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 #175 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 Wednesday, June 18 2003 Volume 06 : Number 175 In this issue: FW: Canadian First: Police Share Photo Databases to Speed Criminal Identification "On Target" crapola Editorials OFAH stands by province Police seeking to brainwash children about children's toy guns Police seeking children's toy guns Murder-rate rise sours Big Apple's new image Re: lefty guns Transfer of Firearms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:58:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: FW: Canadian First: Police Share Photo Databases to Speed Criminal Identification - -----Original Message----- From: CATAAlliance [mailto:CATAAlliance_sqzvwg@gm44.com] Sent: June 17, 2003 11:36 AM To: Breitkreuz.G@parl.gc.ca Subject: Canadian First: Police Share Photo Databases to Speed Criminal Identification Canadian First: Police Share Photo Databases to Speed Criminal Identification Sun Microsystems and VisionSphere Technologies team up to offer identification solution; CATA Business Network Delivers Benefits "CATA is dedicated to stimulating global growth for technology enterprises through the promotion of strategic partnerships, technological innovation and entrepreneurial values," said Mr. Reid , adding, "The Visionsphere and Sun Microsystems of Canada partnership is exemplary in this regard." Action Item: Organizations may be interested in the resources offered through CATA Biometrics Group , as a community of interest to promote security solutions. As well, CATA is conducting our first-ever study of Canada's security sector to give organizations like VisionSphere and Sun a roadmap to additional growth opportunities" Action Request: Companies interested in partnership opportunities with Sun Microsystems of Canada should contact CATA by email at info@cata.ca with Sun Microsystems in the header. Please describe your partnership interests, and note the size (e.g., employees, annual revenues) of your company. OTTAWA, June 17, 2003 -- Canadian police services will now be able to quickly search each other's mug-shot databases to track down criminal suspects. VisionSphere's VS-Ident solution-secure distributed networked search technology, integrated with the company's face-recognition search engine-and Sun servers make this possible. VisionSphere and Sun Microsystems announced recently that they've teamed up in "Pilot Project BlueBear," which was launched with the Chatham-Kent, Windsor, and York Region police services, located in southern Ontario. The project allows the participants to quickly and simultaneously search each other's mug-shot and text databases, in a highly secure environment over the Internet. "Police services are not always able to acquire nor share critical information with each other quickly," says Sal Khan, VisionSphere's Chief Executive Officer. "VS-Ident can give the Canadian law enforcement community a real edge in tracking down criminal suspects, because it facilitates secure, fast, easy collaboration and information-sharing." "This technology has enormous potential to speed up the sharing of information in the police community," says John Arnold, Chief Scientist with the Canadian Police Research Centre (CPRC), the sponsor of the pilot project. "Imagine being able to search thousands of mug shots in real time securely over the Internet. Nothing like this has been attempted before. It's a real accomplishment for Canada." Sun LX 50 servers, running the Linux Operating System, perform as secure gateways to the mug-shot and text databases of the participants and give them access to VisionSphere's VS-Ident technology. In several preliminary tests, a Sun LX 50 server accurately searched 100,000 facial templates in four seconds over the Internet. Currently, those Canadian police services that have mug-shot databases can only check the identity of a suspect against their own database. With VS-Ident, they could have access to what VisionSphere estimates to be four to five million mug shots located in police databases across Canada. As well, police services that don't have their own mug-shot databases could have access to existing ones with VS-Ident. "We are pleased to see Canada's technology leaders work within the CATA business network," said CATA President, John Reid. "CATA exists to spur business growth, and CATA Biometrics Group is a natural community for these companies to join. In addition, our first ever study of Canada's advanced security sectors will give organizations like Visionsphere and Sun Microsystems a roadmap to additional growth opportunities." Susan Stuart, Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. 