Canada Ping!
Posted on 06/28/2013 8:48:13 AM PDT by swampthang77
As the Obama administration pushes for stronger gun laws in the United States, Canada is moving toward entirely eliminating its controversial gun registry program.
Many critics have noted that gun registries place additional burdens on honest citizens looking to own firearms, while opening them up to politically motivated targeting of the kind recently revealed in the United States when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted it had been targeting conservatives for extra scrutiny...
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Yeah, I decided to look into how arduous the Canadian guns laws actually are. On paper they don’t really look so bad. However there is the inclusion of the fact that pretty much any gun you want to own has to be approved by the RCMP. Good luck with that. I quite doubt most of my collection could cross the border.
Canada Ping!
No concealed carry in Canada.
In extreme cases a Judge will give a permit for 2 weeks or so if someone`s life is in extreme danger as being threatened .
If you shot someone you`d be charged with assualt, murder, unsafe storage, discharging a firearm with a 1000 ( note sure of exact distance) meters of a dwelling,etc,etc.
Even if it was *clearly* shown,at trial,that the shooter had *good* reason to fear that he was in *serious* danger of death at the hands of,let's say,a proven psychopathic killer? Would Canadian law allow such a defense and,if it was,would a judge allow the use of that defense? (If the law allows it one would think that the judge might allow it if there was strong evidence that it was true).
Not to my knowledge because a firearm must be kept locked at all times and the ammunition stored and or locked totally separately .
So a Judge would probably side with the prosecutions contention that your gun was unlocked , loaded and within reaching distance for you to have gotten the draw on the person.
Similiar to the laws in the U.K..
Yikes!
Right. Google New Orleans cops behavior during Katrina. They were taking custody of clothes and stuff at Walmart in uniform.
If you trust a cop with your gun then I don't trust you with a gun.
New Orleans,I suspect,is a long way from Canada.
Precisely. If the RCMP deems it on the naughty list, you can’t have it. No way. No how. The RCMP has virtually no accountability and many Canadians see the entire organization as a joke.
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