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 #721 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, November 27 2003 Volume 06 : Number 721 In this issue: Letter: Punish the punks who perpetrate the crimes; Pellet guns Column: UNDER THE GUN IT'S TIME WE DEMANDED TOUGHER LAWS. Contract to replace gun-registry system set at $300 million GUNNING FOR TROUBLE Man brandished cane, not rifle Loaded antique pistol was found hidden in baby's crib Man wanted in shooting Hunter who shoots the biggest crow will receive $100. Editorial: BLAST AWAY, PAUL Student left shaken after being struck by pellet gun: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:44 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:29:52"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Letter: Punish the punks who perpetrate the crimes; Pellet guns PUBLICATION: The Hamilton Spectator=20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 SECTION: Opinion=20 PAGE: A21=20 SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator=20 BYLINE: Bruce N. Mills, Dundas=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Punish the punks who perpetrate the crimes; Pellet guns - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- RE: 'Seven pedestrians targeted in pellet gun attacks' (Nov. 22)=20 Why is it that every time some stupid punk misuses a pellet gun, some = hand wringing do-gooder starts screaming for "more controls"? Instead of = adding more control over the lives of the law-abiding, the focus should = be on punishing the perpetrators. A look at the federal Liberals' gun =registry fiasco tells us how wrong that approach is.=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:45 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:31:40"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Column: UNDER THE GUN IT'S TIME WE DEMANDED TOUGHER LAWS. PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun =20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final =20 SECTION: Editorial/Opinion =20 PAGE: 15 =20 BYLINE: LINDA WILLIAMSON =20 COLUMN: Second Thoughts =20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- UNDER THE GUN IT'S TIME WE DEMANDED TOUGHER LAWS. WHO'S WITH ME?=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- In all the fruitless debate over crime in our cities - and violent crime = is exploding right now, especially in Toronto, no matter what you may = have read elsewhere - we should at least be able to agree on one thing.=20 That is, we have to crack down on gangs and guns.=20 Gunplay is rampant on our streets, and guns - usually handguns - fall = easily into the hands of criminals. No one, not even the most hardcore = gun enthusiast, thinks this is a good thing. (In fact, law-abiding gun = owners are in the forefront of efforts to get tough on gun crime.)=20 And while gun-control advocates spend much of their time defending the = feds' disastrously wasteful long gun registry, they, too, certainly want = gun crimes punished severely.=20 Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino called this week for a full federal = public inquiry into the justice system, which he says is failing his = officers and all citizens. I doubt such an inquiry will ever be held, = but Fantino's frustration is shared by cops across this country. What = they really want, among other things, is much tougher sentences for = crimes involving guns.=20 So the question must be asked, why not?=20 Why not send a strong message that we've had it with gun crime? Why not = impose a mandatory 10-year prison term for anyone convicted of using a = gun in a crime - on top of whatever sentence the crime normally carries? = In fact, why not go further and make it an automatic five-year prison = term for anyone caught with an illegal gun? (Britain's Parliament is = putting the finishing touches on just such a law right now.) Plus even = tougher penalties for gun smugglers and traffickers?=20 It's hard to imagine how anyone in Canada could oppose such an action. = Okay, some judges might - judges generally take a dim view of laws = dictating mandatory sentences, since they tie their hands. Some lawyers, = too. And criminals.=20 But those narrow groups aside, who's likely to argue with the need for = stricter penalties for gun crimes?=20 Not the police. Not victims' rights groups. Not the Canadian Alliance or = the federal Tories, who've both called for tougher penalties for = firearms offences for years now.=20 Not provincial Tories in Alberta or Ontario - the latter specifically = proposed a 10-year mandatory term for gun crimes in their unsuccessful = election platform this fall.=20 Not Toronto city council, which passed a resolution last February = (shortly after four people were murdered within 90 minutes on our = streets) calling on the feds to impose tougher sentences for gun crimes. = In fact, even some backbench Liberal MPs from the Toronto area have = called for the same thing.=20 So what's stopping the federal Grits, anyway?=20 Well, Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is on record as saying our gun = laws are tough enough. In 1995, at the same time the Firearms Act (i.e., = the controversial registry) was enacted, the feds amended the Criminal = Code to include a mandatory minimum sentence of four years for the use = of a firearm in 10 various violent crimes - manslaughter, attempted = murder, robbery, sexual assault, hostage taking, etc. Any other crime = involving a gun carries a minimum one-year term for a first offence and = three years for a repeat offence.=20 You might think that sounds tough, but the truth is these sentences are = rarely imposed. Too often they're plea-bargained away. A 1994 federal = study of an earlier law, which imposed a one-year minimum sentence for = gun crimes, found it was dropped two-thirds of the time. Little has = changed.=20 The same study also found that mandatory minimum sentences for gun = crimes in other areas had mixed results. In many places (including = Canada), gun crimes dropped right away, but in some places criminals = simply resorted to other weapons.