Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, March 17 2008 Volume 11 : Number 282 In this issue: "Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) fought the gun registry..." "Hill Times: This bill repeals virtually all of the gun registry-" UK police shooting themselves in the foot Parks Canada guns stolen "NATIONAL PARKS: THEFT Stolen cache raises questions..." 10X on Gomery By-Elections Fighting Gun Traffickers Involves Lots of Legwork, a Little Luck As usual . Google Poisoned Links RE: Thanks, and a couple of comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, March 17, 2008 8:58 am From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 2" Subject: "Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) fought the gun registry..." Subject: "Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) has fought the federal gun registry tooth and nail" PUBLICATION: Nunavut News North DATE: 2008.03.17 WORD COUNT: 359 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now is your chance; Mark your ballots for strong Inuit voice - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part of your future hinges on marking an X on Tuesday. Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI), the territory's land claims organization, is holding an election. A president will take office for the next four years, while a vice-president of finance will be in place until 2010. In a variety of ways, this will affect your life. NTI, in existence since 1993, is the body that was instrumental in drafting the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and, subsequently, creating a new territory in 1999. It has fought the federal gun registry tooth and nail, launching a 2002 lawsuit in defence of Inuit rights to hunt. In 2006, NTI filed another court case against Ottawa, this time accusing the federal government of failing to follow through on terms of the Nunavut Land Claim, particularly in regards to the hiring of Inuit. It is seeking $1 billion in compensation from Ottawa. The organization also looks out for Inuit interests when it comes to language, education, health and the environment. Nunavut Tunngavik plays another important role, even if unofficial: that as a watchdog on the territorial government. The GN is a consensus-style government. Too many of the regular MLA critics have their eye on obtaining a cabinet seat, and are therefore often cautious and restrained in how they play their political cards. Nunavut Tunngavik doesn't kowtow to the GN. That was obvious when Premier Paul Okalik, long eager to make headway on a devolution agreement and wary of raising federal ire, expressed his reservations about the $1 billion NTI lawsuit. Yet that didn't stop the land claims organization from pursuing what it thinks is just. NTI executives have also made a number of pointed remarks about the proposed Inuktitut Language Protection Act and the new Education Act. There is obviously a lot at stake here, so it is imperative that Nunavummiut beneficiaries - eligible to vote at the age of 16 in our young territory - have their say on March 18. A voter turnout of 23 per cent, which is what happened in the March 2006 NTI election for first vice-president and vice-president of finance, is simply not good for anyone. There are four strong candidates for president: incumbent Paul Kaludjak and challengers Mikidjuk Akavak, Jack Anawak and Abraham Tagalik. James T. Arreak, Jayko Aloolloo and Raymond Ningeocheak are seeking the vice-president of finance seat. Two of these men are going to play a very influential role in the future of our territory. Why wouldn't you want to help choose the best people for those jobs? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:15:18 -0600 From: Dennis & Hazel Young Subject: "Hill Times: This bill repeals virtually all of the gun registry-" Subject: "Hill Times: This bill repeals virtually all of the gun registry regulations." The Hill Times, March 17th, 2008 By Joe Jordan This bill repeals virtually all of the gun registry regulations. It was introduced on Nov. 16, 2007, and will either sit idle or trigger an election, ... http://www.thehilltimes.ca/members/login.php?fail=2&destination=/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/march/17/jordan/&c=2 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:25:22 -0400 From: "Barry Glasgow" Subject: UK police shooting themselves in the foot Sent: March 17, 2008 11:20 AM To: editor@thisislondon.co.uk; letters@dailymail.co.uk Cc: contact@gun-control-network.org Subject: Police shooting themselves in the foot While it is true that self-inflicted gun injuries are more likely among gun owners than non-gun owners (a self-evident fact), the high number of gun-related injuries among British police officers is more a reflection on poor training than it is on gun ownership. Gill Marshall-Andrews, chair of the Gun Control Network, misuses the recently published data to refute this (and to bolster the Gun Control position that most people can't be trusted with firearms) by claiming that such injuries occur "even when the gun user is as highly trained and specialist as a police firearms officer." I beg to differ. Two weeks of training does not make for a highly trained individual. Nor does a cursory annual qualification. Gun clubs in Canada and the U.S. typically require a few days of training for newcomers but this is immediately followed