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Canada’s Long Gun Registration Ends

National Firearms Association

Bill C-19, the Conservative Government's bill ending the registration of non-restricted long guns was passed by the Canadian Senate Wednesday by a vote of 50 to 27.  Two Liberal Senators voted for Bill C-19, one Progressive Conservative Senator voted against it.

On Thursday April 5, 2012, Bill C-19 was signed by Governor General David Johnston and received Royal Assent.  Now the bill is law and will need to be enacted.  The Quebec government has filed an injunction to obtain the federal registration records to set up its own registration system.  However, despite what Quebec does, Canada's long experiment with universal firearms registration has ended.

The NFA provides a dose of antiBS for the disinformation the RCMP has been coughing up about the Walther G22 and its stock, in their feeble attempt to justify their latest abuse of the powers granted to them by C-68.

The true status of the factory stock of the Walther G22 rifle

by National Firearms Association
1/17/2012

1. The stock of the Walther G22 is a factory manufactured piece assembled with the barreled action and receiver of the firearm.  It is a part which is integral to the safe operation of the rifle as intended by the manufacturer. It is obviously intended to increase the overall length of the firearm's barrel and receiver group so that the firearm can be used for sporting purposes as intended by the manufacturer. The stock of the G22 is not an aftermarket supplied conversion designed to reduce the overall length of the firearm as envisioned in the Former Prohibited Weapons Order N0.9 (JUS - 92 - 0563-01 SOR/DORS).  It in fact does exactly the opposite.

A little clarity, if you please

National Firearms Association

"Gun owners who fail to keep their papers in order are still treated as criminals."

In December, the Conservative Party launched an ad campaign targeting the pocketbooks of law abiding gun owners by extolling the virtues of the government's Bill C-19, the legislation they introduced scrapping the long-gun registry.  The ad proudly stated, "Now hunters and farmers won't be treated as criminals anymore." 

"Yes they will," exclaimed Sheldon Clare, President of the National Firearms Association. "The government's own reports show that there are over 600,000 Made-in-Ottawa paper criminals whose only "crime" is not to keep ahead of the red tape imposed by the Liberal's Bill C-68, the Firearms Act, he explained.  "This number includes 337,993 expired firearms license holders and 288,527 individuals who have still not re-registered all of their restricted and/or prohibited firearms.  There are millions more formerly law-abiding gun owners who forgot or refused to licence themselves when the Liberals rammed Bill C-68 through Parliament in 1995.  The Liberal Firearms Act made them instant paper criminals.  The Conservative Government's Bill C-19 won't correct this injustice."