It is my experiance in canada that ownership does not exist in the law nor does the finacial gain of ones efforts belong too you. If the law wants what you have or think you have you will loose all.

Frustrated Canadian
Louis Ravoy Jr.

As a avid hunter and marksmen, I think that the gun ban here in canada is a total barrel of hog wash the goverment really should not try and take take away are right to hunt and to target shoot its been a traditon in my family for centuries and in honesty the goverment is just wasting our taxpayers dollars by trying to do something that won’t stop street crime at all heck all the guns that are used in street crimes are obtained illegally and most of them are guns that came up from the united states that were smuggled up in transport trucks and boats that really should’nt be here in the first place heck an uzi just is useless for target shooting or hunting so are most of the other guns like it. The guns that are used in street crimes are not are long guns or shotguns they are guns they are guns bought from illegal sources as for are handguns up hear in canada i see a valid use for them as a target shooting gun but that’s it and as for handgun use crime up here in canada those guns too are the ones that dont come from legimate good hard working legimate owners they come from illegal sources smuggled into this country like most illegal drugs.

As for the lift on the long gun registry that gary breitkreuz is trying to implicate i prey to god that it actually goes threw and as for this hand gun ban in canada i dont feel it’s right i had to personally go through all the red tape to get my handguns to target shoot and i purely use them for just that and for me to be able to get them i had to take another course ( the course to obtain a restricted licence) then i had to go through all the paper work again like i did to obtain my P.A.L and all im authorized to do with my handguns are take them to the range from my home and back and for me to be able to do that i had to get authorization to transport if i want to take it to a gunsmith i have to once again get authorization to transport from my home to the gunsmith and back. So handgun gun control is pretty tight up here and as i said its not the law abiding citizen thats causing the problems and I and all the 60,000 plus hunters and marksmen and markswomen in this country think the goverment should’nt take away are rights.

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Canada is still strongly threatened by “gun ban” factions that feel the panacea to violent crime is to ban certain – if not all – currently legal firearms. Just as the banning of Heroin, Cocaine, Crytal meth and murder has been completely ineffective, so will firearms prohibitions. The difference is that legitimate firearms ownership is a healthy part of our history, and organized shooting sports are amongst the oldest organized sports in Canada.

Britain’s olympic pistol team must practice in another country as the ownership of pistols is banned in the UK. We must stand up and prevent this level of utterly obtuse fear mongering from further eroding our healthy, responsible and vibrant shooting sports.

Please take note of the wisdom and responsible attitude of your Canadian colleagues. Wise enough to realise that firearms licensing does not interest the criminal and does nothing to reduce crime.

Responsible enough to stand up and be counted, not to pander to the “let’s ban guns” lobby, nor to authorise an inefficent drain on taxpayers’ money.

Cheers from up North.