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 #557 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, October 9 2003 Volume 06 : Number 557 In this issue: Two men ransack home, beat, threaten victim Arms trade revived by war on terror Pink Pistols chapters are spreading as homosexuals take up arms to Teen shot dead in bad drug deal Hunting without a Possession License Letter to the Editor - Firearms Registration Certificate Available Bikers enter guilty pleas Home invaders leave two injured ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:49:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Two men ransack home, beat, threaten victim PUBLICATION GLOBE AND MAIL DATE: THU OCT.09,2003 PAGE: A15 BYLINE: CLASS: Toronto News EDITION: Metro DATELINE: WORDS: 83 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Toronto in Brief Two men ransack home, beat, threaten victim - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Toronto police are looking for two men after a violent home invasion in the city's west end. On Tuesday, one posed as a maintenance worker wanting to inspect the home's smoke detector. After being allowed inside the residence, near Scarlett Road and Dundas Street West, he produced a handgun. While the victim was bound and gagged with duct tape, a second suspect entered the home. The victim was repeatedly beaten and threatened while both suspects ransacked the house, police say. Staff ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:50:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Arms trade revived by war on terror PUBLICATION GLOBE AND MAIL DATE: THU OCT.09,2003 PAGE: A20 (ILLUS) BYLINE: PAUL KNOX CLASS: International News EDITION: Metro DATELINE: WORDS: 582 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arms trade revived by war on terror Human-rights curbs skirted to arm allies in U.S.-led effort, new report warns - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.S.-led battle against terrorism is pumping new life into the deadly global arms trade after a steady post-Cold War decline, disarmament campaigners say in a new report. Kicking off a drive to win support for a global small-arms treaty, they say sales of conventional weapons are rising as human-rights curbs on transferring arms to poor countries are put on hold. "The 'war on terror' should have focused political will to prevent arms falling into the wrong hands," says the report, Shattered Lives: The Case for Tough International Arms Control. "Instead . . . some suppliers have relaxed their controls in order to arm new-found allies against 'terrorism,' irrespective of their disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law." The report puts the number of small arms in existence at 639 million weapons - -- one for every 10 people in the world -- and says it is growing at the rate of eight million a year. The weapons kill 500,000 people a year -- nearly one every minute, the report adds. "The arms trade is out of control," said Debbie Hillier, co-author of the report and a policy adviser to Oxfam in Great Britain, one of three groups mounting the new campaign. She said the toll dwarfs that of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, which are covered by long-standing global treaties. "The world takes them seriously," Ms. Hillier said. "But there's nothing at all on conventional weapons, and these are weapons that actually kill people." The report says other factors besides counterterrorism are also responsible for the resurgence of the weapons trade. Automatic rifles, pistols and other light weapons are common tools of personal security even among people who are not at war, it says. "Arms are just part of daily life for more people around the world," Ms. Hillier said. Besides Oxfam, the campaign is sponsored by Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms, whose Canadian member is Project Ploughshares of Waterloo, Ont. The U.S. Congressional Research Service said last month that the value of arms delivered to poor countries last year was lower than in 2001. But the value of agreements to ship weapons rose by more than 9 per cent, to $17.7-billion. The United States agreed to ship $8.6-billion worth of arms to these countries last year, the CRS said in its annual report on arms transfers to poor countries. That was up from $6.4-billion in 2001. Today's report urges countries to support a proposed arms-trade treaty backed by a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners led by former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias. The treaty would prohibit the transfer of weapons if there is a significant risk they will be used to commit aggression or violations of international law. The campaigners also call on countries to step up efforts to curb illegal use of firearms and upgrade training for police and private security guards who are authorized to carry guns. They say a United Nations code of conduct and guidelines for the use of force by police should be more widely observed. A UN conference on small arms in 2001 drew up a program of measures to curb the arms trade. It is scheduled for review in 2006. The U.S. government, under heavy pressure from the gun lobby, has sought to limit the scope of the UN review to the illicit arms trade and resisted attempts to curb legal gun ownership. