From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca on behalf of Cdn-Firearms Digest [owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca] Sent: Saturday, 21 April, 2001 13:40 To: cdn-firearms-digest@broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #732 Cdn-Firearms Digest Saturday, April 21 2001 Volume 03 : Number 732 In this issue: Re: Fw: Slow Burn: Embers of Responsibility COLD-HEARTED THUGS Two shot in downtown chase, may be gang related Shotgun report triggers arrest: Beam me up to next generation of firearms Industry Canada - Intention to Dissolve Corporations Drs. against bias and misinformation HTML Re: [chat] coalition for gun control Corporations Database Online New Additions to the NFA Web Page Animal groups push anti-cruelty bill Environment Voters target Harris M.P.P.s Re: [chat] Animal groups push anti-cruelty bill [none] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:26:52 -0600 From: "John E. Stevens" Subject: Re: Fw: Slow Burn: Embers of Responsibility At 09:42 PM 4/18/2001 -0600, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Bert van Ingen >To: letters@thecitizen.southam.ca > > > Holy cow! Ottawa Chief Fire Prevention Officer Andre Vermette has > >been instructed to permanently cease issuing "open-air burning > permits". >Simply put; campfires are no longer legal in Ottawa ( Ottawa > Citizen B3, 18 >Apr. ). Ah, the joy of living in a free and democratic society. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:38:11 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: COLD-HEARTED THUGS PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2001.04.19 SECTION: News PAGE: 50 BYLINE: Staff - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- COLD-HEARTED THUGS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Two St. Catharines pizza parlour employees spent about 20 minutes in a cooler after an armed robbery yesterday before they felt it was safe to come out. Niagara Police said two masked bandits -- one armed with a -- walked into the Pizza Pizza shop on Lake St. at 12:30 a.m. and ordered the employees to open the cash register. The bandits then robbed the employees of their personal cash and ordered them into the cooler. The uninjured victims emerged 20 minutes later and called police. A canine unit lost the trail of the two thugs in a townhouse complex behind the store. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:37:57 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Two shot in downtown chase, may be gang related PUBLICATION WINNIPEG FREE PRESS DATE : THU APR.19,2001 PAGE : A2 CLASS : City EDITION : - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Two shot in downtown chase, may be gang related - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Staff Reporter Winnipeg police believe two young men shot shortly after 6 p.m. in the downtown area may have been victims of a gang-related incident. Duty Insp. Wally Kosarych said the men were both shot in the back but they are in stable condition at hospital. "They're not co-operating," Kosarych said. "They've had dealings with the police before and they're not saying much." Kosarych said police were first called to Notre Dame near Furby Street around 6: 20 p.m. where they found a 21-year-old man who had been shot in the back with a small-calibre . Kosarych said witnesses said it appears that four men were chasing four other men through the neighbourhood and began shooting at them. Shortly afterwards, he said, police were notified about an injured man on Selkirk Avenue who was requesting assistance. Kosarych said that man, 18, had also been shot in the back with a small-calibre . "Indications are that the second man was shot along with the other on Notre Dame," Kosarych said. No suspects have been arrested, he said. "We're investigating whether it is gang-related." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:38:17 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Shotgun report triggers arrest: PUBLICATION: Times Colonist (Victoria) DATE: 2001.04.19 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: Capital Region & Vancouver Island PAGE: B1 / Front BYLINE: Louise Dickson SOURCE: Times Colonist - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Shotgun report triggers arrest: Road rage a factor in altercation near school - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Police drew their , surrounded a car and arrested a man Wednesday while children playing outside Blanshard elementary school on their lunch hour looked on. The arrest followed a complaint by a woman driver that a man had pulled out a shotgun and threatened to kill her after their cars bumped in the intersection of Cook Street and Caledonia Avenue, said Patrol Sgt. Mike Sikora. ``Because of the kids, one officer went up to the car very quickly. He was concerned this guy would pull out a weapon and start shooting,'' said Sikora. ``The members took a bit of a risk for themselves because they were very cognizant of where the children were. We wouldn't normally do that. For a code five takedown, we usually isolate and then go by some very rigid step-by-step procedures.'' Police received the road rage report just before noon and quickly identified the registered owner of the blue 1983 Cutlass. They used Operation Cooperation to alert bus drivers, taxi drivers and other local police departments to look for the car. About 15 minutes later, officers found the vehicle behind Bahr's Drugs on Quadra Street between Kings Road and Hillside Avenue. The driver was sitting in the front seat. Police quickly cordoned off the area and called for backup. A motorcycle officer, parked