=20 Meanwhile, the sort of academics and statisticians who advise Cauchon = continue to stress that crime is down overall, so we needn't worry, much = less change the laws.=20 I'm betting most Canadians would welcome anything that would get the = gun-toting thugs off our streets.=20 As for statistics, consider: Toronto has had 10 murders in the past = month, including one in which a stray bullet killed a man in his own = home as he read to his son. A new police task force has seized 72 crime = guns in eight weeks - more than half of them handguns - and made 206 = arrests. How soon those 206 will be back on the street is anybody's = guess.=20 What do you think? Time for a new gun law? Let me know and we'll discuss =this further in a future column.=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:46 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:37:34"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Contract to replace gun-registry system set at $300 million NOTE: Versions of this article also appeared in: The Montreal Gazette, = The Ottawa Citizen, The Regina Leader Post, and The Calgary Herald PUBLICATION: The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)=20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final=20 SECTION: National=20 PAGE: A13=20 BYLINE: Tim Naumetz=20 SOURCE: For CanWest News Service=20 DATELINE: OTTAWA=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Contract to replace gun-registry system set at $300 million - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- OTTAWA -- The Canadian Firearms Centre has awarded a $300-million = contract to two high-tech firms to develop and replace the = eight-year-old gun registry computer system that has already cost = taxpayers $224 million, government documents reveal.=20 Justice Department briefing notes obtained by Canadian Alliance MP Garry = Breitkreuz say the 15-year contract for the new computer system was = awarded last year, despite claims from the firearms centre that it has = awarded only the initial phase of the contract for system development.=20 The reference to the new computer system is included in several hundred = pages of documents concerning the transfer this year of the firearms = program from the justice department to the solicitor general's = department.=20 "A $300M contract was awarded to Team Centra (a partnership between two = companies, CGI Group and BDP Business Data Services) to design a new = licensing and registration system ($34 millions) and operate it over the = next 15 years ($266 million)," the note states.=20 Earlier this year, the firearms centre refused to confirm rumours that = were circulating about the total cost of the new computer contract, = saying only that the start-up phase would cost slightly over $30 = million.=20 The briefing document said the new system was projected to save $3.5 = million a year, but could not be implemented until new regulations and = administrative changes are in place. A spokesperson for the centre = insisted Wednesday that the full contract to Team Centra will not be = finalized until the new computer system is certified.=20 Breitkreuz called the new computer system a waste of money, since the = Justice Department already forked out more than $200 million for the = existing system. Computer development and operations are the largest = components of $1 billion the firearms program is forecast to cost over a =10-year period beginning in 1995.=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:47 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:33:15"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: GUNNING FOR TROUBLE PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun =20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final =20 SECTION: Travel =20 PAGE: 52 =20 BYLINE: GERRY FORBES =20 - - - -=20 GUNNING FOR TROUBLE=20 Residents of tiny Geuda Springs, Kan., population 210, have passed an = ordinance that says people living in the town must own a gun and = ammunition.=20 Only people with physical or mental disabilities, paupers and those who = conscientiously oppose firearms are exempt. If a resident is found to be = gun-free, he or she can be fined $10. This is the way the federal gun = registry here in Canada should have worked. Would have saved a lot of = time, effort and paperwork -- not to mention $1 billion -- to just =automatically assume we all gun-toting ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:47 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:58:11"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Man brandished cane, not rifle CATEGORY: Quebec-Ontario regional general news=20 BYLINE: THE CANADIAN PRESS=20 PUBLICATION: cpw=20 Man brandished cane, not rifle=20 SUDBURY (CP) _ A police investigation into an emergency call regarding = an 84-year-old Sudbury man allegedly brandishing a weapon could not = confirm whether it was a firearm or a cane.=20 A police tactical squad was called to the scene and two nearby = elementary schools were locked down Tuesday following the report.=20 Staff Sgt. Dave Treitz said police received a call that an elderly man = had pulled a rifle on a tenant in a dispute over unpaid rent. The = tactical team immediately surrounded a home, where a two-hour standoff = ensued while police established communication with the man.=20 Sgt. Wayne Foster said officers confiscated three firearms from the = landlord's residence.=20 Foster said police concluded it could not be clearly determined if the = man was holding a cane or a gun.=20 No charges were filed and the man was not named.=20 (Sudbury Star)=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:48 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:59:51"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Loaded antique pistol was found hidden in baby's crib PUBLICATION: The Hamilton Spectator=20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 SECTION: Local=20 PAGE: A04=20 SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator=20 BYLINE: Barbara Brown=20 ILLUSTRATION: Photo: A Remington Double Derringer Model 3 handgun.