Liberals Planning New Gun Control Legislation

It looks like the Liberals are at it again, they seem to be planning new gun control legislation.  As usual it will probably mean more restrictions on LEGAL gun owners and will punish us for people who either use illegal firearms to commit crimes or have mental health issues.  Lets not forget the last time the Liberals came to save the day, it cost over 1 BILLION dollars of tax payers money and what did that get us?  NOTHING.  Please keep in mind people that the BILLION dollars could have helped so many people who have mental health issue and WOULD have prevented, suicides, murders and just plain pain and anguish for thousands of people in this country!  Much more than any gun control imposed on LEGAL gun owners as criminals DO NOT follow the law.

As mentioned the billion dollars they waisted last time could have also been used to plug the holes at the boarder where the majority of illegal guns and gun crime come from.  But you will not hear them speak a word of the money they spent and they will not tell you how much they will spend this time around either until after the fact.

Also lets not skip over the anti gun folk who seem hell bent on taking LEGAL firearms away form LEGAL gun owners.  Please keep in mind that these people at times are making their decisions based on emotion and NOT fact.  I could go on all day about them and their agenda but you can make your own minds up.  BUT please get the REAL facts before taking what anyone says at face value.  Yes that includes what I say.

Please read the article below and feel free to leave a comment or post on our forum and have a good ethical conversation something that most of the media in this country doesn’t seem to do.

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Liberals offer no timeline to toughen gun laws on 10th anniversary of Dawson College shootings

OTTAWA — The drafting of tougher gun laws has begun, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday on the day marking the 10th anniversary of the rampage at Montreal’s Dawson College by a man firing a semi-automatic assault carbine still sold legally today.

Pressed by reporters as he headed into a cabinet meeting, Goodale deflected questions about the continued sale in Canada of the Beretta Cx4 Storm semi-automatic carbine, the restricted weapon used by Kimveer Gill to slay Dawson student Anastasia De Sousa, 18, and wound 16 others at the junior college’s downtown campus. Gill, 25, then killed himself with a handgun.

Similar restricted firearms have nearly doubled in number in Canada since 2006.

The Storm can be purchased by anyone with a licence to possess a restricted firearm and must be registered with the RCMP’s Canadian Firearms Program. But Berretta has since introduced a similar gun in Canada — the Cx4 carbine rifle — with an extended 19-inch barrel. The design change moves the gun into a non-restricted classification, making it available to anyone with a basic gun licence and does not have to be registered with authorities.

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Justin Tang/CPMinister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale: “We treat this subject very seriously.”
Goodale declined comment on that, too.

“I think it’s better to do it that way in a coherent way to be the most effective,” he said, referring to the Liberal’s election campaign commitment to repeal elements of Bill C-42, the former Conservative’s government’s 2015 gun law.

“That process is underway in developing the specific legislative proposals,” Goodale said. “I want to produce during the weeks ahead the full, specific package that we’re talking about. We treat this subject very seriously and this is a sad anniversary, and we express to all of those, the victims and the families and the friends of the people who suffered this tragedy our very heartfelt condolences and messages of support.”

Goodale’s reluctance to address the availability of the Cx4 triggered an angry response from prominent gun-control advocate Heidi Rathjen, a survivor of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal and spokeswoman for gun control group Poly se souvient.

“It is outrageous that a weapon that the coroner said should have been banned in the first place, not only is it still legal, but it’s more readily available for ordinary Canadians to own,” Rathjen said following a Tuesday memorial ceremony at Dawson. “As a non-restricted weapon, police don’t know how many there are, who has them, how many they have and who they’re selling them to.

“This has been an issue for 26 years now, that we need to get certain weapons off the market,” she said. “The solution is: you do not allow weapons that are designed for military purposes into the hands of civilians.”

In the decade since the Dawson horror, the number of registered firearms owned by Canadians has soared 87 per cent, to 795,845, according to the federal commissioner of firearms. That includes a 9.5-per-cent increase last year over 2014.

“The politicians who know what the solution is, who made the promise to address this, we still see no commitment to ban these weapons,” Rathjen said. “It’s unfortunate that the debate about gun control is still left up to the victims.”

Firearms groups apoplectic after Liberals promise new gun control measures
In a statement commemorating the tragedy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “The government of Canada’s top priority is to protect Canadians. We condemn all forms of violence and consider all attacks designed to spread fear and kill innocent people to be unacceptable.”

Trudeau made no mention of the Liberal’s promised gun-control reforms. They include restoring the requirement for a specific permit to transport restricted and prohibited weapons to and from such locations as a shooting range or gunsmith. Under C-42, authorization to transport the weapon is automatic with the granting of a licence.

The Liberals have vowed also to repeal a section of C-42 giving cabinet, not police, final say over which firearms are restricted. The Conservatives used the new power just before the start of last year’s election campaign to reverse an RCMP ban on certain Czech and Swiss-made rifles that closely resemble prohibited automatic firearms, the most restricted class of guns.

The Liberal platform on gun control also promised to:

• Provide $100 million annually to provinces and territories to support guns and gangs police task forces;

• Modify the membership of the Canadian firearms advisory committee to include knowledgeable law enforcement officers, public health advocates, representatives from women’s groups and members of the legal community;

• Require enhanced background checks to purchase a handgun or other restricted firearms;

• Require purchasers to show a licence when they buy a gun, and require all sellers to confirm that the licence is valid;

• Require vendors to keep records of all firearms inventory and sales to assist police in investigating firearms trafficking and other gun crimes;

• Immediately implement the imported gun marking regulations; and

• Invest in technologies to enhance our border guards’ ability to detect and halt illegal guns from the United States entering into Canada and ensure Canada becomes a party to the international Arms Trade Treaty.

SOURCE:  National Post

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