in the back lane that runs between the rear of the drug store and the school, tried to quietly move the curious children away. The children were only about 25 metres from the car, said Sikora. ``At that point, some decisions were made to take this guy down. Our radio conversation said `Make sure no one is facing the school.' But we didn't get a chance to do a Code 5 takedown because he moved so fast.'' No shotgun was found in the car. However, police found a fishing rod and a club on the backseat. ``That may very well be what the victim saw and thought was a shotgun,'' said Sikora. One parent who saw the arrest complained to Sikora that police had pulled out their while children were near. ``We were very aware of this,'' said Sikora. ``Believe me, we would have liked to do the takedown in a parking lot at Ogden Point, but unfortunately that's not what we got.'' Afterwards, police involved in the arrest explained to school staff what had happened. A 31-year-old man was in police custody Wednesday afternoon phoning his lawyer. ``We're exploring charging him with threatening based on the statements and gestures he made,'' said Sikora. The patrol sergeant said drivers have been on edge since the bus strike. ``Even though it's over, traffic has been really hectic. I think this guy just blew.'' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:38:04 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Beam me up to next generation of firearms PUBLICATION: The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) DATE: 2001.04.19 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: Sports PAGE: B4 COLUMN: Outdoors BYLINE: Lloyd Litwin SOURCE: Special to The StarPhoenix - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Beam me up to next generation of firearms - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- I picked up a Remington catalogue a while ago at Wholesale Sports and found some interesting items. Remington is one of the first off the mark in responding to anti-gunners demands for safer products. In the bullet department, they have a completely jacketed projectile that is made of compressed non-lead metallic particles. It's the particleboard idea in metal. It holds together during the shooting process and performs equally as well as the standard stuff. The difference is it disintegrates to dust and a low mass copper jacket upon impact with anything. No ricochets and no lead in the air. Heating bills go through the roof faster than bullets in the winter when you are trying to exchange the lead-filled air at an indoor range. This bullet and lead-free primers will save indoor gun ranges a lot of money. In the bolt-action rifle department, they have two new ideas. The first one is another lock right on the bolt. Remington has a narrow key that turns a knob on the side of the bolt and renders the gun inoperable in the locked position. I guess the feeling is a trigger lock isn't good enough so they will add another level of security to thwart unauthorized use. The second product is a whole new shooting system that utilizes electronics called EtronX. First you load a nine-volt battery into the butt stock, then use another key to turn on the gun. The lock is located on the bottom of the grip and I assume it is removable once it is on. An LED indicates the on status, whether a cartridge is chambered or not, safe position and low battery. When you load the special ammunition into the chamber and close the bolt, a ceramic insulated firing pin makes contact with the electrically fired primer. Pulling the trigger engages a micro-switch, which generates a voltage pulse via the electronics board. The current flows through the firing pin to the primer and ignites the cartridge. All of this happens in less time than the old mechanical system in your now old technology guns. In fact, Remington claims this all happens before the old firing pin would even make contact with the primer. They measure it at 0.0000027 seconds, or 27 microseconds. Of course you must have the new ammunition as well. Standard ammunition won't fire because there is no mechanical impact. Electric current is necessary to fire this stuff. Being an electronics tech who actually worked with this technology some 12 years ago, I wonder what they have done to insure static electricity won't set it off. I haven't received an answer to my e-mail of a month ago to Remington. Since the lock time is faster, tighter groups are supposed to be the result. Given the limited calibre offerings of .220 Swift, .22-250, and .243 it seems the varmint hunters may be the only interested group if the prices of the gun and ammo are comparable. The accuracy gain of a few milliseconds of lock time is not what this is about. I believe it's pandering to the anti-gun movement. A keyed switch is nothing more than a dime store lock with two wires attached. Far more robust and complicated keyed ignitions thwart only the simplest of car thieves. This system will only be effective at stopping young kids. But given our already stringent gun storage laws in Canada, who needs it, right? We have the laws. Maybe this is the first step towards Captain Kirk-style phasors. Now we're talking. Litwin is a Saskatoon freelance writer. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:53:54 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Industry Canada - Intention to Dissolve Corporations CANADA GAZETTE - PART 1 Volume 134, No. 52 Ottawa, Saturday, December 23, 2000 Supplement Canada Gazette, Part 1 December 23, 2000 INTENTION TO DISSOLVE CORPORATIONS Pursuant to the provisions of subsection 133(1) of the Canada Corporations Act DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY CANADA CORPORATIONS ACT Notice is hereby given that the company stated hereunder has, for two consecutive years and more, failed to file in the Department the summary required under subsection 133(1) of the Canada Corporations Act and that, unless within one year after the publication of this notice, the company files the summaries in default, an order dissolving the company will be issued as prescribed by subsection 11 of section 133 of the Canada Corporations Act. On page 8, the Canadian Coalition for Gun Control is one of approximately 4012 companies listed in this 36-page Supplement December 11, 2000 Marc Leblanc Director Incorporation and Disclosure Services Branch For the Minister of Industry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:41:06 -0600 From: Lee Jasper Subject: Drs. against bias and misinformation Someone said: Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca >I'm interested in starting a doctors group to fight >bias and misinformation in the Canadian medical >profession as it pertains to the firearms issue. Right on! Do you want to extend it to include psch, soc, stats and criminology, etc. Ph.Ds, like in the U.S. These folks are responsible for most of the good (and some of the bad) research? Why not add in all Professors in related disciplines)? On the other hand, do we have too few active lobbyists in Canada to become splintered? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:41:42 -0600 From: Moderator Subject: HTML My apologies to all Members. While re- doing my computer and reinstalling my email Program, I neglected to set the new version to PLAIN TEXT. Moderator: GPH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:54:19 -0600 From: Jim Powlesland Subject: Re: [chat] coalition for gun control Organization: Calgary Community Network Assoc. On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Gordon Hitchen wrote: > they have had their registration cancelled because they have refused > to file the information under the Companies act for two years in a > row! Do you mean for two years they failed to provide information as required under the *Income Tax Act* and Revenue Canada revoked their charitable organization designation? I searched for "Coalition for Gun Control" and "Gun" at: http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/tax/charities/list/chtysr-e.html and came up blank. ("Ducks Unlimited" worked though) Moderator: I will post the link separately in short order! GPH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:03:29 -0600 From: "Gordon Hitchen" Subject: Corporations Database Online Approved: torontocanada http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns _re?company_select=2861071 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:44:14 -0600 From: "Jim Hinter" Subject: New Additions to the NFA Web Page Organization: National Firearms Association We have added several new items to the NFA Web Page. On www.nfa.ca you can go to some excelent reading on Foot and Mouth Disease. You can read the text of a speech given by NFA National Vice President Wally Butts to a Lions Club. On www.nfa.ca/information.html the January and February issues of POINTBLANK are now available in Adobe PDF format. There is an excellent article on selecting a firearm for varmint shooting by Peter Cronhelm in the February issue, which you might like to read. Have a great weekend! "Stay tuned for more updates" Jim Hinter National President National Firearms Association ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:41:16 -0600 From: Jim Powlesland Subject: Animal groups push anti-cruelty bill Notice the last four paragraphs. The Animal Alliance of Canada is an animal rights group dedicated to ending hunting and trapping in Canada (see http://www.animalalliance.ca/projects/index.html). - -- Publication: Calgary Herald Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001 Pages: B1-B2 Animal groups push anti-cruelty bill Public urged to support campaign ROBIN SUMMERFIELD CALGARY HERALD Animal rights groups hope a groundswell of public support will put an animal cruelty bill providing stiffer fines and longer jail terms on the fast-track to becoming law in Canada. "It is a serious issue that deserves serious consideration in our Criminal Code. We've been trying for changes for 20 years and it's something hopefully that will happen in 2001, but we want to get as much support as possible," said Cheryl Wallach, the Calgary Humane Society's manager of community relations. The society launched a letter-writing campaign Wednesday on its Web site and at its of offices to draw support for Bill C-15, an omnibus bill tabled by Justice Minister Anne McLellan in January that includes harsher penalties for cruelty to animals. [snip] If passed, Bill C-15, which had its first reading in the House of Commons in March, will raise the maximum penalty for cruelty to animals to five years from two; remove maximum limits on fines; allow for a lifetime ban on animal ownership and a minimum five-year prohibition for second or subsequent offences; and allow judges to order offenders to pay restitution, including veterinary bills and shelter costs. "As a society, we must take animal cruelty seriously, and Canadians overwhelmingly are telling us they want this matter dealt with.... We need to send a signal and that's what we're doing in modernizing the provisions," McLellan said Wednesday in a press conference at the Calgary Zoo. She expects her bill to be passed by the Commons in June. Bill C-15 revives her anti-cruelty legislation that died last fall when the federal election was called. Currently