From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #114 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Sender: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Errors-To: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, May 29 2003 Volume 06 : Number 114 In this issue: Re: Crow's Next? Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #97 POLITICAL POT SHOT: Letter: Cut spending Police charge ex-officer in kidnapping (no subject) Victim's affidavit said that her husband owned several guns, at least one of which was registered, VICTIMS FACE TERROR OF GUNS Ontario: Police search for man whose attempt at murder misfired PAIR ROB CITY BANK Gatineau police seek help tracking bank robbers Woman shot to death by husband sought his restraint four days earlier Four years in jail for killing friend with a sawed-off shotgun SHOTGUN USED IN MAC'S HEIST DEER HERD IS OUT OF CONTROL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:06:44 -0600 (CST) From: "John E. Stevens" Subject: Re: Crow's Next? At 07:43 PM 5/28/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Editorial In Brockville Recorder and Times 27 May 2003 > >During the SARS crisis, Prime Minister Jean Chretien ate Chinese food in >Toronto. In the current mad cow crisis, he eats Canadian beef. If the >West Nile problem becomes a crisis, will he eat crow? Authored by Bob >Stesky Won't fly in a Sea King, either........ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:07:29 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Ackermann Subject: Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #97 "In their statement of defence in the case, police said Mr. Lacasse should have known he would frighten his neighbour by carrying a gun into his back yard. They maintained that Mr. Lacasse did not tell them about his plan for target practice in the back yard, and that he was the author of his misfortune because he said initially that he did not have a firearm." Bullsh!t His pellet gun is likely NOT a firearm under the Act. In addition, it is NOT illegal to safely use a pellet gun for target practice on your own property. The cops should have talked to both sides and then informed the neighbor that SHE was in the wrong, not Mr. Lacasse. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS President, St. Mary's Shooters Association Box 3, RR 1, 4132 Sonora Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:08:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: POLITICAL POT SHOT: PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: Sports PAGE: 123 BYLINE: JOHN KERR COLUMN: Outdoors POLITICAL POT SHOT: Knocking the long-gun registry has been the favourite sport on Parliament Hill since last December's revelations by the solicitor general of what a mess it's in. No one should have been surprised, though. Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz had been exposing the bungles, cost overruns, and ineffectiveness of registering hunting guns almost daily in the House of Commons, and still is. The Progressive Conservatives must feel left out of the game, which they started by passing the first round of long-gun laws when they were in power. Nova Scotia PC MP Bill Casey has set up a Web site (www.gunregistry.ca) for Canadians having problems with the registry (that includes every hunter I know). It features a forum to air your views on the billion-dollar boondoggle. Casey even plans to present gun-owner complaints to the solicitor general. Wow. That'll really scare the Liberals. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:11:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Letter: Cut spending PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A15 COLUMN: In Other Words BYLINE: Robert Cruise SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cut spending - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Dedicated tax could create pool to fund future health care: Manley, May 27. Rather than implement yet another tax on aging Canadians, John Manley and his Liberal friends should stop wasting Canadians' money on useless projects such as the ridiculous, $1-billion gun registry or the proposed $90-million Canadian political history-revisionism museum. A careful review of Liberal priorities is what is in order, not more tax money for the fools on the (Parliament) Hill to buy votes with. Robert Cruise, Arnprior ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:12:54 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Police charge ex-officer in kidnapping PUBLICATION: Toronto Star DATE: 2003.05.29 SECTION: NEWS PAGE: B05 SOURCE: Toronto Star BYLINE: Bob Mitchell ILLUSTRATION: : - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police charge ex-officer in kidnapping - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A former Peel Region police detective was in custody yesterday after being charged in connection with a bizarre kidnapping incident. The now-retired officer, who once ran Peel's firearms unit, made a brief appearance yesterday in a Milton courtroom but was remanded until tomorrow for his bail hearing. Police say the incident began when a 53-year-old man, who was visiting his brother-in-law in Georgetown Tuesday morning, was assaulted and locked in the trunk of a car. Several hours later, police say the victim's two daughters, aged 18 and 20, were pepper-sprayed and handcuffed at their Etobicoke home on Queen Anne Rd. No one was seriously injured. John Francis Trainor, 52, of Rexway Dr., Georgetown, was charged with kidnapping and forcible confinement. Trainor spent 24 years with Peel police, retiring in 2000. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:15:17 -0400 From: Bruce Mills Subject: (no subject) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: EX-COP FACES BAIL HEARING OVER KIDNAP PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 26 BYLINE: JONATHAN JENKINS, TORONTO SUN - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EX-COP FACES BAIL HEARING OVER KIDNAP - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A former Peel cop who retired after being charged with theft is now facing a bail hearing tomorrow on kidnapping and forcible confinement charges. John Francis Trainor, 52, retired with nearly 25 years in uniform shortly after he was accused of stealing a rifle from a police training room in February 1999. Peel Regional Police say Trainor pleaded guilty to two firearm related charges and the theft charge was withdrawn in March 2001. Halton Region cops said Trainor made a brief court appearance yesterday in Milton and was remanded in custody. Toronto Police arrested him about 5 p.m. Tuesday after residents on Queen Anne Rd. in Etobicoke reported a disturbance. When police arrived they found a man trying to pepper spray a young woman, handcuff her and force her into a car, where another woman was already handcuffed. Inside the car's trunk was the women's 52-year-old father. Cops say the man in the trunk was jumped from behind, bound and locked in the trunk after he went to the accused's home on Rexway Dr. in Georgetown at 10:30 a.m. The accused is related to the three victims, Sgt. Val Hay of Halton Region Police said. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:14:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Victim's affidavit said that her husband owned several guns, at least one of which was registered, PUBLICATION: The Province DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: FINAL C SECTION: News PAGE: A9 BYLINE: Keith Fraser SOURCE: The Province ILLUSTRATION: Photo: Sherry Heron; Photo: Bryan Heron NOTE: Ran with sidebar "Trouble began 3 years before wedding",which has been appended to the story. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RCMP to review Mission murders - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- An RCMP inspector has been appointed to review the Mission detachment's handling of a case involving the murders of a woman and her mother by the woman's husband. Bryan Heron, 52, shot and killed his wife Sherry, 41, and his mother-in-law, Anna Adams, 68, in Mission Memorial Hospital on May 20. Three days later, he shot himself to death as he was being arrested. In an affidavit filed to get a restraining order against her husband, Sherry Heron said she'd been threatened by him and asked for police assistance. She said in the affidavit that her husband owned several guns, at least one of which was registered, and spoke with the Mounties about her husband's threatening and controlling behaviour. The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter says police knew enough about the danger the husband represented by co-operating with the issuance of a restraining order and should have taken steps to seize the weapons or co-ordinate with the hospital better protection for the women. Mission RCMP Staff-Sgt. Jack Robinson said an inspector from another Lower Mainland detachment will review the case, including the police handling of the restraining order. Robinson couldn't say how long the review might be and refused to comment on the affidavit, a copy of which was ob-tained through the courts by CTV. Suzanne Jay of Vancouver Rape Relief was suspicious of the police investigating themselves. "It's not an independent review. They've announced this so-called review under pressure from the public." TROUBLE BEGAN 3 YEARS BEFORE WEDDING The turmoil in the relationship of a Mission man who shot his wife and mother-in-law began three years before the couple got married. Bryan Heron started dating Sherry Heron in 1997 after being introduced by her sister, Lisa Thompson, who worked with him at Alouette River Correctional Centre. According to court documents obtained by CTV, the relationship was a "normal and good one" for the first two years. But in 1999, he became more controlling. "He did not want me to socialize with my friends," says Sherry Heron in an affidavit filed in B.C. Supreme Court to support an application for a restraining order. "He would not go to any family events or gatherings of my side of the family," she says. She adds that Heron -- who she married in January 2002 but was separated from just a week before the fatal shootings of May 20 -- always made her fearful because he had a "very bad temper" and always shouted at her. "Within the last year, the defendant has on numerous occasions said to me, 'If you leave me, I will hurt you and your family.' "I am aware that he has in his possession approximately four hunting rifles and another weapon which is similar to a shotgun. "He obtained this last weapon in the last two months." kfraser@png.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:19:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: VICTIMS FACE TERROR OF GUNS PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 34 BYLINE: MICHELLE MARK, CALGARY SUN - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VICTIMS FACE TERROR OF GUNS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two separate incidents involving people being victimized at gunpoint have police looking to the public for help. Calgary police hope the public can help them find a man who tried to kidnap a 17-year-old girl at a northwest bus stop about 11 p.m. Monday. A man driving a grey pick-up truck with a grey top box approached the girl in the 5400 block of Crowchild Tr. N.W. He got out of his truck, pointed a gun at the teen and ordered her to get into the vehicle, police said. But another car arrived on the scene and the man fled. The suspect is Caucasian, over 6-ft.-tall, 25 to 35 years old, slim, with dirty blond hair and a slightly-tanned complexion. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a grey T-shirt with a symbol, blue jeans and running shoes. Anyone with information on the crime can call Det. Owen Michaluk or Det. Ronda Gollan at 249-7701, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Last Friday, an elderly Strathmore man was robbed at gunpoint while walking his dog near the Mountain View campground on Hwy. 1, about 3 km east of Calgary. A man in an older-model, dark blue panel minivan wielded a gun and robbed the man of his wallet without getting out of his van. That suspect is a Caucasian in his late 20s, about 5-ft.-7 with blue eyes, short dark hair and a small build. Information on this case can be called in to Strathmore RCMP at 403-934-3968. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:19:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Ontario: Police search for man whose attempt at murder misfired PUBLICATION: National Post DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Toronto SECTION: Canada PAGE: A7 COLUMN: West to East SOURCE: National Post DATELINE: TORONTO - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ontario: Police search for man whose attempt at murder misfired - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TORONTO - Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant after a man pointed a handgun at the face of a woman who had just exited her apartment with her three-year-old son. After the man pulled the trigger and the gun misfired, he realized he had the wrong woman, police said. Hamza Yusuf Mohamed, 21, is wanted for attempted murder. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:21:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: PAIR ROB CITY BANK PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 20 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAIR ROB CITY BANK - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A south-side bank teller was threatened that she'd be shot, while an ATM customer was roughed up by two armed robbers, say city police. Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, two men brandishing guns burst into a TD Canada Trust, 4108 Calgary Tr., said cops. The first man, armed with a handgun, jumped over the counter to grab some cash. His accomplice stayed near the door and ordered everyone to the floor while waving a sawed-off shotgun around. The pair then threatened to shoot a teller if she took too long. The shotgun-toting crook left the bank briefly and grabbed someone at the cash machine, brought the person inside and also ordered that customer to the ground, said cops. The pair then fled with cash stuffed into a dark-coloured backpack. The handgun-toting crook is described as white, 25 to 30 years old, five-foot-seven and about 160 pounds. He has brown shaved hair and a tattoo shaped like a crown on the back of his neck. He was wearing a red ball cap and a dust mask over his mouth and nose. The culprit armed with the sawed-off shotgun is also described as white, 25 to 30 years old, six feet tall, 170 pounds. He has short brown hair and walked with a limp. He was wearing a baby-blue sweatshirt, jeans, a small, red ball cap and a dirty dust mask over his mouth and nose. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:21:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Gatineau police seek help tracking bank robbers PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: City PAGE: C6 SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gatineau police seek help tracking bank robbers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gatineau police are seeking help in tracking down two men wanted in connection with a daylight armed robbery yesterday in Gatineau's Hull sector. Police say about 2 p.m., two Caucasian men entered the Desjardins Credit Union at 345 Tache Blvd. and demanded money. One man guarded the door, while the second, brandishing a handgun, jumped the counter and told the cashier to fill a bag with bills. One suspect is described as 26 years old, 5-foot-7, wearing dark clothes. The second is described as 30 years old and 5-foot-10. Police say the suspects fled in a white Chevrolet Caprice. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:22:57 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Woman shot to death by husband sought his restraint four days earlier PUBLICATION: Vancouver Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: B2 BYLINE: David Hogben SOURCE: Vancouver Sun ILLUSTRATION: Color Photo: (Bryan Bruce) Heron - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission RCMP deny knowing about Heron's wife's fears: Woman shot to death by husband sought his restraint four days earlier - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission RCMP say they knew nothing about an affidavit a frightened Sherry Heron filed with the B.C. Supreme Court four days before her husband gunned down her and her mother in a Mission hospital room. According to the affidavit, Sherry Heron, 41, feared her estranged husband would track her down to the hospital bed where she was dealing with the crippling effects of multiple sclerosis. "I do not want the defendant anywhere near me or my family. "If there is no order against the defendant then he is likely to come to the hospital to visit me and I do not wish this to take place," she wrote in her affidavit filed May 16 in a New Westminster court. Heron, who was a patient, and her mother Anna Adams, who was visiting, were killed by Bryan Bruce Heron, 52, on May 20 when he went to Mission Memorial Hospital. Heron, who had been served with the restraining order before the killings, shot himself to death when police were closing in three days later. Sherry Heron told the court her husband owned four hunting rifles and "another weapon similar to a shotgun" as well as archery equipment and possibly a crossbow. "I am fearful that the defendant could come after me with his weapons. He has threatened to harm me and my family if I leave him," she wrote two days after leaving her husband. "I felt under a considerable amount of mental stress and I am seeking the protection of the courts because of the threats he has made against me and the weaponry that I know he possesses." Immediately after the double shooting an RCMP spokesman told reporters: "At no time did she indicate that she was threatened or that she had been a victim of past violence." Wednesday, a Mission RCMP spokesman said police wish they had known of the affidavit. "It stands to reason, the more information you have the better decisions you can make," Mission RCMP Staff Sergeant Jack Robinson said in an interview. "We knew nothing of the contents of the affidavit." An RCMP inspector from another Lower Mainland detachment is to determine whether the Mission detachment handled the case properly. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:23:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Four years in jail for killing friend with a sawed-off shotgun PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A6 BYLINE: george kalogerakis SOURCE: The Gazette - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Four years in jail for killing friend in 'stupid accident': Prosecutor, defence lawyer suggested minimum sentence because young man from Little Burgundy shows remorse - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A young man from Little Burgundy shed tears and sniffled yesterday as he was jailed four years for killing his best friend. Yann Truchon had thought his sawed-off shotgun was empty when he pointed it at Viseith Phala as a joke on Aug. 23, 2001, and pulled the trigger. But Truchon and his friends had loaded and unloaded the weapon so often while playing with it that they had lost track. "It was a stupid, terrible accident," prosecutor Pierre Poulin said. A probation report noted that Truchon, now 20, was usually a responsible teenager who looked after his three siblings and even his single mother, who had had a drug problem. Quebec Court Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin said it is clear Truchon was a good student, stayed off the streets and was trying to break out of his family's miserable life. Truchon had pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a weapon; the minimum sentence is four years. Both the prosecutor and defence lawyer suggested the minimum sentence because Truchon shows much remorse and guilt. The judge agreed, saying Truchon is not a danger to society. "He sees his incarceration as a punishment he deserves because of the circumstances and he is ready to receive it," Bonin said. Truchon considered it would be unjust for the victim and his family if he was spared jail, defence lawyer Marc Nerenberg said. The shooting happened one day after Truchon turned 19. Truchon lived with his mother, and had bought the shotgun as protection from undesirables in his neighbourhood. Truchon and a number of friends were in his room playing video games before taking out the shotgun. Phala, 20, walked in and Truchon shot him. Everyone who was there concocted a story that the gun fell to the floor and went off by accident, but investigators quickly learned the truth. Truchon tearfully kissed his mother twice before he was led away to the cells at Montreal's courthouse yesterday. georgek@thegazette.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:24:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: SHOTGUN USED IN MAC'S HEIST PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 12 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GUN USED IN MAC'S HEIST - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A shotgun-toting bandit and an accomplice held up a Mac's store shortly after 4 a.m. yesterday, police said. The two thugs walked into the 15179 121 St. store and one pointed the shotgun at the clerk. The other went behind the counter and grabbed some smokes, cash and lottery tickets. Police are now looking for a skinny white man who's about six feet tall. There wasn't a good description of the second male except that he was wearing a baseball cap. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:26:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: DEER HERD IS OUT OF CONTROL PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Sun DATE: 2003.05.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: Sports PAGE: 75 BYLINE: JEFF MORRISON, OTTAWA SUN COLUMN: Outdoors - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEER HERD IS OUT OF CONTROL - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angry landowners are talking matters into their own hands next month by culling deer from the extremely overpopulated Lanark County region. It is a situation that is sure to turn some heads in the Ottawa Valley. A hint of desperation could almost be heard in the voice of Randy Hillier as he spoke of the deer situation in Lanark County. Local farmers have faced the considerable destruction to crops that an overabundance of whitetails can cause. Hillier, a resident of Carleton Place, spearheads a group called the Lanark County Landowners Association, formed this spring to deal with landowners' rights and concerns. Last year, after yet another bad season of crop damage from foraging deer (losses of up to $50,000 for some landowners), residents gave the government an ultimatum -- either substantially increase the deer harvest in their region or they would take matters into their own hands. Still dissatisfied with wildlife management changes, Hillier has organized an illegal deer hunt and expects to harvest a large number of animals. ''It is certainly not our intention to break the law,'' Hillier explained, ''but now, with the deer far outnumbering our cattle, we have no choice.'' The hunt is planned for June 14 in an undisclosed location with more than 75 residents expected to take part. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #114 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:akimoya@cogeco.ca 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 v04.n192 end (192 is the digest issue number and 04 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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