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Originally Posted by bigbadjoe108
I don't agree with it, but I'm not on the SCC either and they are the ones you need to convince.
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No, I don't agree with that. I/we need to convince a lot of ordinary people to put pressure on their elected representatives to get real, stop passing laws based on fear and repeal the ones they already have.
How can a police officer "pass" a new criminal law? In what country is that permitted?
Failing to read the fine print on their paperwork could land Ontario gun owners in prison.
Ontario's top gun cop made a major change to the rules regarding restricted firearms in the province - and owners are are taking the government appointee to court.
Legal handgun owners must now carry an "invitation" at all times if they are moving firearms between their homes and provincially approved shooting ranges.
This is an addition to making target-shooters move their guns unloaded, with trigger locks and placed in locked boxes in their vehicles with permits.
Those who don't comply face a minimum three-year sentence.
"(The chief firearms officer) has created a new document that is not specified in the Firearms Act and has bestowed criminal arrest powers on that document," said Tony Bernardo, spokesman for the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), one of the groups fighting the change in court. "His job is to administer the law, not to create the law. That's what we supposedly elect politicians to do."
The chief firearms officer said the decision was his to make and gun owners can comply with ease.
"Most of the time, obtaining a written invitation will be easy," chief firearms officer, Ontario Provincial Police Supt. Chris Wyatt, told QMI Agency. "The invitation may simply be a print-out of an e-mail from the member of the host club who has invited the authorization-holder to attend, or it might be a copy of a notice of a competition generated by the host club that invites members of other clubs to attend."
Wyatt said he was "mindful" of the recent killings in Newtown, Conn., when making the change .....
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/28...fend-new-rules
I don't care what he was "mindful" of! He's a cop who's been promoted to a cushy job as a firearms bureaucrat!
When you look at the entire scene, it's absolutely bizarre. Most of us would criticize other countries where the police made laws by fiat.
Good intentions don't matter in this. It's just plain wrong.