Handgun Sales Jump in Canada

[Father Knows Best]

http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/story/ed_handgun-sales-20051219.html:

Handgun sales on the rise
Last updated Dec 19 2005 07:49 AM MST
CBC News
Gun shop owners say handgun sales in Edmonton are skyrocketing since Prime Minister Paul Martin's promise to ban them.

The Liberal Leader made the promise a few weeks ago during a campaign stop in Toronto.

Phil Harnois is a former police officer who now owns a gun shop. Since the Liberal announcement, he says handgun sales have increased dramatically.

He says his distributors have virtually nothing left in their warehouses, something that is very unusual.

"There's always some odd piece here or there depending on the time of year," he told CBC News.

Harnois says the Liberal promise has pushed people to buy guns before the ban is imposed.

The Liberals say the goal of the handgun ban is to make communities safer.

 

[Janitor]

Gun shop owners say handgun sales in Edmonton are skyrocketing since Prime Minister Paul Martin's promise to ban them.

What can I say but:

The Liberals say the goal of the handgun ban is to make communities safer.

Well ...

... never mind. Way too easy.
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[Thefabulousfink]

Buy more handguns, then the day that the ban passes (God forbid), report all your guns stolen. Then just make sure you keep them well hidden when the police come to collect your "illegal" weapons.

It's a bad situation all around when you have to break the law to protect your family. But, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

A handgun in every home, it's for the children.

 

[1 old 0311]

CANADA IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just look at Washington D.C., New York, or Chicago.............................Oh never mind

Kevin

 

[Lucky]

Over 90% of the firearms charges are for improper storage. In my province, which aiui is one of the lenient ones, a handgun must be locked in a case, preferably with a trigger lock on it, or else have the case in a locked room or compartment. And the ammunition must be seperate. But this is just people trying to safely interpret vague laws. Many charges doesn't necessarily = many covictions.

And ideas of using a handgun for home-defence are, as you can see, not recommended...

Where I am the most lenient situation is for remote wilderness areas, or predator control. For predator control as an example, you can have a rifle and a loaded magazine accessible and unlocked, but the magazine must be out of the rifle. That's reasonable, imo.

Heh, maybe they just need to re-think how one defines predator

 

[Alex45ACP]

I don't understand why people say "When guns are banned, just hide them from the police". If they have to be hidden, what's the point of keeping them?

I don't know about you guys, but in my opinion, guns are the most useful once they've been banned, if you know what I mean.

"If it's time to bury them, it's time to dig them up."

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

If nothing else, they'll be worth more after the ban. Black market prices are generally higher than free market prices.

Of course, there's always that risk of going to jail....

 

[Standing Wolf]

Good for you, Canadians!

 

[fourays2]

I forsee a lot of tragic boating accidents north of the border.

 

[IndianaDean]

Alberta has wanted to secede for quite some time. I say let's get them, British Columbia, the NW territories and the Yukon to secede and become US states. Then we'd have a solid US front up to Alaska.

 

[bjbarron]

Alberta has wanted to secede for quite some time. I say let's get them, British Columbia, the NW territories and the Yukon to secede and become US states. Then we'd have a solid US front up to Alaska.

Nice as that would sound, the SCOC ruled unilateral sucession to be unconstitutional in 1997.

If it ever did happen, I could see the western provinces forming a country of their own, but they're too tied to the crown and too proud of being hosers to join the US. Be a hell of a country tho. Wild people in a wild country.

 

[choochboost]

That's why I'm never going back to my homeland. I'm with IndianaDean...the US should take over Canada's western provinces.

 

[lysander]

Failure to recognize the law of unintended consequences strikes the gun-grabbers once again.

Nothing drives sales like Prohibition!!!

 

[IndianaDean]

If they were to secede and form the country you mention then, I'll be looking into moving there.

Besides, so what if the SCOC said it was unconstitutional? It was probably unconsitutional by Columbian law for Panama to break away from Columbia. Teddy Roosevelt wanted to build the Canal though, so he sent gun boats to ensure Panama's illegal declaration would happen. Why would we be any different in this day and age of the mentioned Canadian provinces wanted to illegally break away from Canada?

 

[Lionhill]

That's why I'm never going back to my homeland. I'm with IndianaDean...the US should take over Canada's western provinces.

Quite frankly - I'd welcome you to do so. Things are so mixed up here with this welfare state, safe heroin injection sites, liberal judges giving 12 month sentences for murder - we need a political enema.

LH

 

[PromptCritical]

This reminds me of a passage in "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic", written by our own "Travis McGee" (Matthew Bracken), where all semi-auto rifles are about to be banned and an ATF agent is in a gunstore absolutely freaking out because the store is sold out of all the rifles that will be contraband in less than a week. He says something to the effect of, "Why the heck are people buying things they will have to turn in next week? It makes no sense!"

I laughed out loud reading that...

I am also reminded every year that the spirit of revolution is still, in part, alive and well when I watch dozens of displays of illegal fireworks. It warms my heart to see such an obvious (and beautiful) contempt for stupid laws.

 

[Janitor]

Besides, so what if the SCOC said it was unconstitutional?

Agreed. Our government manages to neatly sidestep the constitution here in the US. Would it be that much harder north of the border?
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[fourays2]

If they were to secede and form the country you mention then, I'll be looking into moving there.

Besides, so what if the SCOC said it was unconstitutional? It was probably unconsitutional by Columbian law for Panama to break away from Columbia. Teddy Roosevelt wanted to build the Canal though, so he sent gun boats to ensure Panama's illegal declaration would happen. Why would we be any different in this day and age of the mentioned Canadian provinces wanted to illegally break away from Canada?

it's not like the Cannucks have a credible army to stop their citizens from secceding.

 

[AirForceShooter]

now I know why all my canadien freinds are asking me to come and visit.

AFS

 

[Sleeping Dog]

Besides, so what if the SCOC said it was unconstitutional? It was probably unconsitutional by Columbian law for Panama to break away from Columbia. Teddy Roosevelt wanted to build the Canal though, so he sent gun boats to ensure Panama's illegal declaration would happen. Why would we be any different in this day and age?

Teddy's not here.

 

[Atticus]

I'm not suprised. I'm not sure that I (or a million other people in the US) would of developed an interest in so called 'assualt rifles' had it not been for Bill Clinton. All I can say is, "Thanks Bill!"