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:54:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Pink Pistols chapters are spreading as homosexuals take up arms to PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2003.10.09 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A19 BYLINE: AMY KLEIN SOURCE: Bergen County Record DATELINE: HACKENSACK, N.J. ILLUSTRATION: Color Photo: J. KYLE KEENER, DETROIT FREE PRESS / AlbertLowe of Leslie, Mich., is starting a Michigan chapter of the Pink Pistols, a national gay gun rights group. Since May 2000, when the first group of Pink Pistols met in Boston, 37 chapters have formed across the United States. Their motto is, "Armed gays don't get bashed." - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Gun group for gays targets bashing: Members go on outings to shooting ranges. Pink Pistols chapters are spreading as homosexuals take up arms to protect themselves from violence - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= It was after Andrew Greene left the gay bar in Philadelphia he heard the guys behind him. They were drunk and carrying metal pipes. When Greene got to his car, one of them shouted, "Hey, faggot." Greene pulled his gun. The men ran. Almost a decade later, Greene can still recall his fear. The gun, he said, saved his life. And so, on the third Saturday of each month, Greene heads to a shooting range with dozens of other gays and lesbians from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware who believe carrying a gun will help protect them from anti-gay violence. First, though, they go to lunch. They talk about the latest gun show or a coming pride parade. Some of the members have started to date. Meet the Pink Pistols, a social group with the motto, "Armed gays don't get bashed." "Criminals know that certain people - like gays - are less likely to own guns, and they target them," said Greene, 34, who lives in Philadelphia. "Much in the same way I carry a gun, I have a spare tire in the back of my car. It's there because when you need a spare, nothing replaces it." Its philosophy has put the group in an unusual position between gay groups and gun groups. High-profile gay organizations aren't exactly rushing to embrace the gun-toting members, and the National Rifle Association doesn't address the issue of sexuality. "No one is sitting outside a bar on a Friday night with a baseball bat waiting to bash a bunch of NRA members," said Gwen Patton, who founded the Delaware Valley chapter with her partner about two years ago. Since May 2000, when the first group of Pink Pistols met in Boston, 37 chapters have formed nationwide, giving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people a place to hone their shooting skills. There is no New Jersey chapter - an absence Patton attributes to what she calls the state's "draconian" gun laws. New Jersey is one of nine "may issue" states in which law enforcement agencies are given some discretion in issuing permits to carry concealed weapons. New Jersey does not recognize permits issued in other states. About 15 New Jerseyans drive more than an hour to a shooting range in Southampton, Pa., to practice with the Delaware Valley chapter, including Sharona Nelson, a 52-year-old fiction writer from Cherry Hill. Nelson is straight, married and has a daughter. When she was 18, she was raped and said self-defence has been a "real bugaboo" for her. "Shooting a gun levels the playing field between men and women," she said. The group was welcoming, said Nelson, 52, who thinks she looks like a Sunday school teacher. In June, she fired her first shot. "In the end, it was just it was incredible," Nelson said. "It made me feel confident. I normally walk tall, but it made me walk even taller." Nelson's sense of vulnerability and her frustration about being a victim is shared by many Pink Pistol members. "This is not a power trip," Patton said. "It's applying medicine to an illness that requires the proper treatment." The gay community, for the most part, has been horrified, Patton said. Historically, gay and lesbian groups have not been pro-gun, and other gay organizations often just ignore the Pink Pistols, she said. Indeed, several leaders of gay and lesbian organizations shied away from interviews when they learned of the topic. Laura Pople, president of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition, said she had never heard of the group and chose her words carefully when she learned of its activities. She praised the group for joining gays and lesbians in a shared hobby and for engaging in political activism, but wouldn't comment on the group's motto that armed gays don't get bashed. "I'm not going to make a statement, because it hasn't come up before," Pople said. "Ours is a community that supports a variety of different points of view." After all, Pople said, there are gay stamp-collecting groups, gay science-fiction groups, lots of gay bowling groups, and a gay shooting group. But Pink Pistols members say the group's objective runs deeper than just giving its members an excuse to get together. "Here's the queer community finally standing up and saying we're not going to accept being targets for other people's rage," Patton said. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:55:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Teen shot dead in bad drug deal PUBLICATION: Edmonton Journal DATE: 2003.10.09 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A1 / Front BYLINE: Florence Loyie SOURCE: The Edmonton Journal DATELINE: EDMONTON ILLUSTRATION: Colour Photo: Brian Gavriloff, The Journal / Police anddetectives prepare to remove the body of a youth who was shot in his car early Wednesday morning in Mill Woods. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teen shot dead in bad drug deal - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDMONTON - A teenager shot in the chest in what police say was a drug deal gone bad early Wednesday became the third young Edmonton man to die violently in the last four weeks. Around 2:20 a.m., police received several reports of gunshots in the area around 23rd Avenue and 85th Street, followed by a loud crash and a woman's screams. Minutes later, officers found a blue four-door Mazda had struck a light standard on 85th Street. In the driver's seat they found a young man with a gunshot wound to the chest. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Police covered the Mazda with a tarp until members of the identification unit completed their investigation in the morning. The body was removed just before 11 a.m. and taken to the medical examiner's office. Police think the victim's car was in a back alley between 22nd Avenue and Knottwood Road North, just east of 85th Street, at the time of the shooting. Whether the wounded teen tried to drive away is not known, though the Mazda travelled straight for about half a block before it plowed into the light standard. A shell casing was found at the scene. Gang unit members were assisting homicide detectives in their investigation. One nearby resident, who only gave her first name, Azra, said she got off work around 1 a.m. and was getting ready to go to sleep at about 2:15 a.m. when a gunshot shattered the silence. "Then about two or three seconds later I heard another gunshot, and about a minute later I heard a crash and a lady screaming, 'Oh, my god. Oh, my god.' " Azra said she often hears gunshots in the area but never felt the need to call police before this. Another neighbour, who asked that his name not be published for his family's safety, said he was sleeping when he was awakened by a loud crash, followed by a woman's screams. "I looked outside my window, and as far as I could tell the car was empty. About 10 seconds later a truck pulled up and I ran from my bedroom to the kitchen to call the police. When I came back, the truck took off. It appeared to me that people from the car jumped in the truck and took off, but I couldn't really tell," he said. Police expect to released the victim's name today. The teenager is the city's 15th homicide victim of the year, and the fourth in less than a month. On Sept. 21, at 5:30 a.m., Keith Raglon, 20 ,was gunned down after an all-night party at the Athlone Community Hall on 129th Street. Police have said the killing, the city's 12th homicide of the year, was gang related. On Sept. 23, Kerry Lawrence, 50, was discovered dead by his wife in the family's west-end home. Police believe Lawrence was killed by an intruder who entered the home at 10175 144th St. through a basement window. On Sept. 24, Eleazor Robert Giroux, 25, was shot in the back of the head as he drove a black SUV east down 127th Avenue past 102nd Street, shortly after 11 p.m. He crashed the SUV into cars parked outside an auto-body shop. He died later in hospital. floyie@thejournal.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:56:20 -0600 (CST) From: Edward Hudson Subject: Hunting without a Possession License To: easter.w@parl.gc.ca Cc: Prime Minister , Firearms Digest The Honourable Wayne Easter, P.C., MP Solicitor General of Canada House of Commons Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Easter.W@parl.gc.ca Thursday, 09 October 2003 Dear Mr Easter, Formal Notice: Hunting with an unregistered firearm and without a firearms possession license We hereby officially inform you that members of CUFOA will again be in the field hunting migratory game birds with an unregistered firearm and without a firearms possession license this Friday, 09 October 2003. We take this action deliberately. We are intentionally contravening the Firearms Act of 1995, purposefully being in open, public noncompliance. The Firearms Act destroys our Canadian heritage and culture. This unjust law violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically our rights to privacy, security of person, presumption of innocence, association, representation, mobility, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. We will never submit to this unjust law. We will never surrender our Liberty to a law which is based upon a lie; a law which can never deliver the false promise of increased security. We demand the opportunity to have this unjust law declared unconstitutional in court; to have a full public discussion of all the relevant issues. We will be hunting on Saskatchewan Wildlife Habitat land located eight kilometers northwest of Davidson, Saskatchewan, just off Highway #11, one kilometer south of the water well at the Allen Road corner . We will hunt on this site from 10 a.m. until noon. We will fax a copy of this notice of our plans to the RCMP Detachment in Craig, Saskatchewan. We will be hunting with an unregistered Stevens 16 gauge pump shotgun, no serial number. While my old FAC may still technically be on record at the CFC, I possess no license as I destroyed the last remnant of my FAC on Parliament Hill on New Year’s Day at the CUFOA Liberty Demonstration. I have never registered any of my firearms with the Canadian Firearms Center. As we have consistently demonstrated in our previous twenty-two public non-compliance actions all across Canada, everything we do will be peaceful and non-violent. Mr Easter, your government has wasted enough time and money on this futile exercise. Demonstrate your common sense. Protect our Canadian heritage of responsible firearms ownership and use. Repeal this useless, unjust, unconstitutional law. Sincerely, Edward B. Hudson DVM, MS Secretary, CUFOA CC: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Garry Breitkreuz, MP RCMP Detachment, Humboldt, SK Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association 402 Skeena Crt Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 4H2 1-306-242-2379 1-306-249-2359 fax edwardhudson@shaw.ca www.cufoa.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:57:28 -0600 (CST) From: Mark L Horstead Subject: Letter to the Editor - Firearms Registration Certificate Available Dear Editor If you click on http://uk.geocities.com/firearm_certificates/certificates.pdf you should be taken to an active PDF file that shows an accurate version of the current Canadian Government Firearms Registration Certificate. If it doesn't open, it's most likely because the site is being swamped with hits so please keep trying. If all else fails, I can send the file as an attachment. Anybody of mischievious mind could, as you can plainly see, print off any number of certificates for anything that they pleased. As the official paper is readily available at any major stationer, it could be impossible to tell the difference between a home-made one and the real thing. And, given that the registry is already rife with errors, nobody could either confirm or deny that a printed certificate is valid. And it only cost a billion dollars so far... Mark L Horstead Newmarket, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:56:07 