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 #676 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 Monday, January 3 2005 Volume 07 : Number 676 In this issue: In South Africa, Licensing Law Poses Hurdles for Gun Buyers 2004 marked city's worst year for homicides Maytwayashing under a lifetime ban from possessing firearms, Bar shooting leaves two in hospital TRIO FACING CHARGES IN CARJACKING Man shot dead in Edmonton restaurant: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:23:16 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: In South Africa, Licensing Law Poses Hurdles for Gun Buyers PUBLICATION: The New York Times SECTION: Foreign EDITION: Late Edition - Final DATE: 2005.01.03 PAGE: 7 BYLINE: MICHAEL WINES DATELINE: GEORGE, South Africa ILLUSTRATION: Photo: Johan Jansen talks with a customer examining a scope in GunCity, a store in suburban Johannesburg. (Photographs by Joao Silva for The New York Times) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- In South Africa, Licensing Law Poses Hurdles for Gun Buyers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Rossouw Botha, beefy and billiard-ball bald, leafed through his list of customers at Redneck Tactical Supplies, dismay in his eyes, contempt in his voice, even though he was mostly repeating two words, over and over. "Turned down," he spat out, and leafed another page or two. "Turned down." Four more pages, and once again, "Turned down." Many of Mr. Botha's clients have been turned down. The rest are waiting to be approved, but many of them could be turned down, too. South Africa has a new gun-ownership law, and since it took effect last summer, Redneck Tactical Supplies, one of two firearms shops in this rather proper white-picket-fence type of beach town, has applied to the government for ownership certificates for about 250 prospective buyers. "So far, we have yet to receive one certificate," Mr. Botha said. The new gun law has weapons dealers and users upset. Firearms sales, once 15,000 a month, have fallen to near zero, because of the law's imposing regulatory hurdles and the glacial government bureaucracy that oversees them. "Not a single license has been issued for a firearm that the association is aware of," said Andrew Soutar, the chairman of the South African Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association. "Dealers who were selling 400 firearms a month have now dropped to 2 or 3," he said. "A lot of people see it as nothing more than a deliberate disarmament process, and at great expense to the nation." On the other hand, advocates of gun control are delighted. "Obviously, we're making an impact," said Judy Bassingthwaite, the national director of the leading lobby for curbs on gun ownership, Gun Free South Africa. "That's very good news." Ms. Bassingthwaite said her organization did not seek to put gun shops out of business, and attributed some of the substantial decline in weapons sales to what she called teething problems in the police agency that is carrying out the new law. In fact, the agency has a large backlog of applications and has wrestled with shortages of items as basic as printed explanations of the law. The South African Police Service, the national police agency, which oversees implementation of the law, agreed to take questions from a reporter only by e-mail, but did not reply to them. Still, Ms. Bassingthwaite acknowledged, "for those who are in love with their weapons, this is a huge challenge." The situation is little different in Johannesburg, where Jan Jansen, the owner of a suburban shop called Gun City, said he had 3,000 weapons in his vault -- 80 percent of which had been bought by people who were awaiting licenses. Mr. Jansen said that his gun sales had dropped by about 80 percent in recent months, and that he was busy these days refunding money to buyers whose applications for licenses had been rejected. "If we don't sell weapons, we don't make money," he said With the law in effect just a few months, it is too soon to determine its impact on violent crime, which swept the country in the 1990's. But gun control is a topic of much passion, as it is in the United States. By some mid-1990's estimates, one of every two white households owned at least one firearm, and ownership among nonwhites has rapidly risen in the past decade. Blacks were forbidden to own guns under apartheid. The police agency reports that 4.5 million firearms are legally registered; illegal firearms are estimated to number at least 500,000. Within five years, officials said, all those guns are to be registered, so that sales of new and used guns are controlled. Unlike pro-gun groups in the United States, however, those in South Africa were powerless to stop Parliament from enacting stiff firearms restrictions, partly because guns are not mentioned in the nation's Constitution, and largely because of the public anger over violent criminals. The law, approved in 2000 but taking effect only last year, limits most citizens to one weapon for self-defense and a maximum of four others for other uses, like hunting or skeet shooting. But getting any gun at all, critics say, is the big task. Guns are to be automatically denied to drug or alcohol abusers, spouse abusers, people inclined to violence or "deviant behavior" and anyone who has been imprisoned for violent or sex-related crimes. The police interview three acquaintances of each applicant before deciding whether he or she is competent to own a gun. Prospective gun owners must pass a firearms course. They also must install a safe or strongbox that meets police standards for gun storage. More important, an applicant also must prove to the police that he or she needs a gun -- a requirement, called motivation, which gun advocates complain is vague and hard to satisfy. Vague, maybe; hard, undoubtedly. In Thembalethu, a sprawling, poor black settlement on the southern coast about seven miles southeast of George, Vuyani Dingiswayo, 25, says he applied six months ago for permission to own a gun. The reason: he manages his family's tavern, a local landmark that sells a great deal of beer, and must carry thousands of dollars in receipts to a bank in George each week. Mr. Dingiswayo said he had slept in the tavern each night to ward off burglars. After armed robbers raided a nearby business, he said, he concluded that he needed some way to protect himself in the tavern and on tr ips to the bank. "Last week we had a function at the stadium," he said. "We sold 200,000 rands worth of beer" -- about $35,000, at current exchange rates. "I'm afraid to drive alone with that kind of money. The guys who are there, drinking, sometimes I'm afraid of them. We've had a lot of robbery. It's dangerous." In October, Mr. Dingiswayo's application was rejected. "Insufficient something," he said. "They said I don't have a good reason." That is a bit disingenuous, said Noel Stott, a small-arms specialist at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria. "The police aren't saying what a good motivation is, because that would come to be like a template," he said. "The gun shops would just assist people, and it would become a pro forma type of thing. So they're being very subjective." Mr. Soutar, of the Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association, calls that obstructionism. Mr. Botha, of Redneck Tactical Supplies, goes a step further and accuses the government of hurting the very people it liberated from apartheid in 1994. "Ninety-nine-point-five percent of my firearms customers are black," he said. "They live in traditional areas where crime is out of control. How come we're denying them the right to protect themselves? "I sell 200, 300 cans of pepper spray a week," he said. "In George." He added caustically, "Maybe people are scared." The chairman of the year-old Black Gun Owners Association, Abios Khoele, contends that the law is so strict that it is having the opposite of its intended effect. "Most of the people, they've already started to buy illegal firearms," he said. "Most of them are for self-defense, because they're living in some areas where the police are unable to protect them." Mr. Khoele says he has already signed up 5,000 members and represents far more. But it is Ms. Bassingthwaite, of Gun Free South Africa, who says she represents "the unarmed majority" among South Africa's 45 million people. "Thirty people die of gun-related injuries every day," she said. "That's over 10,000 annually, and between 1,000 and 1,200 are under 17. It's like a whole high school." Gun owners should not forget, said Mr. Stott, the small-arms specialist, that their plight could be worse. In neighboring Botswana, the government agrees to process a bare 400 applications for gun ownership each year, and the applicants are chosen by lottery. By that standard, he said, "this is still quite a liberal law." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------- CIDA FINALLY RELEASED CONTRACT WITH RYERSON UNIVERSITY AND WENDY CUKIER = $33,500 AUGUST 19, 2004 - BREITKREUZ'S REVISED REQUEST TO CIDA "We received your letter dated August 9, 2004 today that assessed a fee of $390.00 to process our request. In order to reduce the cost to the taxpayers of Canada, we have decided to modify the wording of our request as follows: Please provide a copy of the contract between Ryerson University and the Secretariat for Safety and Security that was part of a project you say was managed by Canadian High Commission in South Africa. This particular Ryerson University contract resulted in Wendy Cukier referring to "our recent CIDA contract with