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01-29-2007, 04:28 PM
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Canadian Press: DENE MOORE
MONTREAL -- The Conservative government is still considering a one-time application for lifetime gun licences, contrary to some victims' demands in the wake of the Montreal college shootings last fall, an aide to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says.
Applicants would still have to fill out the proper forms, provide references and undergo a criminal record check to obtain a licence to possess or acquire a firearm.
After that, only a complaint from the public or a criminal conviction would trigger a review, according to internal RCMP documents obtained using access to information legislation.
"The minister of public safety has indicated that the government is considering introducing a one-time, lifetime licence for firearms ownership and acquisition," say the heavily edited documents.
Currently, a licence has to be renewed every five years.
The documents were produced nine days after Kimveer Gill's shooting spree last Sept. 13 at Dawson College in Montreal, which killed 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa and wounded 20 others.
Gill's mother has said her son was stable when he applied for and received his firearms licence.
All of the guns Gill used in the college shooting were legally owned and registered.
Canadian Press: DENE MOORE
MONTREAL -- The Conservative government is still considering a one-time application for lifetime gun licences, contrary to some victims' demands in the wake of the Montreal college shootings last fall, an aide to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says.
Applicants would still have to fill out the proper forms, provide references and undergo a criminal record check to obtain a licence to possess or acquire a firearm.
After that, only a complaint from the public or a criminal conviction would trigger a review, according to internal RCMP documents obtained using access to information legislation.
"The minister of public safety has indicated that the government is considering introducing a one-time, lifetime licence for firearms ownership and acquisition," say the heavily edited documents.
Currently, a licence has to be renewed every five years.
The documents were produced nine days after Kimveer Gill's shooting spree last Sept. 13 at Dawson College in Montreal, which killed 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa and wounded 20 others.
Gill's mother has said her son was stable when he applied for and received his firearms licence.
All of the guns Gill used in the college shooting were legally owned and registered.