Retired Winnipeg inspector loves being right

by Jack S. Tinsley,
Winnipeg Police Service (ret)

It is with great interest that I have watched the reactions of the Canadian public last week to the recent media coverage of the Canadian long-gun registry and our minority Conservative government's bill to repeal it. Hopefully, the facts will prevail and the myths and political rhetoric surrounding it will be seen for what they really are.

The long-gun registry was created by the majority Liberal government in power at the time in the wake of the shooting tragedy at Polytechnique College in Montreal in December of 1989. Whether it was a genuine -- but nevertheless ill-conceived -- plan to prevent gun crime or an opportune time to win the favour of voters in the wake of another demented criminal's act of insanity is open for discussion. I'd like to believe it was for the former reason. But I don't. The long-gun registry was implemented for two reasons: to prevent gun crime and to save lives.

May issue laws an abuse just waiting to happen

by Dennis E. Florian
GunOwnersResource staff

For years now, all of us have known quite well that anything even remotely resembling "may issue" permit laws is a recipe for cronyism, bribes and corruption of all flavours.  Now we have even more proof, in the unfolding of the latest chapter of Liberal party slime and sleaze currently playing itself out in Quebec. 

Tony Tomassi, Quebec’s Family Minister, has been accused of accepting bribes from Luigi Corelli, a Liberal party financial supporter who had, by pure coincidence, won plenty of government contracts.  Some Canadians may roll their eyes and say that it's just a rerun of Adscam and the idea of the federal Liberals taking money is nothing new, so why should provincial ones be any different?  While Liberal money laundering is nothing new, there is one new little angle to this particular story:  It seems Corelli had tried to get an ATC (Authorization To Carry, Canada's permit to carry a concealed firearm) and been denied by the province's CFO (Chief Firearms Officer).  He ended up getting the thing anyway though; right after a meeting with Jacques Dupuis - the Quebec Public Security Minister - which was set up by, you guessed it, Mr. Tomassi.

Hello, and welcome to all the Canadian Gun Nutz! 

Not one of them?  Don't worry, you might find this amusing anyway.

As you may or may not already know, everybody's favourite meteorological melonhead (those who know him will get that one) decided to do his own little Daniel in the lions' den bit and went on Focal Point with Nancy Coldham (airs on Rogers TV in Newmarket, Ontario) on March 24th.

The inevitable abuse of RCMP authority rears its ugly head

by CSSA/CILA Alert

Since the early days of Bill C-68 the classification of firearms has been a real and valid concern of Canadian gun owners. The arbitrary reclassification of some firearms and the refusal to classify others has not only been a violation of our rights, it has resulted in the confiscation of personal property. This has had a significant financial impact on numerous law abiding citizens.

[Note: All emphasis and parenthetical commentary in the following article has been added by the editorial staff of GunOwnersResource and did not appear in the original CSSA release.]