ISSUES - Gun Control Article of Interest & Information - 2004
 

2004 - articles

  • Windsor Star Column: Gun registry off target . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN: 10-YEAR JAIL TERMS FOR PEOPLE WHO USE WEAPONS FOR CRIME . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Column: Firearms Figures . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun - GUNS-TO-GO FOR CRIMINALS: "Most of them aren't registered" . . . click here
  • SEVENTEEN FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Editorial: Martin fails to deliver on promises . . . click here
  • EDMONTON SUN EDITORIAL: KILL THE GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN EDITORIAL: REGISTRY DOESN'T STOP CRIME . . . click here
  • Stephen Harper Column: Canadian conservatism is alive and kicking . . . click here
  • LONDON FREE PRESS COLUMN: DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT JUST GROWS DEEPER . . . click here
  • EDMONTON SUN COLUMN: GUN REGISTRY THRIVES, EVERYTHING ELSE WITHERS . . . click here
  • Vancouver Sun Column: Taxpayers deserve a break on the gun registry joke . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun: GUN REGISTRY RED TAPE VEXES WIDOW . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun: 'REVOLVING DOOR' SUSPECT HAD BEEN FREE ON BAIL (AND BANNED FROM OWNING GUNS AND EXEMPT FROM FIREARMS ACT) . . . click here
  • Vancouver Sun Column: Gun registry waste is in a league of its own . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen Editorial: It's time to scrap the gun registry . . . click here
  • Vancouver Sun Editorial: Consign gun registry to the trash heap of good ideas gone bad . . . click here
  • Calgary Sun Editorial: SHOOT DOWN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • Vancouver Province Editorial: There's better uses for our money, Paul Martin . . . click here
  • MACKAY PICKS UP BALL AFTER GALLAWAY'S FUMBLE . . . click here
  • 76.7% OF CANADIANS WANT GUN REGISTRY SCRAPPED! . . . click here
  • Calgary Sun Column: GUNFIGHT ON HILL . . . click here
  • Windsor Star Editorial: Gun registry: Time to fold the boondoggle . . . click here
  • LONDON FREE PRESS EDITORIAL: PULLING TRIGGER ON GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN EDITORIAL: REGISTRY SHOULD BE SHOT DOWN . . . click here
  • Moncton Times and Transcript Column: Has the Firearms Act resulted in more protection for women? . . . click here
  • Victoria Times Colonist Editorial - Gun registry misses the target . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail Editorial - End the gun registry . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial - One man, not all men . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Free Press Editorial - Lepine's legacy . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY PROMISES:  WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THE LIBERALS NOW? December 7, 2004 . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT . . . GUNS Straight shooters On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, CAITLIN KELLY considers books to help us understand gun culture, rather than simply condemn it . . . click here
  • National Post -  With hunting in decline, gun clubs are taking aim at a new kind of target-shooting enthusiast: urbanites . . . click here
  • National Post - MP sets sights on registry: Bid to stop gun program's funding divides Liberals . . . click here
  • Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut - Inuit hunters wonder what to do about gun regulations . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial: Wildly missing the target . . . click here
  • HARMONY HOUSES OR A USELESS GUN REGISTRY? . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column: Throwing good millions after bad: Liberals will need another three years before gun registry is 'fully implemented' . . . click here
  • National Post - Gun registry not ready until 2007: 12 years after bill passed . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - MPs consider axing $20M out of gun registry budget: . . . click here
  • Tory MPs Slam NDP for Propping Up Long Gun Registry . . . click here
  • THE WESTERN STANDARD - THE FIREARMS ACT AND THE CHARTER . . . click here
  • THE WESTERN STANDARD - REPORT ON FIREARMS ACT IS UNASSAILABLE: You do have rights, except when you don't . . . click here
  • The Moncton Times and Transcript Column: More hassles with licensing of firearms . . . click here
  • Le Soleil Column: Ottawa applying the Firearms Act by means of a discriminatory lottery . . . click here
  • Vancouver Sun - Repeat-offender rate four times higher than reported: . . . click here