by practical application of the various skills and (unlike the police) frequent, monitored use of the firearm. This breeds confidence, respect and familiarity with firearms. Here in Canada, I have heard of only one shooting death (through decades of intense usage) at any organized shooting range - and that fatality was a suicide. I have seen our police occasional use our gun club's range and their cavalier attitude toward gun safety is indeed suspect. The aura of fear and unfamiliarity with firearms (as opposed to proper training and aquired safety habits) have made Britain what she is today, when it comes to firearms competence. Unfortunately, the "hands-off" mindset peddled by the various gun control lobbies is quickly catching on here in North America. ====================== Barry Glasgow Woodlawn, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:35:06 -0500 From: Lee Jasper Subject: Parks Canada guns stolen Stolen cache raises questions about wardens' use of firearms STEVE RENNIE; The Canadian Press; March 17, 2008 > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080317.wguns17/BN Story/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview OTTAWA — Thieves nabbed 12 gauge shotguns and scores of rifles in a massive heist at one of Canada's national parks, says a newly released document. Parks Canada's inventory of items stolen from Manitoba's Riding Mountain National Park lists 21 guns - and the agency says the Mounties have recovered just two of them. An official from Parks Canada says the weapons, stolen in November of 2006, were not kept in special gun lockers or monitored by surveillance cameras. But they were kept in a locked inventory room, said Andre Leger, the agency's chief financial officer. "Since this incident, they've improved upon the way they are stored," he said. "They've even added a video surveillance system . . . [and] they've since bought some gun-specific lockers." The guns include Winchester model 70 rifles, 12 gauge Remington shotguns, Browning BLR .308-calibre rifles, dart rifles, a Marlin model 995 .22-calibre rifle and a Remington M7400 .30-06 semiautomatic rifle. Also on the two-page list, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, are cans of pepper spray and expandable batons. Mr. Leger said the RCMP have recovered a Winchester rifle and a Browning rifle. He wasn't able to provide further details about the stolen weapons. Parks Canada disclosed last fall in the government's public accounts that it did not expect to recover the missing firearms, valued at $13,772. Wardens used the rifles and shotguns to control wild animals, not for law enforcement. But arming wardens has been a contentious issue since Banff National Park warden Doug Martin filed a complaint in 2000, saying he had been put in dangerous situations without the proper protective equipment. Wardens in Canada's 42 national parks have not carried sidearms since Parks Canada ordered them to stand down from law enforcement duties last May. The agency made the decision immediately after a 204-page ruling by appeals officer Douglas Malenka, which called on the parks to provide wardens with sidearms. But the federal government's 2008 budget earmarked $12-million for law enforcement in national parks. Tory MP Myron Thompson has said Environment Minister John Baird assured him the money will be put toward training and re-arming wardens. It's not known if any of the guns stolen from the park, about 160 kilometres north of Brandon, have been used in crime. RCMP spokeswoman Sergeant Nathalie Deschenes said police officers would be able to trace the firearms through a national weapons database. Theft is one of the major sources of illegal firearms, said the head of a coalition of gun-control advocacy groups. "Virtually every illegal gun starts as a legal gun, either in Canada or somewhere else," said Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for Gun Control. "Effective controls over legal guns - which include licensing, registration and safe storage - are fundamental to preventing the diversion of legal guns to the illegal market." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:49:17 -0400 From: Subject: "NATIONAL PARKS: THEFT Stolen cache raises questions..." Subject: "NATIONAL PARKS: THEFT Stolen cache raises questions about wardens' use of" Clearly they were not properly stored. More so if they are now saying they will make better efforts at storage. As for Cukiers statement all illegal guns start off as legal guns... well all prostitutes start off as wives, girlfirend and others. So what is the point Wendy. It took a indicidual with criminal intent to turn those legal and I would hope registered guns and now make them illegal guns. I would hope these guns did not decide of their own volition to become illegal guns as so many anti gun crowd are making guns look like they havbe a will of their own. Once these people are caught, I would hope that Wendy pushes equyally as hard for stiff sentences for their crime. But if truth be known, Wendy will keep her mouth shut. If she did push for harsher sentences, she might actually make a difference ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:55:35 -0700 From: "Todd Birch" Subject: 10X on Gomery What has that to do with the fact that we are aware of the flaws and abuses the system perpetuates? How does that remove from us the duty and obligation to change