House majority votes to repeal gun registry requirements

Toronto Star ^ | November 4,2009 | Toronto Star staff

[Reverend Wright]

OTTAWA — A long-running effort by the Conservatives to kill the long-gun registry has passed an important hurdle in the House of Commons, with a majority voting for the first time in 14 years to study a bill to repeal it.

MPs voted 164-137 to give "second reading" — or "approval-in-principle" - to a private member's bill sponsored by MP Candice Hoeppner (Portage-Lisgar) that calls for the repeal of legal requirements to register long-barrelled rifles and shotguns.

The stage was set for the vote to pass hours earlier when Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff declared the current long-gun registry faces a crisis of "legitimacy" in rural Canada and needs to be overhauled.

[Reverend Wright]

Proof that if we keep working at it, facts and logic will eventually prevail in the end.

[I Hate Obama]

Way to go... Canada?

[ez]

Dear Canada,

Please stay free with us...We could use the help.

[Vaquero]

I say WTF?

OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I see

its Canada!

[Frantzie]

Best neighbors anyone could have except a lot of those frenchies in Quebec.

Before last night I was thinking about CA and what NJ residents were telling Christie. They said “if you do not win - I am leaving NJ.”

As Canada gets more conservative - it is looking very good and emigration was a thought. I was born in the USA and I am not leaving yet. I am sticking around to throw marxists out of office and stinking RINOs & DIABLOs.

Good job Canada.

[Dayman]

I hate gun laws but I like having a neighbor that’s a socialist republic. Socialized healthcare, gun registration, high taxes, etc... It’s nice that there’s a place where I can tell liberals I meet where they can go to get everything they want to do here. No need to ruin our country, just go to Canada. Problem solved.

[usurper]

Way to go... Canada?

I was hoping this was the UK but I guess they are too far gone.

[Snowyman]

I like having a neighbor that’s a socialist republic.

Can't be Cuba , must be Mexico.

[maine-iac7]

Canada - my family is counting on you - if the marxists in DC keep going - we're seriously contemplating Canada...WE lived there for some years and absolutely love it.

[Don W]

Canada ping. GOOD news!

[fanfan]

Come on, you have to admit that from an American way of thinking, this is big.

2nd gun registry ping.

Thanks for the ping Don W.

[cripplecreek]

Good fer Canada. We might need some armed Canadians in the future.

[TigersEye]

Another failed liberal policy.

[fanfan]

Proof that if we keep working at it, facts and logic will eventually prevail in the end.

Exactly!

[fanfan]

Please stay free with us...We could use the help.

We will, and you can count on us.

[BenKenobi]

Finally!

Thank God almighty, we’re free at last!

[fanfan]

Good job Canada.

From you?

Wow.

;-D

[Army Air Corps]

Out-flippin’-standing! Good on ya, Canada. Next step, pass legislation to repeal firearms registration.

[Don W]

It still disturbs me deeply that THIS information is collected at all, let alone AVAILABLE ON LINE!

[fanfan]

I was hoping this was the UK but I guess they are too far gone.

I think so. Have you read the UK Daily Mail lately?

[MarkBsnr]

***Come on, you have to admit that from an American way of thinking, this is big.***

As well as from this transplanted Canadian. I will tell my family back home, and send them URLs for firearms sellers...

[fanfan]

http://www.army.ca/

We’re there.

[Candor7]

Ping to gun registry vote, Ottawa

[fanfan]

Thank God almighty, we’re free at last!

What? When did that happen?

[fanfan]

:-)

[fanfan]

Cool, huh?

:-)

[fanfan]

Good idea!

[Candor7]

I like that! ( Sorry for the late ping, I didn't see you had it already , it was down the list,LOL).

You know, I also would think that the hand gun laws should be simplifiied, It takes over 2 years in New Brunswick to get a hand gun licence from scratch, and a lot of money in courses, and psychiatric evaluation letters.

Its different ineach province. A person should be able to get a hand gun permit in a few weeks.Perhaps this is a beginning.

[BenKenobi]

Baby steps. ;)

[fanfan]

“Perhaps this is a beginning.”

“Baby steps.”

*smiling*
Good night, all.

[Army Air Corps]

A person should be able to get a hand gun permit in a few weeks.Perhaps this is a beginning.

Step by step. Inch by inch...

[kanawa]

I’m glad now that I’ve been putting off my intended purchases.
Will be much more comfortable not being a part of a registry.

[Little Ray]

Good for Canada! I wish our conservative politicians could that persistent.

[Cindy]

THREAD BUMP.

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Thanks for the ping fanfan.

[NightOfTheLivingDems]

long-barrelled rifles

How has Canadian law defined "long barrelled?" Centimeters? Inches? Cubits? Mere threatening looks? I'm admittedly not very familiar with their gun laws but I assume they originated from the press.

If I have a Colt Python, is that a short barrelled rifle, and heretofore and thence legal?

[Springman]

Good news fanfan.

mylife, I don’t know who owns the bang list, could you use you list?

[Reverend Wright]

With a quick search I couldn’t find exactly how long guns are defined. Pistols will continue to be registered, as they have been for many years.

I think the most important part of this story is the direction of change. A few years ago the gun grabbers were looking to expand the definition of prohibited weapons. Now they are on the verge of losing their confiscation list.

The “anti-crime” arguments that the registry supporters made are no longer credible even to urban liberals and socialists. Everyone understands now that the gangland shootings in Toronto and Vancouver that everyone is worried about will not be reduced by harassing rural gun owners.

[Friendofgeorge]

Now if they could only do something about Canada`s wide open abortion/homosexuality policy.

[usurper]

Have you read the UK Daily Mail lately?

Yes its very depressing. It’s like they have a collective insanity going on. I just read where that “conservative” party will no longer demand a national referendum on joining the EU as they had promised. They need to start a tee party movement before the goose stepping NDP is the only alternative to the status quo.