From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V7 #178 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 Sunday, May 23 2004 Volume 07 : Number 178 In this issue: Editorial: WHAT A RECORD! Column: THE LIBERAL CAMPAIGN'S 7 DEADLY SINS Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B: $152M a day since Editor (It's as clear as a bell) Couple in court Tuesday GAME ON! The Writ has been dropped! My letter to several newspapers Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:07:57 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Editorial: WHAT A RECORD! PUBLICATION: The Winnipeg Sun DATE: 2004.05.23 EDITION: Final SECTION: Comment PAGE: C2 COLUMN: Editorial - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT A RECORD! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After 11 years and three straight majority governments, it's time to throw the Liberal bums out. If Prime Minister Paul Martin and the Grits were proud of their accomplishments, they'd be talking about them instead of smearing Stephen Harper and the Conservatives at every opportunity, as they have for weeks now in the run-up to today's expected election call. Then again, it's easy to see why the Liberals would rather not discuss their own record. Consider: - - INTEGRITY: When the sponsorship scandal broke, Martin said Canadians had a right to know what had happened, before he would call the vote. That's broken promise No. 1, and the campaign hasn't even started yet. Despite Martin's promise to fix the "democratic deficit," he ordered Liberal MPs on the Commons committee investigating AdScam to shut it down. Canadians still have no idea what really went on in AdScam, or how high up the chain of command the rot went. If the Grits win this election, count on them to wreck the judicial inquiry into AdScam as well, just as they did with the Somalia inquiry. - - HEALTH CARE: While the Liberals portray themselves as the guardians of national health care, it was Martin's cuts to health funding for the provinces when he was finance minister in the early 1990s that led to many of the crises the Grits now say they'll fix. - - JUSTICE: After sticking us with a useless long-gun registry that was supposed to cost us $2 million but is on track to cost more than well over $1 billion (the most grievous of a number of misspending scandals), the Liberals made a last-ditch attempt last week to give it a facelift -- including a promise to increase penalties for gun crime. Coming from the folks who've done nothing in a decade to fix our revolving-door justice system, and replaced the soft-on-crime Young Offenders Act with the even worse Youth Criminal Justice Act, that promise isn't worth much. - - THE MILITARY: No sovereign nation worthy of the name would have allowed its military to deteriorate as has Canada under the Liberals. The ultimate symbol of this neglect? They still haven't replaced our ancient Sea King helicopters, after cancelling the contract let by the previous Tory government over a decade ago. - - IMMIGRATION: The feds can't find thousands of failed refugee claimants, some with links to terrorism and organized crime (and their records on those are abysmal, too). - - FOREIGN POLICY: The Liberals have damaged, perhaps irreparably, our relationship with the U.S., our closest ally and largest trading partner. Not agreeing to join the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq was one thing. But the way the Liberals did it -- complete with name-calling and gratuitous insults -- was childish, boorish and costly. - - TRANSPORTATION: Under the Grits, our national air and rail carriers have stumbled from one crisis to the next. And they've raked in billions in gas tax revenues while investing next to nothing in infrastructure. Enough said. Small wonder the Liberals would prefer to talk about anything but their record. Well, too bad. If Martin drops the writ as expected today, they'll have no choice. Starting today, voters will have their long-awaited chance to hold them to account. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:08:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Column: THE LIBERAL CAMPAIGN'S 7 DEADLY SINS PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2004.05.23 EDITION: Final SECTION: Comment PAGE: 21 BYLINE: LINDA WILLIAMSON, TORONTO SUN - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LIBERAL CAMPAIGN'S 7 DEADLY SINS - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS ELECTION'S big question: How low can the Liberals go? Not just in seats, though in the end that's the only thing that counts, and already polls are pointing toward a minority government. But I'm also wondering, how low can they stoop? So far -- and the campaign isn't even supposed to start until today -- the Liberals have signalled it will be a very nasty campaign. Yes, the other parties will no doubt get dirty too -- but let's face it, the governing party sets the tone. And judging from the litany of Liberal sins we've seen already, they won't be fighting this campaign on the high road. Whether or not those sins prove to be deadly for the Grits is, of course, for voters to decide. But for now, the seven deadly sins provide a handy reference point for categorizing what I see as the Liberals' worst misdeeds of the past few weeks. For instance: 1) Pride: Vanity, thy name is Liberal. One of the biggest campaign shockers so far has been PM Paul Martin (who once styled himself as Mr. Democracy) hand-picking celebrity candidates at