Transferred from home page Oct 29 2018. 

New Firearm Reg. Information:

NFA concerned about Gov. of Canada’s plan to align Canadian firearms legislation with United Nations Arms Trade Treaty
- this will significantly change our domestic firearm laws in Canada - Read More: NFA News Alert

Read this! RCMP Ban on Ruger 10+ magazines

http://calibremag.ca/rcmp-declares-10-round-1022-magazines-prohibited-devices/

BE AWARE! RCMP Declares Ruger 10+ magazines prohibited 
https://youtu.be/-aIhWtOjEz4

More info on Ruger 10+ magazine ban and associated
class-action suit being filed - see CSSA website news stories: 

http://cssa-cila.org/

CSSA News verifies unofficial reports of UN Marking deadline deferral:

This is info removed from LRGC home page on June 23 and placed here for reference.

Gun Owner News! Read!
The Liberals have been busy and are at it again.
Yes - Bill S-223 has now been submitted - again!
See CSSA posts in "What's in the News" section
at bottom of page to read more on this - as the new Bill is even MORE restrictive to "sportsman" than the old one - and will do nothing to solve crime - sound familiar (C-68)!
Read!  This is a Trojan Horse Bill!
New update: The bill S-223 went to second reading on April 19 2016 - see link:  http://www.parl.gc.ca/Legisinfo/BillDetails.aspx?Mode=1&Language=E&billId=8177186&View=4 
 but appears to have not received a second to move the motion/bill ahead to third reading at this time (see second reading link near bottom on this parlimentary status page). Debate was closed - no further action defined - we will have to wait to see what the Liberals do with it next!?

Past General Meeting Info: Thanks to all that attended!

We learned a lot about what to do about illegal dumping and reporting at the: 

LRGC General Meeting April 13 +
Fraser Valley Illegal Dumping Alliance  Special Presentation
A special thanks to Joe Daniels for his presentation - pdf download below!
FVIDA Presentation.pdf
Also visit the website: http://www.fraserriverkeeper.ca/

TEAM CSSA S-223 Update – April 18, 2016

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GUNTER: Departing senator's bill looks to give restrictive gun registration

BY LORNE GUNTER , EDMONTON SUN 

FIRST POSTED: MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016 08:58 AM MDT

Is Senate Private Bill S-223 a parting shot by a retiring Liberal senator or a trial balloon being launched by the Trudeau government to see whether there is any taste for a new gun registry?

Hard to say. What is clear is that if S-223 ever became law, it would be even more restrictive than the 1995 long-gun registration bill, C-68.

Introduced earlier this month by Quebec Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette, the bill may die when Hervieux-Payette retires from the Senate at the end of this week. The former Pierre Trudeau cabinet minister turns 75 - the mandatory Senate retirement age - on Friday.

The bill also faces some significant procedural hurdles. For one, to get past first reading the bill requires both the Liberals and the Conservatives to speak to it. While the Liberals have scheduled their statements for as early as Tuesday, the Conservatives have no plans yet to address the bill. And since the Tories still hold the majority in the upper chamber, S-223 could languish on the order paper a long, long time.

So maybe this is just Hervieux-Payette's last kick at the can; one more chance to make a clattering commotion on her way out the door.

Hervieux-Payette, who was secretary of state for fitness and amateur sport back in the early '80s, has long been a fierce opponent of private gun ownership. She is also rabidly anti-American.

A decade ago when an American tourist wrote Canadian senators to tell them she and her family would not be coming to Canada out of protest for the seal hunt, Hervieux-Payette told the woman "the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners - mainly blacks - in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, and the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy," was far worse than the seal hunt.

But there is also some reason to think the bill is more than just the fading dream of a radically anti-gun senator.

For one thing, it's more than 70 pages long and appears to be the work of several, professional lawyers and legislation drafters. Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, says S-223 looks as if "it took a number of Department of Justice lawyers a few months of work to create."

If Justice lawyers did help in the bill's creation, that would indication S-223 is a stalking horse - a false front the Trudeau government is hiding behind to gauge reaction and see whether they could get away with new gun controls.

The key provisions include the reclassification of all firearms, except "hunting firearms" as "circumscribed firearms."

Firearms in this new category - close to half of all firearms in the country - could not be stored in private homes. They would have to be kept locked up in government-approved vaults at authorized gun clubs or even police stations.

And they could only be removed from these facilities by licensed "transporters." No word yet whether individual owners could get license to transport their own guns.

And while guns would not have to be "registered," they would have to be "inscribed."

Explaining the difference, Hervieux-Payette said, "We simply thought that using the term 'inscription' would eliminate some anxiety. I think that using the term inscription does not evoke feelings of fear" that a new registry is on the way.

Let's hope when the good senator packs up her office this week, she packs up this dangerous bill along with her paperweight and letter opener.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2016/04/18/gunter-departing-senators-bill-looks-to-give-restrictive-gun-registration

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COMMENTARY – IS BILL S-223 A DANGEROUS "TROJAN HORSE?"

She's baaaack. Just when you thought it was safe to go into the Senate of Canada, along comes Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette with the newest incarnation of her Draconian anti-gun bill, now called Bill S-223.

This is the latest of several legislative introductions the honourable Senator has made to inflict a wicked piece of garbage on Canadians.

