How many of us new about this
This really blew my mind because i have 3 of these pistols.
NEWS RELEASE
November 17, 2000
For Immediate Release
LIBERAL FIREARM REGISTRY RULES "AIRGUNS" ARE NOW FIREARMS
BILL C-68 WILL MAKE MOST PELLET GUN OWNERS CRIMINALS ON JANUARY
1ST
"The Liberals are more concerned about registering pellet guns than
getting tough on criminal use of
firearms."
Yorkton – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, MP and Canadian Alliance Candidate
for Yorkton-Melville, blew
the lid off an issue the Liberals were trying to keep secret until after
November 27th. RCMP sources
have confirmed that the Canadian Firearms Registry has ruled that
millions of the most popular models of
airguns are now firearms. "For months now, the Liberals have been
stonewalling investigators from the
Information Commissioner’s office on one of my requests to the gun
registry. Finally, we know the
reason why," declared Breitkreuz. "Instead of issuing a public warning
of the Registry’s ruling to all
airgun owners that they need to obtain a firearms licence by the end of
this year or face up to five years
in jail, the Liberals have been keeping this explosive information a
secret until after the election. As if
Canadians needed any more proof that the Liberal gun registry has
anything to with controlling the
criminal use of firearms, now this fiasco."
Breitkreuz calls his revelation "explosive" because the Liberal gun
registry’s decision now places many
innocent Canadians - unknowingly – in violation of the Criminal Code of
Canada and under the threat
of long prison terms. The Liberal decision affects thousands of
businesses that are now criminals for
selling airguns without a firearm dealer's licence. The Liberal decision
affects more than a million law
abiding airgun owners (including every teenager with a pellet gun) who
will be criminals unless they have
a firearms licence in their possession by the end of this year. The
Liberal decision affects millions of
airguns that are now firearms according to Bill C-68 and are going to
have to be registered by the end of
2002. The Liberal decision has also banned tens of thousands of airguns
that will have to be confiscated
by police. "If the Liberals are consistent with their previous
dictatorial decrees, they will also refuse to
pay compensation for seizing and destroying this legally acquired
property," explained Breitkreuz. ."
Please see the attached preliminary list of 13 makes and models of
airguns the Canadian Firearms
Registry has changed from non-firearms to firearms.
"This is just the tip of the airgun iceberg!" exclaimed Breitkreuz. "We
are still checking dozens of other
airgun makes and models." The reason for the Liberal ruling is because
of airgun muzzle velocity tests,
conducted by the RCMP, with a new type of laser pellet being sold under
the brand names: Lazerhawk,
Prometheus, and Beeman. The Saskatchewan MP explained, "RCMP muzzle
velocity tests with a new
type of laser pellets confirm that any airgun with a current muzzle
velocity of over 400
feet-per-second(fps) will likely exceed the 500 fps airgun exemption in
section 84(1)(3)(d) of the
Criminal Code. See the attached summary of the impact this Liberal
legislative legacy will have on
thousands of airgun dealers and more than a million airgun owners.
"This one change will easily push the Bill C-68 implementation costs
from the current $585 million to
well over the billion dollar mark before the gun registration deadline
of January 1, 2003. The registry
already has a backlog of more than a million licence applications to
process before the end of the year.
What are they going to do when all the airgun owners start filing
applications?" asked Breitkreuz.
"In 1995, during the C-68 debates, we warned the Liberals that their
poorly drafted bill was going to
lead to chaos," reminded Breitkreuz. "Firearms experts told the Liberals
to use ‘muzzle energy’ instead
of ‘muzzle velocity’ to define firearms in the legislation, but of
course Chretien and his crew wouldn’t
listen to common sense. This is just one more reason why Bill C-68 has
to be scrapped, killed and
abolished. I hope the millions of airgun owners out there heed this
warning."
