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Canada's National Firearms Association
For Immediate Release February  11, 2009
 
Bill C 301: An Important First Step In Reforming Canada's Firearms  Laws.
 
The National Firearms Association sees MP Garry Breitkreuz's Bill C-301 as 
an excellent first step in repairing Canada's failed firearms control system.
 
The Conservative Government is being proactive in maintaining  amnesties for
firearms owners and resisting demands from the gun control lobby  for more
firearms prohibitions. We are proud to support Garry  Breitkreuz's bill because
it addresses some of the most pressing excesses of the  current firearms
control system. 

National
Firearms Association Media Release

Tuesday, May
28th, 2008

Mayor David
Miller Surrenders Toronto to Criminals and Gangs.

Mayor David
Miller has made it clear that he intends to ban all lawful firearms
activities within the limits of Greater Toronto.

There was
nothing in the announcement from the Mayor of Toronto about getting
tough on recidivist criminals, targeting gangs, or pursuing a zero
tolerance policy against lawlessness and violence of all kinds.

Miller's threat
is to close down licensed firearms dealers, certified gun clubs and
ranges, and to harass and eliminate licensed firearms owners with
registered firearms within that city.

National Firearms Association Endorses Parliamentary Outdoors Caucus

Finally, Outdoors and Sports People will have the representation they need in Parliament – Blair Hagen, National President, National Firearms Association.

Decades of urbanization have created a disconnect between rural and city populations. A disconnect between outdoors and sports people and city dwellers in major population centers, like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

It’s also resulted in a disconnect between federal governments and the cultural realities of the people in rural areas, and those depend on participation in rural economies for culture and lives.

Hunters, guides, trappers and sports people have all born the brunt of recent government legislation that has hampered and in many cases destroyed both businesses and lives.

A Parliamentary Outdoors Caucus has the potential to facilitate good legislation that concerns these people and their pursuits, and prevent bad regulation and legislation from being enacted. MP Garry Breitkreuz has identified a very positive solution to help prevent this from happening.

Rural Canadians, outdoors and sports people badly need representation in parliament, so that their voices are also heard when issues of firearms, land use, wildlife and the environment are addressed by federal politicians.

Canada was carved out of a wilderness that is still the envy of the world. The opportunities to explore and enjoy Canada’s outdoors and the pursuits associated with it are still limitless. The Parliamentary Outdoors Caucus has the potential to preserve these opportunities and pursuits for generations to come.

The responsible use and enjoyment of Canada’s outdoors; a Canadian cultural tradition.

Blair Hagen
National President
National Firearms Asociation

A
Conservative M. P. supplied me with a copy of its proposed "new"
firearms control law. It is a grave disappointment, but I was
expecting that; I know how Ottawa works. The Ministers tell their top
bureaucrats to draft new laws, and what effects he wants the new laws
to have. The bureaucrats then draft the new laws for Parliament to
pass--laws that will have the effects the bureaucrats want them to
have. Their draft Bill C-21 is scheduled to become law this fall.

In
this case, the Conservative Ministers wanted new laws that would keep
the firearms community in solid support of the Conservative
Party--without alienating anti-gun soccer moms. The bureaucrats
wanted new laws that would increase the number of their employees,
the power of top bureaucrats, and the funding of their bureaucracy.
You can judge the results:

To
transfer a .22 single-shot Cooey rifle under the new Firearms Act
section 23, "A person may transfer a firearm if, at
the time of the transfer...the transferor [a dealer or an
individual] has no reason to believe that the transferee is not
authorized to acquire and possess that kind of firearm."

The
seller just has to see the buyer's firearms licence, right? Wrong!

The
new Section 23 goes on to say, "In the case of a transfer to
an individual [by a dealer or another individual], the
transferor informs a chief firearms officer and
­obtains the authorization of the chief firearms officer
for the transfer...and...the prescribed conditions are met."

As you
probably know, we now have a more favourable government, but we need
to pressure it in order to actually get the things it promised before
it was elected.

Pressure
can be applied in a great many ways. This form of applying pressure
is one that we are asking every shooting club in Canada (and there
are over 550 that are NFA members) to pick up and run with.

I want
your club to set up a training course for women, to teach safe
and practical handgun shooting for the purpose of protecting human
life from criminal violence. Women are the preferred targets of
violent criminals, and they are too vulnerable in our society.
Violent crime rates are increasing, and they need protection. Some
classes should be for women only, and some for mixed groups.

This is a list of the contact information for the Prime Minister and every current Minister in the Conservative Government. I have moved copies of the three main targets to the top of the list, and the rest of the list is alphabetical by last name.

It is very important at this time to convince these people that the NFA is a large, politically important organization. That can best be done by you!!

The Conservative government has given me a copy of its proposed "new" firearms control law. It is a grave disappointment, but that is something I was expecting. I know how Ottawa works. The Minister tells the bureaucrats to write new laws, and tells him what effects he wants the laws to have. And then the bureaucrats write new laws--that have the effects the bureaucrats want them to have.

In this case, the Conservative Ministers wanted new laws to keep their promises to the firearms community, laws that would keep the firearms community in solid support of the Conservative Party--without alienating the soccer moms. The bureaucrats wanted to make sure that the new laws would not reduce the number of employees, power of the top bureaucrats, or the funding of their bureaucracy. The end result is interesting: