Original Article: Operation Zero Tolerance
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August 26, 2010
Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is an association, a lobby group for the political police chiefs.
They have no extra legal or enforcement powers, but what they do have is influence, and that is the part that is dangerous.
CACP is seeking to harmonize anti firearms enforcement initiatives among it's members, along the lines of what we have already seen in Ontario and Quebec. Bill Blair is the Toronto Chief of Police and has had a clear agenda of harrassment of firearms owners who are in the system, and an agenda of gun confiscation.
CACP is requesting that it's members go back to their cities/towns/municipalities and enforce the Firearms Act according to the CACP agenda. CGN members in Ontario and Quebec will already know what this means. Hyper enforcement of Firearms Act regulations.
This means the reduction of firearms license holders through harrassment and attrition. If it becomes so difficult and onerous for you to renew your P.A.L., you will of course give it up - and that means you can no longer own your registered firearms. If it becomes such a hassle to lawfully own, transport and store your firearms, you will give them up. CACP's solution will be to increase opportunities nationally for previously lawfully owned firearms to be turned over to law enforcement agencies for destruction rather than resale to an ever shrinking community of those licensed to buy/sell/own firearms.
See the UK and Australia. The same enforcement initiatives have been in force there for many years now
Particular attention will be paid to restricted/prohibited firearms owners. CACP policy will include targetting those with registered restricted and prohibited firearms. Bureaucratic and law enforcement events will be invented so that registration revocation can take place and these owners can be threatened or coerced into turning in their registered firearms for destruction.
Home inspections will be increased for those owning more than 10 firearms, or any restricted or prohibited firearms. Opportunities to surrender firearms without charge or prosecution will be offered.
Many provincial CFO's already attempt to enforce Firearms Act regulations this way, the only thing limiting them in increasing the scope and effectiveness of these enforcement intiatives is personnel. Many law enforcement agencies nationally have not seen fit to assist in anti gun enforcement initiatives due to the amount of manpower required to physically interact with recalcitrant firearms owners.
Bill Blair's harmonized enforcement initiative seeks ameliorate this by gaining the agreement of CACP member LEO's for their agencies to devote more personnel and resources for firearms interdiction and removal initiatives. That is removal of registered firearms from licensed owners. Harmonization of enforcement initiatives nationally will give CACP member agencies opportunity to create a new environment for firearms ownership; step out of line - lose your "privilege" of owning firearms. And your property.
If anybody is wondering how they can possibly do this, it's called the Firearms Act. Bill C68 - Chapter 39, 1995. In the excitement over the long gun registry's possible demise with Bill C-391, many forget that the devil in all this is in the details of the Liberal Firearms Act which is still the law of Canada, regardless of whether C-391 passes or not.
Furthermore, CACP members are being asked to endorse CACP policies demanding that the federal government introduce a national handgun ban and confiscation plan, and the reclassification of semi automatics to restricted or prohibited classifications. CACP hopes that if enough LEO's and police agencies endorse this, the federal government will be forced to enact OIC's to facilitate it.
Why would CACP do this now ? There is a very real possibility that Bill C-391 will be passed and the long gun registry ended. Universal firearms registration is the hallmark of UN member states in the aid of imposing "civil society" models on their populations.
To political policemen like Bill Blair, "uncontrolled" firearms in the hands of an armed populace undermines the efforts of LEA's to maintain order. In the mind of Bill Blair, "controlled" firearms do the same, but are a different issue. "controlled" firearms can be removed when politically expedient.
More to the point, it's you - the firearms community - who are to blame. After the advent of the C68 Firearms Act in 1995 you became more and more politically active and involved, to the point where you elected a government in 2006 that promised firearms law reform as part of it's platform, and for the first time in Canada there is a bill before parliament that will roll back the civil disarmament agenda.
That wasn't supposed to happen. that's an "American" thing. We don't do that in Canada. Canadians do not have rights, only "privileges" granted by government, bureaucrats and political policemen like Bill Blair.
And it has to be stopped. It may be a bumpy ride for a while if the federal government does not see fit to enter into this matter. The gun control lobby and the political police chiefs will use the regulations of the Firearms Act to punish us for being politically active and possibly ending their long gun registry.
Let them. National Firearms Association will catalog every gun control abuse and initiative and bring it to the attention of the Minister of Public Safety of Canada and the entire federal cabinet. Then, perhaps, the federal government will consider bringing in their own legislation to replace the Liberal Firearms Act still in force.
Blair Hagen
Executive Vice President
Canada's National Firearms Association
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