From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #29 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Tuesday, April 3 2012 Volume 15 : Number 029 In this issue: CSSA`s Tony Bernardo- Senate of Canada address on bill C-19 ... Frontier Centre: 2012 International Property Rights Index: E-mail addresses for all Conservative MPs and Senators? How to save a thousand lives. Re: CSSA`s Tony Bernardo- Senate of Canada address on bill gun question Re: Frontier Centre: 2012 International Property Rights Index: Churches campaign for global treaty to tackle illicit arms sales Aberdeen, Sk., man faces firearms charges ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, April 2, 2012 6:22 pm From: "todd rudderham" Subject: CSSA`s Tony Bernardo- Senate of Canada address on bill C-19 ... ending the long gun registry http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/2012/03/Bernardo_Senate_address_20120329.html Tony Bernardo -- Senate of Canada address -- 29 March 2012 Tony Bernardo, 2012-03-29 Good morning and thank you for your kind invitation to speak on behalf of our association members who enjoy responsible sport shooting, hunting, firearms collecting and related heritage pursuits. This is the ninth time I have appeared before a Canadian parliamentary committee in an effort to explain why many elements of the Firearms Act are fictional attributes to public safety. Many trees have been sacrificed to fill Hansard with the long-gun registry debate, which surely begs the question -- is there anything new to say? Would it be news to suggest that the current laws in Canada presume guilt before innocence for all gun owners? Is it news that some media outlets have been shamelessly complicit conduits for the outlandish scam perpetuated by anti-gun spin doctors? It has taken 17 years to reverse the legislative mess that gave Canadians a gun registry that was no more than a desperate political pacifier. Unfortunately, many Canadians took the bait and, in deference to them, they believed the police chiefs and politicians who assured them the gun registry was a public safety tool. And now, 17 years later, we are still waiting for a single example of the gun registry saving anyone, anywhere, any time. The pro-registry groups have never been able to oblige, because the registry was never designed as an instrument to protect the population from anything. It was designed as an instrument to get John Q. Citizen off the couch and into the polls to vote. The government of the day knew it was a sham. And they knew their blessed registry was a high-priced house of cards waiting for a decent breeze. Front-line police officers have already testified that believing registry data can place them in grave danger in the field. Police chiefs enjoy the registry because it provides them with a list of addresses where gun are located so they can someday take them away. The chiefs claim it isn't about confiscation, and with every denial, their collective nose grows longer. We have seen too many doors kicked in and too many innocent gun owners charged with myriad alleged infractions, some of which don't even exist in current legislation. Like the four year old child that drew a gun with crayons, over reaction is rampant. Have some police forces been instructed to make sure that the punishment is the process? And when charges will not stick, the Innocent must shell out thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees just to have the charges dropped. The system was designed to frustrate gun owners into giving up and abandoning their beloved heritage sport. Well, as the saying goes, that ain't happening. I represent the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. The CSSA has members who enjoy a day at the range the same as some families enjoy trips to the arena, soccer pitch and swimming pool. Some of our members have cultivated their shooting skills to the point they have captured gold for Canada at the Olympics. We are honoured to have one such champion here with us here today. Shooting develops hand-eye coordination, patience, and the continuation of the Canadian quest for excellence. If you doubt it, consider those who have trained themselves to squeeze the trigger between their heartbeats for ultimate accuracy. Some people say, okay fine, have fun, but why should you care about taking five minutes to register your guns? What's the big deal? Here's the big deal -- the gun registry is a shopping list for computer hackers. It tells criminals where to find the guns of responsible firearms owners who have registered because they are lawful citizens. Surprise, criminals don't register their guns. Could the registry be hacked for ill-gotten gains? Apparently so. The RCMP admits that the registry has been compromised more than 300 times. And now, more and more Canadians demand the registry be consigned to the trash heap of history. Canada's media could have something to do with that through our newspapers, television, radio and online reports. Members of the media who have taken the time actually to investigate the registry's efficiency tend to conclude the registry deserves to be scrapped. Meanwhile, there