Quote Originally Posted by MountedMadness View Post
All of the previous and for the benefit of 45C's original question...

That's what happens when a Liberal lawmaker changes good rules into bad rules. If you look at the history of the Liberal (self-proclaimed natural governing) Party of Canada, they have been slowly eating away at firearms ownership in this country. After the shooting at L'Ecole Polytechnique, the Conservative government chose a new approach with Bill C-17 which implemented firearms safety training coupled with 2 phase licensing (PAL/RPAL) in 1992. C-17 was a pragmatic and thoughtful piece of legislation, but the Liberal government that followed jumped into a major "boondoggle" with Bill C-68 and their 2+ Billion Dollar long gun registry...AND...reclassification of many various firearms from Non-Restricted to Restricted, from Restricted to Prohibited.

The Liberal intent - well voiced by PM TatterTot and his Sycophants - is to disarm Canadians, as if the 2.3 million licensed gun owners were the problem. The Liberal mindset is simple - disarmament by absolute decree will garner a major backlash from law abiding Canadian firearms owners...so the alternative is to do such things as "grandfather" one generation, eventually requiring disposal of the firearm(s) when the owner dies.

Disarmament by attrition legislation. No money provided to compensate for the property you lawfully paid for. No option to pass any firearms that are "grandfathered" onto grandkids or other family members.

As has been pointed out previously - When a government doesn't trust it's law abiding citizens with firearms, those very citizens should no longer trust the government.

Sorry for the rant...but the Liberal party has to be defeated in October...otherwise there'll be no recovery from their ideology on many levels.
The truth right there. You think the government is concerned about criminals having guns? Nah, they're more concerned about the millions of armed citizens who don't agree with what that government is doing.