the South African Police Service" in an e-mail dated March 27, 2002 to the Department of Foreign Affairs." OCTOBER 27, 2004 - CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY PROVIDED COPY OF CUKIER CONTRACT - ATI FILE: A-2004-00019 EXCERPTS FROM FAX DATED: February 18, 2000 The Registrar Ryerson University Dear Sirs: "This letter confirms that the National Secretariat for Safety and Security would like to use the services of Ryerson University to assist in the preparation and evaluation of a tender specification for the Business Process Re-engineering of the Central Firearms Register and the editing and development of statistical information regarding Firearm Control in South Africa. Your services will be required for a period not exceeding 30 days, to be completed between 15 December 1999 and 30 June 2000. It is understood that you will make Professor W. Cukier available for this purpose." "5.2 In consideration of the services rendered, the Secretariat for Safety and Security will only approve CIDA's payment of a total not exceeding $33,500.00 inclusive of professional fees, travel expenses and communications." EXCERPT FROM UNDATED MEMORANDUM FROM THE PROGRAMME OFFICE: FIREARMS STRATEGY - SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE "3. BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING OF THE CENTRAL FIREARMS REGISTER - Due to unforeseen circumstances the BPR did not start during December 1999 as originally estimated. The official starting date of the BPR was 1 May 2000 and it is expected the final deliverable will be available in August 2001." CONTRACTS & EXPENSES PAID TO CUKIER & THE COALITION BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA - Revised: October 28, 2004 GRAND TOTAL UNCOVERED FROM 1994 TO PRESENT = $ 501,118.17 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:23:21 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: 2004 marked city's worst year for homicides PUBLICATION: WINNIPEG FREE PRESS DATE: 2005.01.03 PAGE: B3 SECTION: City - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- 2004 marked city's worst year for homicides Firearms used in nearly one-third of the 34 slayings - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Bruce Owen Bruce Owen Winnipeg experienced its worst year in memory for homicide in 2004 -- 34 people were slain. The first person to die was Shawn Stephan Moore, 22. He was shot to death at a North End drug house. Days later, police charged a 20-year-old man with first-degree murder. The last person to die was Ralph Warren Bell, 48, on Dec. 22. He was stabbed to death in a Main Street apartment suite. A 51-year-old woman was charged with second-degree murder. Much has already been said about Moore and Bell and the 32 other victims of fatal violence. Much has already been said about Winnipeg's homicide rate and how it compares per capita to other Canadian cities. The last time we saw such a high homicide rate was in 1987, when 30 people were slain. What is most concerning is the number of Winnipeg homicides by the use of firearms -- 10 out of the 34. We'd like to think that with Canada's new firearms legislation requiring every gun in the country to be registered, there would be fewer people being shot to death. But what was true before that requirement is as true now: Anyone can get a firearm, no matter what the law says. Seven of this year's deaths by firearms are linked to the city's gangs and drug trade. Here are some other statistics on Winnipeg's homicide victims in 2004: z Ten were stabbed to death. z Four died of strangulation or asphyxiation. z Ten were either beaten to death, died of blunt trauma or were shaken to death. z Of the 34 killings, three were children. z At least four were domestic-related, two of which involved love triangles gone bad. z At least three appear to be pure happenstance -- two bar-related deaths earlier in the year and a 25-year-old woman who was killed June 12 by an apparently accidental shotgun blast. z By far, most of the homicides were lifestyle-related, involving heavy alcohol use, drugs, gangs or prostitution. Another factor is that in more than 85 per cent of the homicides this year, the victim knew the assailant -- there was some type of relationship. None of the 34 cases involved someone being killed at random. A total of 40 people have been charged in the slayings. In only once case have no charges been laid. Outside of Winnipeg, 13 people were slain in 2004. Two of these victims were last seen in Winnipeg before they were killed, their bodies later found outside the Perimeter Highway. They are Trevor Neil Tanner and Divas Boulanger. Tanner, 22, was shot dead July 5 on an access road near Lockport. He had been in an altercation earlier at a bar at The Forks. Boulanger, 28, died of trauma after she was last