-Caveat Lector-
And I say, Good For Them! ~ M
"... a police right to search gun owners' homes without a
warrant.."
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http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-12-13-0014.html
Wednesday, December 13, 2000
GUN SHOWDOWN
Pro-gun group dares the government to jail them
By LYLE HARVEY, CALGARY SUN
Thousands of Alberta gun owners will publicly dare the government
to toss
them in jail as part of a protest against federal firearms
legislation.
More than 11,000 provincial members of the Law-abiding Unregistered
Firearms Association (LUFA), a national pro-gun group, will willfully
ignore a Jan. 1 deadline for obtaining a firearms licence under
the law
commonly known as Bill C-68.
"We recognize that with the right to bear firearms comes a serious
responsibility, and safety is the foremost concern of any gun
owner," said
Ed Hudson, president of the 20,000-member LUFA, based in Alberta.
"As long as owners are using guns responsibly, they'll accept reasonable
control, but Bill C-68 goes far beyond reasonable control."
Owners must obtain a possession licence by Jan. 1, 2001, or when their
current firearms acquisition certificate expires, and it will be
needed to
buy ammunition.
Individual guns must be registered by Jan. 1, 2003.
Projections of national non-compliance range from 25%-50% of owners,
estimated at 2.2 to 8 million people.
The penalty for ignoring the law ranges from gun confiscation to
five years
in prison.
Hudson said while Jan. 1, 2001, will likely arrive without
fanfare, New
Year's Day 2003 will see every LUFA member take to the streets to
publicly
protest a police right to search gun owners' homes without a
warrant.
"On that date, we'll be in the streets saying, 'We own unregistered
firearms -- arrest us or scrap Bill C-68,' " Hudson said, adding the
demonstration will be peaceful.
Although police are required to enforce the law, they will not
wage a
full-scale invasion of gun owners' homes to check for compliance,
said one
of Alberta's top-ranking Mounties.
Police still must have reasonable and probable grounds to conduct
a search
in order for testimony to stand up in court, said RCMP Supt.
Dennis Massey.
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http://www.bowesnet.com/dht/Z11_Cd12millions.html
Millions of Canadian firearms owners 'refusing to
participate' in new law
The Canadian Press
As many as half of Canada's gun owners could be in violation of
federal law on Jan. 1, the deadline for
obtaining firearms licences.
So far, 1.7 million people have enrolled with the federal
government's gun registry, the Toronto Globe and
Mail reported from Edmonton.
The exact number of Canadians possessing firearms is unknown, but
estimates range from fewer than 3.3
million to as many as nine million.
In any case, it appears that far more people own guns than are
participating in the registry under the
controversial legislation, still often referred to by its
legislative name, Bill C-68.
''They've got a heck of a mess on their hands,'' Jim Hunter,
president of the National Firearms Association,
told the newspaper. ''I think it proves that there's literally
millions of Canadians who are just refusing to
participate in what they see as a bogus law.''
As of Jan. 1, gun owners without licences cannot buy ammunition.
Penalties for someone found possessing a
firearm without the proper paperwork range from temporary seizure
of the weapon to five years in prison.
The application of the law promises to be uneven. Police forces
across the country are responsible for
enforcing it, but are deeply divided in their support.
Provincial Crown attorneys are charged with prosecuting alleged
offenders, but Alberta and some other
provinces want federal Crowns to handle prosecution.
A group of provincial and territorial governments, led by Alberta
and supported by gun organizations,
challenged the law all the way to the Supreme Court, but failed in
June when that court ruled the legislation
constitutional.
The licensing and registration program has cost $327 million since
the law's passage in 1995, to April 1, 2000.
The law requires that all owners of long guns (rifles and shotguns
that had been previously exempt) obtain
possession licences by Dec. 31, 2000, or after their existing
firearms acquisition certificates expire.
Then, by Dec. 31, 2002, people must register each of their guns, a
provision that is even more controversial
than licensing.
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