  • National Post - Lone officer guards most borders: 103 'work-alone sites': . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun - Column: CONVICTS BELONG IN JAIL ("so-called strict conditions -- are rarely checked") . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun - NO SURPRISE 83% OF SEX CRIMINALS REOFFEND . . . click here
  • New Brunswick Telegraph Journal Column: Media's anti-gun bias continues to doctor the truth . . . click here
  • National Post: Guns centre to shell out on PR, not safety . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen Editorial: Canada's own moral majority . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Gun registration lottery unconstitutional: Sask. MP . . . click here
  • Canadian Press - 'Botched' gun registry faces budget axe: . . . click here
  • National Post - Gun registry loses $46M to backlog: 'Avoids a big crunch' . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun - GUN REGISTRY UNDER ATTACK AGAIN: BREITKREUZ Details waste . . . click here
  • WESTERN STANDARD: Gun owners say proposed ammo laws will ruin them . . . click here
  • WESTERN STANDARD: The price of resisting gun control tyranny Monday by Pierre Lemieux . . . click here
  • WESTERN STANDARD: Questioning the arrest of a vocal gun-rights advocate . . . click here
  • Women commended for speaking out about abortion’s harm . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail: Corrections Canada study determined that more than a third of these prisoners are escaping each year, violating their parole and often committing further crimes. . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun Editorial: DON'T CREDIT THE GRITS . . . click here 
  • Saskatchewan Conservative MP Gary Breitkreuz charged Martin makes lots of promises about ending western alienation but pays little heed to the problems of the region. . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: MORE MESS FROM THE CFC . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Column: Where Morgentaler and I see eye-to-eye . . . click here
  • 378,986 GUN SALES BLOCKED IN U.S.A. WITHOUT A GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • National Post Editorial - Come here you little rascal, Ottawa has an affirming message for you . . . click here
  • National Post Column: BAN THE KNIFE, BEWARE THE BENCH . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Editorial: Registry Way Off Target . . . click here
  • National Post Column: The gun registry has saved no lives, prevented no crimes. . . click here
  • Victoria Times Colonist Editorial: Gun registry is still a failure . . . click here
  • Regina Leader Post Editorial: Gun registry firing blanks . . . click here
  • Halifax Chronicle-Herald - Unregistered gun? You're invited; Opponent of gun legislation plans to host skeet-shooting competition . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun - A MILLION GUNS UNREGISTERED . . . click here
  • National Post - More than 700,000 gun owners still not registered: Revealed in federal documents . . . click here
  • Toronto Star: Debate over gun control rages on . . . click here
  • Toronto Star: Delays hit firearms registry redesign . . . click here
  • Ottawa Sun Column: DNA DATA BANK DOES IT - GUN REGISTRY DOESN'T . . . click here
  • Windsor Star Editorial - Gun registry's legacy . . . click here
  • St. Joh's Telegram Editorial - Jeers: to a troubled system. . .  click here
  • Red Deer Advocate Editorial: Teaching safe shooting goes beyond the classroom. . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY FAILS AGAIN! Port Moody gunman had violent record . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Another scattershot plan by feds: Looking at revising laws for home reloading of ammunition . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial - Be careful out there: Crime is up, and it could get worse . . . click here
  • Gun registry used for U.S. bungling study: Report into $1B program called Canada Firearms: Armed Robbery . . . click here
  • LifeSite Daily News: Breitkreuz Says Caucus Leaks on Move to "the Centre" are Unfounded Rumours . . . click here
  • SURPRISE, SURPRISE: REGISTERING GUNS DOESN’T KEEP THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS - Updated: August 26, 2004 . . . click here
  • Dave Tomlinson Column: WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? . . . click here
  • Letter to the Editor of the Calgary Herald: Pro-life priority . . . click here
  • National Post Column: The Liberals just don't get it . . . click here
  • BCWF News Release: Proposed gun registry changes are just ineffective tinkering . . . click here
