Get Onto Your MP and Minister Blaney NOW!

People where looking for ideas in another thread, here's what I sent out.

Honourable Steven Blaney,

Sir I write to you today from the perspective of a 32 year law enforcement officer. My entire work career has centered on the responsible enforcement of Canada's many laws and acts of parliament. As you would expect I am especially supportive of laws which impact those with criminal intent and who pose any safety risk to the residents of Canada.

Your tough on crime legislation and efforts to provide stronger legal definition for self defense incidents are big steps in the correct direction. Bill C-42 your common sense firearms regulations changes is also a first step in correcting the ineffective current Firearms Act. This act has only impacted law abiding citizens who pose no harm or threat to Canada. At the same time criminals laugh at the very thought of safe storage, safe transport, magazine capacity limitations, or any other controls on firearms ownership.

This terrible liberal legislation is further used as a legal weapon against law-abiding firearms owners by CFO's and bureaucrats within the RCMP. I know you are fully aware of the Swiss Arms/CZ858 reclassification, High River firearms seizures, failure to destroy the Federal Firearms Registry as ordered, and other measures where officials have gone against the will of Parliament.

I cannot believe how these bureaucrats operate with apparent impunity, making their own rules and regulations turning those who seek to stay within the law into criminals simply by changing the rules and interpretation of laws that elected officials passed during the legislative process.

I write today because it has come to my attention that the bureaucratic element within the RCMP has targeted firearms owners yet again with a rule change that will again instantly turn legal firearms owners into criminals. Please see below.


From Calibre facebook page

"In attending the CSSA annual general meeting we had the opportunity to follow up on the changes to Bulletin 72 with both the CSSA and Minister Blaney's office. Unfortunately we learned that Murray Smith (Manager, Specialized Firearms Support Services, Firearms Investigative and Enforcement Services

Directorate, Canadian Firearms Program, RCMP) was heard referring to this as "The Year of the Magazine" at CANSEC just days ago. Allegedly this is a reference to an ongoing effort by the RCMP to limit LAR-15, Beowulf, and similar magazines' use. It is expected that whatever changes they intend to implement in order to obtain the goal of sidelining these magazines' use will be rolled out mere weeks ahead of the upcoming election. Minister Blaneys' office and the CSSA both overheard these comments at CANSEC, are aware of the RCMP's intentions, and are working towards preventing it. We will also be filing further Access to Information requests and following up with both the CSSA and the government as the situation develops over the summer.

In short, it appears that the RCMP are working towards placing restrictions on magazine use that would prevent the use of LAR-15 and Beowulf magazines, either completely or by legally requiring those magazines only be used with LAR-15 and Beowulf rifles. When we asked "Does this mean we may not be able to use our ten round magazines in out regular AR-15" we were told that indeed, this effort by the Firearms Program would prevent us from doing that, if it comes to fruition."


Criminals simply do not care what laws or regulations are passed and only a fool would believe a magazine cap has any effect on the decision a gang member, or any other criminal might make when they take a loaded gun out into public or discharge it on our streets. Our current magazine caps which have been in place since I believe the 90's have not impacted street crime. Yet the RCMP are reportedly yet again about to target a accepted legal ruling or regulation to frustrate and harass legal gun owners.

This particular magazine capacity rule has been in effect under numerous governments both Liberal and Conservative and there have been no incidents that would warrant revisiting the legislation. If you want to address magazine restrictions remove them as they clearly do not deter criminal use. I also find the RCMP timing quite interesting in this latest incident as you are passing Bill C-42 and an election is almost upon us.

These bureaucrats must be fired or controlled! We the citizens of Canada did not elect them to make laws of their own design and choosing. Firearms owners have a right to expect their government to protect them from such arbitrary political moves from bureaucrats who are as much against the current government as they are against the citizens they were sworn to protect.

Name ######x
Address ######xx
Email ############
 
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StrikerSW said:
People where looking for ideas in another thread, here's what I sent out.

Honourable Steven Blaney,

Sir I write to you today from the perspective of a 32 year law enforcement officer. My entire work career has centered on the responsible enforcement of Canada's many laws and acts of parliament. As you would expect I am especially supportive of laws which impact those with criminal intent and who pose any safety risk to the residents of Canada.

Your tough on crime legislation and efforts to provide stronger legal definition for self defense incidents are big steps in the correct direction. Bill C-42 your common sense firearms regulations changes is also a first step in correcting the ineffective current Firearms Act. This act has only impacted law abiding citizens who pose no harm or threat to Canada. At the same time criminals laugh at the very thought of safe storage, safe transport, magazine capacity limitations, or any other controls on firearms ownership.

This terrible liberal legislation is further used as a legal weapon against law-abiding firearms owners by CFO's and bureaucrats within the RCMP. I know you are fully aware of the Swiss Arms/CZ858 reclassification, High River firearms seizures, failure to destroy the Federal Firearms Registry as ordered, and other measures where officials have gone against the will of Parliament.

I cannot believe how these bureaucrats operate with apparent impunity, making their own rules and regulations turning those who seek to stay within the law into criminals simply by changing the rules and interpretation of laws that elected officials passed during the legislative process.

I write today because it has come to my attention that the bureaucratic element within the RCMP has targeted firearms owners yet again with a rule change that will again instantly turn legal firearms owners into criminals. Please see below.


