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Sent to my MP
Honourable Andrew Saxton
102 West 3rd Street
North Vancouver, British Columbia
V7M 1E8
RCMP actions affecting a small business in your riding
Dear Honourable Andrew Saxton M. P.
I am writing you again on another urgent matter. I wish to bring to your attention a matter involving the RCMP firearms lab and one of your constituents. In North Vancouver resides a small company called CanadaAmmo. It is run by a young entrepreneur who has built up a small but successful business selling firearms, ammunition and accessories, in fact he is one of three firearm related businesses in your riding.
Recently CanadaAmmo arranged for a shipment of semi-automatic rifles from China, these rifles had the barrels lengthened to conform with Canadian law. The business owner went through all of the proper channels and received clearance from the RCMP who created a FRT number (A tracking number for a type of firearm giving specs and legal status) and then received a import permit from the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade. With all the paperwork and approvals in place he placed an order for a large number of rifles, which I estimate would cost him approx. $200-250,000. The shipment was delayed in China by the Olympics and finally arrived in port early in the new year.
Upon arrival Customs stopped the shipment and sent one of the rifles to the RCMP Lab for verification. After a delay of over 2 months he has received word that the rifles will be deemed prohibited and that the FRT number has been changed to reflect this. Another Vancouver company has been selling the same type of rifle for about a year and is also affected by this arbitrary and unexpected change. The RCMP lab has also changed about a dozen other FRT’s numbers and deemed another import of different rifles by another importer as prohibited regardless of the fact that the importer had gone through the same steps as CanadaAmmo. If this ruling on the status remains unchanged, the rifles will be worthless here and will be almost impossible to sell elsewhere. In other words a business that employs about 4 people and is otherwise successful will be decimated by an arbitrary decision taken AFTER law-abiding people have relied upon the approvals previously given. This is not the first time the RCMP Firearms Lab have made arbitrary and unreasonable decisions and have had a judgment ruled against them with a scathing lecture from the judge on their improper behaviour.
Regardless on your views on firearm, as a person that comes from a small family business I know that you understand just how unfair and stressful such blatant disregard for fair process is on the business people. Even if he survives this incident, it will make obtaining credit so much harder at a time when getting credit to invest is extremely difficult. It will be likely that he and the other firearm businesses will have to lay off employees. I have known the owner for many years and have watched him nurture his businesses into a successful and well respected company using his own money, blood, sweat and tears.
To be frank, this behaviour is what I expected of a Liberal run government, thousands of law abiding firearm owners volunteered and donated to the Conservative Party in order to see a common sense and fair approach to firearm legislation. This recent move by the RCMP and the watering down of Bill C-301 has firearm owners incensed and feeling betrayed. I ask you to pass on to your party that these actions could cost them the support of close to 2 million Canadian firearm owners.
I also ask you to contact your Honourable colleague, Minister Peter Van Loan and make him aware of what his department is doing. It is very likely that the recent events are linked to the upcoming vote on Bill C-301 and the RCMP is trying to capture as many firearms as possible in the registry of restricted firearms in case Bill C-301 succeeds and long gun registry is done away with. One has to ask with whom does the loyalty of the civil servants lie when they actively try to circumvent what may be the will of Parliament?
Honourable Andrew Saxton
102 West 3rd Street
North Vancouver, British Columbia
V7M 1E8
RCMP actions affecting a small business in your riding
Dear Honourable Andrew Saxton M. P.
I am writing you again on another urgent matter. I wish to bring to your attention a matter involving the RCMP firearms lab and one of your constituents. In North Vancouver resides a small company called CanadaAmmo. It is run by a young entrepreneur who has built up a small but successful business selling firearms, ammunition and accessories, in fact he is one of three firearm related businesses in your riding.
Recently CanadaAmmo arranged for a shipment of semi-automatic rifles from China, these rifles had the barrels lengthened to conform with Canadian law. The business owner went through all of the proper channels and received clearance from the RCMP who created a FRT number (A tracking number for a type of firearm giving specs and legal status) and then received a import permit from the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade. With all the paperwork and approvals in place he placed an order for a large number of rifles, which I estimate would cost him approx. $200-250,000. The shipment was delayed in China by the Olympics and finally arrived in port early in the new year.
Upon arrival Customs stopped the shipment and sent one of the rifles to the RCMP Lab for verification. After a delay of over 2 months he has received word that the rifles will be deemed prohibited and that the FRT number has been changed to reflect this. Another Vancouver company has been selling the same type of rifle for about a year and is also affected by this arbitrary and unexpected change. The RCMP lab has also changed about a dozen other FRT’s numbers and deemed another import of different rifles by another importer as prohibited regardless of the fact that the importer had gone through the same steps as CanadaAmmo. If this ruling on the status remains unchanged, the rifles will be worthless here and will be almost impossible to sell elsewhere. In other words a business that employs about 4 people and is otherwise successful will be decimated by an arbitrary decision taken AFTER law-abiding people have relied upon the approvals previously given. This is not the first time the RCMP Firearms Lab have made arbitrary and unreasonable decisions and have had a judgment ruled against them with a scathing lecture from the judge on their improper behaviour.