  • Ottawa Sun Letter of the Day - Proof that the federal Liberals gun control scheme does not work . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column - TIME TO SCRAP GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • National Post Editorial - Don't fix the gun registry -- kill it . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Column - It's nothing more than half-assed tinkering with total failure. Even . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail Column - Liberals might have been better off letting this dog lie . . .  click here
  • National Post - 'Explosive' study: medical errors kill 24,000 a year: Human & financial costs: Rate of 'adverse events' is double that in U.S. hospitals . . . click here
  • Windsor Star - Gun registry no comfort to Canadians: Half polled believe program an expensive gimmick . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column - McLellan deaf to western voices: Edmonton MP listening to central Canadian gun-registry zealots . . . click here
  • Vancouver Province Editorial - In other words: How many MRIs will $25millon buy? . . . click here
  • OFAH NEWS RELEASE - Federal government betrays hunters, farmers, firearms owners and taxpayers . . . click here
  • Edmonton Journal - Alberta shoots down Ottawa's 'disappointing' gun registry reforms: $25M a year could have been spent fighting crime, provincial justice minister says . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun Editorial: ANNE'S GUN CHANGES MAKE HANCOCK ILL . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen Editorial: Too little, too late on the gun registry . . . click here
  • London Free Press Editorial: Half measures on gun registry . . . click here
  • Vancouver Province Editorial: Forget the cuts to gun registry, cut the registry . . . click here
  • Edmonton Journal Editorial: Liberals fire blanks at gun registry . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Editiorial: Gun law 'fix' will backfire . . . click here
  • Regina Leader Post Editorial: Registry reform changes little . . . click here
  • Victoria Times Colonist Editorial: A bad idea gets tweaked . . . click here
  • Victoria Times Colonist Editorial - Pursue criminals, not gun owners: Firearms registry needs a drastic overhaul, with a new focus on weapons used in offences . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - Gun registry remains under Criminal Code: Last-ditch lobbying by urban MPs defeats effort to ease law's burden . . . click here
  • Toronto Star - Liberals set sights on gun registry rules: "I think it's all tinkering," said Roger Gallaway (Sarnia-Lambton) . . . click here
  • Western Standard: Criminalizing fishing tackle is a ‘looney’ idea . . . click here
  • Regina Leader-Post Column: Research is flawed, suspect and thin . . . click here
  • Montreal Gazette Column: Canada needs informed-consent law on abortion: Fundamental principle of patient care. Women need complete information when making reproductive choices . . . click here
  • Montreal Gazette Editorial: Time to dump the gun registry . . . click here
  • National Post: 61.6% of voters strongly opposed to gun registry: poll . . .  click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial: Calling the minister . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column: Britain proves gun control is wrong: Gun crime nearly doubled after law-abiding Brits surrendered their handguns . . . click here
  • Calgary Sun Column: ALBERTA INJUSTICE - QUEBEC HAS LESSON TO TEACH ABOUT DEFENDING OUR RIGHTS . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun Column: OSCAR AND DOUG STICK TO THEIR GUNS . . . click here
  • National Post Column: Marching for life in Ottawa . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - Gun registry office rent has critics up in arms: $1.3M tab for Ottawa office tower headquarters half of total spent on 27 locations nationwide . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Free Press Editorial - A Liberal mess . . . click here
  • Toronto Star: Mystery "firearms" contract subject of charges . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald: MP has little faith in overhaul of gun registry . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen: Groupaction paid $3.3M for gun registry ads: Liberal-friendly ad firm received contracts even after auditor general raised concerns . . . click here
  • National Post: Liberals considering four main proposals to fix the $1-billion gun registry . . . click here
  • Canadian Sportfishing Industry Association Newsletter May 2004: Proposed Federal Fishing Tackle Ban . . . click here
  • Outdoor Canada Magazine News - Weight Loss: Ottawa draws fire from tackle makers over its surprise bid to ban lead jigs and sinkers  by Aaron Kylie . . . click here
  • Outdoor Canada Magazine Column - The politics of lead: So Long, Sinkers by Patrick Walsh, Editor . . . click here
  • Outdoor Canada Magazine Column - Heavy-Handed: Why Ottawa’s proposed ban on lead tackle has gone over like a lead balloon by Al Stewart . . . click here
