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TEAM CSSA E-NEWS | AUGUST 18, 2020
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Did RCMP Firearms Program Techs Violate the Firearms Act 340 Times?
Since the Liberal government’s May 1st gun ban by Order in Council was announced, computer techs at the RCMP Canadian Firearms Program have reclassified 340 specific firearms as Prohibited.[i]
This raises two issues.
First, the term variant is not defined in the Firearms Act, which means the RCMP Canadian Firearms Program can literally claim anything is a variant of an AR-15, for example, and there is no way to correct the RCMP’s mistake.
For example, the Adler B210, a bolt-action smoothbore shotgun, was reclassified by the RCMP Canadian Firearms Program as Prohibited because, in their bizarre view, this bolt-action shotgun is a variant of the AR-15.[ii]
In similarly idiotic fashion, they reclassified the Saiga 410C Semi-Automatic shotgun as a variant of the Soviet AK-47 rifle.[iii]
Not one part is shared by these two so-called variants and the AR-15 or AK-47. Not one.
Yet because the term is not defined in law and our current government doesn’t care about firearms owners, they get away with this nonsense.
Second, changing a firearm’s classification after one year is a violation of the Firearms Act, making every one of those 340 firearm reclassifications a separate offence.
The Firearms Records Regulations (Classification) state:[iv]
Keeping and amendment of records
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Only the Registrar may keep or amend records of determinations made under the Firearms Act that firearms of a particular type, make and model are prohibited firearms, restricted firearms or neither prohibited firearms nor restricted firearms.
- The Registrar must keep a record of every determination referred to in section 1 that he or she makes.
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The records referred to in section 2 must not be amended more than one year after the day on which they are made and must not be destroyed.
Every time the RCMP Canadian Firearms Program unilaterally reclassified one of these 340 firearms, they blatantly and flagrantly violated the Firearms Act.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Our question for Public Safety Minister Blair is quite simple.
Minister Blair, when will you order the RCMP Canadian Firearms Program to abide by the Firearms Act?
PS: We’re not holding our breath waiting for an answer.
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Are you at all surprised that the RCMP Firearms Program has violated the law again?
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RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK'S SURVEY... |
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Does the term "variant" need to be clearly defined in firearms law?
YES: 98.3%
NO: 1.7%
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SURVEY! SURVEY! SURVEY! SURVEY! |
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IMPORTANT: In the wake of the May 1, 2020 Order-in-Council banning approximately 1,500 specific makes and models of firearms and the subsequent legal actions challenging the validity of the ban, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is gathering data on the prevalence of these newly banned firearms on the Canadian market and their use for hunting and sporting purposes.
The survey begins by asking that you confirm your identity as a CSSA member. This is necessary to prevent non-CSSA members from participating.
This personal information is confidential and, for that reason, we declined to contract this survey to a third-party polling firm.
Since you already entrust your personal information to the Association, we will conduct this survey using the same confidential process we use to collect ballots for our annual Board-of-Director elections.
All personal information is destroyed the moment we confirm your CSSA member status.
NO PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE CONTAINED IN THE SURVEY RESULTS USED.
The CSSA has long prided itself on maintaining complete confidentiality of our member's personal information, and we pledge to you our continued commitment to that privacy standard.
If you have any questions regarding this survey, contact us at info@cssa-cila.org or call 1-888-873-4339
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Gun owner takes Ottawa to court
Monte Sonnenberg | Simcoe Reformer | August 17, 2020
RCMP orders him to dispose of rifle
The owner of a Simcoe gun shop has joined a growing list of Canadians challenging the Trudeau government’s recent prohibition on certain makes of rifle.
Dan Nagy, owner of Eli’s Guns and Archery on the Queensway West, filed his paperwork at the Norfolk County court house Monday. He has been provided a date of Sept. 22 to commence proceedings.
“This is how ‘gun control’ works,” Nagy said at the court house. “If you want to prevent drunk drivers from killing sober drivers, you take away the sober driver’s car.”
Ottawa announced a ban on more than 1,500 types of long-arms that look like assault rifles May 1. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair made the move through an order-in-council that changed the definition of legal guns in the Firearms Act.
Some of the lawsuits maintain the ban violates constitutional rights to private property.
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Liberals will turn to private sector to organize gun confiscation program
Dave Naylor | Western Standard | August 13, 2020
A Canadian firearms expert said the buying back of now-prohibited firearms could end up costing up to $5-billion.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is looking for a private organization to come up with ideas how their gun confiscation program will work after banning more than 1,500 “assault-style weapons.”
Public Safety Canada has invited 15 consulting firms to come up with a range of options and approaches for the planned program to compensate gun owners.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is looking for a private organization to come up with ideas how their gun confiscation program will work after banning more than 1,500 “assault-style weapons.”
