FIREARMS FACTS - UPDATE

ANNE McLELLAN SAYS FIREARMS LICENCING

COSTS MORE THAN FIREARMS REGISTRATION

SO DOES BOTCHING TWO PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF ONE JUSTIFY WASTING A BILLION DOLLARS?

 

Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan: I think that we absolutely need to review the gun control program. The registry is one part of it, and takes up fewer of the operating dollars than does the licensing part of the program.

SOURCE: Western Standard Magazine – Monday, 12 April 2004 – www.westernstandard.ca

 

“Licensing, including continuous eligibility, consumed the largest portion of the Program costs (53%)” 

SOURCE: Program Costs by Activity From 1995-96 to 2002-03 included in Memorandum to Honourable Albina Guarnieri, Associate Minister of National Defence from William V. Baker, Commissioner of Firearms dated January 21, 004 - CFC response to Breitkreuz Access to Information Request  - CFC File: A-2003-0034/jr – April 28, 2004

 

 

DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE THAT THE LIBERALS 

BOTCHED FIREARM LICENCING TOO!

1.  January 9, 2001 – Canadian Firearms Centre: “Risk to public safety is mitigated through licencing – It is not a registration issue.”

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/PublicSafetyDocument-Jan92001.pdf

 

2.  July 11, 2002 – Firearm Possession and Acquisition Licences issued without a firearms safety course = 15, 381.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/moremistakes.htm

 

3.  April 12, 2003 – Firearm Possession Only Licences issued without a firearms safety course = 1,305,841.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsLicencesbyProv-2003-04-12.xls

 

4.  May 28, 2002 - Question Period Briefing Note prepared for the Justice Minister states: "Reference and background checks are done on each Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) applicant.” June 3, 2003 - Solicitor General's response to Q-227 - "There are no statistics available on how many of the two references per PAL application were actually called."

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/questions/june-3-2003written.htm

 

5.  April 12, 2003 – Number of Possession Only Licences (POLs) issued without any requirement to provide references = 1,305,841.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsLicencesbyProv-2003-04-12.xls

 

6.  March 2002 - Firearm Licence and Refusal Rates under the old Firearm Acquisition Certificate (FAC) program administered by the RCMP = 0.76%

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/licenserefusal.htm

 

7.  March 2003 - Firearm Licence and Refusal Rates under new, improved and vastly more expensive firearm licencing system = 0.27%.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/licenserefusal.htm

 

8.  June 3, 2003 - No statistics available on reasons for the refusal and revocation of firearm licences.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/orderpapermay-02-2003.htm

 

9.  March 11, 2002 – Gun registry has lost the addresses of tens of thousands of licenced firearm owners.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/registrationmailings.htm

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/firearmscentrelosesguns.htm

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/lostowners.htm

 

10.  January 16, 2003 – Number of gun owners who didn’t obtain a firearms licence = 541,000.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/Article56.htm

 

11.  May 7, 2003 - No tracking of addresses or “inspections” of the more than 131,000 convicted criminals who are prohibited from owning firearms  by the courts or the more than 12,000 persons who have had their federal firearm licences refused and revoked.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/questions/may-7-2003written.htm

 

  1. February 4, 2002 – The government doesn’t have any records of the numbers of firearms confiscated from the more than 12,000 persons who have had their federal firearms licences refused or revoked.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsConfiscatedRevokedLicences.pdf

 

  1. January 29, 2002 – Government doesn’t have any records of the numbers of firearms confiscated from the more than 131,000 convicted criminals who have been prohibited from owning firearms by the courts.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/breitkreuzgpress/GunControl58.htm

  1.  August 21, 2002 – Federal firearms licencing system is a duplication of 1.6 million hunting licences issued by the provinces (complete with firearm safety courses) and intrudes unnecessarily into the provinces exclusive constitutional jurisdiction to do so.

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/provincialhuntinglicencesales.htm

 

15. May 27, 2002 – Number of owners of registered handguns and resistricted weapons that don’t have a firearms licence = 304,375

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/GUNS92.htm

     16. January 8, 2004 – Number of gun owners that still have to re-register their handguns = 318,846

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsRegistered-2004-01-08.xls

     17. January 8, 2004 – Number firearms that still have to be re-registered from old handgun registry = 625,829

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsRegistered-2004-01-08.xls

     18. January 8, 2004 – Number of licenced gun owners that still have to register their guns = 414,283

http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/FirearmsRegistered-2004-01-08.xls