  • Blue Line Magazine: Montreal gangs 'locked and loaded' . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • Edmonton Journal Editorial: Gun-Registry muddle frustrating . . . click here
  • Windsor Star Editorial - Health 'tax': Get rid of the real waste . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen Column: You say there's an epidemic of gun violence? Prove it . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN: FEDS SPENT $2M ON GUN-LIST ADS . . . click here
  • CTV NATIONAL: Groupaction received millions of dollars for "creative services" from the Canada Firearms Centre. . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial: Revolvers, the fourth R . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial - Protecting the unborn: U.S. may be pushing fetal rights too far, but at least they're having the debate . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald - Air farce: Gun registry could take the wind out of recreational target pistols . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY HAS COST RURAL CANADIANS DEARLY: BREITKREUZ . . . click here
  • Edmonton Journal - Judge's ruling not a call to arms, Alberta gov't says . . . click here
  • Peter Worthington Column: WHO CALLS WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL ... CANADA PUT TO SHAME WITH CHANGE IN CHINA . . .  click here
  • Toronto Star Editorial: Judging gun offences . . . click here
  • National Post Editorial: Misfiring on crime . . . click here
  • Toronto Star: One city's war against guns; . . . click here
  • LifeSite NEWS - House Motion Proposes New Criminal Offence for Murdering an Unborn Child . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail: Right to private property enshrined in Chinese constitution (BUT NOT CANADA'S!) . . . click here
  • Link Byfield Column: FORGET FIREWALL WHAT CANADA BADLY NEEDS IS SMALLER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Free Press - Homicide doesn't apply to the unborn . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN EDITORIAL: THROW THE BOOK AT 'EM  . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: A 'TOO-DANGEROUS' REGISTRY? . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN EDITORIAL: OF GANGS, GUNS AND DENIAL . . . click here
  • Linda Williamson Column - FIRST, WE'VE GOT TO CONTROL THE CRIMINALS . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - Gun registry review not likely before election: . . . click here
  • The Moncton Times and Transcript Editorial - Just scrap the gun registry . . . click here
  • Moncton Times and Transcript: Sweeping changes to gun registry on way, says Liberal; Program will remain, but will be decriminalized, less demanding on gun owners . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: SEEING RED - STREETS RUN WITH BLOOD, BUT IT'S OUR COPS WHO FEEL HANDCUFFED . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Editorial: TOO LIBERAL ON CRIME . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Column - So much for that theory . . . click here
  • Linda Williamson Column: ELECTION AMMO TO WOO VOTES, MARTIN MAY TINKER WITH HATED GUN REGISTRY . . . click here 
  • Edmonton Sun Column: Why is it that Canada's $1-billion-plus gun registry failed in this case? . . . click here
  • Regina Leader Post Editorial: Only one thing will do that: Ending the program. . . click here
  • National Post Editorial - Stopping gun crime . . . click here
  • Vancouver Province - MORE PROOF THAT GUN REGISTRATION DOESN'T WORK . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - Gun registry to cost another $100M this year; will exceed $1B: 'Scandalous' forecast could climb further, Alliance MP says . . . click here
  • Don Martin Column: Farcical to tinker with gun registry . . . click here
  • February 19, 2004 - WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH - ANNE McLELLAN OR CBC? . . . click here
  • National Post - Registry $20M over budget despite controls: Canada Firearms Centre: Martin's review could cause delay, adding to cost . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column - SINKER BAN A STINKER . . . click here
  • CBC: ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN GUNS IN CANADA . . . click here
  • National Post Editorial: The quiet scandal of the gun registry . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial: Policy misfire . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun: REPORT: $2B FOR GUN ROLL - 'SCANDALOUS' WASTE OF MONEY, MP SAYS . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun - BRITISH CONTROLS NOT BULLETPROOF . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun - T.O. COPS CUFFED BY SYSTEM . . . click here
  • Toronto Star - Gun registry costs $2B, CBC reports . . . click here
