From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca on behalf of Cdn-Firearms Digest [owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca] Sent: Monday, 28 May, 2001 11:39 To: cdn-firearms-digest@broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #791 Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, May 28 2001 Volume 03 : Number 791 In this issue: BIKERS SELLING GUNS IN NORTH YORK: Requests for Identification RCMP COMMISSIONER DEFENDS GUN REGISTRY Identity of man who killed self after chase still a mystery FRONT-LINE OFFICER COMMENTS ON CPA & C-68 WOW in London Man faces charges after 28 weapons found WEAPONS CHARGES SPARK HUNT TORIES WANT REGISTRY FOR 'DREGS OF SOCIETY' Letter: Gun registration is dangerous Civil libertarians want details on tracking of sex offenders ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:26:58 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: BIKERS SELLING GUNS IN NORTH YORK: PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2001.05.27 SECTION: News PAGE: 12 SOURCE: Toronto Sun BYLINE: Tom Godfrey - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- BIKERS SELLING GUNS IN NORTH YORK: POLICE - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Toronto Police are targeting members of the Hells Angels to curb the peddling of in the North York area. "We're looking into the influence of motorcycle gangs and ," said Insp. Peter Sloly. "We're going after anybody with ." Sloly said a team of officers has been assigned to probe the Hells Angels, who've set up shop in the area. "Our fear is that they will import into the community," he said. "When they move in turf wars always develop." Undercover officers said the bikers are setting up a drug distribution network in the North York area. Sloly said gunplay in the area has dropped dramatically this year after a year-long police program, Let's Talk Guns, which targeted gunmen, was started. 'NIGHT AND DAY' "It's like night and day," he said. "We are no longer the busiest division in the city for gunplay." Sloly said there's been one murder in his division so far this year, as compared to three killings and several shootings over the same period last year. Adesegun Farquaharson, 24, also known as "Segun", was shot to death last Thursday less than 200 metres from his family home near Islington and Finch Aves. The killer is still at large. Police arrested about 15 hard-core gunmen and seized a number of weapons during the anti-gun program, in which 206 charges were laid. "We are pleased with the results," Sloly said. "Most of the hard-core gunmen have been taken off the streets." More than six people, including two children, were shot to death and 11 injured in shootings in the 31 Division area last year. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:27:18 -0600 From: "Gordon Hitchen" Subject: Requests for Identification When purchasing Ammunition requires you to produce a Permit and you are asked for more than the permit, why not simply speak to the management? I am sure any business would be happy to fully explain their policies to an enquiring customer. The NFA should not interfere with any business - Firearms related or not, that is acting within the Law but there have been times when such things could be justified. For example , questioning a dealers intentions in becoming a Verifier. We did this , I believe , in several instances at the height of the Liberal Governments efforts to force everything to be verified before registration. This coupled with our very vocal efforts to dissuade people from helping our Liberal enemy by becoming verifiers has succeeded and the Verifier program has dried up ! While we oppose the C68 Firearms Act in every legal way possible , we must be very careful to adhere to the law ourselves and INSIST the Liberals do likewise. A fundamental weakness in the Liberal Firearms Act is that they cannot follow it themselves. The ranks of Firearms related businesses have been badly reduced by the Liberal Government , intentionally. Lets not attack the survivors who are mostly opposed to C 68 , and have contributed whenever they could to our struggle against the Liberal Gun Law. Dealers are part of our community , as essential to us as we are to them. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:27:12 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: RCMP COMMISSIONER DEFENDS GUN REGISTRY PUBLICATION: Calgary Herald DATE: 2001.05.28 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: News PAGE: A2 BYLINE: David Heyman SOURCE: Calgary Herald DATELINE: BANFF - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Mountie defends gun registry - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- The commissioner of the RCMP defended the federal government's gun-control legislation Sunday to a mixed crowd of municipal politicians attending a conference here, saying he thinks handguns should be outlawed. ``I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody,'' said Giuliano Zaccardelli, to about 150 mayors, councillors and reeves at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference. Several of those in attendance applauded loudly at his remarks. Zaccardelli was responding to a question from a small-town Alberta politician who suggested the hundreds of millions of dollars the government has spent on the gun registry would be better used to give the RCMP more resources. The man also got loud applause, but from different delegates. Zaccardelli preceded his remarks with an acknowledgement he does not make policy, but rather enforces laws already made. And while the gun registry is expensive, he said police across the country generally get enough funding to do their jobs well. The cost of implementing the controversial gun control legislation has risen to more than $459 million. Bill C-68 will make it a criminal offence to own an unlicensed firearm. Registration of all weapons will be required by 2003. Ottawa says the law will reduce the number of crimes involving firearms. Those opposed to the law say it's far too expensive and it will make criminals of hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding gun owners. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Click here ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:27:05 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Identity of man who killed self after chase still a mystery PUBLICATION: The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) DATE: 2001.05.28 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: Third Page PAGE: A3 BYLINE: Shannon Boklaschuk SOURCE: The StarPhoenix - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Identity of man who killed self after chase still a mystery - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- RCMP are still trying to identify the man who shot and killed himself Friday near Wynyard following a high-speed chase with RCMP ``We have not positively identified him at this point,'' said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Ron Toogood. ``He had no ID on him, nothing at all. We're trying to trace him back to Regina to another stolen vehicle. We'll follow every lead we've got to find out exactly where he came from and who he is,'' Toogood said. An autopsy will be conducted today. RCMP were pursuing a man in a stolen car after the man left a gas pump in the town of Raymore without paying. The vehicle was spotted by Wynyard RCMP near Kandahar, which is just west of Wynyard on Highway 16. Wynyard is about 215 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon. When the suspect failed to stop for police, a 90-minute high-speed chase ensued, with speeds reaching up to 140 km-h. About an hour into the chase, there was an exchange of gunfire, Toogood said. Shots were fired at RCMP on nine separate occasions. RCMP fired at least one shot at the suspect, Toogood said. The chase continued on municipal and grid roads south of Wynyard until the vehicle became stuck in a field about 13 kilometres south of Wynyard. When attempts to contact the lone occupant of the vehicle failed, police approached the vehicle, Toogood said. The man was found dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. The vehicle had been reported stolen from a yard in the Zehner area, just north of Regina. A house in the yard was also broken into. Four and a large quantity of ammunition stolen from the house were later recovered in the vehicle. A stolen vehicle from Regina was abandoned at the location. It's the third time in the last month that Saskatchewan law enforcement officers have shot at a suspect, but Toogood said police in the province don't take deadly force lightly. ``It's unfortunate, but I think our resort to lethal force is not our member's fault. It's the situation they've been put in,'' he said. ``They've had to respond to some very, very dangerous situations and they are trained in that response. That's the last resort, no one wants to go there, but unfortunately that's the way it's gone in the last while.'' The Regina Major Crimes Unit is investigating the incident, and an administrative review is also under way ``to see if everybody has followed policy,'' Toogood said. ``Any time there's a major incident, there's a review of the members' actions to make sure everything has been done correctly.'' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Click here to find th ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:27:33 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: FRONT-LINE OFFICER COMMENTS ON CPA & C-68 This e-mail was received at the office of Garry Breitkreuz, MP and is reproduced with the consent of the author. This veteran police officer's name and e-mail address have been withheld at his request. "I recently received correspondence from you outlining the CPA Executive Board's decision to continue to support the gun registry. As a member of the CPA and a front line police officer for 27 years, I was very disappointed to hear that the CPA Executive had decided to continue their support for this program. I believe that their decision was made for purely political reasons, and was not made in consultation with its members nor is this decision supported by the majority of members of the CPA. The gun registry is a complete waste of money that will do nothing to make our streets safer- indeed I believe it will have the opposite effect. The $500 million dollars already spent on this program would have been better spent on paying for more police officers to patrol our streets, more custom guards to protect our borders, better resources, or more money spent on substance abuse centres, all things that would actually have made our communities safer. Instead the government has chosen to spend one half billion dollars (and counting) to address a problem that does not exist - the wide spread abuse of firearms by law abiding citizens. Another concern I have with the approach of the federal government in this matter is one you alluded to in you correspondence- the rift it creates between the police and the citizens of this country. C-68 has alienated a large segment of the population who until this point in time have been strong supporters of the police. A civilian gun owner that I know personally has told me he used to look at his local police as friends and partners - but no more - he now views them with suspicion and distrust. This sentiment is by no means an isolated feeling among gun owners who I meet day to day, both on and off duty. It is a very real and unfortunate consequence of passing an unpopular law that is not supported by a large portion of the population. Thank you for your past correspondence and keep up your excellent fight against C-68 - hopefully a time will come when C-68 will be replaced with a cost effective law that will target criminals instead of the law abiding." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:27:25 -0600 From: Lee Jasper Subject: WOW in London May 27, 2001 - - Women's Outdoor Workshop Learning the call of the wild By Simone Joseph -- Free Press Reporter Heather McGill holds a hollow tube to her mouth and gives two short puffs. With your eyes closed, you could mistake Heather for a goose. The 37-year-old usually investigates fatal fires and explosions for the Ontario Fire Marshal's Office. Yesterday, she was in a clubhouse in the wilderness practising her goose call. McGill participated in a full-day outdoor workshop that included wildlife calling, canoeing and shooting at the Wellington Street Sportsmen's Club. McGill wanted to learn calling so she can hunt with her husband. She enjoyed being with women learning about traditionally male-dominated activities. "It's a very non-intimidating environment," she said. McGill is one of an increasing number of women interested in outdoor sports such as hunting, archery and fishing. "There is a great deal of interest from women in learning how to shoot," said Linda Bone, women's activity co-ordinator for the sportsmen's club. "There is a changing attitude from women toward these types of things." Bone became interested in archery last summer. "I discovered a sport I wanted to do," she said with a broad smile. "Something that felt good to me." Trudee Wood, 52, went to the workshop yesterday to learn trap shooting. It is just one of a long list of unusual skills she would like to master. She has a "to try" list that includes dogsledding and motorcycling. Wood, who works in a lab at St. Joseph's Health Care, has tried kayaking and fly fishing. Yesterday, before the lesson on wildlife calling, Wood couldn't contain her excitement. The instructor stood at the front of a room in the club house, holding an odd-looking instrument to his mouth. He breathed out and emitted the low tune of a moose. Wood was not impressed by the meek sound. "Wouldn't that make you go running?" she asked sarcastically. I think that's pathetic for a big animal." There is an upcoming WOW at the East Elgin Sportsmen's Association near Aylmer. The only requirement is that one be 14 years old. The last newsletter doesn't say when it is being held. As long as the fed Libs keep warning citizens how socially deviant and dangerous the shooting sports are, we will have women sportspersons flocking out to see what us male shooters have been hiding all these years. We need a few of these politically active female shooters to hit on Culture Minister Copps for some funding for support for their continued 'cultural development.' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:11:45 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Man faces charges after 28 weapons found PUBLICATION: The Hamilton Spectator DATE: 2001.05.28 SECTION: News PAGE: A09 SOURCE: Wainfleet - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Man faces charges after 28 weapons found - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- A man was arrested when police found 27 guns and a butterfly knife unsafely stored in his home and barn. On Friday, Niagara police entered a home on Biederman Road in Wainfleet Township, with a search warrant. They found 24 shotguns and rifles in the home and three shotguns in a barn. A prohibited weapon, a butterfly knife, was also found in the house. A 36-year-old man has been charged with two counts of unsafe storage of and one count of possessing a prohibited weapon. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:11:38 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: WEAPONS CHARGES SPARK HUNT PUBLICATION: The Winnipeg Sun DATE: 2001.05.28 SECTION: News PAGE: 4 COLUMN: Crime stoppers BYLINE: Bob Holliday - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- WEAPONS CHARGES SPARK HUNT; UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION ALLEGED - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Need a little spending money for the summer? Well, if you know the whereabouts of any of the people listed on this page, CrimeStoppers will pay $150 for information leading to their arrest. Last March, several people broke into a West Fernwood Avenue home and stole seven plus ammunition. Two weeks later, the weapons were recovered during a police raid on a Pritchard Avenue home. Someone had already sawed off the barrels of three of the weapons. Police issued an arrest warrant for Ross Faron, 22. He is charged with three counts of unauthorized possession of a weapon. - - - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:11:59 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: TORIES WANT REGISTRY FOR 'DREGS OF SOCIETY' PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2001.05.27 SECTION: News PAGE: 10 SOURCE: Toronto Sun BYLINE: Ian Mcdougall - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- TORIES WANT REGISTRY FOR 'DREGS OF SOCIETY' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- The province's head of law enforcement blasted the federal government yesterday for not having the guts to start a national sex-offender . Calling pedophiles "the absolute dregs of society," Solicitor General David Turnbull targeted Federal Justice Minister Anne McLellan for failing to start a national . "My job is to keep the pressure on the federal government who are frankly weak-kneed," Turnbull told a conference of the Ontario Association of Police Services Boards. He accused the feds of being afraid of controversy and attacked their claims that a national of pedophiles already exists. "We do not have that," he said. "The information is not up to date." At the beginning of April, Turnbull unveiled an Ontario-wide for sex offenders. It requires a convicted pedophile to report his address, pose for a photo and provide other personal information to police within 15 days of the law taking effect or from the time he is released. PROVINCES INTERESTED Other provinces are interested in putting a similar system in place, Turnbull said, adding he contacted the Alberta government just a few days after Jessica Koopmans' body was found near Fort Macleod May 11. "I offered all our expertise so they don't have to re-invent the wheel." Turnbull's tough talk was welcomed by Toronto Police Services Board chairman Norm Gardner, who says steps are still needed to track dangerous cons. "What we're trying to do is get some legislation approved to at least monitor high-risk offenders," Gardner said. Turnbull said Ontario's new law will be tough enough to withstand a constitutional challenge, adding the federal government could implement a similar program nationally. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Click here t ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:11:52 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Letter: Gun registration is dangerous PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2001.05.27 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: Editorial / Op-ed PAGE: A16 SOURCE: The Gazette - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Gun registration is dangerous - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- David Austin's job at the Canadian Firearms Centre is to manipulate Canadians to believe that all is rosy in a world of chaos, mess and muddle (Letters, May 12, ``Firearms program is working''). CFC bureaucrats promised -<68> would cost $85 million. It has now surpassed $780 million, with 328 pages of additional costs concealed from taxpayers through cabinet secrecy. Mr. Austin says 87 per cent of 2.3 million gun-owners complied with licensing. False. The 1998 Canadian Firearms Manual produced by the CFC specifically instructed all gun-owners not to reveal to strangers details about firearms, since this could invite theft. Unwittingly, the bureaucrats at Justice contradicted their own advice and conducted a wasteful $93,000 anonymous telephone survey asking Canadians to reveal personal information about their firearms. Is it any wonder why the results were deflated and bogus? Since there are actually 5 to 7 million gun-owners in Canada, gun-owner licensing is much closer to 40-per-cent compliance, a dismal flop. Mr. Austin says Canada is somehow safer because of a greater number of license refusals or revocations. That is comparable to universities setting artificially high entrance examinations and falsely claiming superior academic standards. Instead of going after criminals, the CFC is targeting the statistically safest citizens in society, gun-owners. Registration and licensing will not make Canada safer. Criminals will know which homes are undefended, which have firearms and what firearms to steal. If the government asked you to register all your gold, diamonds, jewelry and valuable paintings so that the police could return them in the event of theft, would you? Of course not! The government has no business in the bedrooms or the basements of this nation. Not only would this intrusive registry be another federal tax grab in disguise, it would be a heaven-sent shopping list for criminals. Canadian homes and streets would become less safe. And so it is with a firearms registry. Al Dorans Nepean, Ont. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:11:31 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Civil libertarians want details on tracking of sex offenders PUBLICATION: Vancouver Sun DATE: 2001.05.26 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: News PAGE: B3 BYLINE: Kim Bolan SOURCE: Vancouver Sun - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Civil libertarians want details on tracking of sex offenders: Though not against the police program in principle, group says conduct should be scrutinized - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- The B.C. Civil Liberties Association wants more information about a police pilot project that involved a month of surveillance against 15 people considered high-risk sex offenders. But on the surface, the project, which led to 32 charges against 10 individuals, does not appear to offend any civil libertarian principals, association acting executive director Murray Mollard said Friday. ``Society actually wants the police to make sure that safety of children, safety of the public, is a priority, especially in the context of high-risk sex offenders,'' Mollard said Friday. ``That's what we actually expect our police to do. So in principle, their special program here I don't think offends any civil libertarian ideas.'' But Mollard said more information is needed on how the surveillance was done and what specific charges materialized. ``I think one wants to be a bit careful and be able to scrutinize very carefully the conduct of police,'' Mollard said. ``There are a variety of questions that come out of this.'' The Vancouver Sun reported this week on the success of the project, code-named Empiric, which involved municipal and RCMP detachments from across the Lower Mainland. The project consisted of the formation of a special task force that identified 15 high-risk sex offenders and monitored them for 20 days between April 18 and May 20. The 15 were chosen after a review of 420 files involving sex offenders. The project was headed by the RCMP's E Division geographic profiling unit, Corporal Scot Filer said earlier this week. Filer is now preparing a report on the project that will be presented to his superiors and to the B.C. attorney-general's ministry. The resulting charges, which range from breaches of probation orders to new sexual-assault charges, proved the value of the project, Filer said. Mollard said he hopes Filer's report will be made public. Filer said police want a larger project to deal with high-risk sex offenders funded -- one component of which would be a sex offender . But Mollard said his association has some issue with the idea because it is proposed to include too wide a range of offenders -- including people not expected to re-offend. ``It is not necessarily the case that everyone who is charged with sexual assault is at a risk for recidivism,'' Mollard said. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Click ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #791 ********************************** 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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