are legions of so-called reporters and editors who have mounted concerted campaigns to preserve the registry in all its defective glory. We have hit a sad, new age in Canadian journalism when certain myopic scribblers hide behind their fake non-partisanship. In recent years, however, some of the country's foremost journalists are pointing out in detail how the registry has failed and how it can only continue to fail. These are the writers and broadcasters who have simply identified and reported the facts. But the beat goes on. Lawful firearms owners appreciate your invitation to work together to attain legislative sanity without jeopardizing the safety of a single Canadian. Thank you. The CSSA is the voice of the sport shooter and firearms enthusiast in Canada. Our national membership supports and promotes traditional target shooting competition, modern action shooting sports, hunting, and archery. We support and sponsor competitions and youth programs that promote these Canadian heritage activities ------------------------------ Date: Mon, April 2, 2012 10:44 pm From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: Frontier Centre: 2012 International Property Rights Index: Frontier Centre Media Release - 2012 International Property Rights Index: Canada continues to lead Western Hemisphere, Frontier Centre to release Canadian property index Canada maintains 10th best overall for third consecutive year; Scandinavian countries dominate rankings again http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/4152 WINNIPEG/LETHBRIDGE- The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, along with the International Property Rights Alliance, today released the 2012 International Property Rights Index (IPRI). The 2012 Index, measures the protection of property rights in 130 countries. The Frontier Centre is particularly proud to announce that it is creating its own Canada-specific property rights index that will measure property rights protections in Canada's provinces and territories. On a worldwide ranking of one to ten-the higher scores reflecting a greater protection of property-IPRI scores ranged from Finland with 8.6, to Yemen with a score of just 2.8. The scores are based on ten measurements ranging in three broad subject areas: - - The legal and political environment (as it relates to judicial independence, rule of law, political stability and degree of corruption); - - Physical property rights (protection of physical property rights, ease of registration of property, and access to loans); - - Intellectual property rights (protection of intellectual property rights, patent protection, and copyright policy) Results for Canada: In 2012, Canada maintained its position as the highest ranking country in the Western hemisphere and is seen as a model of stability, with increased scores in the Access to Loans sub-component of its Physical Property Rights (PPR) score. Overall, Canada was 10th. (The United States was 18th.). Only Copyright Piracy saw improvement. Canada has one of the best Copyright Piracy scores in the world. Joseph Quesnel, policy analyst with the Frontier Centre and lead property rights researcher, said that, "Despite the absence of written constitutional protection for property, Canada continues its impressive record on property rights protection. Our unwritten common law still protects property." However, Quesnel cautioned that Canada lost points on physical property rights. Canada has work to do to increase its overall ranking. Serious attention was directed at property rights in Canada at the start of 2011. One MP and one Ontario MLA introduced bills in their respective legislatures to protect property rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canada's repatriated constitution. They proposed to use Section 43 of the Charter, which allows for an amendment affecting only one or more provinces following resolutions in both houses of federal Parliament and the provincial legislature of the affected jurisdiction. After being inspired by the excellent work and research of the IPRI, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy decided to embark on its own Canadian-specific property rights index. The Index will measure property rights protection at the provincial and territorial level, where Canada's federal scheme places responsibility for property rights. The new index excludes intellectual property as that is a federal responsibility. It will measure property rights in our 13 provinces and territories along several indicators that include expropriation, civil forfeiture, heritage/cultural property designations. "Property rights in Canada are protected at the provincial and territorial level, so we are investigating how property is protected at that level and will be ranking each region to determine which provinces and territories are leading in property rights protection," said Quesnel. The 2012 International Property Rights Index can be downloaded here: http://www.internationalpropertyrightsindex.org In Brief: 130 countries were surveyed in 2012 IPRI. Finland scores highest in protection of property; Canada defeated by Netherlands for 9th place by only 0.1 Canada, at 12th place, scores higher than the United States (at 18th) Frontier Centre creating a Canadian property rights index inspired by the IPRI For more information and to arrange an interview, media (only) should contact: Joseph Quesnel, Policy analyst, lead researcher on property rights 403-381-0342 (land) 403-360-3078 (Cell) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, April 2, 2012 11:04 pm From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: E-mail addresses for all Conservative MPs and Senators? Does anyone have the e-mail addresses for all the Conservative MPs and Senators? I don't want to spend a couple of hours loading them all if someone has already done it. Thanks, Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:29:53 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: How to save a thousand lives. http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/ How to save a thousand lives. by Kirby Ferris © Copyright Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (www.JPFO.org) 2012 Would you like to perhaps save a thousand innocent lives? Maybe more? I want you to read one book, and then, more importantly, make sure you circulate that book aggressively amongst your "birds of a feather" friends, family and neighbors. The book is Matt Bracken's novel "Enemies Foreign and Domestic". No, this isn't some advertising gimmick. JPFO, because of this article, will not be selling Bracken's book. (But we'll link you to his website. HERE) http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/ What each of you out there has within reach is a means by which you can pull the rug out from one of the few remaining "false flag" schemes "gun control" orchestrators can launch with any chance of success. What's neat about a novel, a work of fiction, is that it can say things that you, yourself, might be hesitant (or even unwise) to utter. "Ahh! It's just one of those action conspiracy novels!" Under the cover of a good read, with believable (both likable and detestable) characters, and a thoroughly plausible plot, all you need do is read Bracken's novel and pass it along to a friend with a question: "Do you think this is possible?" That's all you have to do. Unless you choose to wade in and start making some noise on your own. But, even the quiet, mousy introvert can pass this book along with a sincere frown and that question: "Do you think this is possible?" The premise of "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"? A sniper fires three magazines (90 rounds) into a jam packed football stadium, with a semi automatic "assault rifle". But in the panic ten times more than ninety die. The slaughter is meant to at first appear to be the work of your classic "lone gunman". A shooter is conveniently killed at the scene of the sniper's nest. Let's tick off the predictable characteristics of the now identified sniper: 1. He's white. 2. He's a Southerner. (Yeah, and a racist.) 3. He's a combat vet. 4. He's been having emotional problems. 5. He's been seen hanging around a local "militia" group. This creates the further implication of a "right wing conspiracy". 6. And . last but not least . he used a deadly "assault rifle" semi-auto to perpetrate the horrific deed. 7. Oh yes, and he's now quite dead and can't tell anyone why he committed this atrocity. Actually, Bracken spins an even more intriguing can of worms. I'm just laying out the rough agenda here. And who comes to the rescue, to save America from the millions of bone head, red-necked, racist, inbred, armed "right wing" gun-nuts out here in the hinterland of our nation? Why it's that chivalrous, squeaky clean, brilliant group of rocket scientists, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives! And, of course, Congress, driven by the frenzied lemmings that many Americans have now become, passes a total ban on all semi-automatic rifles . even .22s. Americans are given a short "amnesty" period" during which they can simply deposit their semi auto rifles into conveniently placed (and guarded) dumpsters. At the end of the amnesty period you are looking at guaranteed hard prison time and an absurd fine on top of that. Big reward for snitches. Just like the IRS. Could it happen!? Now here is where Bracken really gets down and dirty. He MUST have had a run in with the Gun Goons at one time or knows someone who did. He's got the type down cold. Written in 2003, during the Bush administration, and well before "Operation Fast and Furious" was a wriggling little maggot in Eric Holder's mind, the author rolls out a cast of BATFE characters that flawlessly portrays the list of moral afflictions so well represented in the BATFE today. Really rotten bad guys are vitally important in action novels. You gotta really hate the bad guys. Near the end of Brackens' novel you find yourself trying to decide between battery acid, piranhas, or gut shooting as the just deserts for utterly foul BATFE Agent George Hammet. And none of those punishments are even on Bracken's pages! The President of the United States is a buffoon. And the Attorney General of the State of Virginia just might get what he's got coming to him, as he rides public