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AIRGUN DEALERS AND OWNERS BEWARE
Here’s a preliminary list of airguns the Canadian Firearm Registry has
changed from non-firearms to firearms in
their Firearms Reference Tables (FRT):
Crosman 357 mag - Prohibited Firearm - FRT# 41822-1 (now prohibited
because of barrel length)
Webley Hurricane - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 43386-1 (muzzle velocity:
640fps)
Webley Tempest - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 43382-1 (muzzle velocity: 560
fps)
Beeman Model p1 - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 17122-2 (muzzle velocity:
580 fps)
Crosman Model 1740 - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 89275-1 (muzzle velocity:
600fps)
Crosman 1008 - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 41826-1
Crosman 1377c - Restricted Firearm - FRT# 90615-1
Crosman Model 1760 - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 89255 (muzzle
velocity: 750fps)
Crosman Model 1077 - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 41814-1
Crosman 760 - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 41799-1
Crosman Powermaster - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 72071-1
Diana Model 20 - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 38510-1
Marksman Lazerhawk - Non-Restricted Firearm - FRT# 79371-4
NOTE: These reclassified airguns and pellet rifles are very common and
are sold in 400 Canadian Tire
Stores, 120 Wal-Mart stores, 300 Home Hardware Stores, 300 Federated
Co-op stores and most
True Value Hardware stores as well as thousands of other smaller
businesses and shops across Canada.
IF YOU SELL AIRGUNS
If your business is in possession of ANY airgun that the Canadian
Firearm Registry has reclassified as a
firearm and you do not have a licence to sell firearms (and most airgun
dealers do not), your business is
criminalized. If you do not have your airguns displayed or stored in
accordance with the display and
storage provisions of Bill C-68, your business is criminalized. If you
sell any of these reclassified airguns
to anyone without a valid Firearms Acquisition Certificate or Possession
and Acquisition Licence your
business is criminalized. If you sell any of these reclassified airguns
without the firearm being registered
with the Canadian Firearms Registry and/or without the transfer of
ownership being approved by the
Canadian Firearms Registry, your business is criminalized. Finally, all
the staff in your store must also
have a valid Firearms Acquisition Certificate or Possession and
Acquisition Licence in order to handle
these reclassified airguns in your store.
IF YOU OWN A RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED AIRGUN
If an individual or business is in possession of any airgun that is a
handgun that the Canadian Firearms
Registry has reclassified as a firearm - depending on the barrel length
- it is now either a restricted or a
prohibited firearm (See the above list for examples). If the barrel
length is under 105 mm (4 inches),
your airgun-handgun it is ‘prohibited’ (like the Crosman 357 mag listed
above). If the barrel length is
over 105 mm then your airgun-handgun is ‘a restricted’ firearm. All
these reclassified airgun-handguns
must now be registered immediately or you will be in unauthorized
possession of a firearm. If you do not
have a firearms licence authorizing you to own a restricted and/or
prohibited airgun-handgun, you will be
in violation of Criminal Code section 91(1)(b) and subject to
imprisonment for up to five years or in
violation of section 92(1)(b) and subject to imprisonment for up to ten
years.
All these newly reclassified airgun-handguns in your possession must now
be stored just the same as any
other handgun in accordance with the storage laws and regulations – if
you do not you will be
criminalized. If you wish to transport your airgun-handgun out of your
house you must now apply to the
Chief Firearms Office in your province for an Authorization to Transport
and you will only be authorized
to transport your airgun-handgun to a shooting range approved by the
CFO.
If you own a reclassified airgun-handgun with a four-inch barrel or
less, it is now prohibited. Due to
another bit of poor draftsmanship in Bill C-68, you are no longer
eligible to be ‘grandfathered’ because
you didn’t register your airgun before February 14, 1995, your now
prohibited airgun will be confiscated
by police and destroyed - (likely without compensation from the Liberal
government.
IF YOU OWN A NON-RESTRICTED AIRGUN OR PELLET RIFLE
If you own a reclassified airgun or pellet rifle it is a non-restricted
firearm (See the above list for
examples) you will need to be in possession of either a valid Firearms
Acquisition Certificate, a
Possession Only Licence or a Possession and Acquisition Licence before
December 31, 2000 or you
will be in unathorized possession of a firearm and subject to the
penalties noted above. You will also be
required to register your airgun or pellet rifle before January 1, 2003.
really makes one wonder why we even listen to these idots in Ottawa
beak
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