the expense of the usual democratic nomination process. Hey, why risk having some hard-working party person actually win the nomination when you can parachute in a big name like hockey god Ken Dryden? Or Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray? Or former B.C. NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh? Martin says appointing star candidates is a leader's prerogative, which it is -- but for the record, no Conservative or NDP candidate so far has been appointed. ATTACK ADS 2) Envy: Harper, Harper, Harper. Why do the Liberals keep talking about him? Could it be Stephen Harper has innovative ideas, he's articulate, and leads a united party -- not all of which can be said about Martin? Their anti-Harper attack ads and attack Web site are already on the go. If this obsession doesn't betray some kind of jealousy, I don't know what does. 3) Gluttony: What conjures up the old pigs-at-the-trough image better than AdScam and the scandalous dispensation of tax dollars to Liberal-friendly advertising firms? Despite all his bluster about getting to the bottom of it "come hell or high water," Martin, predictably, had his MPs shut down the AdScam committee two weeks ago, the better to concentrate on getting re-elected. Oink, oink. 4) Lust: No sex scandals, please, we're Canadian. But the Liberal lust for power is well-known. How else to explain such transparently desperate grasps for votes as last week's last-ditch promise to (sort of) reform the hated gun registry and toughen gun crime laws? 5) Anger: Like millions of Ontario taxpayers, Martin must have been mad at Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for his bombshell of a budget last week, which cemented in voters' minds the portrait of Liberals as promise-breaking tax-and-spenders. But he transferred that anger to a more politically convenient target: former Tory premier Mike Harris. So Harris is the guy to blame for Ontarians now being forced to pay health care premiums -- according to the guy who, as federal finance minister, slashed health transfer payments to the provinces?! Please, even Harris-haters aren't buying that one. DESPERATE LUST 6) Greed: Two words -- gas taxes. Prices go up, the feds rake in the dough, thanks to their unconscionable tax-on-tax GST. No wonder the Liberals refuse to change it. As for Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's sudden bizarre promise last week that the gas tax windfall will go to ... er, purchasing medical equipment ... yeah, that's the ticket! -- chalk it up as another example of that desperate lust for power. 7) Sloth: On Thursday, Martin came to Toronto to promise millions of tax dollars for the city's waterfront -- exactly the same thing Jean Chretien did two days before he called the last election (but the money never flowed). Have these guys grown so lazy and complacent about Toronto votes they can't even be bothered to come up with a new shtick? I'll stop there, but the sins won't. Expect to see a lot more from all parties in the weeks ahead. Just remember, no matter how low it gets, failing to vote is the greatest sin of all. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:08:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B: $152M a day since PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2004.05.23 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A1 / Front BYLINE: Janice Tibbetts SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B: $152M a day since April 1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prime Minister Paul Martin's election call today follows about $8 billion in Liberal spending announcements in the last seven weeks, when politicians have rolled out hundreds of press releases and criss-crossed Canada making promises of goodies big and small. The spending spree, which critics denounce as old-style politics, has included commitments of high-speed Internet to rural communities, extensive infrastructure projects, cleaning up existing eyesores, and money for small business, the arts, the homeless, the unemployed, disabled war veterans, aboriginals, AIDS sufferers and cancer patients. Federal cabinet ministers or the prime minister have often flown in to personally announce big-ticket items in ridings where the Liberals are considered particularly vulnerable or hope to secure gains to offset expected losses to the newly merged Conservatives or the Bloc Quebecois. Many of the announcements, however, do not necessarily mean new spending. Rather, they include a mix of recycled news or provide details of how money will be spent that has been set aside under existing programs. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a conservative lobby group that has been adding up Liberal spending commitments since the beginning of the fiscal year on April 1, estimates that the government has promised about $152 million per day on average. "We photocopied every press release and the stack is just huge," said the group's federal director, John Williamson. "This is exactly how scandals begin, when money is rushed out the door with no oversight and no thought and the priority is put on the photo-op and not ensuring the money is well spent." Last Thursday alone, the Liberals handed out 38 press releases totalling almost $400 million in spending, according to a tally by CanWest News Service. Among the big announcements were $125 million to revitalize the Toronto waterfront and $25 million to restore rundown Winnipeg neighbourhoods. In Eastern