hysteria for the vanity and benefit of his political aspirations. I won't go into spoilers here. "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" is a good solid thriller with a history-changing hook. The fact that Bracken wrote this before "Fast and Furious" is very eerie. Oh yeah, minor detail, not all Americans go along with the absurd and unconstitutional gun-prohibition scheme. Quite a few of them don't. Bracken describes some very creative potential scenarios, that, quite frankly, I don't want to talk about here. If word of Bracken's imagined stadium massacre can spread far enough and deep enough into heartland America, the gun confiscators (who have now certainly proven their moral fiber with the hundreds of dead from "Fast and Furious") might have to abandon what would have almost certainly been an extremely effective "false flag" operation meant for our near future. So save a thousand lives. Prevent a stadium slaughter. Matt Bracken has turned the lights on in the roach-filled rooms of those who would rule us. Frequent JPFO contributor and strategist, Kirby Ferris, collaborated intensively with Aaron Zelman over the last two years of Aaron's life. Ferris is currently the Research Director of JPFO. See all of Kirby Ferris' articles.http://jpfo.org/kirby/kirby-archive.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:06:46 -0600 From: 10x@telus.net Subject: Re: CSSA`s Tony Bernardo- Senate of Canada address on bill At , you wrote: >ending the long gun registry > >http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/2012/03/Bernardo_Senate_address_20120329.html > >Tony Bernardo -- Senate of Canada address -- 29 March 2012 >Tony Bernardo, 2012-03-29 >Good morning and thank you for your kind invitation to speak on behalf of >our association members who enjoy responsible sport shooting, hunting, >firearms collecting and related heritage pursuits. >This is the ninth time I have appeared before a Canadian parliamentary >committee in an effort to explain why many elements of the Firearms Act >are fictional attributes to public safety. >Many trees have been sacrificed to fill Hansard with the long-gun registry >debate, which surely begs the question -- is there anything new to say? >Would it be news to suggest that the current laws in Canada presume guilt >before innocence for all gun owners? >Is it news that some media outlets have been shamelessly complicit >conduits for the outlandish scam perpetuated by anti-gun spin doctors? >It has taken 17 years to reverse the legislative mess that gave Canadians >a gun registry that was no more than a desperate political pacifier. >Unfortunately, many Canadians took the bait and, in deference to them, >they believed the police chiefs and politicians who assured them the gun >registry was a public safety tool. >And now, 17 years later, we are still waiting for a single example of the >gun registry saving anyone, anywhere, any time. Manatory Firearms Licensing was introduced shortly before gun registration became mandatory. The same arguments that apply to the registry can also be applied to firearms owner licensing. There is one study (Langmann (2011)) indicating that NO FIREARMS LEGISLATION (including mandatory safety courses and mandatory licensing) has had any impact on crime or firearms injury in Canada. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 07:44:04 -0500 From: Subject: gun question I have a question. How come when you go to a sporting goods store to purchase a gun, they are still registering the firearm? I thought that the registry had died? I went to Cabellas the other day to purchase a .270 semi auto and I had to go through the whole thing as if the registry has not died yet. I walked out with out the gun. Scottie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, April 3, 2012 7:51 am From: tester13@xplornet.com Subject: Re: Frontier Centre: 2012 International Property Rights Index: Dennis et al: Beware the possibility that the Feds are not bending over backwards in the Courts and the Bureaucracy so as not to alert the sheep in advance of a major Gun Grab. If property, by Common Law and otherwise is a Provincial Matter I cannot see how we could rate so high unless the only measurements are actual and no thought given to potential. Willy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis R. Young" To: "Firearms Digest" Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 9:44 PM Subject: Frontier Centre: 2012 International Property Rights Index: > Frontier Centre Media Release - 2012 International Property Rights Index: > Canada continues to lead Western Hemisphere, Frontier Centre to release > Canadian property index > Canada maintains 10th best overall for third consecutive year; > Scandinavian > countries dominate rankings again > http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/4152 > > WINNIPEG/LETHBRIDGE- The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, along with the > International Property Rights Alliance, today released the 2012 > International Property Rights Index (IPRI). The 2012 Index, measures the > protection of property rights in 130 countries. The Frontier Centre is > particularly proud to announce that it is creating its own Canada-specific > property rights index that will measure property rights protections in > Canada's provinces and territories. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, April 3, 2012 8:04 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: Churches campaign for global treaty to tackle illicit arms sales Churches campaign for global treaty to tackle illicit arms sales By Jonathan Frerichs - 3 Apr 2012 http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16496 After July, arms used to commit atrocities and serious crimes may become harder to buy, and harder to sell, internationally. That is if governments already agreed on the need to regulate the arms trade can agree on a treaty that is fit for the task and covers all conventional weapons. Diplomats from nearly 200 countries will spend July at the United Nations to negotiate the proposed Arms Trade Treaty. Diplomats from nearly 200 countries will spend month of July at the United Nations to negotiate the proposed Arms Trade Treaty. Their challenge lies in keeping the arms trade open to militaries, police forces and other groups who are judged to use arms legally and responsibly, and closing the trade to those who don't. Arms manufacturers, gun enthusiasts, as well as civil society organizations and churches are seeking to influence the outcome. The human impact of the arms trade is the galvanizing factor for churches. A campaign led by the World Council of Churches (WCC) is working to ensure that the treaty protects people and communities put at risk by current arms trade practices. Churches from more than 30 countries are involved. Some participants are from countries that profit from the trade and others are from countries that suffer as a result. Campaign representatives have met so far with 20 governments from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas developing measures to make the treaty strong and effective. Millions of lives are shattered or lost in armed violence each year and "badly regulated exports, imports and transfers of weapons must bear part of the blame," says a WCC policy statement issued recently to guide the campaign. The policy affirms the fact that 153 governments have agreed to adopt "the highest possible common international standard" for how conventional arms may be traded, but it warns that the treaty must work to stop arms for governments that "pose a threat to their own people or to other states" and to block shipments likely to be diverted to armed groups, organized crime or smugglers. Prohibition on arms sales The ecumenical policy says the treaty must prohibit arms sales where there is a "substantial risk" of serious violations of international human rights or humanitarian law, where there is a pattern of gender-based armed violence or where development work will be seriously impaired. These positions are shared with a broad range of civil society organizations in a coalition known as Control Arms. The WCC-led campaign bridges a north-south divide that shapes the arms trade. Churches from major arms producers like the US, Sweden and Norway lobby alongside churches from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Sierra Leone, where imported arms fuel conflict and violence. Churches want stricter controls on both sides. Lives and communities will be spared to the extent that sellers, middlemen and buyers are all held to higher and more consistent standards along a supply chain that usually runs from the Global North to the Global South. More than 100 religious leaders - Christian, Muslim, Jewish and others have signed an interfaith declaration to governments supporting an Arms Trade Treaty. The ecumenical campaign began in October 2011 with participants from the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation and an endorsement from the WCC Central Committee earlier in the year. - ---------- Jonathan Frerichs is World Council of Churches' programme executive for peace building and disarmament, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/regions/north-america/canada/ccc.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:40:54 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Aberdeen, Sk., man faces firearms charges http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Aberdeen+faces+firearms+charges/6401042/story.html Aberdeen man faces firearms charges The StarPhoenix April 3, 2012 A resident of the Aberdeen area was expected to appear in provincial court Monday to answer to multiple Criminal Code charges pertaining to firearms-related offences. Saskatoon RCMP along with a member of the national weapons enforcement team executed a search warrant Friday on a residence located in the district. The search resulted in the police seizing 27 long-barrel rifles, an AK-47 assault rifle, one sawed-off shotgun, 12 handguns, three swords, multiple knives and prohibited devices, along with re-loading equipment and several thousand rounds of ammunition. The man was charged with unsafe storage and other offences. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #29 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)