Keith, read the article and yes, with the exception of the stuff about the long gun registry, it's accurate.
Each province has a Chief Firearms Officer, a person (with full staff) responsible for the execution of the bureaucratic bullshit. Chris Wyatt was anything but reasonable. Fought hard against any liberalization of regs and used every means at his disposal to make things difficult. These people are seconded to the Office of the CFO from major police forces....the RCMP or OPP. Make no mistake, as senior officers of those forces, they are philisophically against guns in private hands.
I have described ATT's (Authorization to Transport) here before. To pretend, as King does on occasion, that the requirements of US law regarding intra-state sale and shipment of firearms, are more onerous that Canadian regs is just not accurate. And it's so much not accurate that anyone even somewhat familiar with the laws could not be making a mistake.
With the exception of exporting firearms, ammo and firearms parts, it is abundantly clear the US is substantially less burdened by criminal law that regulates the ownership, storage, handling, use and sale of firearms.
I know something about unregistered firearms that should have been part of the original registration of "restricteds" in the 1930's. ANYTHING to do with them is illegal. Included possessing, touching, looking at, selling or crossing a border.
There is a bit of a mantra up here the bureaucrats and leftists like to hit us over the head with, and it's not used just in relation to guns. " It's a priviledge, not a right". It serves to emphasis, in a threatening way, the power of the government and the little protection we have from its whims.
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