FIREARMS FACTS UPDATE
McLELLAN
REFUSES TO ANSWER BREITKREUZ'S QUESTIONS
ON TRANSPORTATION OF PROHIBITED FIREARMS
September
9, 2005 - Anne McLellan's reply to Garry Breitkreuz's July 11th Letter
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2005_new/2.pdf
July 11,
2005 - Garry Breitkreuz's Reply to Anne McLellan Criticizing Her Decision
to Ban the Transportation of Prohibited Firearms to Shooting Ranges
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/issues/guninfo/newguninfo/2005_reply_07_11.doc
June 23,
2005 - Anne McLellan's Letter Defending Her Decision to Ban the Transportation
of Prohibited Firearms to Shooting Ranges
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/issues/guninfo/newguninfo/2005_mclellanltr_06_23.pdf
EXCERPT FROM THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S
DECEMBER 2002 REPORT TO PARLIAMENT
THE PROGRAM BECAME EXCESSIVELY REGULATORY
10.67 In February 2001, the Department told the Government it had wanted to focus on the minority of firearms owners that posed a high risk while minimizing the impact on the overwhelming majority of law-abiding owners. However, the Department concluded that this did not happen. Rather, it stated that the Program's focus had changed from high risk firearms owners to excessive regulation and enforcement of controls over all owners and their firearms. The Department concluded that, as a result, the Program had become overly complex and very costly to deliver, and that it had become difficult for owners to comply with the Program.
10.68 The Department
said the excessive regulation had occurred because some of its Program
partners believed that
* the use of firearms is in itself a "questionable activity"
that required strong controls, and
* there should be a zero-tolerance attitude toward non-compliance with
the Firearms Act.
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/reports.nsf/html/20021210ce.html
MAYBE THE AUDITOR GENERAL WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR EXAMPLE OF RECENT
EXCESSIVE REGULATION BY THE CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE:
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/oag-bvg.nsf/html/feedbk_e.html
USING REFERENCE HEARINGS TO PROTECT THE FIREARMS COMMUNITY
by David A Tomlinson, National President, National Firearms Association
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2005_new/4.htm