The bill would change the "Restricted" category to "Circumscribed" (cutting off the flash hider of your AR-15?), prohibit all firearms except a VERY narrow range of hunting firearms and “localize” the prohibition of restricted firearms. In other words, that's centralized lock up of some of your guns and destruction of the rest.

ALL SEMI-AUTOS OF ALL TYPES (except .22s) WOULD BE RESTRICTED/ PROHIBITED.

As well, no one would be allowed to move circumscribed (restricted/prohibited) guns except approved “Transporters.” Of course, these would be made up of highly trained, untouchable and steely-eyed folks – like Canada Post, but even better.

Guns would not be “registered” but “inscribed.” Says the good Senator: “You can appreciate that the terms ‘registration’ and ‘registered’ have been used so often that we simply thought that using the term ‘inscription’ would eliminate some anxiety. I think that using the term inscription does not evoke feelings of fear”"

Yes, it's true, she really does think you are that stupid.

Seemingly, she also thinks the media and the rest of Canadians are stupid enough to be fooled by this childish attempt at deceit.

The Senator also states: “The firearm death rate in the United States, a country with very weak gun control laws, was 10.3 per 100,000 population in 2011. That amounts to 32,163 deaths in one year, according to the National Vital Statistic Reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That would be the number of deaths if 20 towers, like those of the World Trade Center, were to collapse every year in the United States. There were 2,977 victims on September 11, 2001.”

Apparently she failed arithmetic too.

Twenty World Trade Center tragedies would total 59,540, not 32,163. She also quotes the U.S. example as proof that Canada is different because of our gun control while failing to recognize that as the numbers of U.S. firearms goes up, violent crime with firearms goes down. Apparently the Senator's facts only go in one direction and her prowess in deciphering and analyzing social trends and dangers is only dwarfed by her considerable mathematics skills.

As the last pail of stupid gets thrown into the tub, all restricted/prohibited would be forbidden to transfer.

There's a lot more too. Some 76 pages of legalese gobbledygook to decipher, but we are on it!

The bill cannot receive second reading until the Liberals and the Conservatives speak to the bill. The Liberals are set to speak on April 19 and the Conservative are TBA, but we are watching this closely. Bill S-223 has had a HUGE amount of work put into its creation. It took a number of Department of Justice lawyers a few months of work to create this one – and that is very concerning.

We will be listening to the Liberal's statement on the bill, anxious to hear if their promise to not create a gun registry meant that it was okay to create an “inscription registry.” If this bill passes second reading, we go to war!

Stay tuned, polish your armour and sharpen your swords.

FW: Safe City Project underway in Surrey

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Subject: FW: Safe City Project underway in Surrey All info seen from police in the past indicated most weapons used in crimes are smuggled in from USA. Now it seems Bill Fordy has come up with a new statement. I know guys like you will have everything up to date but some people do not and will be shocked when police drop in and seize their weapons.  From: Surrey RCMP [mailto:Surrey.communications@rcmp-grc.gc.ca] Sent: April-12-16 9:43 AM       Share this Em Safe City Project underway in Surrey Release Date: April 11, 2016 Surrey RCMP is undertaking a project dubbed as “Safe City”, which aims to educate firearms owners on current laws surrounding the registration requirements for restricted and prohibited firearms. Police officers from the Surrey RCMP, supported by the National Weapon Enforcement Support Team (NWEST) and Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU – BC) have been and will be visiting the owners of restricted and prohibited firearms whose registrations have expired. The proactive undertaking was developed prior to the recent shootings that have occured in Surrey. “The objective of this project is to educate firearms owners on the current laws surrounding firearms, as some may not even realize that they are non-compliant,” said Assistant Commissioner Bill Fordy, the Officer in Charge of Surrey RCMP. “We are running this program to help gun owners with registering their expired, prohibited, and restricted firearms, or help facilitate relinquishment of unwanted firearms safely and effectively to police. Our aim is to reduce the number of illegally owned and unregistered firearms in Surrey, as well as enhance public and police officer safety.  The majority of gun related crimes in Canada are committed with guns that are domestically sourced.” Ridge-Meadows RCMP also successfully launched the program in November 2015 and announced their result after it is was done (see news release). If you have any unwanted firearms, please contact your local police department on their non-emergency line. Police will go to your residence to receive the firearms. For security reasons, please do not transport the firearms into police departments. For information on licensing, registration and general safekeeping of firearms, please visit the RCMP’s Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) website at www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf. Surrey RCMP commit to providing an update on the Safe City Project upon completion.     Committed to serving the community Your Surrey RCMP is committed to providing a sensitive, responsive, professional policing service for all Surrey communities. For more information about Surrey RCMP Programs & Services, how to Protect Yourself, or our latest News Releases visit www.surrey.rcmp.ca. For media inquiries contact: Surrey RCMP Media Relations Unit 604-599-7776 surrey_media_relations@rcmp-grc.gc.ca       Visit our Website     City of Surrey on behalf of Surrey RCMP 13450 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC V3E 0C6 Manager of Marketing and Communications   |   604-591-4011 Privacy Policy   |   Unsubscribe from this mailing list   |   View Online To ensure you never miss an email from us, please add surrey.communications@rcmp-grc.gc.ca to your contacts.   No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6189 / Virus Database: 4545/12018 - Release Date: 04/12/16   This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com   Click here to Reply, Reply to all, or Forward 5.23 GB (34%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 11 minutes ago Details