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Old 01-29-2013, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bigbadjoe108 View Post
And although I agree with you in this, I fear the Supreme Court of Canada does not. They have ruled that we do not have the absolute right to firearms in Canada.

http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/news/?id=358
UM, that was an Ontario Court.

IIRC, there was a recent Saskatchewan case that left the door open to make that argument on other grounds?

Here's some things for our courts ponder:

http://www.rkba.ca/c68_charter_violations.html

There have been some disappointing cases, but the door is not shut. If we can ever get past emotions and totems and have these issues decided on fact and principle, we'd get different results, IMO.
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