Long-gun owners get one-year reprieve

[xd9fan]

FIREARMS REGISTRY
Long-gun owners get one-year reprieve

UNNATI GANDHI

Hundreds of thousands of long-gun owners were quietly given a one-year reprieve by the federal government this week, exempting them from having to get licences for another year, CTV News reported last night.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who have long opposed the Liberal-era federal gun registry but until now have left it on the back burner, say that long-gun owners have until May of 2008 to register their weapons.

"I think it says that the government has realized that the firearms-control system is a big failure and they're buying time to make a major change in firearms control that makes sense," said David Tomlinson of the National Firearms Association.

After the Dawson College shooting in Montreal last fall, Mr. Harper insisted that his government would take action to tighten gun control, but said the shootings demonstrate the long-gun registry does not work.


The Globe and Mail

The regulation change was quietly brought in over the Easter weekend. Instead of issuing a press release or official statement, the government published its Amending Order in the April 7 issue of the Canada Gazette -- the government's "official newspaper."

Under the present Amnesty Order 2006, previously licensed owners of non-restricted firearms have until May 16, 2007, to register their weapons -- "unless it is extended by the Amending Order," reads the Canada Gazette website.

 

[General Geoff]

"The registry isn't working... so please register your weapons. We'll even let you do it without getting in trouble! Pleeeaaase?"

That's all this policy change is saying.

 

[ServiceSoon]

Instead of issuing a press release or official statement, the government published its Amending Order in the April 7 issue of the Canada Gazette -- the government's "official newspaper.

Now that is government working for its people!

 

[Titan6]

When the fed starts gun registration in the US of the estimated 350,000,000 firearms I wonder how long it will take?

 

[cbsbyte]

Isn't this a good thing for gun owners in Canada? They have another year to registister their long arms. During that time the Harper Government will try to figure out a way to do away with the entire gun registry. So hopefully by the time the year is up their won't be any reason to register their guns.

 

[MD_Willington]

Not all Canadians have to register though, IIRC the Inuit are exempt...

Animal Farm and all that ..

 

[LAR-15]

"The registry isn't working... so please register your weapons. We'll even let you do it without getting in trouble! Pleeeaaase?"

That's all this policy change is saying.

WRONG

Harper is biding his time until he has the votes to pass a repeal of the long gun registry.

 

[morcoth]

The last poster was correct, the "Reprieve" actualy means that the gov is giving itself more time, time it needs to fix the problem it created, I dont have the numbers, but Im willing to bet that a very very small number have complied as yet.

Morcoth

 

[wjustinen]

It will be interesting to see if the "repeal of the long-gun registry" co-incides with general application of the provision that requires firearms officers to assess whether owners of restricted and prohibited firearms (handguns and other evil firearms) have been making sufficient use:banghead: of those items for the purpose for which they are registered. At firearms licence renewal time the firearms officer is to make an assessment.

That provision requires that the registrations be cancelled if the firearms officer decides they are not used enough.

Apparently this is not confiscation.:banghead:

I would love to see some evidence that the Conservatives are not anti-gun, but repealing the long-gun registry doesn't qualify as long as the mechanism to take all other firearms away remains solidly in place.