From Calibre facebook page

"In attending the CSSA annual general meeting we had the opportunity to follow up on the changes to Bulletin 72 with both the CSSA and Minister Blaney's office. Unfortunately we learned that Murray Smith (Manager, Specialized Firearms Support Services, Firearms Investigative and Enforcement Services

Directorate, Canadian Firearms Program, RCMP) was heard referring to this as "The Year of the Magazine" at CANSEC just days ago. Allegedly this is a reference to an ongoing effort by the RCMP to limit LAR-15, Beowulf, and similar magazines' use. It is expected that whatever changes they intend to implement in order to obtain the goal of sidelining these magazines' use will be rolled out mere weeks ahead of the upcoming election. Minister Blaneys' office and the CSSA both overheard these comments at CANSEC, are aware of the RCMP's intentions, and are working towards preventing it. We will also be filing further Access to Information requests and following up with both the CSSA and the government as the situation develops over the summer.

In short, it appears that the RCMP are working towards placing restrictions on magazine use that would prevent the use of LAR-15 and Beowulf magazines, either completely or by legally requiring those magazines only be used with LAR-15 and Beowulf rifles. When we asked "Does this mean we may not be able to use our ten round magazines in out regular AR-15" we were told that indeed, this effort by the Firearms Program would prevent us from doing that, if it comes to fruition."


Criminals simply do care what laws or regulations are passed and only a fool would believe a magazine cap has any effect on the decision a gang member, or any other criminal might make when they take a loaded gun out into public or discharge it on our streets. Our current magazine caps which have been in place since I believe the 90's have not impacted street crime. Yet the RCMP are reportedly yet again about to target a accepted legal ruling or regulation to frustrate and harass legal gun owners.

This particular magazine capacity rule has been in effect under numerous governments both Liberal and Conservative and there have been no incidents that would warrant revisiting the legislation. If you want to address magazine restrictions remove them as they clearly do not deter criminal use. I also find the RCMP timing quite interesting in this latest incident as you are passing Bill C-42 and an election is almost upon us.

These bureaucrats must be fired or controlled! We the citizens of Canada did not elect them to make laws of their own design and choosing. Firearms owners have a right to expect their government to protect them from such arbitrary political moves from bureaucrats who are as much against the current government as they are against the citizens they were sworn to protect.

Name ######x
Address ######xx
Email ############
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Nice letter...!
 
Sent the following to Blaney:

Dear Minister Blaney;

I am writing to express serious concern over reports that the RCMP intend to rescind or revoke Bulletin 72 (described in detail in the link that follows):

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/bulletins/bus-ent/20110323-72-eng.htm

My concern is that the RCMP, rather than our elected officials, appear to be planning to arbitrarily change firearms law. A number of law-abiding firearms owners purchased magazines with Bulletin 72 in mind, investing a fair bit of money in doing so.

It is my sincere hope that you, as the Public Safety Minister, rein in these unelected bureaucratic officers.

As a veteran, I am 'holding my nose' to vote Conservative this year, because I still believe that the Conservative party is the best choice to support the rights of law-abiding gun owners. However if you permit the RCMP to revoke Bulletin 72, then it becomes obvious I cannot trust the Conservatives to support gun-owners like myself, and I will have lost my last reason to support your party.

Thank you.

[name redacted on CGN]​
 
StrikerSW said:
Criminals simply do care what laws or regulations are passed and only a fool would believe a magazine cap has any effect on the decision a gang member, or any other criminal might make when they take a loaded gun out into public or discharge it on our streets. Our current magazine caps which have been in place since I believe the 90's have not impacted street crime. Yet the RCMP are reportedly yet again about to target a accepted legal ruling or regulation to frustrate and harass legal gun owners.
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Criminals simply do NOT care what laws or regulations are passed and only a fool would believe a magazine cap has any effect on the decision a gang member, or any other criminal might make when they take a loaded gun out into public or discharge it on our streets. Our current magazine caps which have been in place since I believe the 90's have not impacted street crime. Yet the RCMP are reportedly yet again about to target a accepted legal ruling or regulation to frustrate and harass legal gun owners.

you missed one word but a fantastic letter none the less.
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I'm going to say that this "closing of the loophole" is a good thing, in that we can use it to get rid of mag limits altogether. That is what the message should be to the CPC.
 
As a young shooter its pretty discouraging how hard the "fun police" are working. <Sarcasm>I guess it is a proven fact that limiting magazines to 5 rounds will end all violence everywhere forever though.<Sarcasm/>
 
I was wondering if this had anything to do with the magazine limit petitions that were sent in by the NFA, if the mags in question was part of their argument of the the limitations being non-sense and ultimately this being the consequence.
 
Mr Wolverine said:
Trust me, this is for real, we don't have time to wait.
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Thank you Mr. Hipwell,

I don,t believe for a minute this has anything to do with "public safety" or even an attack against pistol mag owners/retailers.

Seems pretty clear to me that this is designed to influence the upcoming federal election.

The RCMP is pitting gun owners against the Cons. As much as I hate to admit it, pretty crafty move on their part.

The stakes have never been higher for gun owners in Canada. This should be shouted out from the highest rooftops.

I do not own any of the affected items but I lost enough treasure during the nineties due the influence of this organization, to recognize these actions for what they are.
 
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