Canada, New Brunswick secured $75 million in infrastructure promises and Halifax got $17.5 million. In Western Canada, vulnerable cabinet ministers Anne McLellan in Edmonton and David Anderson in Victoria announced, respectively, cutting registration fees for the federal gun registry and $14.7 million to clean up Victoria Harbour's contaminated Rock Bay. By comparison, on Feb. 27, a randomly selected day at the height of the sponsorship scandal when the Liberals were trying to get out the message that they were cleaning up spending, the government made four announcement totalling only $17 million. On top of their pre-election promises, the Liberals are expected to announce billions of dollars in future spending in the coming days when they release their election platform. Health care funding, identified as a top priority among voters, is expected to be a major plank. On the eve of the election call, Mr. Martin said he would put an additional $3 billion annually into health spending. David Taras, a University of Calgary political scientist, said the Liberal strategy is damaging because voters are too smart to be bought with their own money. "I think the old style of spending like a mad hatter before an election doesn't go down well anymore," said Mr. Taras. "All this flies in the face of the claim that this government is going to be different, that it has a different style, but most importantly the claim that Paul Martin can be trusted to be careful with public money. Particularly after the sponsorship scandal, there was this great sense of 'I'm going to make sure that we're careful.' " Mr. Taras said the Liberals' pre-election blitz is less sophisticated than the Chretien government's promise just before the 2000 election to lower taxes. "That was a different story because that was taking the Canadian Alliance policies away from them," he said. "This is not taking policies away, this is just the kind of spending that makes voters cynical." Atlantic Canada, with its mere 32 seats, is an example of how the Liberals are not taking any chances as they try to solidify support to offset potential losses in Ontario and Quebec. The region, which is not used to being much of a factor in federal elections, has received a disproportionate share of spending promises and there have been regular sightings of cabinet ministers on the streets of East Coast towns and cities. In the last few weeks alone, the Liberals have served up improved employment insurance benefits for seasonal workers, partially reopened the troubled cod fishery, picked a fight with a Portuguese trawler over foreign overfishing, expedited a longtime promise to help clean up the polluted tar ponds in Sydney, N.S., and helped out the offshore oil industry by announcing a tax moratorium on drilling rigs brought into Canada. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:09:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Editor (It's as clear as a bell) PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2004.05.23 EDITION: Final SECTION: Comment PAGE: 20 COLUMN: Letters to the Editor IF YOU believe the changes to the government's vaunted Firearms Act have nothing to do with the coming election, then I guess you also believe the Liberals have gotten to the bottom of the AdScam scandal. And the APEC scandal. And the Somalia scandal. And the HRDC scandal. I hope you get the picture. Kick the rascals out! Bruce N. Mills Dundas Editor (It's as clear as a bell) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:09:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Couple in court Tuesday PUBLICATION: The Sunday Herald DATE: 2004.05.23 SECTION: Metro PAGE: A1 SOURCE: Crime Reporter BYLINE: Dan Arsenault - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Couple in court Tuesday - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The couple arrested after the Shirley Street standoff in Halifax are expected to be in court Tuesday morning to face multiple charges. Larry Finck, 50, and his wife, Carline VandenElsen, 41, are both expected to face charges of obstruction, forcible confinement and contravention of a court order. Mr. Finck, who allegedly fired at least one rifle shot in the direction of police in the early morning hours Wednesday, is also likely to be charged with six firearms offences, including careless use of a firearm, pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace, unauthorized possession of a firearm, assault with a weapon, and discharging a firearm endangering a human life. The couple were to be moved Saturday from Halifax Regional Police headquarters to the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth. The standoff began in the wee hours of Wednesday when police arrived at 6161 Shirley St. to remove the couple's five-month-old daughter from the home at the request of the Children's Aid Society. Police were turned away at the door, and when they made a second attempt at about 3 a.m., at least one gunshot rang out and police quickly sealed off the area. The 67-hour drama that paralysed the neighbourhood ended at 7:22 p.m. Friday when the couple walked out the front door of their house, with Ms. VandenElsen carrying baby Mona-Clare Finck in a pouch strapped to her chest. She and Mr. Finck were holding either end of a makeshift stretcher carrying the body of Mr. Finck's mother Mona, who police believe had been dead for several hours. "We do have preliminary (autopsy) results which indicate that she did die of natural causes," police