From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #523 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 Friday, June 16 2006 Volume 09 : Number 523 In this issue: BREITKREUZ: Why Property Rights Should be Constitutionally Rifleman traded shots with officer, police say U.S. agency; ATF staffer in Caledonia to share intelligence Judge can't help owner of replica revolver Gun shop manager acquitted of trafficking Column: Trade the guns for books and tutors; Natives express concern about hunting image MONTREAL: Gun crimes, attempted murders up but homicide rate Guilty: Released convict held police at bay for eight hours, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:25:01 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: BREITKREUZ: Why Property Rights Should be Constitutionally MAY 6, 2006 - CIVITAS SPEECH: Why Property Rights Should be Constitutionally Protected by Garry Breitkreuz, MP http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006_new/63.htm BREITKREUZ'S 10-YEAR FIGHT FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/issues/property.htm CIVITAS SOCIETY http://civitassociety.ca/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:50:10 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Rifleman traded shots with officer, police say PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL DATE: 2006.06.16 PAGE: A18 SECTION: Toronto News EDITION: Metro WORD COUNT: 62 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toronto in Brief Rifleman traded shots with officer, police say - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toronto police were hunting for a suspect accused of trying to kill a police officer early yesterday. At about 3 a.m., police say, an officer was on patrol near Kipling Avenue and Rowntree Road when he spotted a man carrying a rifle. According to police, the man opened fire on the officer and the officer shot back. The man then fled into a wooded area, police said. As of last night, the man had continued to elude searchers. Police are asking the public to assist in their search for the suspect. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:52:13 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: U.S. agency; ATF staffer in Caledonia to share intelligence PUBLICATION: The Hamilton Spectator DATE: 2006.06.16 EDITION: Final SECTION: Local PAGE: A5 BYLINE: Marissa Nelson SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator ILLUSTRATION: Photo: Hill WORD COUNT: 382 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our agent was in vehicle: U.S. agency; ATF staffer in Caledonia to share intelligence, spokesman says - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The storied U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has confirmed it had one employee in a vehicle that was allegedly swarmed last weekend, confirming earlier reports by Six Nations people. Joseph Green, supervisory special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or ATF, said the agent was there on an "intelligence sharing mission," and not to investigate anyone. The ATF is a specialized federal force responsible for fighting terrorism and violent crime. It became infamous after the raid on a religious compound in Waco, Texas, in the early 1990s that left dozens of people dead. The agent who was in Canada at the invitation of the Ontario Provincial Police is an expert from western New York in tobacco diversion and illegal firearms trafficking, Green said. He insisted that, "in no way, shape or form," was the agent here on an enforcement operation. He also said the agent was unarmed but in Canada to share best practices and information with the OPP. "We would be remiss if we weren't using all the resources available to us. That includes sharing intelligence," Green said. He said the agent, who is all right and back in the United States, pulled a provincial police officer to safety. A week ago, a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, with OPP, Border Patrol and ATF staff inside, was swarmed and the two OPP officers were forcibly removed from the car. One of the OPP officers was left seriously injured on the ground. A suspect then stole the car and is alleged to have deliberately tried to run him over. Green said the OPP officer was only semi-conscious when the ATF officer helped yank him out of the way of the oncoming vehicle. The border patrol vehicle was stolen but returned after items were removed from it. Green said there would be an internal ATF investigation. "We're very thankful the injuries were only minor. They could have been much more grave," Green added. Albert Douglas, of Ohsweken, faces arrest for the attempted murder of a police officer, along with five other natives who have been charged after the events of last Friday. Hazel Hill, spokesperson for the Six Nations people, said the fact a "U.S. spy" is in Canada should worry everyone. "Regardless of whether it's Border Patrol or the ATF ... they've got us under surveillance. Why are they here? Who gave them authorization to come here?" she asked. "Canadians should be asking that as well." Hill said people are also concerned that the presence of an organization responsible for catching terrorists may be a ploy to make it appear that the protest at Douglas Creek Estates is a terrorist act. "They're trying to peg us as terrorists now," she said. The OPP, only after confronted with the ATF's statements, confirmed there was an ATF agent there but would say little else. "They were invited up here to learn best practices," said OPP Constable Jeff Walraven. mnelson@thespec.com 905-526-2409 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:54:35 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Judge can't help owner of replica revolver PUBLICATION: Vancouver Sun DATE: 2006.06.16 EDITION: Final SECTION: WestCoast News PAGE: B3 COLUMN: Law and Order SOURCE: Canadian Press DATELINE: KAMLOOPS WORD COUNT: 234 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judge can't help owner of replica revolver - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KAMLOOPS - While sympathetic, a judge has told a gun owner trapped in a bureaucratic bungle he can't help him. Provincial Court Judge Chris Cleaveley dismissed an application from Mike Cianci, who wanted the judge to order a review of the government's refusal to issue him a registration certificate for a small pistol he uses in cowboy action shoots. Cianci told the court he bought the .38-calibre revolver in March 1998, about six months before new firearms laws proclaimed the gun a prohibited weapon. Cianci said he uses the gun solely for target shooting. He described the short-barrelled gun as a replica of the kind carried by gamblers in the late 1800s. It is a small, low-powered, inaccurate gun designed for use at close range. Cianci knew in 1998 the gun was to be declared prohibited, but he expected the government would enact legislation allowing people who legally owned such guns to keep them. The government did just that in April 2005, amending the Firearms Act to "grandfather" gun owners such as Cianci. The amendment, however, states the gun owner must have held a permit for the firearm continuously since the purchase to be grandfathered. Cianci's permit and registration certificate expired Dec. 31, 2002. The irony is that the government refused to issue new permits or registration certificates for the handguns after the old ones expired in 2002. Cleaveley agreed Cianci is caught in an unfortunate situation, but told the man in the circumstances there is nothing the court can do. - -------------------------------------------------------------- *June 13, 2006 - KAMLOOPS DAILY NEWS: Judge tells man he is stuck in bureaucratic bungle* _http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006/809.htm_** *GARRY BREITKREUZ’S ATTEMPTS TO FIX THIS LIBERAL MESS* *November 15, 2005 - BREITKREUZ SECOND MOTION FOR 12(6.1) HANDGUNS DEFEATED* _http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=136474_ _http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/inthehouse/misc/2005_com_nov15.htm_ *NOTE:* The two Bloc MPs voted with the four Liberals to defeat Garry Breitkreuz's motion supporting the law-abiding owners of 12(6.1) handguns. NDP Joe Comartin voted with the Conservative MPs in support of Garry's motion. *October 26, 2005 - Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, CPC) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-433, An Act to amend the Firearms Act (registration of handguns).* _http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/inthehouse/Motions/05_oct27.htm_ *June 28, 2005 LIBERALS & BLOC DEFEAT BREITKREUZ'S MOTION FOR OWNERS OF 12(6.1) HANDGUNS* _http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=124821_ _http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/issues/guninfo/newguninfo/2005_motiondefeated_06_28.htm_ *June 15, 2005 - Library of Parliament paper entitled:/ Section 12(6.1) Handguns First Registered Between 14 February 1995 and 1 December 1998./*// *EXCERPT:*/ Although Bill C-10A amended the Firearms Act to allow pre-December 1998 s. 12(6.1) handguns to be grandfathered if a registration certificate has been “continuously” held, there was no legal authority for the Canada Firearms Centre to renew the certificates until the relevant amendments came into force. By that time, it was too late to ensure continuous registration, as the certificates had already expired. Because the expiry of the registration certificates in December 2002 and the “continuous” requirement were both set by law, the Canada Firearms Centre may not issue registration certificates for s. 12(6.1) handguns first registered between 14 February 1995 and 1 December 1998 without a legislative amendment./ *Click here to read the full Library report:* _http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2005_lp_12(61)handguns_06_15.doc_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:58:35 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Gun shop manager acquitted of trafficking PUBLICATION: Edmonton Journal DATE: 2006.06.16 EDITION: Final SECTION: CityPlus PAGE: B6 COLUMN: CityPlus Digest SOURCE: CanWest News Service WORD COUNT: 252 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gun shop manager acquitted of trafficking - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ An Edmonton gun shop manager who sold deactivated handguns along with bags of parts has been acquitted of trafficking firearms after a second trial. Randall Sinclair sold a plainclothes city police officer four deactivated guns and two bags of parts from the Lock & Load gun shop in the west end between November 2000 and January 2001. RCMP gun experts spent as little as 11 minutes and as long as three hours converting the prohibited guns back into working weapons. The sale was part of a joint police investigation, dubbed Project Karbine, which began after guns that had once been deactivated started turning up at crime scenes, including a homicide. Sinclair was first acquitted of the charges in 2004, after a judge ruled Canada has no legislation detailing how guns should be deactivated. Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal ordered a new trial. After several weeks of testimony, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Myra Bielby agreed with the original trial judge. "One might expect that statute or regulation would mandate the steps which must be taken to so deactivate a firearm, but they do not," she wrote in her decision. Bielby said there was no evidence the guns could have been reactivated by someone who was not an expert or with tools that were readily available. "None of (the guns) could be made operational simply be reinsertion of a part which had been removed but was sold with the gun." Sinclair continues to face charges of possession of a weapon for the purpose of trafficking. The gun shop owner, Blair Hault, was also charged in the case and has yet to go to trial. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:02:51 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Column: Trade the guns for books and tutors; PUBLICATION: Times & Transcript (Moncton) DATE: 2006.06.16 PAGE: D11 SECTION: COLUMN BYLINE: John WishartCITY VIEWS NOTE: City Views appears daily, written by various members of our staff. JohnWishart is assistant managing editor of the Times & Transcript. His column appears every Friday. WORD COUNT: 576 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trade the guns for books and tutors; - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won praise for his government's early crackdown on crime. Although he has been in power less than six months, Harper has either introduced - or plans to introduce - legislation to curb handgun deaths, shut down inner city gangs and increase sentences for crimes such as theft of a weapon. All of those measures alone will cost taxpayers an extra $220 to $240 million for extra prison facilities. There is already a real cost to Canada's reputation as the second largest incarcerator in the world. (Only the U.S. puts more people behind bars - an astounding 2.1 million, or one out of every 100 Americans. Canada's rate - while second worst - means one out of every 3,000 people is in prison). Statistics furnished by the Correctional Service of Canada show that the average cost of incarcerating a man in a maximum security prison per year is $110,223; it's even higher for women, $150,867. Yet ask most Canadians and they will likely say that Harper's "get tough" money is well-spent. It is hard to argue with an investment to control crime - or at least to deal with the results of crime. But a small minority is bucking the trend of support for Harper's "get tough on crime" stance. It's easy to throw money about to control crime; the real trick, they say, is spending money wisely to prevent crime. When it comes to crime prevention, there are many starting points: poverty, dysfunctional families, racism. Aboriginals, for instance, make up just two per cent of Canada's population but account for 17 per cent of Canada's prison population. If Stephen Harper's government wants to get serious about reducing the 12,400 inmates now incarcerated in Canada's prisons and jails, it might want to look at teaching inmates to read. Studies show that offenders experience literacy problems at a rate three times greater than the general population. And we all know that depressing statistic that reveals close to 60 per cent of New Brunswickers generally are at least somewhat functionally illiterate. More than 70 per cent of the men and women behind bars in Canada have not graduated from high school. An estimated 36 per cent of offenders have not completed Grade 9. New studies show the average education level of newly- admitted offenders serving two years or more in Canada is Grade 7. The inability to read and write is a prison far more confining than the iron and cement blocks that house 12,000 Canadians. It prevents them from understanding the world around them; it prevents them from holding a meaningful job, it makes it tougher to carry on a lasting relationship. The fact we are filling our prisons with illiterate people is a damning indictment on our society. As Burt Galaway, president of the John Howard Society of Canada, said recently: "Without literacy, there can be no justice." If the Harper government took even one quarter of the money spent on beefing up crime control and spent it on crime prevention, wouldn't we save money in the long run? If we taught half of the inmates in our prisons how to read and write, wouldn't they have a better chance of making a clean break with their past, of helping themselves up to a better life? Unlocking the mystery of reading and writing is fundamental to half of the mandate of Canada's penal system. We are supposed to be rehabilitating inmates, not just sending them away as punishment. Harper's vision for our correctional service panders to the lowest common denominator; it preys on society's fears and satisfies our yearning for frontier justice and "an eye for an eye." It is far tougher to sell the idea of spending taxpayers' money on rehabilitating those 12,000 people who betrayed our trust. There are some programs now at work in prisons in our region that are teaching inmates how to master reading and writing. They deserve our support. They demand our government's support. Go ahead, Mr. Prime Minister. Take those guns out of the hands of our criminals. But replace them with a book and a tutor. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:06:48 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Natives express concern about hunting image PUBLICATION: The Chronicle-Herald DATE: 2006.06.16 SECTION: NovaScotia PAGE: B7 BYLINE: Greg Macvicar ILLUSTRATION: This moose was spotted at the Cap Rouge look-off on theCabot Trail last year.(File); This moose was spotted at the Cap Rouge look-off on the Cabot Trail last year.(File) WORD COUNT: 292 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natives express concern about hunting image - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A lawyer with the Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative in Millbrook says he's fielded several calls in the past few days from native Nova Scotians concerned about how they're being portrayed by non-native moose hunters. "We're trying not to be reactive," Eric Zscheile said Thursday. "We're trying to create some good scientific data, and we're trying to create some good hunter reports. That will help us look at what sort of regime we want when it comes to that moose hunt." On Tuesday, during the Department of Natural Resources' annual moose licence lottery in Baddeck, at least one hunter called the native hunt a "slaughter" and claimed moose meat was being shipped off Cape Breton and sold. Mr. Zscheile said he doesn't know whether those allegations are true. "We're just trying to gather information," he said. "Part of what we're trying to do out in the community is just get a real good sense of what exactly is taking place in the moose hunt." Mr. Zscheile said his organization, along with the Department of Natural Resources and Unama'ki Natural Resources in Eskasoni, has been asked by the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs to study the native hunt and make recommendations on development of the native hunt. He said the Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative will be in discussions with native communities for about another year before recommendations are made to the chiefs. "When we talk about self-governance, it's the ability to start creating guidelines that will be respectful to their (Mi'kmaq) treaty rights to access the moose but will also be productive in making sure that the moose populations are preserved and productive for a long time to come," Mr. Zscheile said. Non-natives with a licence can hunt moose in Victoria and Inverness counties during three periods from Sept. 25 to Dec. 14. Natives can hunt at any time, as long as conservation and safety rules are followed.( ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:11:19 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: MONTREAL: Gun crimes, attempted murders up but homicide rate DATE: 2006.06.14 CATEGORY: National general news PUBLICATION: cpw WORD COUNT: 244 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gun crimes, attempted murders up but homicide rate down: Montreal police - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MONTREAL (CP) _ Gun crimes increased dramatically last year in Montreal, according to statistics released Wednesday by city police. There were 352 recorded crimes involving guns in 2005, a 25.3 per cent jump from the 281 reported in 2004. ``This is likely due to street gangs and organized crime,'' said Andre Normandeau, a criminologist at the Universite de Montreal. Canadian police and politicians vowed a crackdown on guns and gangs after 15-year-old Jane Creba was killed by random gang-related gunfire on a Toronto street on Boxing Day. Eight people were charged earlier this week in Creba's killing. In Montreal, the overall crime rate rose 1.6 per cent last year but the homicide rate dropped significantly. For the first time since 1970, the number of homicides committed in Montreal police territory dipped below 40. Thirty-five homicides were recorded in 2005, compared to 42 in 2004. Since 1980, the average number of homicides recorded in Montreal has been 65 per year. Cases of attempted murder, however, rose to 141 last year from 134 the year before. The number of attempted murders has climbed 38.2 per cent since 2001, a fact Normandeau attributes to the growing prevalence of street gangs and the improved response times of ambulance and police. The number of sexual assaults reported in Montreal last year was the highest in 20 years. There were 1,750 sexual assaults in 2005, up from 1,607 in 2004. Residential break-ins were also on the rise for the first time in seven years, up to 13,023 in 2005 from 12,620 in 2004. Despite last year's increase, the number of residential break-ins in Montreal was still 52.1 per cent lower than in 1991. ``So you're still only half as likely to be broken into than you were 25 years ago,'' Normandeau said. Car theft increased for the first time in eight years, to 14,129 last year. In 1997 there were 21,621 car thefts reported. Overall, 150,915 crimes were reported in Montreal last year, compared with 148,569 in 2004. (Montreal Gazette) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:19:12 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Guilty: Released convict held police at bay for eight hours, PUBLICATION: Times & Transcript (Moncton) DATE: 2006.06.16 PAGE: A1/A2 SECTION: NEWS BYLINE: James FosterTimes & Transcript Staff WORD COUNT: 315 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man pleads guilty in armed standoff; Released convict held police at bay for eight hours, falsely claimed he had a hostage in March 10 Moncton incident - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The man who brandished a handgun to send terrified staff and customers of a Moncton hotel fleeing for their lives and then held police at bay for eight hours pleaded guilty to three charges in provincial court yesterday. Daniel Thomas Brophy of Halifax had been released from federal penitentiary only one day prior to the March 10 incident where he scared away everyone in the Econo Lodge on Main Street while threatening to kill people while armed with a BB pistol and then held off the Codiac Regional RCMP which had surrounded the building by claiming he had a hostage. According to documents obtained from the National Parole Board, Brophy has a habit of turning to drinking and to drugs - and then to violence and other crimes. "Be it alcohol or drugs, isolated or combined, you have a long established history of abusing intoxicants with predictable results," the board wrote after a hearing where it revoked Brophy's statutory release shortly after the Moncton incident. "You have amassed a significant and diverse criminal history and have once again demonstrated that you are not in control of your behaviour. . . . Criminal behaviour and/or blatant violations of your special conditions are becoming commonplace." Brophy had been released on March 9 to a half-way house while serving a federal term for robbery. But instead of reporting to the house, he went to the Econo Lodge and started drinking with a friend. He later whipped out a BB handgun and threatened to kill some of the people in the hotel. When the Mounties surrounded the evacuated hotel, Brophy warned them he had a hostage, though in actuality he did not. Brophy, whose parole was revoked and who is back in federal penitentiary, pleaded guilty yesterday to indictable charges of possession of an imitation handgun, mischief by denying the lawful use of property, i.e. the hotel, and uttering death threats. He appeared in court with his hands shackled to his waist. Brophy refused to be interviewed by prison authorities upon his return to his cell after his arrest, but told a prison worker he doesn't remember anything except drinking with a friend. 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