Firearms registry pursues oldtimer beyond the grave

http://www.sierratimes.com ^ | Published 01. 21. 03 at 2:39 Sierra Time | Canadian Press

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Firearms registry pursues oldtimer beyond the grave

Canadian Press

Published 01. 21. 03 at 2:39 Sierra Time

WEST NEW ANNAN, N.S. - The federal gun registry is chasing a Nova Scotia man beyond the grave to make sure he registers a restricted firearm.

Albert Byers died Dec. 9, 1974, but that didn't stop the government from writing him a letter recently to get him to register his handgun.

"I guess they don't check that sort of thing," said his great-nephew, Glenn Byers, whose parents received the notice in their rural mailbox.

They are probably the closest living relatives of his Uncle Bert, a bachelor who would be 108 now, Byers said.

Not only is Bert Byers lying in the West New Annan cemetery, 120 km northwest of Halifax, but it is unlikely that he owned a restricted firearm.

"No one remembers him ever having a handgun," Byers said. The notice doesn't say exactly what type of restricted firearm Bert Byers is supposed to have had, but a handgun is the most common type, he added.

Following a 1950s house fire, Bert Byers moved to a woods camp to live out the rest of his days. His great-nephew, also of West New Annan, said he probably owned a rifle because he hunted for his own meat.

Byers suspects old records may show his great-uncle registered a firearm following 1934 handgun legislation, but authorities have lost its trail through a maze of regulations and paperwork.

Byers tried contacting the firearms registry, only to have automated voices tell him to try again. Eventually he reached someone who told him the onus is on the gun owner to notify the registry.

"They must think he has a phone buried with him," Byers said. "He'd find it all amusing if he were here ... If it wasn't costing anything, it would be hilariously funny."

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I think I would be tempted to write back (in his name) telling them I had no intention of registering the gun and daring them to come after me for it!

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Maybe Uncle Bert was still "voting."

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The sad fact is that the follow up to this story will probably be the Canadian government arresting this man's next of kin and insisting that this person prove that he doesn't still have the gun in order to stay out of prison. Underneath all of their incompetence, advocates of gun control will resort to anything to make people live in fear.

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I took the liberty of posting your article to a variety of RKBA places:

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/viewtopic.php?t=3408

http://lufa.ca/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=328

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=69699

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COOL

[backhoe]

To judge from some of the responses by our friends up North, they aren't taking this very well- I liked the suggestion that relatives give the Gooberment the address of the cemetary as contact information...