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They say that the internet is forever. Apparently, so is a gun registry.
You see, in Canada, they had a long gun registry. It was a complete disaster and eventually, lawmakers up that way voted to kill it. It was a major win for gun rights in Canada.
A year after Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his sweeping ban on firearms, shocking new revelations have emerged concerning the repudiated long gun registry and the federal police agency responsible for implementing and enforcing Canada’s gun laws.
According to reports by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and news media, there is good reason to believe that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has retained the long gun registry records.
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When criminal defence lawyer Ed Burlew was sifting through the documents sent over by a Crown prosecutor regarding his client, one jumped out. It was proof that the RCMP had kept a copy of the gun registry despite Parliament ordering it destroyed in 2012.
The long-gun registry was brought into being in 1995 with Bill C-68 but was done away with after the passage of Bill C-19 in 2012.
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Yet, here was Burlew looking at a document from 2019 with information that could only have come from the registry.
iPolitics By Tim Naumetz. Published on Apr 12, 2021 5:50pm Guns turned over to police in Waterloo, Ont., during their November 2017 gun-amnesty program (Waterloo Regional Police Service/ Twitter)
Reports that the governing Liberals plan to beef up a regime to monitor and control semi-automatic rifles which were prohibited in a sweeping ban last year are being panned by both sides in the ongoing battle between firearm owners and gun-control advocates.
After Ottawa was severely criticized for backtracking new legislation last February that would allow gun owners to keep their firearms locked up at home and unusable, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association has reported inside information about new proposals that include firearm-lockup systems monitored by police.
Firearm owners, gun-control advocates disagree on why gun violence is up By Tim Naumetz. Published on Feb 5, 2021 6:48pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to unveil his government s latest bid to strengthen Canada s gun control laws this morning. (Canada Border Services Agency handout photo)
Statistics Canada reported that the number of violent firearm offences in Canada jumped by 21 per cent in 2019, the fifth year of rising gun violence in a row, but gun control advocates and firearm lobbies are casting blame on different targets.
The two sides have engaged in a heated online confrontation over the rise, as a Federal Court case over the Trudeau government’s prohibition of thousands of semi-automatic rifles looms in the background.