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About 16 people died each year in vehicle collisions with moose according to TIFF (2000-14) |
Should firearms owners be licensed?
Gary Mauser | Justice for Gun Owners | August 14, 2020
Why believe the media when they call the Nova Scotia killer a “gunman?” Yes, guns were involved, but so was arson. Many victims were burned to death. This was mass murder. The killer is a murderer. Focusing on guns is a red herring.
The recent murders in Nova Scotia demonstrate why Canadian gun control fails to keep people safe. Here. Here. And here. Perhaps that’s why RCMP spokesmen have been coy about whether the killer had a firearms licence. If he did not have a PAL, then the system failed its primary goal of controlling firearms ownership. Guns are available to any criminal who wants one. If the killer did have a PAL, the system failed to screen out dangerously violent people. Calls for more gun laws are just red herrings to divert attention from the abject failure of the RCMP.
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Lawyers to serve thousands of pages of evidence in opposition to Liberal firearms ban
Jesse Snyder | National Post | August 14, 2020
'Statements of the Liberal Party and the cabinet members who made this decision to ban these guns is not factually correct'
Legal representatives prepared to serve thousands of pages of evidence this week detailing their opposition to the Liberal government’s firearms ban, as lawsuits against the prohibition continue to mount.
Lawyer Edward Burlew, who leads one of five lawsuits now challenging the ban in federal court, is putting forward more than 2,000 pages of evidence on Friday that counter a range of claims cited by the federal government.
They include everything from Ottawa’s use of an order-in-council to enforce the prohibition to specific provisions within the ban to counter arguments about what the firearms included under the ban are actually used for.
Lawyers say the evidence, which includes testimony from 18 citizens and organizations, sets a strong foundation to the five legal challenges now opposing the prohibition.
“The evidence that we have put together, and then we’re going to continue to put together, shows irrefutably that the statements of the Liberal Party and the cabinet members who made this decision to ban these guns is not factually correct,” Burlew said in an interview.
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More Sask. municipalities back call to reverse
firearms ban
Michael Oleksyn | Prince Albert Daily Herald | August 16, 2020
'Statements of the Liberal Party and the cabinet members who made this decision to ban these guns is not factually correct'
Both the RM of Prince Albert and RM of Buckland are supporting a letter from the City of Cold Lake, Alberta around recent changes to firearms guidelines. At their most recent meeting on Thursday the RM of Prince supported the letter from the city which has been sent to all municipalities in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
“The blanket approach that the federal government has taken with regard to the Criminal Code and firearms does not compute with what happens out here. It does not allow with what people in the western provinces and territories are experiencing,” Reeve Eric Schmalz of Prince Albert said.
At their meeting on Monday, Buckland also supported the firearms Criminal Code Amendment Resolution put forward by Cold Lake.
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Latest legal coalition challenging Liberals’ gun ban casts a diverse net
Tim Naumetz | iPolitics.ca | August 14, 2020
The number of court challenges of the Trudeau cabinet’s sweeping prohibition of thousands of semi-automatic rifles and other firearms has swollen to six.
The latest legal action asking the Federal Court to quash the controversial measure includes a sport-shooting mother of three, an assistant attorney with Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General, and an Ontario firearm-import company owned by a licensed armourer who sits on a technical committee on firearms attached to Public Safety Canada, the department led by Bill Blair, the leading proponent of the ban.
The last-minute entry into the unprecedented court battle also includes the president of the Burlington Rifle and Revolver Club, the club itself, along with the Montreal Firearms Recreational Centre, known as Centre récréatif d’armes à feu de Montréal Inc. in Quebec.
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Matt Gurney: The Liberals' mounting firearms problem
Matt Gurney | National Post | August 12, 2020
The Liberals may not wish to be seen talking much about the gun ban over the next few years, as the Nova Scotia shooting inquiry, based on what we already know, could make for an awkward accompaniment
The federal Liberal government may find itself a victim of unfortunate timing: it will be defending its bogus “assault weapons ban” in court just as a public inquiry offers up evidence that such a ban isn’t aimed at the right target.
The May 1 order-in-council that banned several types of rifles — some with numerous variants, all of which were previously legal to own and some of which are owned in significant quantities — is now subject to a series of lawsuits. The National Post reported this week that the suits may be combined into one constitutional challenge. Alberta and Saskatchewan may intervene, as well.
Even if the Liberals are found to be on sound legal footing (given their broad authority in these matters, don’t be shocked if this happens), they’ll find themselves on the defensive for as long as the case takes to resolve.
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Grenville Cowboy Action
Shooting
August 22, 2020
Presents
Dances with Wolves 30th Anniversary
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The Most Revealing Poll Of All: Gun Sales
Tyler Durden | zerohedge.com | August 16, 2020
For decades, the Democratic party has wanted to abrogate the Second Amendment, to ban the sale of guns of any and all calibers, sizes, shapes and potential uses. They have long sought to limit the amount of ammo per gun and were just foiled again on that score.
