The BC government recently rushed Bill 4 (the Firearm Violence Prevention Act) into law claiming it was an attempt to deal with drug and gang violence. Unfortunately, this poorly designed bill . . .
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March 8, 2021
New measures to curb gun violence will help police: MLA
The Firearm Violence Prevention Act (Bill 4) introduced in the B.C. Legislature late last week takes aim at reducing options to buy, transport or possess real and imitation firearms in the province.
“We are putting expert advice into practice to reduce shootings related to gangs and the drug trade. These new measures targeting illegal and imitation firearms will give police additional tools and help make our communities safer,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. “At the same time, we recognize most firearm owners in B.C. are law abiding. As such, these changes should have little to no impact on them.”
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Climate change has been in the cross-hairs of many progressives for decades. To be fair and unbiased, climate change is a real thing, however it might not be exactly what our freedom hating friends are eluding to. Anti-civil rights policies and laws are sweeping the globe, and the climate is indeed changing; the political climate. Our neighbors to the north are no different, with measures being introduced to strip their citizens from their privileges to keep and bear arms. In the United States there are many who’d love to turn our enumerated rights into privileges to be doled out and played with at the whim of the government, but the keeping and bearing of arms is a right here, unlike in Canada.
by Martin Dunphy on March 5th, 2021 at 5:14 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
New firearms legislation proposed by the B.C. government is aimed at tackling gang- and drug trade-related shootings.
Bill 4, formally titled the Firearm Violence Prevention Act, is drafted from recommendations that came out of the provincial Illegal Firearms Task Force, which tabled its report in 2017.
The task force was announced in 2016 after a spike in firearms-related homicides and attempted homicides related to gang violence and the drug trade , according to the report s introduction.
The report noted that there had been more than 2,000 incidents involving the criminal use of firearms in B.C. in 2015.