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TEAM CSSA E-NEWS | JULY 20, 2020
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The RCMP’s “Not A-Registration-Certificate-
Revocation” Letter
Nullified:
make legally null and void; invalidate.
Revocation:
the official cancellation of a decree, decision, or promise.
Late last week, a letter from the RCMP began landing in the mailboxes of gun owners across the country. It arrived in a plain envelope and stated the following:
Firearm Registration Certificate Impacted by the
Amended Classification Regulations
“Certain restricted firearms which were registered to you have been affected by the recent regulatory amendments. These firearms, listed below, are now classified as prohibited and the previous registration certificates are
automatically nullified
and are therefore no longer valid but should be retained as a historical registration record.”
First, this is not a revocation letter as defined in the
Firearms Act
. This is
just another notice
that you possess firearms prohibited by the May 1st gun ban by Order in Council. Nothing more.
There may be no ability to file a Section 74 reference hearing based on the RCMP’s latest missive.
It seems the reason the RCMP did not mention the legal option of challenging this notice or invoking the 30-day window of opportunity to do so is because… wait for it… this letter is not a revocation notice.
* Firearms Act Subsection 72(1) states that when the Registrar revokes a registration certificate, the Registrar shall give you notice in the
prescribed form
.
* Subsection 72(2) also states that the
notice
must include reasons for the decision and must be accompanied by a copy of sections 74 to 81 of the Firearms Act,
which describes the appeal process in a case a certificate is revoked.
* To clarify, if the Registrar wants to revoke your registration certificate,
he must give you notice, in proper form, including a reproduction of the sections of the Firearms Act that explain how to appeal the decision. Because the Registrar did not follow this required format, the nullification letters appear to be invalid.
By characterizing Registration Certificate Numbers as “no longer valid” instead of issuing a Registration Certificate Revocation Notice, the RCMP is playing a game of trickery
.
[i]
They’re attempting to cheat us of our longstanding legal recourse to challenge their actions as specified in Section 74 of the
Firearms Act
.
74
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where
(a) a chief firearms officer or the Registrar refuses to issue or revokes a licence, registration certificate, authorization to transport, authorization to export or authorization to import… the applicant for or holder of the licence, registration certificate, authorization or approval may refer the matter to a provincial court judge in the territorial division in which the applicant or holder resides.
It's déjà vu all over again.
This is not the first time the RCMP has played this game of deceit with gun owners.
“I ran into this during the 12(6) handgun issue 18 years ago,” said Ed Burlew LL.B., one of the foremost experts in Canadian firearms law.
“I took this issue to Federal Court and won.
[ii]
The Court ordered the Registrar of Firearms to issue Revocation notices for every ‘invalid’ registration certificate for owners of 12(6) handguns who purchased their firearms between February 1995 and December 1, 1998. That caused quite an upset at the Registrar's Office. The Registrar had to issue thousands of the Revocation Letters and the owners filed for Section 74 hearings, as is their right under the
Firearms Act
.”
More importantly, a legal principle was upheld and the decision set a legal precedent. After Mr. Burlew’s win, due process of law was followed.
Ultimately, those Section 74 hearings were unsuccessful, he said, and the court determined the Certificates were indeed invalid.
[iii]
The end result this time may be the same as it was then, but we won’t know until a judge rules on the status of the RCMP’s letter.
Is it a valid Firearms Registration Certificate Revocation or not?
Only a federal court judge can say for sure.
‘Administratively Expired’
“The ‘official’ description of your Registration Certificate is ‘Administratively Expired’ which is not the same as revoked. This letter merely informs you the Registration Certificate is no longer valid,” Burlew said.
And while your current Registration Certificate is no longer valid, the RCMP also cannot issue a replacement Registration Certificate under the firearm’s new Prohibited classification for two reasons:
- There is no “grandfathering” section in our current firearm classification system to hold these newly-prohibited firearms. Legislation is required to create those new 12(x) classifications to allow grandfathering of current owners.
- Current owners of these newly-prohibited firearms are not eligible to own Prohibited-class firearms because they do not hold a valid Registration Certificate for those firearms – even if the classification existed, which it doesn't.
It’s a slimy and deceitful Catch-22 for gun owners – brought to you by the RCMP's Canadian Firearms Centre and your federal Liberal government.
Until legislation is passed to resolve this (and many other) issues arising from the May 1st gun ban by Order in Council, these freshly Prohibited firearms are “safe queens.”
They cannot be used.
They cannot be transported.
They must sit in your gun safe until the government passes legislation allowing you to move them to the police for destruction and possible compensation – if compensation is ever offered.
At this point, compensation for government confiscation of your property is a worthless Justin Trudeau promise. It’s nothing we can take to the bank, even though this latest RCMP letter, just like the first letter and its website, talks about compensation as though it’s a done deal.
It’s not.
The RCMP must stop playing fiddler for Liberal Party sloganeering.
In a country where the rule of law held any importance at all, the RCMP would stick to the facts, not speculate about what a politician may or may not do at some future date.
But that’s an entirely different commentary, and one we will get to shortly.
CSSA's Advice
1: Do NOT get rid of your firearms based on this RCMP letter.