905-415-7903 susan.stuart@sun.com Andre Fuochi, Maverick Public Relations 416-640-5525, ext. 233 andref@maverickpr.com Sal Khan, VisionSphere Technologies Inc. 613-740-0245 skhan@visionspheretech.com John Arnold, CPRC 613-993-3737 john.arnold@nrc.ca - ----------------------------------- About the CPRC The Canadian Police Research Centre is a partnership of the National Research Council Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. The Centre is concerned with ensuring that the best equipment and information is available to the Canadian police community. Its mission is "to provide leadership and focus for a national program of research, development, evaluation, and commercialization in the law enforcement and public safety sectors in Canada." For more information, visit http://www.cprc.org/ - ----------------------------------- About VisionSphere Technologies Inc. VisionSphere Technologies Inc. is an Ottawa-based identification solutions provider with face recognition as the primary biometric identifier. It has developed the world's first totally integrated face-recognition hardware/software solution. VisionSphere's innovative products provide improved security within the sphere of secure networked identification, authenticated computer network access, and authentication for secure access applications. For more information, visit http://www.visionspheretech.com/ - ----------------------------------- About Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is headquartered in Markham, Ontario. The company, which employs more than 550 persons, has offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Sun products and services are also available through Sun Authorized Independent Sales Organizations and iForce[SM] partners across Canada. For more information, visit http://ca.sun.com . - ----------------------------------- About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer[TM]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com . - ----------------------------------- About CATA Alliance: CATAAlliance is a business development association dedicated to stimulating global growth for technology enterprises through the promotion of strategic partnerships, technological innovation and entrepreneurial values. More information about CATA can be found on the CATA Web site: www.cata.ca Support Industry Advocacy, Join CATAAlliance today - ----------------------------------- This campaign was sent using GotMarketing.com's Campaigner Product - the easiest and fastest direct email service on the Web. To no longer receive information from us, click here or reply to this message with the word unsubscribe as the subject of the message ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:11:27 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: "On Target" crapola I can't believe some of the anti-gun propaganda and tripe being spouted in On Target, the newsletter for the Canadian Firearms Safety Education program. Here is just one example: http://www.cfc.gc.ca/en/safety_education/ontarget/ontar08.asp#PARTING SHOT. . . OnTarget #8 PARTING SHOT. . . Guns are treated far more casually in many countries than they are in Canada. For instance, in Acapulco, the local Wal-Mart sports racks of automatic rifles well within reach of any itchy-fingered shopper. In Panama, though, the hair on the back of my neck (there aren’t as many on my head) rose straight up when I visited a National Guard Patrol boat near the Panama Canal. The tour guide reached under his bunk, pulled out an AK-47 by the barrel and slid it to me for a look. The front sights seemed focussed squarely on my belly button. Gingerly, so gingerly, I pushed the barrel aside so that I could open the breech while trying to remember whether my CFSC instructor had said anything about how to get around the business end of a machine gun without being rude. My guide and I remained friends. —Allen Sackmann ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:10:54 -0600 (CST) From: Rod LaHaise Subject: Editorials With the amount of anti-gun or just uninformed editorials being printed why don't shooting club members invite the editor of your local rag out to participate in an event. I am certain that it would have a positive effect on the guy/gal who has had the opportunity to bust a few clays or put a clover leaf on a target at 200yds. They might actually start to believe that there are a few of us who are not crazed maniacs waiting to snap and go on a rampage and this might then bring on some positive editorial coverage beyond simply agreement that the Liberals are wasting money! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:05:57 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: OFAH stands by province http://ofah.org/news.cfm?Section=Media%20Watch&Action=GetDoc&ID=391 OFAH stands by province Author: Erika Tustin Source: Peterborough Examiner June 9, 2003 The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters said yesterday it supports the province's decision to not prosecute people who don't register their rifles and shotguns with the national registry. "This registry is making criminals out of law-abiding, licensed hunters, farmers and firearms owners," said OFAH spokesman Greg Farrant. "The system is unworkable, unfixable, and it should be scrapped." The controversial registry requires gun owners in Canada to register their firearms by July 1. The Ontario government pledged Wednesday it will not prosecute anyone who fails to register by the deadline. British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have also said they will not prosecute. Because the five provinces have revoked their support, the federal government said it would rely on the RCMP to enforce the penalties on gun owners who have failed to register by the deadline. In April, the Canadian Firearms Centre reported that 294,301 gun owners still had to register long guns and another 338,121 still had to reregister handguns. The OFAH, a non-profit group based in Peterborough which represents 83,000 licensed gun carriers, wants to scrap the registry but does support Canada's handgun registry. The federal government should be focusing its time on increasing the penalties for the illegal use of firearms, Farrant said. When the registry was introduced in 1995, supporters said the system would cost $2 million to implement. A recent evaluation by the federal Auditor General revealed Ottawa has spent $1 billion so far and will spend another $541 million before the system is fully operational. This article appeared in The Peterborough Examiner on June 6, 2003. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:41:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Trigger Mortis" Subject: Police seeking to brainwash children about children's toy guns > >From Etobicoke Guardian >Police seeking children's toy guns > >Jun. 13, 2003 > >Toronto Police 22 Division host their Gun Play - No Way toy gun exchange on >June >21 under a canopy outside the 3699 Bloor St. W. station. The service-wide >initiative aims to teach children and youth that guns are dangerous >weapons, not >objects of fascination. > >Any child aged four to 14 is encouraged to turn in his or her toy gun, cap >gun >or water pistol to police. In exchange, children will receive an >age-appropriate >grab bag of candy, magazines and toys. Each child will also receive food >courtesy of Pizza Pizza and Sunny Delight. ============== If you want to brainwash them good, get to them early. Alan Harper alan__harper@cogeco.ca SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM ************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:07:49 -0600 (CST) From: "ross" Subject: Police seeking children's toy guns The cops want to take all the childrens fun away. By golly soon the days of playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, and American and iraquis will be a thing of the past. The Police will give the little tikes a bag full of candies. Just waht every parent needs...more sugar in the kids bodies and more trips to the dentists. Surely these children have not been holding up liquor stores, or holding helpless females at cap gun point have they. LEt children be children, let them play with the same toys their own parents played with. After all if it was good enough for their parents, it surely must be righteous enough for them. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:10:12 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Murder-rate rise sours Big Apple's new image PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2003.06.17 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A23 BYLINE: STEVEN EDWARDS SOURCE: CanWest News Service DATELINE: NEW YORK - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Murder-rate rise sours Big Apple's new image: 11 killings last weekend. 2002 homicide tally was 580, but it's a far cry from 1990 peak of 2,245 murders - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As detectives began investigating the city's 11 weekend murders, officials insisted the bad old days of high crime rates has not returned, pointing to the latest statistics showing a continued drop in New York's murder rate. Murders were down 9.1 per cent last year, while overall crime plummeted 4.5 per cent, making New York the second-safest big city in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in its annual Uniform Crime Reports. But the weekend murder tally is high even for the Big Apple. It also capped a number of widely reported killings last week, such as the one that saw a 220-pound Brooklyn woman club her husband to death with her high-heeled shoes. "A weekend like we've just had reminds one that, despite all the reductions, murders and violence lie just beneath the surface here," said Thomas Reppetto of the Citizens Crime Commission, an independent watchdog. "When you see 11 people killed, you worry." Last week's toll was 22 dead, compared wih 10 for the same week in 2002. Several shootings and stabbings yesterday threatened to keep the numbers high. If sustained, the upswing will be the first serious reversal since 1990, when New York's murder count peaked at 2,245. It was 580 last year, the first time since 1963 it has fallen below 600. Many attributed the drop to the crime-fighting policies of Rudy Giuliani, mayor from 1994 to 2001, who not only increased spending on police, but had them crack down on even the smallest infractions, such as jumping over subway turnstiles. The idea that people who habitually commit small crimes are often the same ones who commit bigger ones took off once a serial rapist was caught for not paying his subway fare. Whole areas were cleaned up, including crime-ridden Times Square, which had come to epitomize a city riven by violent lawlessness. By the end of the 1990s, New Yorkers were comparing Times Square to Disneyland. But the perception for months has been that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is struggling to hold on to the gains in the city's quality of life achieved by Giuliani during the economic boom of the 1990s. Until this week, most statistics have let Bloomberg argue he is holding the fort, despite laying off 3,000 police to help alleviate the largest budget deficit since New York narrowly avoided bankruptcy in 1975. But even parts of the FBI report are troubling. For example, it said rapes in New York rose 8.4 per cent. Reppetto said the city must maintain police strength or last week may mark a turning point. "It will start to go up a bit, a bit, a bit. Then there is a tipping point, and you have an epidemic," he said. Despite the drop in crime in the last decade, New York has never been as safe as Canada. Even at 580 murders, the city had more than all of Canada, which had 554 in 2001, according to the most recent figures from Statistics Canada, which show the murder rate has