  • Regina Leader Post - Critics upset with 'shotgun' Regina meeting . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: GUNS AND GUN OWNERS AREN'T SCARY, OUR LINDA LEARNS - BUT GUN CRIMINALS ARE . . . click here
  • WHY ISN’T ED HUDSON IN JAIL?  AND, WHY DOES HE STILL HAVE 40 UNREGISTERED GUNS IN HIS HOUSE?  . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column - Liberal core voters now the only supporters of gun registry: The rest of Canadians see it for what it is, a huge sinkhole for tax dollars . . . click here
  • Globe and Mail Editorial - The gun registry is a test of Martin's democracy . . . click here
  • National Post - Taking gun registry out of criminal code would make law more palatable: Easter memo to Martin . . . click here
  • National Post - Confusion grows over free vote on gun registry: Government House leader appears to reverse position . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column - SINK HOLE - PM SENDING MORE TAX DOLLARS DOWN THE GUN REGISTRY DRAIN . . . click here
  • Calgary Herald Editorial - Caught in the crosshairs: Prime minister's two-step on free votes will cost him rural support . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Editorial - GRIT MPS UNDER THE GUN . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Editorial - WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GUNSMOKE . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen - Female MPs oppose death of gun registry: . . .  click here
  • Globe and Mail - Rejection of free vote on gun registry under fire . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Free Press - No free vote on gun registry, Grit tells . . . click here
  • National Post - Natives seek exemption from gun registry: Court challenge: Law violates hunting rights, says Saskatchewan group  . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY IS NOT KEEPING GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN'T HAVE THEM! . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Gun registry rests on free vote: 'Financial malnutrition' could kill beleaguered program, [LIBERAL]MP contends . . . click here
  • Montreal Gazette Column: Time to protect Canadians' right to property: Martin should give commitment.  Liberal balks at idea of amending constitution to protect fundamental right . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN - SYSTEM BLAMED FOR GUN IN MAIL . . . click here
  • CALGARY SUN COLUMN - ALBERTA COULD KILL GUN REGISTRY -- IF IT ONLY USED ITS POWERS . . . click here
  • Chronicle-Herald Column: Gunning for common-sense legislation . . . click here
  • TORONTO POLICE CHIEF JULIAN FANTINO: "84% of the people we arrest for gun-related offences are all career criminals." . . . click here
  • Calgary Sun Column: COLUMNIST IS SUGGESTING RULE OF LAW BE SUBVERTED . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: MISFIRE! THE GUN REGISTRY ISN'T WORKING, AND CHIEFS LIKE FANTINO KNOW . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Column: Anti-gun lobbyists fail to link social ills to crime . . . click here
  • Financial Times - BRITISH CRIME SURVEY: Ministers accused of spin after violence rise . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column - Mounties were out to bully reporter: The question is: who ordered the over-the-top raid? . . . click here
  • Halifax Daily News Column - As gun ownership declines, home invasions increase . . . click here
  • CALGARY SUN COLUMN - GUN REGISTRY PROSECUTION RESTS WITH ALBERTA JUSTICE MINISTER . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Column: Opponents of gun law won't surrender rights . . . click here
  • Ottawa Citizen Column: Here's something you'll really like: the government's plans for a biometric national ID card . . . click here
  • Globe & Mail Column: Canada's gun legislation is a double-barrelled disaster . . . click here
  • Windsor Star Editorial: Rifle registry; One option for supporters . . . click here
  • Saskatoon Star Phoenix Editorial: Admit failure of gun policy . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column: Why Senate reform won't happen under Martin . . . click here
  • CBC - Rex Murphy Column: The gun registry: A billion dollar bag of perfect uselessness . . . click here
  • Edmonton Journal: Can Paul Martin stop the gun battle and win the West? . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun Column: I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • Edmonton Sun Column: GUN REGISTRY BREEDS CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW . . . click here
  • Breitkreuz's Letter to Vancouver Sun - Paul Martin was part of the government that kept the gun registry going . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun Editorial: EASY TEST FOR MARTIN . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: MAYBE OUR PROBLEM'S NOT ENOUGH GUNS . . . click here