Regardless on your views on firearm, as a person that comes from a small family business I know that you understand just how unfair and stressful such blatant disregard for fair process is on the business people. Even if he survives this incident, it will make obtaining credit so much harder at a time when getting credit to invest is extremely difficult. It will be likely that he and the other firearm businesses will have to lay off employees. I have known the owner for many years and have watched him nurture his businesses into a successful and well respected company using his own money, blood, sweat and tears.
To be frank, this behaviour is what I expected of a Liberal run government, thousands of law abiding firearm owners volunteered and donated to the Conservative Party in order to see a common sense and fair approach to firearm legislation. This recent move by the RCMP and the watering down of Bill C-301 has firearm owners incensed and feeling betrayed. I ask you to pass on to your party that these actions could cost them the support of close to 2 million Canadian firearm owners.
I also ask you to contact your Honourable colleague, Minister Peter Van Loan and make him aware of what his department is doing. It is very likely that the recent events are linked to the upcoming vote on Bill C-301 and the RCMP is trying to capture as many firearms as possible in the registry of restricted firearms in case Bill C-301 succeeds and long gun registry is done away with. One has to ask with whom does the loyalty of the civil servants lie when they actively try to circumvent what may be the will of Parliament?
That is not completely true.
A well written letter on official or personnal letterhead, written on a computer has as much effect as a hand written.
A letter reaches its destination. When its a Govt. office they get thousands.
They don't give a rat's ass the time it took you to write it. They care that it strikes-proves-makes a point, and that it is well directed and well informed.
Then they seem to care.
Period.
Tomlinson used to figure that a handwritten letter was somewhat better than a typed one, simply because it could not have been mass produced.
An individual, personal typed one is FAR better than a photocopied form letter, and a petition is just a waste of paper.
DAT used to use the figure of one pound of petition was one lost vote, one form letter was also one lost vote, and one personal letter was viewed as 500 lost votes.
I mentioned this ratio to my own MP, and he said he heard the number 1500 angry voters per real letter.
BTW, I dropped into my MP's office (Mark Warawa, CPC) this morning. Of course he is in Ottawa this week (unlike last week when he was home and I was in Ottawa!
). Anyway, I talked to the Executive Assistant, Annette, about both C-302 and the various FRT re-classifications.
She got a chuckle out of the name CanadianGunNutz!
An individual, personal typed one is FAR better than a photocopied form letter, and a petition is just a waste of paper.
DAT used to use the figure of one pound of petition was one lost vote, one form letter was also one lost vote, and one personal letter was viewed as 500 lost votes.
I mentioned this ratio to my own MP, and he said he heard the number 1500 angry voters per real letter.
BTW, I dropped into my MP's office (Mark Warawa, CPC) this morning. Of course he is in Ottawa this week (unlike last week when he was home and I was in Ottawa!
). Anyway, I talked to the Executive Assistant, Annette, about both C-302 and the various FRT re-classifications. She got a chuckle out of the name CanadianGunNutz!
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Wow Colin. Just...Wow! I humbly bow before your penmanship.
Any chance you could host a clinic on how to write letters? Makes me want to take mine back, shred it, soak it in gas and then burn it to a nice crumbly charcoal dust to save the shame of ever having it compared to yours.
Any chance you could host a clinic on how to write letters? Makes me want to take mine back, shred it, soak it in gas and then burn it to a nice crumbly charcoal dust to save the shame of ever having it compared to yours.
CanAm has stated earlier that the cost to him was in excess of $1 000 000 for the rifles.
Not to press my point, but that was a discussion i had with the former Min of Justice in quebec, Sam Hamad the minister of work in Quebec and Josee Verner last summer...
And it seems they do not care about the bottle...as long as the juice is good...
Press it the way you see fit !
KPA
I have a distinct feeling that the core of the issue may have more to do with the internals, than the receivers themselves.
I plagiarized your letter for my MP - hope you don't mind.
Go for it, just change it enough that it does not read exactly the same.
I encourage all North shore gun nuts to get hold of Andrew Saxton office and tell them about the FRT issue. They do know about it and his office will meet Can-am to discuss the issue. I also sent them another letter on C-301 with backgrounder and bill attached and sent a similar letter to John Weston, the M.P. for West Van, Sunshine Coast, his staff indicated a lot of letters recieved about C-301.
I didn't consult with Can-am about the letter, so getting the dollar figure wrong will actually help when Can-am tells him the real amount. I think next time we do lunch I better be buying!!
does the r.c.m.p. make the decision on gun classification . if so they are doing a terrible job of it. reversals on dlask shotguns walther 22 and now this mess. i will be sending a letter to my local m.p. and will be making myself heard on this. ifthey get away with this ,things will only go down hill. can.am deserves our support.putting any company in this position is beyond everything.
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