spokesman Sgt. Don Spicer said Saturday. Mr. Finck could face charges in his mother's death, Sgt. Spicer said. "We can't rule that out," he said. Sgt. Spicer said negotiators talking to people inside the house during the standoff encouraged them to allow the elderly woman to leave. Neighbours said she had heart trouble. People other than negotiators spoke to Mr. Finck during the standoff, Sgt. Spicer said. "Outside people were brought in to speak to him, I don't know exactly who," he said. "We're not going to identify those people." Mr. Finck is believed to have a brother in Halifax. Baby Mona-Clare was placed in the hands of the Children's Aid Society after receiving a clean bill of health during a hospital checkup Friday night. Police will conduct an internal review of their handling of the ordeal, Sgt. Spicer said. "Any major incident, we will do an operational review just to ensure that everything that could be done was done, and look to see if there's any ways to improve or anything that we may try different next time." Sgt. Spicer expects some people to criticize police, either for trying to apprehend the baby in the middle of the night or for other aspects of the standoff. "You're going to get the Monday morning quarterbacks in any event," he said. He echoed the previous night's comments of Chief Frank Beazley, who said police acted as soon as they got word late Tuesday night that Ms. VandenElsen and her baby had returned to the house. Police first tried to remove the infant from the home in January but Ms. VandenElsen had gone into hiding with Mona-Clare. Neighbours say the mother and daughter returned about two weeks before the standoff began. Sgt. Spicer said police moved to get the baby when they thought they could. "It was because that is when the information that was presented to us . . . and a number of other factors that would actually be part of the investigation I'm not able to get into," he said. It is not known why Children's Aid wanted police to take the child out of the house. Both parents have previously defied child custody orders involving children from past marriages. Mr. Finck served jail time for abducting his four-year-old daughter in 1999, while Ms. VandenElsen disappeared in October 2000 with her seven-year-old triplets. They were found in Acapulco, Mexico, the next January and the children were returned to their father in Ontario. Mr. Finck and Ms. VandenElsen married last year. Early Saturday afternoon, police started reopening the closed streets in the Shirley Street neighbourhood. "The (crime) scene now is concentrated on the house itself," Sgt. Spicer said. Harry McInroy, one of three councillors who sits on the municipal police commission, said Saturday he expects the seven-member group will review the police handling of the standoff. The provincial police commission also has the option of looking into the matter, he said. Mr. McInroy chose not to weigh in on the timing of the apprehension attempt or other aspects of the standoff. "Until more information is fleshed out, it would be just speculation, which I don't think is fair at this point in time," he said. "I think people, in fairness, should wait and allow some additional information to be gathered and divulged before jumping to conclusions." But Mr. McInroy did say he supports any police decisions based on the belief that a life could be at risk. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:37:41 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: GAME ON! The Writ has been dropped! Time to roll up your sleeves, boys and girls, and get to work! We're going to the polls! KICK THE RASCALS OUT! Yours in Liberty, Bruce Hamilton Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:58:17 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: My letter to several newspapers Just submitted, not yet printed. Have you written a letter today? - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Chretien-Martin record speaks for itself Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:57:06 -0400 From: Bruce Mills To: Bruce Mills "I think during an election campaign it is reasonable and fair to remind voters of the things that the government has done," said Anne McLellan. Well, fair's fair - here's what the Chretien-Martin Liberals have done for you: $1 BILLION wasted on registering law abiding gun owners Democratic Deficit - appointing candidates Abolish NAFTA Lie Abolish GST Lie Pearson Airport Payoff Destruction of Cod Fishery The tainted blood scandal, coverup, and the paltry deal Devalued Canadian Dollar ($1.05 to $0.64 American) Ciprogate Ripping off veteran's and widow's pensions The botched Airbus scandal investigation The cancelled Somalia "inquiry" The cancelled APEC "inquiry" The cancelled AdScam "inquiry" The "Shawinnigan Strangle" The "Shawinnigan Shove" The "Shawinnigan Shenanigans" aka "Shawinnigate" The HRDC billion dollar boondoggle No New Helicopters for the Army, but New Challenger Jets for Chretien Wheat farmers arrested for selling their own wheat Gutting $25 billion dollars out of health care Big Brother Files (aka the HRDC "Longitudinal Files") Election gag order restricting freedom of speech EI regulation vote buying flip-flop (x2) $40 billion dollars ripped off from the EI fund Highest tax rate in the G7 Native Treatment Center Scandal The Fake Flag Fiasco Leaky Used British Submarines "What do *you* know about Christians?" - Sheila Copps "Crosses are burning as we speak!" - Hedy Fry "Damn Americans! I hate