what we know is wrong? Are we not part and party to the continued denial of property rights to Canadians by virtue of our reticence in speaking out? TB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:01:41 -0700 From: "Todd Birch" Subject: By-Elections I watched the hapless Stephan Dion (I'm never sure I have his name right) on TV re: the current by-elections. Not once did he mention anything other than the welfare of the party and the difference it would make to the Liberal caucus. Not even the pretext of serving the best interests of the public. What do we expect of professional politicians? Honour, an ethos of service? It is to laugh ..... It's all about the welfare and survival of the party. It's the system, stupid. TB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:20:48 -0600 From: Dennis & Hazel Young Subject: Fighting Gun Traffickers Involves Lots of Legwork, a Little Luck The Washington Post 2008.03.17 - PAGE: A01 By Paul Duggan Fighting Gun Traffickers Involves Lots of Legwork, a Little Luck http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602745.html?sub=new For police and federal agents trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals in the District, building a case against a firearms trafficker can mean months of work. Or it can come together quickly -- as fast as a speeding motorcycle. Virginia State Trooper Eric Linkous was looking for speeders on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County on Aug. 10 when Michael W. Lewis II blew past him on a Suzuki Katana going 99 mph. By the time Linkous caught up with the Suzuki, Lewis, 30, of Front Royal, Va., had abandoned his bike and fled on foot, leaving behind a black satchel. In the bag were five stolen pistols, four of them taken from a Manassas gun store three nights earlier in a burglary that netted 19 firearms. Lewis, arrested within days of the chase, was soon linked to three other burglaries and nearly 70 stolen guns -- most of them still missing. Authorities said they think the guns were sold to criminals, mainly in the District. Firearms traffickers such as Lewis profit in an underground economy that has bustled for decades in the District, regardless of the city's long-debated prohibition on handgun ownership, one of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation. Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the 32-year-old handgun ban in a case that could lead to a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment. Within blocks of the stately, marble- columned court building, and in many parts of the city, the market for illegal guns will continue to thrive -- and the fight against it, the war in the trenches, will go on. The thefts committed over a six-month period by Lewis, who pleaded guilty to firearms-trafficking charges last month, were commonplace crimes. Investigators said many of the countless illegal guns in Washington neighborhoods were stolen in commercial and residential burglaries outside the city. Traffickers also routinely pay people with clean backgrounds, known as straw purchasers, to buy firearms for them at gun stores in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere. The business is lucrative. A cheap pistol (a "Saturday night special") with a retail value of $100 might fetch better than twice that price on the streets, and the markup on high-quality handguns can be even greater. In many cases, law enforcement officials said, drug dealers pay for guns with cocaine. "You're talking about supply and demand," said Edgar A. Domenech, head of the Washington field office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "And it's never-ending," he said. Lewis understood that market, according to authorities. From February to July last year, he stole nearly 50 guns in burglaries at two pawn shops and a sporting goods store in Virginia's Augusta, Warren and Rappahannock counties, investigators said. Then he stole 19 guns in the Aug. 7 break-in at Dominion Arms in Prince William County, they said. It didn't take long for the hot weapons to reach the streets. On Aug. 16, about a week after Lewis abandoned his motorcycle and fled, an informant told ATF about three illegal gun dealers in the District who were traveling in a red Ford Expedition. Agents stopped the sport-utility vehicle on Randle Place SE and arrested Brandon L. Williams, Joseph M. McGhee and Hassan Z. Abdelqader, all 24. In the SUV, agents found two stolen pistols, including a Beretta semiautomatic taken from Dominion. The men eventually admitted to buying more than a dozen guns from Lewis for resale on Washington area streets, according to court documents. They recently pleaded guilty to federal charges and received prison terms ranging from 18 to 51 months. "We don't know what Lewis was doing between the burglaries and when we caught him, so we may never know where the rest of the guns went in the criminal pipeline," said Mike Campbell, spokesman for the ATF office in Washington. "If we were to venture a guess," he said, "they went straight to D. C." While the ATF deals mainly with trafficking, looking to take down suppliers, D.C. police work the front lines, seizing guns from the hoodlums who buy them. "The number we get fluctuates," said police Lt. Mike Whiteside, a supervisor in a plainclothes unit that focuses entirely on confiscating guns from the streets. "But I don't think we've ever had less