seen Oct. 1 near Martha Street and Higgins Avenue. She was a transgendered street prostitute. Her body was found Nov. 3 in some bush at a rest stop on the Trans-Canada Highway about eight kilometres east of Portage la Prairie. No one has been arrested in either case. Within Winnipeg, the only unsolved homicide is the Oct. 15 death of Gordon Catcheway. Catcheway, 64, was beaten and stabbed to death at his residence at 949 Pritchard Ave. Police have described him as a "bootlegger" and have appealed for the public's help in making an arrest. bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca Grim statistics on city's homicide rate 1984 - 23 1985 - 16 1986 - 25 1987 - 30 1988 - 14 1989 - 19 1990 - 21 1991 - 16 1992 - 12 1993 - 15 1994 - 16 1995 - 16 1996 - 28 1997 - 21 1998 - 17 1999 - 14 2000 - 17 2001 - 18 2002 - 21 2003 - 19 2004 - 34 -- Source: Winnipeg Police Service ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:23:51 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Maytwayashing under a lifetime ban from possessing firearms, PUBLICATION: The Winnipeg Sun DATE: 2005.01.02 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A4 ILLUSTRATION: 1. photo by Jason Halstead One-time Indian Posse boss Maytwayashing, was the object of a large police operation including dogs. 2. photo of BRADLEY MAYTWAYASHING BYLINE: BOB HOLLIDAY, STAFF REPORTER - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- COPS SWARM HOTEL IN HUNT FOR FUGITIVE - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- For the second time in less than two weeks, an intensive police search for Bradley Maytwayashing -- Manitoba's most wanted fugitive -- failed to result in an arrest. The police emergency response unit, aided by an armour-clad police dog, conducted a room-by-room search of the Stock Exchange Hotel yesterday following reports Maytwayashing had been celebrating New Year's Eve at the hotel. FLOODED AREA The reports prompted about 50 officers, accompanied by two-dozen police cruiser cars, to flood into the area about 4 a.m. and barricade traffic for a block surrounding the hotel, located at the corner of Logan Avenue and Arlington Street. About seven hours later, when a manager arrived with a pass key, cops searched every room. "He was believed to have been partying in one of the rooms, so it was necessary to search them all," said a police source. The search was fruitless, and the area re-opened about noon. Yesterday was the second time cops have launched an intensive search for Maytwayashing. On Dec. 22, police stormed a North End home looking for the fugitive. Maytwayashing, the one-time boss of the Indian Posse, is accused of firing a shotgun blast Dec. 11 inside the Westbrook Inn's beverage room at 64 Keewatin St., following a dispute with a bouncer. No one was injured in the shooting. At the time, he was out on bail awaiting two court dates. Maytwayashing, who is under a lifetime ban that prohibits him from possessing firearms, should be considered "armed and dangerous," police have previously said. Yesterday's spotting came shortly after a man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest at a nearby Alexander Avenue house about 4 a.m. The two incidents are not believed to be related, said a police source. The 20-year-old victim was taken to Health Sciences Centre in stable, but guarded condition last night. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:44:51 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Bar shooting leaves two in hospital PUBLICATION: Edmonton Journal DATE: 2005.01.02 EDITION: Final SECTION: CityPlus PAGE: A12 BYLINE: Renata D'Aliesio SOURCE: The Edmonton Journal DATELINE: EDMONTON - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Bar shooting leaves two in hospital - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- EDMONTON -- There were desperate cries for help and panic Saturday night after two men were shot inside a west Edmonton bar. Two men, believed to be in their 30s, were shot around 8:30 p.m. at Lou's Bar & Grill, 15212B Stony Plain Rd. A Capital Health spokeswoman said one victim in University Hospital was in stable condition, while emergency response department Supt. Jim Stewart said the second man had life-threatening injuries. Edmonton police were on the lookout late Saturday for the shooter, described as a native man in his 20s. The gang unit has been told about the shooting, but police weren't certain if the shooter or victims had gang ties. About a dozen people were inside when the shooter walked in and headed towards two men sitting at a table. Witnesses told police he spoke with the victims before firing a handgun. "The manner in which the individuals were speaking indicated that perhaps they did know each other," Insp. John Ratcliff said. "It appeared to be a non-combative conversation." One witness who only gave his street name as Bones knows one of the victims, named Arnold, and said he's a regular at the bar. "I'm just lucky the bullet didn't go through Arnold and into me," he said outside the bar. He said Arnold and another man walked into the bar with three women. The women were in the washroom when the shooting happened. Arnold staggered and clutched his shoulder, Bones said. The other victim held his hand over his abdomen before he collapsed. One of the women ran to him, saying, "don't die, baby, don't die," Bones said. Another witness said a Jeep Cherokee with two men inside stopped outside the bar, and the driver pulled out a gun. rd'aliesio@thejournal.