those bastards!" - Carrolyn Parrish "Bush is a moron" - Chretien communication aide "You didn't vote for me" - Tom Wappel Canada will not survive 5 more years of Liberal Rule! KICK THE RASCALS OUT! Yours in Liberty, Bruce Hamilton Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:15:05 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/soundoff/story.html?id=b21378c2-0b8c-4259-a3e0-6ad8c1c113dc Liberals' pre-election spending spree hits $8B $152M a day since April 1 Janice Tibbetts The Ottawa Citizen May 23, 2004 Prime Minister Paul Martin's election call today follows about $8 billion in Liberal spending announcements in the last seven weeks, when politicians have rolled out hundreds of press releases and criss-crossed Canada making promises of goodies big and small. The spending spree, which critics denounce as old-style politics, has included commitments of high-speed Internet to rural communities, extensive infrastructure projects, cleaning up existing eyesores, and money for small business, the arts, the homeless, the unemployed, disabled war veterans, aboriginals, AIDS sufferers and cancer patients. Federal cabinet ministers or the prime minister have often flown in to personally announce big-ticket items in ridings where the Liberals are considered particularly vulnerable or hope to secure gains to offset expected losses to the newly merged Conservatives or the Bloc Quebecois. Many of the announcements, however, do not necessarily mean new spending. Rather, they include a mix of recycled news or provide details of how money will be spent that has been set aside under existing programs. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a conservative lobby group that has been adding up Liberal spending commitments since the beginning of the fiscal year on April 1, estimates that the government has promised about $152 million per day on average. "We photocopied every press release and the stack is just huge," said the group's federal director, John Williamson. "This is exactly how scandals begin, when money is rushed out the door with no oversight and no thought and the priority is put on the photo-op and not ensuring the money is well spent." Last Thursday alone, the Liberals handed out 38 press releases totalling almost $400 million in spending, according to a tally by CanWest News Service. Among the big announcements were $125 million to revitalize the Toronto waterfront and $25 million to restore rundown Winnipeg neighbourhoods. In Eastern Canada, New Brunswick secured $75 million in infrastructure promises and Halifax got $17.5 million. In Western Canada, vulnerable cabinet ministers Anne McLellan in Edmonton and David Anderson in Victoria announced, respectively, cutting registration fees for the federal gun registry and $14.7 million to clean up Victoria Harbour's contaminated Rock Bay. By comparison, on Feb. 27, a randomly selected day at the height of the sponsorship scandal when the Liberals were trying to get out the message that they were cleaning up spending, the government made four announcement totalling only $17 million. On top of their pre-election promises, the Liberals are expected to announce billions of dollars in future spending in the coming days when they release their election platform. Health care funding, identified as a top priority among voters, is expected to be a major plank. On the eve of the election call, Mr. Martin said he would put an additional $3 billion annually into health spending. David Taras, a University of Calgary political scientist, said the Liberal strategy is damaging because voters are too smart to be bought with their own money. "I think the old style of spending like a mad hatter before an election doesn't go down well anymore," said Mr. Taras. "All this flies in the face of the claim that this government is going to be different, that it has a different style, but most importantly the claim that Paul Martin can be trusted to be careful with public money. Particularly after the sponsorship scandal, there was this great sense of 'I'm going to make sure that we're careful.' " Mr. Taras said the Liberals' pre-election blitz is less sophisticated than the Chretien government's promise just before the 2000 election to lower taxes. "That was a different story because that was taking the Canadian Alliance policies away from them," he said. "This is not taking policies away, this is just the kind of spending that makes voters cynical." Atlantic Canada, with its mere 32 seats, is an example of how the Liberals are not taking any chances as they try to solidify support to offset potential losses in Ontario and Quebec. The region, which is not used to being much of a factor in federal elections, has received a disproportionate share of spending promises and there have been regular sightings of cabinet ministers on the streets of East Coast towns and cities. In the last few weeks alone, the Liberals have served up improved employment insurance benefits for seasonal workers, partially reopened the troubled cod fishery, picked a fight with a Portuguese trawler over foreign overfishing, expedited a longtime promise to help clean up the polluted tar ponds in Sydney, N.S., and helped out the offshore oil industry by announcing a tax moratorium on drilling rigs brought into Canada. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V7 #178 ********************************** 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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