  • Calgary Sun Column: LET OSCAR GO - WAR VET FACING GUN CHARGE IS MERELY DOING HIS DUTY . . . click here
  • Lorne Gunter Column: Globe provides cover for Martin: Much-touted review of gun registry is designed to keep issue out of campaign . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Column: GUN CONTROL? OUT OF CONTROL!  MARTIN ADMITS THE REGISTRY NEEDS REVIEW, BUT HE WON'T SCRAP IT . . . click here
  • Broadcast News - Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm says simply "tinkering'' with the federal gun registry is not the answer . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Sun - MANITOBA JUSTICE MINISTER: "Nothing short of shutting down the registry before the next federal election should suffice." . . . click here
  • London Free Press Editorial - GUN REGISTRY TEST FOR MARTIN . . . click here
  • Winnipeg Free Press Editorial - Practical gun control . . .click here
  • Vancouver Sun Editorial - The best 'review' of the gun registry is to scrap it entirely: That makes the most fiscal and political sense for the new PM . . . click here
  • Globe & Mail Editorial - It's time to dismantle the national gun registry . . . click here
  • TORONTO SUN EDITORIAL: NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GUNS . . . click here
  • NATIONAL POST: Claire Hoy Column: Gangsters (duh) don't register guns . . . click here
  • GLOBE & MAIL: Martin targets gun registry: ANALYSIS: Why don't the Liberals just kill it off? It's politics, writes JOHN IBBITSON . . . click here
  • GLOBE & MAIL: Martin targets gun registry: NEWS: A major overhaul is likely as Ottawa begins review, sources tell JANE TABER . . . click here
  • POLICE UNION WANTS GUN REGISTRY SCRAPPED . . . click here
  • CALGARY HERALD EDITORIAL: How many consultants does it take to fix a flawed gun registry? . . . click here
  • Toronto Sun Editorial: LET'S MAKE SHOOTERS THE TARGET . . . . click here
  • OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER PAUL MARTIN . . . click here 

2004 - information

  • STATISTICS CANADA: The specific impact of the firearms program or the firearms registry cannot be isolated from that of other factors. . . . click here
  • FIREARMS CENTRE SEEMS UNCONCERNED ABOUT TWO YEAR SUSPENSION OF GUN REGISTRATION FOR NUNAVUT INUIT . . . click here
  • CFC's REASONS WHY 190,892 FIREARMS “EXPIRED” . . . click here
  • SEVENTEEN FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • December 9, 2004 - BREITKREUZ & MacKAY EXPOSE LIBERAL LIES ABOUT GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • December 9, 2004 - HOW DID YOUR MP VOTE ON FUNDING FOR THE GUN REGISTRY? . . . click here
  • December 8, 2004 - FOUR MORE TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR THE LIBERALS . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY PROMISES:  WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE THE LIBERALS NOW? December 7, 2004 . . . click here
  • FIREARMS COMMISSIONER BILL BAKER ADMITS: 176,000 PERSONS PROHIBITED FROM OWNING GUNS "NO LONGER EFFECTIVELY COVERED BY FIREARMS ACT." . . . click here
  • LIBERAL RESPONSE TO Q-18 - GUN REGISTRY WILL NOT BE FULLY IMPLEMENTED UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2007 . . . click here
  • LIBERAL RESPONSE TO Q-17 - PRIVATIZATION OF GUN REGISTRY UNDER REVIEW . . . click here
  • 282,847 SAFETY COURSES FOR 2 MILLION FIREARM LICENCE HOLDERS . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • 5,069,780 UNVERIFIED FIREARMS IN BILLION-DOLLAR+ GUN REGISTRY . . . click here  (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download) NOTE:  In August of 1999, one of five demands by the Canadian Police Association was: "The accuracy of the information that is collected in the firearms registration database be verified.'
  • Environics Poll: Attitudes toward Abortion - October 12, 2004 . . . click here
  • November 25, 2004 -  LIBERALS MAKE VETERANS PAY $60 FOR A FIREARMS LICENCE . . . click here
  • November 24, 2004 - BREITKREUZ MOVES MOTIONS TO TRANSFER $20 MILLION FROM GUN REGISTRY TO FRONT-LINE POLICE PRIORITIES . . . click here
  • LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT REPORT: AN ANALYSIS OF A STUDY ENTITLED “HOW THE FIREARMS ACT (BILL C-68) VIOLATES THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS” . . . click here
  • November 17, 2004 - BREITKREUZ EXPOSES JUSTICE DEPT. FOOT DRAGGING ON GUN REGISTRY LITIGATION COSTS . . . click here
  • CFC Address Change Report - 1999-2004 . . . click here
  • STATISTICS CANADA: FIREARM HOMICIDES, BY TYPE OF FIREARM AND REGISTRATION STATUS, 1997-2003 . . . click here
    NOTE: In 2003, 71% of the 548 victims were murdered using       something other than a firearm.