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:45:18 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: TRIO FACING CHARGES IN CARJACKING PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun DATE: 2005.01.03 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 2 BYLINE: NADIA MOHARIB, CALGARY SUN - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- TRIO FACING CHARGES IN CARJACKING - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Three suspects have been charged after an alleged New Year's Day carjacking where several people said they were held against their will and robbed in the city's northeast. Cops, who have not ruled out further charges, are still investigating the case, said Insp. Keith Pollock. Three men and a woman, who said she sustained minor facial injuries in the robbery, flagged down a patrol officer just before 9 a.m. Saturday in the 8400 block of McKnight Blvd. N.E. The people told cops they were in a parked 1992 Ford Explorer in the 2200 block of 19 St. N.E. when two men -- one armed with a shotgun -- and a woman drove up in a 1989 grey Chevy Cavalier. They said two people in the front seat were ordered into the back and that two assailants got in, driving off with the victims inside. The group claimed they were driven to an area near McKnight Blvd., where they were robbed before the culprits fled. A short time later, cops found the Explorer abandoned in the parking lot at the Blackfoot Truck Stop in Inglewood. They also recovered the 1989 grey Chevy Cavalier, with a firearm inside, parked nearby on the 2200 block of 16 St. S.E. Officers took six people into custody from a home in the 1800 block of 10 Ave. S.E. on Saturday afternoon. Louis Henry Bear, 26, Morina Evelyn Macgugan, 28, and a 17-year-old male -- all of Calgary -- have been charged in the case, each facing four counts of robbery, four counts of forcible confinement and theft. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:45:32 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Man shot dead in Edmonton restaurant: PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2005.01.03 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A9 SOURCE: CP DATELINE: EDMONTON ILLUSTRATION: Photo: SHAUGHN BUTTS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE / One victim ofthe shooting at Lou's Bar in Edmonton is treated inside an ambulance Saturday night. The other later died. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Man shot dead in Edmonton restaurant: Suspect arrested and charged in shooting that left second victim wounded in shoulder - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Two men were shot - one fatally - after another man allegedly walked into a restaurant and began firing a gun on New Year's Day. Police said about a dozen people were inside Lou's Bar and Grill on Stony Plain Rd. at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday when the shooter walked in and headed toward two men sitting at a table. The gunman then fired at both before fleeing the bar. "The manner in which the individuals were speaking indicated perhaps they knew each other," Inspector John Ratcliff of the Edmonton Police Service said. Ratcliff said someone in the bar may have videotaped the shooting and that police were looking for that person. The man who died was 29. The second victim, who is expected to recover, is 40. Early yesterday, police arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the shooting after pulling over a Jeep Cherokee and recovering a handgun. Lyle Chaywee Buffalo, 23, of Hobbema, Alta., has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon. A court date had not yet been set yesterday. One witness who gave his street name only as Bones, said both victims walked into the bar with two women, but that the latter had gone to the washroom when the shooting erupted. He said one victim staggered and clutched his shoulder, while the other clutched his abdomen. One woman ran to the victim with the shoulder injury saying, "Don't die, baby, don't die," Bones said. 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