It helps if one has a copy of the Criminal Code for, say, storage laws, shows it to the officer and asks where the violation has occurred. He may have no reply and lay the charge anyway, but the repercussions from Police Services and in a civil court will be ramped up accordingly.
Kirk, are you aware that in the Ian Thompson case currently before the Ontario courts, the presiding judge found the wording of the regulations regarding "safe storage", the only charge the CA is continuing to prosecute, so confusing and difficult to understand, he has put off final arguments for several months so he, the CA and the defense can study up on it and see if they can come to some agreement about what the words even mean?
If you think having a copy of the criminal code in your vehicle will dissuade any LEO from pursuing the types of charges they have clearly been mandated to pursue, I would suggest you might be a bit naive on the subject.
On the Canadian gun BB gunnutz there are endless discussions about the detailed wording in many aspects of the regulations. The threads go on, year after year, because everyone reads and interprets them differently. No doubt an objective of the drafters of bill C68 to provide for the greatest possible utility of the powers granted under bill C68.
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IS no way to protect yourself from the apparatus of the state overstepping its bounds, as it now does daily across Canada to gun owners. One can only make an attempt, after the fact, to recover lost property and receive compensation for the defamation of character inherent in being charged with criminal offenses.
And King, with all due respect, and I believe you are due, I would suggest that if, in your seventy years of hunting and gun ownership, you have never encountered an official of the state overstepping his bounds, particularly in the last 15 years since C68 took effect, you have been lucky.
Thousands and thousands of otherwise law abiding Canadians have had different experiences in the last 15 years. Besides the obvious items in the news reports, right now there are the several thousand owners of recently "reclassified" shotguns, who, having bought a legal gun in the last 10 years, are now having them confiscated by the RCMP at the direction of the Canadian Firearms Centre.
It doesn't have to have happened to each of us personally to know it's wrong and to know it happens. Given the completely widespread abuses taking place, I would suggest you might want to rethink the message you seemed to be sending. Or perhaps I misunderstood.