The left has yet to realize the obvious, that criminals do not obey laws of any kind, least of all gun laws. So deluded are the gun-banning Democrats, they do not believe that Americans have the right to defend themselves against said criminals. These Democrats who want to run our lives all have armed security themselves, but we peons are, in their warped view, are to be forever denied the rights they bestow upon themselves.
Like the imbecilic Beto O’Rourke before her, Kamala Harris advocates gun confiscation; she wants the tyrannical government she and Joe are promoting to go into our homes and seize our legally-obtained weapons of self-defense.
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Alarming Poll: Majority of Voters Think Biden's VP Will Assume Office
Dave Workman | Ammoland Inc. | August 12, 2020
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- If Joe Biden’s announcement that anti-gun California Sen. Kamala Harris will be his running mate caused alarm among gun owners, a recent Rasmussen survey could ignite a national anxiety attack.
According to Rasmussen, 59 percent of likely voters think “it is likely Biden’s running mate will be president before the end of Biden’s four-year term.” Thirty-nine percent of those respondents think it is “very likely,” the polling firm reported.
The survey was conducted Aug. 6 and 9 with a margin of sampling error of +/- 3 percent.
An earlier Rasmussen survey published June 29 revealed that 38 percent of likely voters believe Biden is suffering “from some form of dementia.” Forty-eight percent disagreed and 14 percent weren’t sure, but that was then.
Right now, 59 percent of Democrats “attach more importance to Biden’s running mate than Republicans (32%), Rasmussen said. Forty-three percent of Independent voters think it’s important.
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Airing August 23, 2020 on CITYTV |
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This Week... Kevin Beasley is taking his father Ken to the infamous moose
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PolySeSouvient’s Unassailable Logic
on Handgun Bans
Christopher di Armani | christopherdiarmani.com | August 14, 2020
On August 8, 2020, PolySeSouvient, one of Canada’s gun ban advocacy groups, put out this tweet:
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The implication is the handgun owner is responsible for the theft of his or her handguns, not the criminals.
There is no fault, no blame assigned to the thieves who broke into the house, then into the gun safe to steal these handguns, despite a minimum of three Criminal Code violations before they ever left the scene of the crime.
Nope.
It’s the gun owner’s fault for owning handguns.
According to PolySeSouvient, the solution to criminals breaking into homes and stealing other people’s stuff is to ban anything criminals might want to steal.
By PolySeSouvient’s logic, vehicles are responsible for both drunk drivers and car thieves, kitchen utensils are responsible for obesity, and home owners are responsible for criminals breaking into their houses.
Want to stop thieves? Ban home ownership.
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LETTERS – RE: No silver bullet solution to gun crime in Niagara, Aug. 10
Tony Bernardo, Executive Director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association | Welland Tribune | August 14, 2020
This article is a series of contradictions. Karen Vanscoy repeats the tired canard about firearms starting off as legal, and a few paragraphs later describes the illegal shipment of crime guns across the U.S. border, where no Canadian gun registry could have the slightest impact.
In fact, Canada's gun registry did have an impact. It spent billions of dollars without solving a single crime and was generally so useless even the Liberals vowed never to repeat it.
The operative word in “gun crime” is “crime,” not “gun.” Until governments get serious about stopping the flow of crime guns into Canada, drug gangs will choose to protect their trade with illegal guns. Choosing to hang the albatross around the necks of Canada's most law-abiding community — legal and trustworthy firearms owners — might make some people feel better but will have no positive effect.
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Over 227,950 signatures and growing!
(Firearms - Democratic Process)
Sponsor:
MP Michelle Rempel Garner
Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Conservative Caucus
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Over 58,260 signatures
to date!
(Firearms - Democratic Process)
Sponsor:
MP Todd Doherty
Cariboo – Prince George, BC
Conservative Caucus
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Our democracy is under attack.
And no one knows that more the gun owners!
An international crisis like the #COVID19 pandemic warrants an increased - not a diminished - level of parliamentary debate, accountability,
and oversight.
Let Justin Trudeau know that you're fed up with the way
he's running our country!
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Petition e-2629
(Canada's Parliamentary Democracy)
13,400 signatures to date!
Sponsor:
MP Cathay Wagantall
Yorkton-Melville, SK
Conservative Caucus
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Please SIGN and SHARE widely!
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PETITION
by
MP Cheryl Gallant to
"FIRE BILL BLAIR"
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NOTE: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, public events, including many gun shows, have been cancelled for the coming months. Please check with your local gun show coordinators before heading out to any scheduled local events. Thank you.
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