=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Attention turns to old gun in Mingo murder trial; Loaded antique pistol = was found hidden in baby's crib - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- A juror complained of feeling faint yesterday after handling a small, = black gun that is an exhibit at the Desmon Mingo murder trial.=20 Superior Court Justice Nick Borkovich decided to break 10 minutes early = for lunch to ease the obvious discomfort of the female juror. The = double-barrelled Remington Derringer Model 3 reportedly belonged to = 20-year-old Mingo, who was shot through the heart on Feb. 19 last year. = His gun was passed to the jury to examine during testimony from Robert = Warburton, a firearms expert with Toronto's Centre of Forensic Sciences. = The Derringer, which was manufactured between 1888 and 1911, has a = colourful history in America and is most often associated with gamblers = of the old West. The small handgun is easily concealed and is a = restricted weapon in Canada.=20 Hamilton police found the fully loaded weapon hidden in a baby's crib = inside a basement apartment on Sherman Avenue North. The prosecution = contends that Mingo was killed during an armed robbery at the apartment = when a deal for counterfeit money erupted in gunfire. Adrian Roy = Baptiste, 20, of Brampton, and Jahmar Reuben Welsh, 21, of Toronto, have = pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and to using a firearm in the = commission of a crime.=20 Warburton testified that the Derringer police seized from the crib was = loaded with the wrong ammunition and could not have been fired. = Assistant Crown attorney Warren Milko asked what chance there was the = gun might have been fired, even with the wrong ammunition.=20 "I don't deal in chances," replied Warburton. The firearm examiner said = he conducted numerous tests using the improper .38-calibre Smith & = Wesson cartridges and concluded the ammunition could not be fired from = the Derringer.=20 Firing-pin marks on the rims of the two live rounds indicated that = someone had repeatedly tried to fire the ammunition, but to no avail. = Warburton said he could not tell when the attempts had been made.=20 He also examined and compared two spent .45-calibre cartridges that were = submitted to the centre by police. A forensic pathologist found one of = them inside Mingo's shoe during an autopsy. Detectives found the other = just inside the rear door of the apartment.=20 Warburton said both cartridges would fit into any .45-calibre automatic = pistol, although these particular ones were fired from different guns.=20 He also examined the lead core of a projectile found just outside the = rear door, which had a bullet hole in its double-paned glass. He = compared that bullet fragment to another found on the bathroom floor and = concluded they had been fired from the same barrel.=20 The firearm expert's evidence continues today.=20 bbrown@thespec.com 905-526-3494=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:49 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "06:58:55"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Man wanted in shooting PUBLICATION: The Province=20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: FINAL C=20 SECTION: News=20 PAGE: A3=20 COLUMN: B.C. Briefing=20 SOURCE: News Services=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Man wanted in shooting - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- An arrest warrant has been issued for a Surrey man accused of shooting a = man he knew. Christopher Jonathan Campbell, 27, is wanted for the Nov. = 19 shooting of another 27-year-old in the 13400-block 103 Avenue. The = victim suffered serious abdominal injuries. Campbell is charged with = aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited weapon and causing bodily =harm with a firearm.=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:49 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "07:03:08"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Hunter who shoots the biggest crow will receive $100. PUBLICATION: The London Free Press =20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final =20 SECTION: City & Region =20 PAGE: B2 =20 BYLINE: BOWES PUBLISHERS LTD.: VISIT BOWES' WEBSITE AT www.bowesnet.com =20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- AROUND THE REGION=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- MERLIN=20 Richard Erickson has launched another crow shoot and reopened = Chatham-Kent's continuing debate on crows. Erickson, who most recently = ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Chatham-Kent, has held three other = crow-shoot contests. The hunter who shoots the biggest crow by Feb. 1 = will receive $100. Erickson calls the birds "rats with wings." Two years = ago, Erickson was charged by the Ministry of Natural Resources with = discharging a firearm too near a roadway. "But it's not illegal to shoot = crows," Erickson says. "You can shoot them from sunup to sun- down."=20 Chatham This Week=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:15:51 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "07:10:03"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Editorial: BLAST AWAY, PAUL PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun =20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final =20 SECTION: Editorial/Opinion =20 PAGE: 14 =20 COLUMN: Editorial =20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- BLAST AWAY, PAUL=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- For many Canadians, the word boondoggle has become synonymous with Human = Resources Development Canada.=20 That's the department which was the subject of an incriminating audit = that exposed $1 billion of dubious spending -- much of it in Liberal = ridings.=20 The Opposition quickly seized on the expression "billion-dollar = boondoggle" to sum up the wasteful, patronage-laden spending habits of = the regime of outgoing prime minister Jean Chretien.