under the Criminal Code, animals fall under the property section, where the maximum sentence is a $2,000 fine or six months in jail and a two-year prohibition from owning animals. Those penalties don't go far enough, said Wallach. "It's very frustrating to investigate cases of really horrible animal abuse that the penalties involved don't really serve as any sort of deterrent." The legislation is aimed at the worst offenders, people who are "stomping and microwaving kittens" and "kicking and starving puppies," said Wallach. If the new law is passed, animals will be recognized as sentient beings, giving animal advocates more power in protecting abused creatures, said Joy Ripley, president of both the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. The real test of the bill will be its application after it is passed, said Liz White, director of legislation for the Animal Alliance of Canada, which has fought for the new legislation. "My worry in this, is that people will think of this as the means to the end, but really it's a means to the beginning. It doesn't matter what the legislation says, if nobody uses it, nobody takes it to court, nobody tests it, what's the point?" said White. The onus is on humane societies and other groups on the front lines to push the legislation to the limit, test the parameters of the law and have "the courage of their convictions to lay charges," she said. - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:44:52 -0600 From: CILA / ICAL National Office Subject: Environment Voters target Harris M.P.P.s Content-CILA / ICAL Defending Canada's Heritage Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca - ---------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - ---------------------------------------------- April 30, 2001 Environment Voters target Harris M.P.P.s Environment Voters, an anti hunting group based in Toronto, has targeted the following pro hunting provincial Progressive Conservative M.P.P.s in the upcoming 2003/2004 election. One issue they will be focusing on is hunting. From their website; "Domestic and wild animals also lack protection from cruelty and exploitation. For example: Grizzly bears, a threatened species, and black bears are hunted for sport in the fall." It is imperative that the hunting community rally around these M.P.Ps. Don't allow a small, loud group of antis with deep pockets to control the agenda again. Please write or fax (not e-mail) letters of support to these M.P.Ps and to Premier Mike Harris right away. Remember what happened to the spring bear hunt! - -30- To open the CILA Press Release below, simply double-click on the icon and Adobe will open it for you. If you do not have Adobe Reader you may download it free at the URL below. http://www.ado be.com/ prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html For more information contact: Canadian Institute for Legislative Action / Institut Canadien pour l'Action Législative National Office: P.O.Box 44030, 600 Grandview St. S. Oshawa, ON. L1H 8P4 Ph: (905) 571-2150 Fax: (905) 436-7721 e-mail: teebee@sprint.ca Ottawa Office: 27 Cedar Grove Crt. Nepean, ON. K2G 0M4 Ph: (613) 828-8805 Fax: (613) 828-6967 e-mail: aldorans@magma.ca Home: http://www.cila.org A proud member of the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities / Forum du Monde sur le Futur d'Activités des Sports des Armes à Feu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:38:02 -0600 From: "Greg Charney" Subject: Re: [chat] Animal groups push anti-cruelty bill - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Powlesland" > The Animal Alliance of Canada is an animal rights group > dedicated to ending hunting and trapping in Canada (see > http://www.animalalliance.ca/projects/index.html). ANIMAL ALLIANCE OF CANADA Corporation #2651874 BN #891155962RC0001 http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns _re?comp any_select=2651874 They have 8 directors and a max number of 7? These government sites have some interesting info if you know how to find it. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:40:01 -0600 From: Dale Blue Subject: [none] Reliable sources from the police community indicate the April 17 and 18 meeting between CFC and police representatives in Ottawa was uneventful: to class it as more than a waste of time would be to give it credit for a purpose and accomplishment. CFC indicated major problems with First Nations peoples across Canada. There will be massive advertising campaign starting very soon to promote registration. Firearms registration forms will be mailed to all current licence holders in an effort to garner participation. Information submitted on the new forms will in the opinion of police sources be of little or no use to front line police officers. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #732 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:acardin33@home.com List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca FAQ list: http://www.magma.ca/~asd/cfd-faq1.html and http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/homepage.html FTP Site: ftp://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/ CFDigest Archives: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/ or put the next command in an e-mail message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca get cdn-firearms-digest v03.n198 end (198 is the digest issue number and 03 is the volume) To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next five lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-alert unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".) 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