This is just the latest from Brian Lilley on the seizure of registered weapons from law-abiding citizens. This is what the Liberal gun registry has allowed, but our “Conservative” government isn’t preventing:
If you want more information on this topic, start here with: Abuse of power by the unelected:
Hundreds of Canadians who followed the law and registered their legally purchased firearms with the gun registry are now seeing those very same rifles taken away by government order.
It seems odd this would happen just ahead of the gun registry’s demise. But lawyer Ed Burlew, who has represented many people in cases involving the registry, said on my show Byline that police forces across the country appear to be stepping up their raids on the homes of gun owners before they lose access to the registry.
This is outrageous abuse by unelected bureaucrats: As Lilley says, there’s a problem with allowing the people who enforce our laws to also change the law. We elect politicians for that purpose.
Well, that article ticked off the RCMP, which prompted this next item from Brian Lilley: Way off-target:
The seizure of private property by the government with no compensation — when did that become a Canadian value? As I said, the Mounties are upset I’ve spilled the beans on their neat little weapons seizure program.
“This is simply not correct,” wrote Pierre Perron, assistant commissioner, director general, Canadian Firearms Program.
“All firearms in Canada are classified pursuant to the criteria outlined in subsection 84 (1) of the Criminal Code and associated Regulations made by the Governor in Council. In all cases of classification, we are simply enforcing the law.” That’s all very nice, but the law allows the RCMP and the Canadian Firearms Centre to reclassify firearms and ban them. That’s what happened here. Rifles lawfully purchased in the 1980s and registered with the gun registry in 2000 were declared banned years later and ordered surrendered.
Again, Perron disputes the way I put things.
“The Armi Jager AP 80 rifle is a prohibited firearm and always has been,” Perron wrote.
Well, he’d be completely right were he not completely wrong. Only in the rarified bureaucratic world that is Ottawa would Perron’s view of things have any credence.
The AP 80 was never named or listed as a prohibited firearm and hundreds of owners followed the law and registered their rifles.
Who does Perron think he’s kidding? If it was always a prohibited weapon, then owners wouldn’t have been allowed to register it. This guy tells a blatant lie and just gets away with it?
Return to the video at the top of this page… If you got one of these illiberal property confiscation letters, don’t comply — challenge this order.
And non-gun owners should speak out too. Send your thoughts to Brian Lilley: Byline@SunMedia.ca
Plus, write your MP, the PM, and Vic Toews (Minister of Public Safety).
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I find it a bit disturbing that the Canadian right are just waking up to what the Liberal gun law (bill C68) is and does. Ferkrissake, gun owners reached out to the public during C68′s passage and in the decade following it’s implementation. Responsible gun owners held the 2 largest protest rallies parliament hill ever saw. They consistently down played the registry as just a waste of money – that the real threat to gun owners (and all Canadians) was that C68 criminalized non-criminal activity and negated at least 7 charter legal rights in its regulatory regime – as well as being based on the negation of private property rights. We have repeated this like a mantra to anyone who would listen for over a decade, and now it’s news?
Folks, there are at least 8 pieces of federal statute from drug enforcement, police acts, security acts to vitamin supplement regulation to deeding and taxing regimes which obliterate charter legal and property rights as badly as the gun law – however, as we “gun nuts” predicted, C68 was the watershed law which precipitated all these other laws. It was the test case to see if Canadians were awake and conscious of their rights being routinely violated by agenda driven legislating. It was also a test to see if non gun owning Canadians would stand up for the rights of gun owners being violated. Well you see the answers in the free speech violating laws, property violating laws and privacy, mobility and legal right violating laws and their abusive police enforcement. You didn’t fight this was taking a foot hold. Duck hunters and their shot guns being criminalized was the canary in the coal mine – and Canadian media and Canadians failed the test.
It is however, heartening to see some liberty minded right try to reverse this injustice several years after the fact – but the point remains it’s an uphill struggle and it would have been much easier to have never let these violations occur in the first place. You must ALWAYS remember; when dealing with government heavy handedness that we must hang together or we will surely be hung separately. Big government and the treacherous autocrats who run it like to divide and conquer – they pick first on politically unpopular groups/individuals first and work their way towards repressing the majority. We must stand vigilant when ANY group or individual (popular or not) have their rights attacked legislatively or judicially by treacherous agenda driven bureaucrats. If we don’t we will all share their fate sooner or later – this is a lesson of history that Canadians are either ignorant of or were never taught.
Gun owners were the convenient kick boy for autocratic leftist lawmakers for decades, no one would defend them, now those chickens are coming home to roost in a host of rights-killing law and administration which affects a vastly larger majority.
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