One thousand five hundred lines on a spread sheet—
takes 30 pages to list the types of firearms that have gone from legal to illegal by the stroke of a pen by Prime Minster Trudeau. .
The quantity of each that will be confiscated is not available but the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA) estimated 20 years ago that as many as 7 million people in the country own a total of 21 million firearms. In the intervening years Canadians probably bought another 4 million legal firearms so about 25 million legal and registered firearms will be confiscated from about 8 million Canadians. The government knows the homes of each Canadian who told the government where the firearms are kept.
That’s a lot of freedom taken away.
The Firearms Act also expands the grounds for warrantless searches, reduces restraints on issuing warrants and requires people to testify against themselves. The Gestopo would be proud of the Firearms act which is not against firearms but against Canadians. It should be called The Further Restrictions on Freedom Act.
Further, the government has admitted on three separate occasions in the past few years that since handgun registration was implemented in 1934, not one single crime in Canada has been solved using the national pistol registry,” per MP Breitkreuz said 20 years ago.
RCMP Commissioner Philip Murray complained in a letter to the Justice Minister that his department had greatly overstated the number of gun crimes in Canada for 1993. For instance, Justice figures for that year showed 623 gun-related crimes, but Murray said the real number was 73; and of the 333 homicides investigated by Mounties that year, only six involved a firearm.
Gunter reported in the Edmonton Journal that “the Department of Justice overestimated the number of gun crimes in the country by nearly 10-fold and exaggerated the cost of treating gunshot wounds by nearly 100-fold… Why? Why does government want to confiscate the firearms of innocent Canadians? . ..
Many of the guns are for sport purposes only, not for hunting, rape or robbery which is the use the Prime Minster believes Canadians would use them if they kept them.
They must be turned in, given to the government to use, not for hunting or rape or robbery but for controlling Canadians.
“The Liberals believe (the new law) would re-engineer Canada, and especially male gun owners, making its citizens more docile,” Gunter wrote. His is the last word here:
“When lawmakers trample centuries-old liberties without offering an overwhelming social good in return . . . then respect for the law dies and the rule of law along with it.”
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