I think many members have touched on CA AW registration. The Canadian link is www.lufa.ca
From Neal Knox report:
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Sept. 26 Neal Knox Report -- The House is expected to take up
the first of what is likely to become a series of appropriations
extensions today, to keep the government running for a week beyond
the Oct. 1 beginning of the 2001 fiscal year. The Senate will
probably take up the bill tomorrow.
House leaders are combining appropriations bills and preparing
to send them to the Senate -- which they hope will speed up the
stalled process and prevent politically divisive amendments such as
firearms restrictions.
The Senate is scheduled to take up three appropriations
conference reports this week but most doubt that anything is going
to pass until Bill Clinton and his friends craft another kitchen
sink, all-agency spending bill that will probably include some gun
provisions -- and which will probably be unstoppable because
Republicans fear being blamed for a 1995-like government shutdown.
Republicans, particularly, are eager to get through with
Congressional business and get on the campaign trail, but a
Republican Senator told me last week "There's strong resistance to
buying our way out of town by giving Bill Clinton all the money and
laws he wants."
We'll see.
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The Frontiers of Freedom Foundation will hold a conference
tomorrow on "The Impact of Gun Ownership on Crime," focussing on
the failure of restrictive gun laws to reduce crime and the efforts
to bankrupt the gun industry through litigation. It will be
keynoted by Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) and Dr. John Lott of Yale.
(Room B-340 Rayburn, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.)
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A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer is helping lead
the charge against Canada's gun registration bill. Bruce Hutton of
Alberta is president of the Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms
Association, which advocates civil disobedience.
But instead of simply refusing to comply with the law and
telling the government to come get his guns, as former Edmondton
Police Commissioner Julian Kinisky has told local newspapers, Hutton
is telling gunowners how to screw up the system.
In a Nova Scotia speech last week Hutton suggested filling out
the registration forms, buying a money order, making copies, and
getting a receipt for a Priority Post, then trashing everything
that's supposed to go to the government.
If and when officials get around to asking why a gun isn't registered,
produce the documents, he says, and accuse the bureaucrats of
losing the application through incompetence.
Considering the already rampant screwups in the far-overbudget
and far-behind registration system that story might fly. Less than half of
Canada's gunowners have thus far entered their guns.
Hutton pointed out that while the overwhelming majority of gun
owners are law-abiding citizens who represent no threat to anyone,
the criminals will pay no attention to the law. "Registration is
not the issue; confiscation is."
While "hot burglaries" -- burglaries and robberies of occupied
homes -- consist of over half the burglaries in Canada and England,
they're rare in the gun-owning U.S., he said.
As if to make his point, one Colorado man shot and killed one
of three home invaders last week while another, who came home and
found a burglary in progress, killed one of his burglars. That
kind of deterrent effect explains why the percentage of "hot
burglaries is several times as high in the "gun-free" U.S.
northeastern states as in gun-owning states in the west.
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From Neal Knox report:
-----------------------------------------
Sept. 26 Neal Knox Report -- The House is expected to take up
the first of what is likely to become a series of appropriations
extensions today, to keep the government running for a week beyond
the Oct. 1 beginning of the 2001 fiscal year. The Senate will
probably take up the bill tomorrow.
House leaders are combining appropriations bills and preparing
to send them to the Senate -- which they hope will speed up the
stalled process and prevent politically divisive amendments such as
firearms restrictions.
The Senate is scheduled to take up three appropriations
conference reports this week but most doubt that anything is going
to pass until Bill Clinton and his friends craft another kitchen
sink, all-agency spending bill that will probably include some gun
provisions -- and which will probably be unstoppable because
Republicans fear being blamed for a 1995-like government shutdown.
Republicans, particularly, are eager to get through with
Congressional business and get on the campaign trail, but a
Republican Senator told me last week "There's strong resistance to
buying our way out of town by giving Bill Clinton all the money and
laws he wants."
We'll see.
-------------
The Frontiers of Freedom Foundation will hold a conference
tomorrow on "The Impact of Gun Ownership on Crime," focussing on
the failure of restrictive gun laws to reduce crime and the efforts
to bankrupt the gun industry through litigation. It will be
keynoted by Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) and Dr. John Lott of Yale.
(Room B-340 Rayburn, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.)
-------------
A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer is helping lead
the charge against Canada's gun registration bill. Bruce Hutton of
Alberta is president of the Law-abiding Unregistered Firearms
Association, which advocates civil disobedience.
But instead of simply refusing to comply with the law and
telling the government to come get his guns, as former Edmondton
Police Commissioner Julian Kinisky has told local newspapers, Hutton
is telling gunowners how to screw up the system.
In a Nova Scotia speech last week Hutton suggested filling out
the registration forms, buying a money order, making copies, and
getting a receipt for a Priority Post, then trashing everything
that's supposed to go to the government.
If and when officials get around to asking why a gun isn't registered,
produce the documents, he says, and accuse the bureaucrats of
losing the application through incompetence.
Considering the already rampant screwups in the far-overbudget
and far-behind registration system that story might fly. Less than half of
Canada's gunowners have thus far entered their guns.
Hutton pointed out that while the overwhelming majority of gun
owners are law-abiding citizens who represent no threat to anyone,
the criminals will pay no attention to the law. "Registration is
not the issue; confiscation is."
While "hot burglaries" -- burglaries and robberies of occupied
homes -- consist of over half the burglaries in Canada and England,
they're rare in the gun-owning U.S., he said.
As if to make his point, one Colorado man shot and killed one
of three home invaders last week while another, who came home and
found a burglary in progress, killed one of his burglars. That
kind of deterrent effect explains why the percentage of "hot
burglaries is several times as high in the "gun-free" U.S.
northeastern states as in gun-owning states in the west.
--
Help us keep you informed! Send your Firearms Coalition dues to:
Neal Knox Associates
7771 Sudley Road, No. 44
Manassas, VA 20109
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