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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   On 8/6/2013 8:27 AM, Dave Smith wrote:   
   > It's a shame that Frau Goebbels, Wendy Kookier and the other registry   
   > supporters are still using the argument about the registry being needed   
   > for police to check to see if there are any guns registered at the   
   > residence they are attending. Revoking the LGR did not do away with the   
   > requirement for a PAL.   
      
      
   It's a shame that Herr Smith doesn't realize that the trail of gun   
   ownership doesn't end with an acquisition licence.  Once purchased, the   
   owner of that long gun can sell it to someone else without a trace.   
      
      
   You're the brother of a cop and yet you defend the elimination of the   
   long gun registry?  You're a nut job.  Your brother must think you're a   
   nut job.   
      
   Here's the requirement for restricted or prohibited firearms:   
      
   When a restricted or prohibited firearm is sold, given or traded to a   
   new owner, the REGISTRATION record must be updated to reflect this   
   transfer, and a new registration certificate issued to the new owner.   
      
   Here's what happens with non-restricted long guns now:   
      
   The Government of Canada amended the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act   
   to eliminate the requirement to register non-restricted firearms as of   
   April 5, 2012   
      
   IOW:  Nothing.  No requirement to register new owner.   
      
   Do you understand that, brother-of-a-cop ?   
      
      
      
      
   They were a prerequisite to licensing long guns   
   > and are still required to buy or borrow long guns. The fact that a   
   > person is a PAL holder will tell the police that the person might   
   > possess firearms, and refusals or suspensions of PALs might be a provide   
   > a clue about the type of person they are dealing with, though cops are   
   > generally bright enough, trained and experienced enough to know that the   
   > people they deal with on calls generally don't bother with licenses and   
   > never bothered with permits.   
      
      
   Especially now that they can buy them - like they do in the U.S.A. -   
   from what are known as "straw purchasers".  You don't think that   
   Harper's killing of the long gun registry didn't create thousands of   
   straw purchasers in Canada?   
      
   You defend the indefensible in cop actions - and then you defend the   
   killing of gun laws that kept cops - and many of us in Canada - safer   
   because of those laws.   
      
   Like I said:  you're a nut job.   
      
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