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Bikers enter guilty pleas http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2003/10/09/221099.html >From London Free Press Bikers enter guilty pleas All of the accused at yesterday's hearing pleaded guilty to belonging to a criminal organization. JANE SIMS, Free Press Justice Reporter 2003-10-09 04:27:27 Drugs, guns and stolen property were staples of the Outlaws' operations, a London court was told yesterday when eight people associated with the motorcycle club pleaded guilty to a variety of charges. The cases yesterday uncovered the extent of a mammoth joint police investigation called Project Retire, which crushed the Outlaws motorcycle club across the province. Beyond wiretaps and surveillance, the centrepiece was a police agent who infiltrated the club so deeply, he attended meetings, set up drug and gun buys, helped store stolen property and was trusted by other members. More than 50 people were scooped up Sept. 25, 2002, in a provincewide sweep. Preliminary hearings for some were to have started this week. Instead, some agreed to cut deals with the Crown, waive the hearings and plead guilty to some of their charges. More cases are set for preliminary hearings next week. All of the cases yesterday went before Ontario Court Justice John Getliffe with joint sentencing submissions. All of the in-custody accused yesterday pleaded guilty to belonging to a criminal organization. Guilty pleas came from: - - Dean Scott, 43, former president of the Woodstock chapter, who pleaded guilty to seven charges, including possession of a stolen motorcycle, trafficking in cocaine and growing marijuana. His long hair streaked with grey, Scott, who has abdominal cancer, was sentenced to two years less a day to allow him to continue treatment in London. - - Marcus Cornelisse, 29, a former University of Western Ontario kinesiology student, pleaded guilty to two charges, including aggravated assault for the shooting of Eric Davignon, who along with three other members of a puppet club of the rival Hells Angels raided a home next to the London Outlaws club house in January 2001. They wanted to talk to Cornelisse, but he fired a gun through his apartment door, shooting Davignon in the abdomen, rupturing his spleen. Cornelisse disappeared and turned up last year in Michigan where he was serving a 10-month sentence for assault. Cornelisse was given a two-year sentence, which will allow him to continue his education. - - Arthur Shura, 43, of Sarnia received 23 days on top of his time served after pleading guilty to keeping a common bawdy house and a weapons charge. Assistant Crown attorney Elizabeth Maguire said Shura was a key intelligence gatherer for the bikers. Charges against Shura's wife were dropped. - - Bradley Cole, 41, of Brantford, a sergeant-at-arms of the Woodstock chapter, pleaded guilty to seven charges, including stealing motorcycles and selling drugs. Cole sold stolen bikes to the police agent. One was taken outside a Tillsonburg video store while the owner was inside. Another was pilfered from a Woodstock driveway. He was given a sentence of 18 months. - - Timothy Mallot, 36, of Woodstock was given time served after pleading guilty to five charges, including a weapons offence and possessing the proceeds of crime. - - A frail Kenneth Mote, 50, was given a "generous" sentence, the Crown noted, after pleading guilty to 12 charges, including trafficking in cocaine and selling stolen guns. His lawyer, Matthew Friedberg of Toronto, told Getliffe there is a chance Mote will not complete his sentence because of diabetes and heart problems. The guns sold were from a break and enter at an Elgin County house that was torched. Mote's lawyer said his client had no knowledge of the offence. - - Pauline Mote, 51, Kenneth's wife, pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property and was given a conditional discharge. - - Michael Jarvie, 36, of London pleaded guilty to three charges and is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 19. Two charges against Andrew Simmons, 56, the former president of the London chapter, were dropped. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:56:27 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Home invaders leave two injured http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-10-09-0046.html >From Edmonton Sun Thursday, October 9, 2003 Home invaders leave two injured By DAN PALMER, EDMONTON SUN Four suspects were at large last night after a home invasion where two men suffered serious stab wounds and had a gun pointed at them, say officials. "They were beaten and stabbed and had a shotgun pointed at them," said city police spokesman Annette Bidniak. "It appears the motive was robbery (for drugs and money)." Four men burst into a residence near 183 Street and 87 Avenue just before 3 p.m. yesterday. Two men in one room were attacked, while a third man in another room escaped unharmed. Emergency medical services said the two men suffered multiple stab wounds - some superficial and some serious. One man was taken to University hospital and the other to the Royal Alexandra. Both victims were in serious condition but their injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening last night, said EMS. Bidniak said some of the suspects knew at least one of the people inside the suite, which leads police to believe the attack wasn't random. The man who escaped unharmed is expected to be charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after police seized a small amount of cocaine. City police are looking for four white men, believed to be in their 20s, and most wearing baggy clothing. One man had short brown hair and was about five-foot-six; another had a black ballcap and was carrying a black duffel bag with a metal tag; and another was carrying something under a grey blanket. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #557 ********************************** 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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