  • STATISTICS CANADA: ROBBERIES BY WEAPON PRESENT & LEVEL OF INJURY, 2003 . . . click here
  • STATISTICS CANADA REPORT: GUN REGISTRY AIMED AT THE WRONG TARGET . . . click here
  • November 4, 2004 - Privacy Commissioner's Update: The Canadian Firearms Program . . . click here
  • November 4, 2004 - Privacy Commissioner's Report: Stolen computers raise privacy concerns . . . click here
  • RCMP NOW HAVE 4,156,497 ACTIVE FILES IN THEIR FIREARMS INTEREST POLICE (FIP) DATABASE . . . click here
  • IMPORT AND EXPORT PERMITS ISSUED FOR FIREARMS & AMMUNITION . . . click here
  • UPDATE ON NUNAVUT COURT CHALLENGE OF THE FIREARMS ACT . . . click here
  • HOW MANY GUN OWNERS CHANGED ADDRESSES? FIREARMS CENTRE DOESN'T KNOW! . . . click here
  • CFC REPORT: Deactivated, Destroyed, Exported and "Expired" Firearms = 834,706 . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • Library of Parliament Report: IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION OF FIREARMS BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES . . . click here
  • Library of Parliament Report: POLICE OFFICERS AS FIREARMS VERIFIERS . . . click here
  • LIBERALS HAVE NO EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING A NEED FOR MORE REGULATIONS FOR HANDLOADING AMMUNITION . . . click here
  • WHAT POLICE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE GUN REGISTRY - Revised: December 14, 2004
  • October 28, 2004 - LIBERAL GUN REGISTRY TAKES PRIORITY OVER RCMP DNA REGISTRY! . . . click here
  • WHO POLICE SHOULD BE TRACKING INSTEAD OF TWO MILLION LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNERS . . . click here
  • STATISTICS CANADA: UPDATED DOMESTIC HOMICIDE TABLES . . . click here
  • October 14, 2004 - BREITKREUZ'S FOUR FIREARMS QUESTIONS KEEP LIBERALS' FEET TO THE FIRE . . . click here
  • STATISTICS CANADA REPORT: GUN REGISTRY AIMED AT THE WRONG TARGET . . . click here
  • October 6, 2004 - Motion M-70 - Guaranteeing a Woman's Right to Know All the Risks of Having an Abortion . . . click here
  • October 6, 2004 - Motion M-69 - Requiring an Auditor General Public Safety Test for All Firearms Legislation . . . click here
  • Statistics Canada: Homicides in Canada, 1974-2003 . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • Library of Parliament: The Effect of the Unconstitutionality of the Ontario Sex Offender Registry on the Rights of Firearm Owners. . . click here
  • FIREARMS CENTRE ADMITS MANY GUN REGISTRY ADDRESSES MAY BE UP TO 5 YEARS OUT-OF-DATE . . . click here
  • PROVINCIAL FUNDING OF PRIVATE ABORTION CLINICS . . . click here
  • 378,986 GUN SALES BLOCKED IN U.S.A. WITHOUT A GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • TOTAL EMPLOYED BY THE GUN REGISTRY - UNKNOWN . . . click here
  • ENFORCEMENT OF FIREARM PROHIBITION ORDERS: "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police does not track such statistics" . . . click here
  • LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY OF THE CHIEF FIREARMS OFFICER TO ENFORCE SHOOTING RANGE GUIDELINES . . . click here
  • LATEST NON-COMPLIANCE STATISTICS FROM CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE . . . click here
  • JUSTICE MINISTER PASSES THE BUCK ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE FIREARMS ACT . . . click here
  • MORE PROOF GUN REGISTRATION DOESN’T WORK . . . click here
  • NWEST REPORTS TO RCMP INCOMPLETE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER CONFIRMS . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY PROBLEMS NOT BEING FIXED: INFORMATION COMMISSIONER . . . click here
  • SURPRISE, SURPRISE: REGISTERING GUNS DOESN’T KEEP THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS - Updated: July 20, 2004 . . . click here