than 30 in a month. We had a couple of months in the high 40s." And those were just the weapons found by the 30-member gun recovery unit, which was reactivated in October after a long hiatus. Officers throughout the department seized 2,924 guns last year. Buying a firearm on city streets "is reasonably easy if you know the right people," said Whiteside's boss, Capt. Brian Harris. His unit saturates neighborhoods citywide, hunting for weapons. "We do everything out there," Whiteside said. Police break down doors with warrants, stop and search suspicious vehicles, frisk known drug dealers on street corners. "Whatever it takes to lead us to a gun," Whiteside said. Domenech said his ATF field office collects the serial numbers of all guns seized by police and tries to determine how the weapons ended up in the District -- often the first step in a gun-trafficking case. If a seized gun has not been reported stolen, Domenech said, his office submits the serial number to the ATF's National Tracing Center. Researchers follow a paper trail, contacting the gun's manufacturer, then the distributor, then the owner of the store that took delivery of the weapon. By law, the store must keep a record of who purchased the firearm on an ATF form that the buyer fills out. Usually within a week or so, Domenech said, the tracing center can lay out the gun's route from factory to purchaser. Agents consider it a red flag if a firearm is seized from a criminal within a year and a half of it being purchased by someone else at a store. About 10 percent of the guns confiscated by D.C. police fit that definition, Domenech said. "If it's 18 months or less, our policy here is we will go and attempt to interview that original purchaser, wherever that individual may be in the United States," he said. "The agent will drive to the Carolinas, fly to San Diego, fly to Texas, wherever, and try to do a face-to-face with that purchaser. Because time-to-crime, when it's 18 months or less, it's usually an indication to us that that's a trafficked gun." Often, the interviews result only in the gathering of information for intelligence files. In some cases, though, agents strike gold. On Jan. 27, 1999, when D.C. police investigated gunshots in the 100 block of Webster Street NE, they found no suspects. But they did find a cheap handgun on the ground, a Bryco semiautomatic with an obliterated serial number. It took several months for the tracing center to do its work because lab technicians first had to restore the serial number. In Washington, ATF Agent Joe Brisbee received the trace report, which said the Bryco had been purchased at a Hampton, Va., gun shop Oct. 17, 1998 -- 102 days before it turned up on Webster Street. The buyer was a Navy enlisted man, Benjamin Orciga, then 30, of Virginia Beach. Brisbee drove 200 miles and knocked on Orciga's door. "He was like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar," Brisbee said. Orciga admitted to buying the Bryco and three other handguns at various times as a favor for a shipmate, a Jamaican-born Navy petty officer, Garfield Headlam, who had since been transferred to a base in Maryland. Agents put Headlam under surveillance and, on Nov. 21, 1999, arrested him in Alexandria. He had two assault rifles and a pistol in his car, all newly purchased. Based on Headlam's "partial confession" and records found in his home, Brisbee said, authorities identified nine other straw purchasers who, like Orciga, had bought guns for Headlam. Like other traffickers, Headlam used multiple buyers because of a Virginia law that limits people to one handgun purchase a month. Headlam and his accomplices bought at least 57 guns in Virginia's Tidewater area. Most were sold to D.C. drug dealers through one of Headlam's relatives in the city, Brisbee said. Eight of the 10 buyers, including Orciga, were prosecuted and got sentences of as much as a year in jail. Headlam, 32, is serving a 10-year term. "It's nice when everything just falls into place like that," Brisbee said. "But I'll tell you, cases like this don't happen every day." Nor does the damage stop when the trafficker is locked up. Of the 57 firearms known to have been bought by Headlam's ring, 46 remain unaccounted for. "A firearm that gets into the illegal market has a life of its own," Domenech said. "It can commit tragedy after tragedy after tragedy before it's recovered." One of Headlam's guns, a Taurus semiautomatic, turned up Nov. 12, 2003, four years after his arrest, when police in Kingston, Jamaica, got in a shootout with a violent street gang. There was one fatality, a young gang member. In his hand was the Taurus. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:35:06 -0700 From: Len Miller Subject: As usual . Cc: Globe , winnipeg Sun , Grant palmer Manitoba NATIONAL PARKS: THEFT Stolen cache raises questions about wardens' use of firearms Well, here we go again . . AS USUAL the major presses miss the nub. In a 'secure' locked and monitored storage, CRIMINALS have managed to steal firearms. Didn't some politico suggest a central firearms storage for the law-abiding? Have you forgotten the Western Canada Vaults, Vancouver, where the baddies thermal-lanced their way into the 'safest storage in Canada? You have, haven't you? To this day, there has never been an accounting on the losses .. Come up with another brilliant idea, and the baddies will solve it in a blink. You, and I mean ALL of you, have created this mess, stumbling from disaster to disaster, you continue the deliberate deception of gun control. It is killing the innocents . . . as well When it suits you, you quote US statistics . . you ignore the failures of Canada, Britain, Australia, and Washington DC's strict gun laws . . Yet, when a law-abiding senior, in Sudbury, is stripped of his entire collection by cops who knew for 45 years he had them, you suddenly lose your hearing. Further proof he lied, when he said the law abiding has nothing to fear with the passage of C-68. See Senator Ray Haynes, Dangerous Laws, Orange County Register . . . - -CS Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. Len Miller Vancouver who says: you don't need a gun . . . until you need a gun . . then you need one real bad. ( ask the Dagenais') ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:28:45 -0400 From: "mred" Subject: Google Poisoned Links Google Poisoned Links are Bitter Indeed Reports emerged this week from Holland-based internet security consultant Dancho Danchev, of a new technique - known as poison Google links - being used by hackers attempting to use legitimate Google searches as a vector to smuggle malware onto the machines of unsuspecting users. So far the poisoned Google links all contain the string "IFRAME SRC=3D//" followed by an IP address, most recently and commonly 72.232.39.252, but that could change in a heartbeat. Click Here to Read Whole Story ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No reference URL for this article, or any URL for the follow-up article provided, unfortunately. CFD Moderator- DRGJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:35:20 -0700 From: "RFOCBC" Subject: RE: Thanks, and a couple of comments "I would suggest that as the pipeline for smuggled guns is cut off," - so says Mr. Ackerman. Will this occur at the same time that the pipeline for smuggled drugs is cut off? Please apply the same logic towards guns that you display towards drugs. And please, please don't further the myth that border controls will have an effect upon smuggling guns. An effect that a 40-year 'War On Drugs' has failed to accomplish. RFOCBC - -----Original Message----- From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca [mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca]On Behalf Of M.J. Ackermann, MD Sent: March 16, 2008 5:39 PM To: cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Thanks, and a couple of comments To: mackenzieinstitute@bellnet.ca Re: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/03/16/5019391-sun.html To: John Thompson, President, Mackenzie Institute Dear Sir, In the referenced article I read > As the U.S. supply slows, other illegal gun supply sources are opening. > > "An increasing number of small arms come from Latin America, Eastern > Europe or China," Thompson said. > > "If you've got narcotics coming in from other parts of the world it's no > great problem to put a few guns in the pipeline either." > > Political pledges to ban all handguns in Canada isn't the answer, > Thompson said. > > "The idea you can have a gun free society is ludicrous," he said. > > "It's just not going to happen. We don't have a gun problem, we have a > gang problem," he said. > I would like to thank you for stating openly and bringing to the public's and politicians' attention what we lawful firearms owners have been saying for many years now. Triggers don't pull fingers, and the finger that is in jail cannot pull a trigger. Wasting huge resources registering inanimate objects and making their lawful owners jump through endless hoops while our catch-and-release crime industry of a justice system keeps putting violent offenders back out on the street does nothing to curb gang violence. Imbuing firearms with talisman-like powers of destruction may sell well to the urban left, but it is entirely counterproductive in the fight against violent crime. I would suggest that as the pipeline for smuggled guns is cut off, there will be a concerted effort on the part of organized crime to infiltrate the offices that handle the gun registry data for the purposes of targeting gun owners for professional break-ins. This is just one more reason why registries of lawful gun owners and their firearms are a danger greater than the gun owners themselves. We already know who the criminals are. The identify themselves to us repeatedly through their antisocial actions. We should be registering and controlling them, not the lawful citizen who is unlikely to ever harm a soul in his/her life. Tracking 170,000 bad guys is a lot easier both financially and politically, than tracking 2 - 5 million lawful citizens who happen to own firearms. Of course the root cause of all this violence is the "War on Drugs". Note I do not say drugs themselves are the cause. It is their illegal status that causes the prices to soar and drives the lucrative illegal trade. Consider this: When was the last time competing liquor outlets engaged in violent turf wars? Back in Al Capone's day, when alcohol was illegal. Ending Prohibition ended the bootleggers' violence. We should learn from history rather than repeat its mistakes. Thanks again for your comments as quoted in this article and thank you for your attention. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. 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