=20 The allegations shocked taxpayers, but didn't phase Chretien, who just = shrugged and patted HRDC minister Jane Stewart on the back.=20 Now, according to news reports, incoming PM Paul Martin plans to = dismantle this unwieldy monument to free-spending and patronage.=20 Taxpayers might be inclined to greet these reports with relief, but = that's only the good news.=20 The bad news is Martin is also contemplating the creation of a new = Homeland Security department, which would oversee Canada Customs, the = Coast Guard, RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.=20 While we would never understate the importance of security, the creation = of a whole new layer of bureaucracy must be greeted with skepticism.=20 By all accounts, the creation of the Homeland Security Office in the = U.S. has proven a minor disaster in its own right.=20 Instead of streamlining security procedures and intelligence across a = broad range of government departments in that country, it has created a = nightmare of inefficiency and wasteful spending.=20 Martin would do well to bear that in mind as he makes plans for a major = restructuring of our federal bureaucracy.=20 After all, Canada already has a federal police force -- the RCMP -- in = place, and our federal agencies have earned a reputation for working = together in times of emergency.=20 We don't want to see one boondoggle dismantled only to be replaced by = another.=20 While Martin is boondoggle-blasting, he should take aim at the wasteful = and impotent firearm registry, which is poised to become yet another = billion-dollar weight around the necks of weary and overburdened =Canadian taxpayers.=20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:30:45 -0600 (CST) From: BreitG0@parl.gc.ca, Thu@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Nov@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 27@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, "07:11:00"@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, 2003@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Student left shaken after being struck by pellet gun: PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen=20 DATE: 2003.11.27=20 EDITION: Final=20 SECTION: City=20 PAGE: C2=20 BYLINE: Tony Lofaro=20 SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen=20 ILLUSTRATION: Photo: Wayne Cuddington, The Ottawa Citizen / Lenore = Butchersays she's lucky the pellet struck her from behind or it might = have hit her in the throat. =20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Student left shaken after being struck by pellet gun: Safety watchdog = wants weapons banned in cities - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Lenore Butcher was walking to a friend's home in Orleans when she was = startled by a loud noise that appeared to come from a moving vehicle.=20 "It was kind of a bang -- a pop or something -- like a nail gun," said = the 16-year-old St. Peter's High School student.=20 "Then I felt something hit me on the back of my neck. It felt like a = rock hitting me."=20 Lenore had been struck once by a pellet gun and while she didn't suffer = a serious injury, the experience last weekend left her shaken and upset = that a random act by three teenagers in an apparent drive-by shooting = could happen in her quiet neighbourhood.=20 Her friend called police and filed a report, but nobody got the car's = licence number, so chances are slim of catching any suspects.=20 "I was scared, because what if I was walking in the other direction, it = (the pellet) would have hit me in the throat," she said.=20 Ottawa police said reports of people being shot by pellet guns are = uncommon.=20 "But it has happened," said Charles Bordeleau, Ottawa police acting = superintendent, east division. "Where we usually see the usage of pellet = guns is with reference to some mischief, like windows of cars or = residences being shot out.=20 "It usually goes in spurts, we'll have a couple and, when we do, most = likely it's the same people."=20 He said police laid a charge of mischief this summer after someone shot = out the windows of a car.=20 In Hamilton, the problem is more serious. That city has been plagued by = a rash of drive-by pellet gun shootings in which seven people were hit. = Last weekend, a volunteer Santa was struck by a pellet gun as he = directed traffic to a charity event at a mall.=20 Earlier this summer in Toronto, a five-year-old boy was hit in the eye = by a pellet, which remains lodged in his brain. An 18-year-old was = arrested and faces weapons charges.=20 Emile Therrien, president of the Canada Safety Council, said the problem = of pellet gun injuries is more serious than most people think. According = to statistics, such guns are a leading cause of the loss of an eye in = children and young adults. Every year, more than 50 Canadian children = are sent to hospital with air gun injuries.=20 After the pellet gun shooting of the young Toronto boy, Mr. Therrien = pushed to have pellet guns placed under the federal Hazardous Products = Act. That hasn't happened.=20 He said he questions the need for pellet guns in cities, and counts = their easy accessibility as a growing problem.=20 "As a sport thing for pest control in certain areas they're invaluable, = but in urban areas what purpose do they serve? They're just dangerous = and in the U.S., there has been incidents where a pellet has killed a = person," said Mr. Therrien.=20 Lenore's mother, Patricia Butcher, said she's shocked by the incident = and worries when her daughter goes out.=20 "We need the police to continue to be as vigilant as they are, and make = sure that stuff like this doesn't happen and terrify kids, so they don't =feel free to be able to do things that kids do."=20 ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #721 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:moderator@hitchen.org 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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