2: Understand that filing a Section 74 reference hearing may be a waste of your time. There may be no opportunity to do so until you receive a real revocation or the 2-year amnesty is close to expiring. There is no 30-day window imposed by your receipt of this letter.
3: Support the two legal challenges the CSSA identified that give our community its best opportunity to strike down this gun ban by Order in Council.
4: Enjoy quality time your family and friends.
5: Enjoy the shooting sports as best you can with the aforementioned family and friends.
Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint, and the CSSA will ensure the very most is made of every opportunity until we reach the finish line.
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Our democracy is under attack.
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An international crisis like the
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GOLDSTEIN: Politicians silent as Toronto
gun crime skyrockets
Lorrie Goldstein | Toronto Sun | July 18, 2020
With Toronto looking for a new police chief, now would be a good time for the candidates, the police services board and city council to explain what their plan is to address the explosion of gun violence on our streets.
In 2005, the city once known as “Toronto the Good” was badly shaken by what became known as the “Summer of the Gun,” in which there were 262 shootings and firearms discharges on our streets, with 215 victims injured or killed.
Last year, in what now passes for the “new normal” in Toronto, shootings and firearms discharges were up 88% (492) and the number of victims injured or killed up 32% (284) compared to 2005 — both at their highest levels in 16 years.
Despite the record levels of gun violence last year, shootings and firearms discharges so far this year are up 18% (234) compared to this time in 2019 (198). While the number of victims injured or killed is down 4% (107 vs 111), the number killed is up 33% (24 versus 18).
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Four Federal Court cases on firearm ban could be mistake, says gun control group
Tim Naumetz | iPolitics.ca | July 17, 2020
The Coalition for Gun Control and its high-profile leader are urging the Federal Court to consolidate what has grown to a total of four legal challenges against the Trudeau cabinet’s ban on more than 1,500 types of semi-automatic rifles.
Coalition president Wendy Cukier, an internationally recognized expert on firearms, small arms and related deaths and injury, has advocated a ban on military grade civilian rifles since the 1989 Montreal massacre of 14 women at the Polytechnique engineering school.
She had filed motions seeking intervener status in three of the Federal Court challenges when a fourth challenge, mounted by nine firearm owners from Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, was submitted to Federal Court in Toronto.
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From Florida to the GTA, via Cornwall. Trial details smuggling route behind Toronto’s largest handgun bust
Betsy Powell | Toronto Star | July 17, 2020
The Toronto fugitive living in Florida on borrowed time was making easy money buying handguns in the Sunshine State destined for the GTA.
“I’m sending over the shipment, but it’s full of magnums on this load,” Ernest Wilson told a Toronto associate on a line police wiretapped in March 2018.
Within a few months, that police investigation, called Project Patton, resulted in the arrest of Wilson’s main accomplice, Harris Poyser, who was nabbed leaving Cornwall, Ont., headed back to Toronto with 60 handguns wrapped in bedding in the trunk of his rented car — the largest handgun seizure ever made by Toronto police.
Poyser, 60, pleaded guilty earlier this year. COVID-19 has delayed his sentencing until September.
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The first Grenville CAS match of the
2020 season will happen
July 25th!
The match is open to all but will require masks and social distancing guidelines be followed. It is necessary for all participants to read the club safety instructions attached to this email. At this time we will not be suppling water and sanitizer be sure to bring your own water and sanitizer. It would also be appreciated if anyone able to pick brass could bring their own tools and gloves. This has been a difficult time but together we can make it through this and enjoy shooting and the comradery that comes with Cowboy Action Shooting.
Please fill out your information in the "Registration Form" link. This includes the people who have already registered. Thanks for your understanding.
We will see you at the match.
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City council voices opposition to federal gun ban
Cold Lake. AB | News Release | June 26, 2020
For immediate release
Cold Lake, AB – Cold Lake City Council has voted to voice its opposition to the federal government’s decision to ban a number of firearms, and the planned buy-back program associated with the ban.
The decision was made after a notice of motion was tabled by Councillor Kirk Soroka at city council’s June 9, 2020 Regular Meeting. A resolution put forward in the notice of motion was debated and passed at council’s regular meeting this week.
“Council debated if this was an issue that we, as a municipality, wanted to wade into,” Mayor Craig Copeland said. “Ultimately, we felt that the federal government’s gun ban will be an expensive exercise that will only serve to take law abiding people’s property, while doing nothing to reduce crime. Municipalities are the level of government closest to the people, and a large part of our budget and operations is focused on providing safe and healthy communities.
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Halton police chief criticizes Jagmeet Singh's comments on Rideau Hall attack suspect
Chris Herhalt | CTV News | July 9, 2020
TORONTO -- Halton Region’s chief of police criticized federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on Twitter, saying Singh’s suggestion that the man who allegedly broke into the Rideau Hall grounds carrying four guns may not have survived if he was not white.
Chief Tanner called Singh’s suggestion that the RCMP would have handled the July 2 situation differently if the suspect was not white “politics at an all-time low.”
