,” Hanson said, sticking to his talking points. “The guns these people have, they don’t register, they don’t care, they’re probably stolen, they’re probably obtained illegally, in many cases they’re prohibited.” So what IS the answer to gang violence and gun crime in Calgary and around the nation?

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