Gun Owners' Resource

What to do if the RCMP Calls You on the Phone About Your Firearms License

by Christopher di Armani

It has come to my attention that the RCMP may or may not be phoning people who have firearms licenses expiring within the next 12 months.  I’ve heard of at least one individual who says they have been contacted on the telephone by someone claiming to be from the RCMP and that person demanded all kinds of personal information from them.

NOTE You are under NO OBLIGATION to answer personal questions from an unidentified voice on the telephone!

See: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=699862 [registration required, but worth it  -Ed.]

I have no way of confirming whether or not this story is true, but here are the steps that every firearm owner should follow if they receive a telephone call from anyone claiming to be from the RCMP or any other branch of law enforcement.

How many gun crimes are committed by registered owners? No one knows.

by Lorne Gunter
National Post

Last month, the RCMP and Statistics Canada were forced to admit that they don’t keep statistics relating to the number of violent gun crimes in Canada that are committed by licenced gun owners using registered guns.

“Please note,” Statistics Canada wrote in response to an access to information request filed by the National Firearms Association, “that the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) survey does not collect information on licensing of either guns or gun owners related to the incidents of violent crime reported by police.” Nor does StatsCan’s annual homicide survey “collect information on the registration status of the firearm used to commit a homicide.”

This raises the question: Why did it take so long for the government to begin ridding Canada of the horribly expensive, unjustifiably intrusive federal gun registry? If no one in Ottawa had any systematic way of tracking whether or not Canadians suspected of committing a violent gun crime were licensed to own a gun and had registered the gun being used, then they had no way of knowing whether registration and licensing were having a positive impact on crime.

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.

Government to gun owners: We made a mistake. Fix it for us or go to prison

by Matt Gurney
National Post

Two small-calibre rifles have been suddenly reclassified by the RCMP-run Canadian Firearms Program. The rifles in question, the Armi Jager AP-80 and the Walther G22, are both unremarkable .22-caliber long guns. While any firearm is dangerous, .22-caliber firearms are among the weakest around — indeed, they’re typically used to train rookie shooters basic firearm safety and operation.

Canadian law divides firearms into three categories, using complex technical criterion and a bevy of politically-motivated “exemptions”, and citizens can only legally own firearms in the categories their licence covers. No further licences are issued for the third and highest category, prohibited. By declaring a new exemption and moving these rifles from the non-restricted list — the category subject to the least controls  — to the prohibited list, the RCMP has essentially banned them for all but a constantly shrinking group of Canadians who owned prohibited-class firearms before the current gun control legislation was passed under Jean Chrétien.

That’s bad. This is worse: Any citizen who already owns an AP-80 or G22, and does not already possess a rare prohibited-class licence, has been ordered to turn in their rifles within 30 days. Failure to do so will mean they are unlawfully in possession of a prohibited firearm, and subject to as much as 10 years behind bars. It doesn’t matter if they purchased it legally, paid all the sales taxes, and have stored it safely ever since. The RCMP has declared that it was a mistake to allow citizens to purchase these firearms, and wants them turned in, pronto. Or else.