remained more or less stable since 1998 after steadily declining since the 1970s. Certainly, the weekend's carnage has intensified many New Yorkers' fears. "It's like old-fashioned New York before Times Square was Disneyfied, and you were afraid to go out of the door," said Annette Witheridge. "I've just had a friend come to town and told her we don't see this normally, but you have to wonder whether the streets are safe." Killings committed just outside the city, but reported in local papers, can give the impression New York is a more violent place than is the case. Last weekend, in a Long Island town, a jilted lover murdered a former girlfriend in a diner after drawing a shotgun he had hidden in a flower box. He then killed himself. Also in Long Island Sunday, a woman ran over her husband with the family car after an argument on the way home from celebrating their silver wedding anniversary. Police said the husband attacked the woman and they were trying to determine if she meant to kill him. The Brooklyn woman accused of slaying her husband with her shoe claimed self-defence although she outweighed the victim by 40 pounds. After beating him while sitting on top of him, she faces a manslaughter charge. Saturday saw five separate slayings in New York, starting with two within five minutes of each other in Brooklyn. Six people were murdered on Sunday. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly focused on the FBI report yesterday. "Thanks to the outstanding efforts of the men and women of this department, we have made New York City the safest it's been in decades," he said. "I want to commend them for their commitment." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:24:41 -0600 (CST) From: Rick Subject: Re: lefty guns B Farion wrote: > You mean he was not qualified and had not! Or he may have easily qualified - but range qualification does not begin to replicate the stress in a situation like that. I remember a Seattle cop we used to meet at all the PPC matches back in the late 70's. He was an extremely good shot - used to shoot 1490+ even back then when equipment and technique isn't what it is today. Every time he got a few beers under his belt, he would tell us about the time he missed an armed robber six times at about six feet, according to him. The stickup artist and he apparently literally ran into each other in front of the bank, and the bad guy pointed his double barrelled sawed-off at him. He used to tell us all he can remember of the shooting was staring down those two barrels while pulling the trigger. It ended up being a humorous story - he scared the dirtbag so bad he dropped the shotgun and put his hands up, nobody ended up getting hurt in the end except the vehicle behind the bad guy. But obviously, the more probable outcome that didn't occur wouldn't have been funny at all. Static courses of fire and outdated training methods have been a problem with police firearms training since before the Newhall slaughter. And things haven't changed much in the last thirty years. > Like the 33% of BC cops who can not qualify according to a leaked memo a > couple years ago. > To lazy and to many ranges shut down by stupid political hacks! More likely that incompetence is due to inadequate ranges and the long time Force indifference to qualification. I don't know what it is like now, but they used to issue members 100 rounds per year - and 60 of those were required for qualification. You weren't supposed to use your 40 practice rounds up at one time... Three rounds a month and qualification one month, with six left over just in case, I suppose... It gets worse. Lots of detachment commanders didn't bother to order the ammunition, issue it, or rent the range facilities, budget for rent and man hours used in qualification, etc. It wasn't uncommon in the 70's to mid 80's for members to have gone two or three years without a single qualification shoot. Even large detachments like North Vancouver had ranges that, simply put, were a joke. A few posts set up as barricades in a small clearing in the Seymour Demonstration Forest. Compare that to the facilities police services like Calgary has and has had for years. Burnaby at one time actually had an indoor range - but they shut it down. When you look at what detachments like the Big Five got for range facilities, it isn't hard to imagine what the little detachment with only a few members usually get. I'd like to think the situation has changed dramatically. But I doubt it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:25:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeff Gurnsey" Subject: Transfer of Firearms I have a few questions; if anyone has the answers, please email me off list or to the forum. An elderly woman that I know recently suffered the loss of her husband. In trying to get all the paperwork in order from his death, it has been discovered that his firearms have been improperly registered. The most notable being that the firearms were registered as frame and receiver which they are not. She is in care and control of the estate, but does not have a PAL. She does want the firearms to go to a good home. So here is the question; how do correct the information on the registration certificates such that they may be transferred to the new owner? Thanks in advance. Jeff Gurnsey ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #175 ********************************** 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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