  • RECORDS ON HANDGUN CARRY PERMITS SHOW UP AFTER 14 MONTHS .  .  . click here
  • AUTHORIZATION TO CARRY PERMITS, BY PROVINCE, 1999-2002 . . . click here
  • INFORMATION COMMISSIONER SLAMS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RECORD KEEPING ON GUN REGISTRY POLLING CONTRACT...click here
  • National Post Column: The Liberals just don't get it . . . click here
  • OFAH NEWS RELEASE - Federal government betrays hunters, farmers, firearms owners and taxpayers . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY’S NATIONAL COMPLIANCE STRATEGY IS STILL NOT IN PLACE . . . click here
  • MAJOR FIREARMS CONTRACTS THE LIBERALS HAVE ADMITTED TO . . . click here
  • ANNE McLELLAN SAYS FIREARMS LICENCING COSTS MORE THAN FIREARMS REGISTRATION . . . click here
  • CRIMES COMMITTED WITH REGISTERED HANDGUNS? . . . click here
  • 409 GUNS REPORTED LOST BY AND STOLEN FROM DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE . . . click here
  • Library of Parliament Study: THE BENEFITS OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP . . . click here
  • April 22, 2004 - Firearms Act & Regulations: Coming Into Force Information . . . click here
  • FIREARMS REGISTERED TO INDIVIDUALS, BY PROVINCE AS OF MARCH 5, 2004 . . . click here
  • MORE INFORMATION THE CFC SAYS THEY DON'T HAVE!!! . . .click here
  • PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY CONTRADICTS PRIME MINISTER ON FREE VOTES FOR THE GUN REGISTRY! . . . click here
  • $2.2 MILLION IN CONTRACTS FOR FIREARMS CENTRE IN 2003 . . . click here
  • March 24, 2004 - ARE FIREARMS PROHIBITION ORDERS BEING ENFORCED? . . click here
  • NUMBER OF GUNS DESTROYED BY POLICE? . . . click here
  • WHAT THE LIBERALS FAILED TO TELL US ABOUT THE COST AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUN REGISTRY! . . . click here
  • GUN REGISTRY HAS COST RURAL CANADIANS DEARLY: BREITKREUZ . . . click here
  • FIREARMS PROGRAM SPENDING FOR 2004-2005 = $100,268,000 + INDIRECT COSTS . . . click here
  • RCMP REPORT 37,090 RESTRAINING ORDERS IN CANADA . . . click here
  • # OF TIMES LIBERALS FAILED TO ANSWER OUR "COST" QUESTIONS = 26 Documented as of: Updated November 24, 2004 . . . click here
  • RCMP REPORT: 306 BREACHES OF CPIC SYSTEM SINCE 1995 - 121 BREACHES STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • December 5, 2003 - AUDITOR GENERAL CONFIRMS NO AUDIT OF GUN REGISTRY FOR THREE YEARS . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • February 9, 2004 - SPEAKER RULES: NOT HIS ROLE "TO JUDGE THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION" . . . click here
  • "POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS – FIREARMS PROGRAM" by William V. Baker, Commissioner of Firearms - Memorandum to the Minister, Bilateral Meeting, November 3, 2003. . . click here
  • FIREARMS LICENCE REFUSALS AND CANCELLATIONS BY PROVINCE - DECEMBER 31, 2003 . . . click here (Requires Acrobat Reader-Free Download)
  • February 3, 2003 - LIBERAL GOVERNMENT IN CONTEMPT FOR TABLING FIREARMS REPORT WITH FALSE STATEMENTS: BREITKREUZ . . . click here
  • February 1, 2004 - NEW IPSOS-REID POLL: 43% SUPPORT THE GUN REGISTRY . . . click here
  • February 3, 2004 - BREITKREUZ QUESTIONS FIREARMS PROGRAM'S COST AND EFFECTIVENESS (AGAIN!) . . . click here
  • CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE'S NATIONAL COMPLIANCE STRATEGY & PROGRAM . . . click here
  • NUMBER OF GUNS REGISTERED & UNREGISTERED AS OF JANUARY 8, 2004 . . . click here
  • FIREARMS LICENCES BY PROVINCE AS OF JANUARY 3, 2004 . . . click here
  • WHY IS TREASURY BOARD HIDING GUN REGISTRY COSTS FROM PARLIAMENT? . . . click here
  • WHY IS FOREIGN AFFAIRS HIDING GUN REGISTRY COSTS FROM PARLIAMENT? . . . click here
  • OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER PAUL MARTIN . . . click here