Corey Hurren, a 46-year-old reserve Canadian Ranger from rural Manitoba, stands accused of ramming a gate to the Rideau Hall grounds, where Governor General Julie Payette and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau currently reside, and roaming inside the grounds while allegedly carrying a semi-automatic rifle, extended magazine, two shotguns and a revolver.
He was able to walk for 13 minutes before he was confronted by RCMP officers who surrounded him and took him into custody without incident after about 90 minutes of discussion.
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The RCMP is broken
The iconic force is fraying under the strain of its rural policing model, tragic
mistakes, an ugly past and a controversial present
Stephen Maher | Macleans | July 9, 2020
Leon Joudrey shuts his phone off before he goes to bed, so when he awoke in his Portapique, N.S., home early on the morning of April 19, he had no idea that 13 of his neighbours, including some of his closest friends, had been murdered while he slept.
When he awoke at around 3 a.m., Joudrey had texts from friends asking if he was okay. He didn’t understand what had happened, so he decided to jump in his truck and drive around the community for a look. In the darkness, he didn’t realize that some of the houses he drove past were no longer standing, that they had been burned to the ground.
He came across an RCMP vehicle on the road. Through a loudspeaker, the officers directed him to go to the end of the road but did not roll down their windows to talk to him about what was going on. Joudrey instead went home to check on his dogs. The killer was by this time kilometres away in the community of Debert, but the RCMP didn’t know that.
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NYC Shooting Surge Highlights de Blasio’s Ineptness and Futility of Anti-Gun Edicts
David Codrea | Ammoland Inc. | July 19, 2020
U.S.A. – -(
Ammoland.com
)- “NYC's surge in gun violence sees spike in kid, teen and young adult victims,”
WNBC-TV 4 reported Monday
. “New York City has been grappling with an outstanding increase in gun violence over the past few months.”
Shooting stats are up overall and across all age range categories. The increases are “jaw-dropping,” we are told, and all socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio can seem to think to do is “decry the recent violence [and express] deep condolences.” While former New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s contention that the department is no longer allowed to do “things that work” is revealing (he no doubt means
on-demand suspension of the Bill of Rights
) what clearly does not work is New York City’s draconian citizen disarmament mindset.
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Majority of BC residents think gun violence 'serious,' believe total handgun ban would help: poll
Iain Burns | kelownanow.com | July 15, 2020
Most Canadians think gun violence in Canada is a serious problem, according to a new poll.
The Research Co. survey also found that a nationally representative sample of people agree that it should be illegal to own guns for self-defence.
Ontarians (76%), women (69%), over 55s (68%) and British Columbians (67%) were likeliest to view gun crime as a serious problem.
Overall, 63% said it was either a “very” or “moderately” serious problem.
Only 18% said it was a bad idea to ban the ownership of firearms for the purpose of self-defence against a person.
A huge majority of 77% agreed that it should remain illegal, while 5% said they did not know.
“There are not many Canadians who are willing to entertain the notion of allowing ordinary citizens to possess firearms for self-defence,” said Mario Canseco, president of Research Co.
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Anarchy is spreading. Democrats are simultaneously pushing gun control and defunding police. Wake up, America.
Editorial | Lawenforcementtoday.com | July 18, 2020
This editorial is brought to you by a former Chief of Police and staff writer for Law Enforcement Today.
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WASHINGTON DC – As anarchy spreads across the United States and with politicians doing their best to foment the unrest, Americans would typically turn to the police to protect them.
However, politicians, in bowing to the mob, are trying to emasculate the police, defund the police, and in the case of Minneapolis, disband the police.
What happens if you call 911 and nobody comes? All of this ties into the upcoming national election, as Biden’s plans for gun control could possibly remove Americans’ last line of defense against the criminal mob that threatens our country’s existence as it is.
So, what if nobody answered a call to 911? Sadly, that is the case in many parts of the country, as police are being outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and overworked dealing with cities that are out of control.
From New York to Chicago to Portland, our police officers are being pushed to the point of sheer exhaustion. Many are tiring of the constant day after day battles with a group of terrorist thugs that have been empowered by feckless leaders, overwhelmingly Democrats who are putting the November 3rd election ahead of their constituents.
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Letter –
Canadian firearms laws are robust, but there is no perfect solution
Scott Goodman, Courtney, BC | Comox Valley Record | July 19, 2020
While I agree with David Vernon’s general premise that banning specific semi-automatic firearms will do virtually nothing to improve public safety, speaking as both a firearms owner and a political liberal, it is both counter-productive and factually wrong to associate firearms ownership with ideology. Worse, it is inserting toxic American political tribalism into the discussion, something Canada can well do without. We can all see the terrible results such divisions have brought to our American friends.
If there is a dividing line on gun ownership in Canada, it is the urban/rural divide. The federal Liberal Party, anxious to please the large urban electorate on which their political fortunes rest, claims that banning this or that firearm will make people safer. One can certainly understand the safety concerns of urban citizens as the drug gang gunshots ring out on an almost nightly basis and innocent people find themselves in the line of fire. But criminals are not going to let mere firearms regulations prevent them from obtaining whatever firearms they want.
It is simply a fact that the only people who will obey such bans are those who already obey the law.
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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 events. Thank you.
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