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 Media Release: CSSA opens Ottawa communications office (2010/06/08)
Team CSSA welcomes former Breitkreuz staffer as new Communications Director.
Team CSSA is pleased to announce the opening of our new Ottawa office. National Capital operations will be headed up by Brant Scott, former Garry Breitkreuz M.P. staffer. Brant is a marketing communications consultant and the former Parliamentary Assistant to Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. He worked closely with Garry for three years on firearms issues after former assistant, Dennis Young, relocated to Alberta.
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Media Release: MP attempts to thwart debate in Parliament on gun registry bill. (2010/06/03)
Mark Holland tries to kill bill at committee despite powerful witness testimonies.
"Now that Parliament finally has both sides of the debate on the record, this Liberal M.P. wants to throw that hard work out the window," says Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, who appeared as an expert witness before the committee. "He wants to completely ignore the testimony of 33 witnesses. This is an insult to Canadians who believe in the democratic process. Mr. Holland's hidden agenda is a danger to parliamentary fairness. The support of a few police chiefs has somehow intoxicated him with power."
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ACTION ALERT! Urgent Communication to all CSSA members. (2010/06/02)
You should be outraged... ...CLICK HERE....
 Setting the record straight in the Hill Times, #7. (2010/06/01)
The seventh in CSSA's series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times. This series is to counter the misleading, vague, disproven, and sometimes outright false information defending the failed Long-gun Registry from the Opposition, the anti-gun lobby, and the police lobby associations. ...view ad....
High quality PDF version of the ad for any member or club who wishes to distribute the ad or place it in the newspapers....Download....
Media Release: CACP president Bill Blair chooses registry over more police. (2010/06/01)
Police chief head prefers computers instead of cops. CSSA spokesman, Tony Bernardo, says Blair's statement demonstrates how detached the police chiefs association has become from the needs of police officers in the field.
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Media Release: New survey shows responsible firearms owners fear police intervention. (2010/05/27)
Sport shooters relationship with police falls victim to legislation.
The shocking decay of the relationship between police and sport shooters has been caused by anti-firearms legislation in recent decades and haphazard enforcement by police. An anonymous survey of 2,018 random legal firearms owners in Canada reveals growing mistrust of police enforcement, particularly the non-profit associations that purport to represent police chiefs and rank-and-file officers.
"We knew that responsible firearms owners were losing confidence in police enforcement, but these results are shocking and distressing," says Tony Bernardo of the CSSA. "Sport shooters actually feel like the police are ganging up on them to give the public appearance that gun control is alive and well.
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 Setting the record straight in the Hill Times, #6. (2010/05/25)
The sixth in CSSA's series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times....view ad....
High quality PDF version of the ad for any member or club who wishes to distribute the ad or place it in the newspapers....Download....
 Where's The Beef? Part FIVE. (2010/05/10)
The FIFTH in CSSA's FOUR part series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times. This was intended to be a run of four ads, but given the horribly misleading, vague, disproven, and sometimes outright false information promoting the failed Long-gun Registry on the truthsandmyths.ca website (put up by the police lobby associations on a Toronto Police dedicated webserver), the CSSA has placed a full-page ad in the Hill Times in an attempt to get truthful information out to Canadians and their MPs. This ad debunks the Police association's shameful so-called "myths and truths." ...view ad....
Canadian Outdoors Group united in support of C-391 (2010/05/10)
The CSSA and CILA are proud to be included in an elite group of organizations that communicate on a regular basis on issued relating to firearms, hunting, fishing, fur harvesting and other outdoor related activities. This prestigious group is called the Canadian Outdoors Group and has resulted in a number of letters and contacts being made to the various government agencies in the name of our collective groups. The Canadian Outdoors Group has sent an open letter to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and his caucus along with an excellent study paper by Dr. Gary Mauser. The letter was signed by the following organizations...
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Gun registry has killed people by diverting billions (Dr. Caillin Langmann, emergency medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., National Post, 2010/05/08)
Charles Momy, president of the Canadian Police Association, states: "If the registry can prevent one person in this country from either committing suicide, from being injured or killed ... then isn't that worth it for all Canadians?" I am an emergency physician. This argument demonstrates how out of touch this man is. I believe the gun registry has killed people by diverting billions of dollars to create and maintain itself, while real mental health issues go unfunded. ...more....
Time to pull the plug on long-gun registry (Toronto Sun, 2010/05/08)
After all — thus goes the calculus — cops are conservative de facto, because they carry guns themselves, wear crisp uniforms and protect us from criminals. If they support the registry, then its survival must be righteous. Right?
Wrong. There’s a simpler explanation: What’s good for the police brass and unions is not necessarily good for Canadians, or democracy. The two are not synonymous ...more....
 Where's The Beef? Part Four.
The next in CSSA's continuing series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times. This is the fourth ad challenging the misinformation from the Coalition for Gun Control and Police lobby groups. High resolution copies are available to any member or club who wishes to post the ads in other newspapers or in their area. ...view ad....
 Where's The Beef? Part Three.
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Calgary police chief slams firearms registry (AM770 CHQR, 2010/04/23)
When I spoke with Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson this week, I asked him if he thought the federal gun registry was a useful tool for law enforcement. Hanson flat out said no. Hanson believes the registry creates a false sense of security among some Canadians. He pointed out the registry did nothing to stop gun violence between Calgary gangs. ...more....
...CTV: Gun registry not working: Police Chief Rick Hanson....
 Where's The Beef? Part Two.
The CSSA continues the series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times in conjunction with the start of the Public Safety Committee Hearings on Bill C-391. This is the second of four weekly ads planned for the sole purpose of challenging the misinformation spouted by the Coalition for Gun Control, Canadian Chiefs of Police Association and their respective supporters. High resolution copies can be made available to any member or club who wishes to post the ads in their local newspapers. ...view ad....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Michael Ignatieff dismisses the concerns of Western and Rural Canadians.
In one of his most cynical political moves to date, the self-described member of Canada's "Political Class," Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has decided to distance himself from western and rural voters by ordering his MPs to vote against Bill C-391. In doing so, he bowed to the demands of a core group of extreme lobbyists and the far left wing of his party by whipping the vote when C-391 comes back to the House of Commons for Third Reading...The message to western and rural Canadians from his most recent actions couldn't be more clear.
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Liberals must vote against common sense.
Ignatieff says Liberals must vote against Tory gun law. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says his caucus will be required to vote against the bill to scrap the controversial long-gun registry. ...more....
MPs that voted for C-391 and fax info.
Contact these MPs and encourage them to support Bill C-391.
Please contact them and strongly request (politely) that they support bill C-391, and let them know how wrong it is to whip a Private Member's Bill. (Whipping a PMB is in direct violation of long-standing parliamentary tradition, and is a slap-in-the-face to our democratic process -- it requires MPs wilfully to ignore the wishes of their constituents.) ...more....
T-97s, Confiscation and Compensation
The CSSA continues in the over-eighteen-month long fight against planned firearms confiscations. In interesting news yesterday, the Ministry of Public Safety has agreed that compensation would be paid in the case of confiscation.
The CSSA applauds this small step forward, and applauds the Minister for taking it, but wishes to remind members that the fight is far from over. Compensation does not make confiscation acceptable. ...more....
 Where's The Beef?
The CSSA has initiated a series of ads in the Ottawa Hill Times in conjunction with the start of the Public Safety Committee Hearings on Bill C-391. There are four weekly ads planned for the sole purpose of challenging the misinformation spouted by the Coalition for Gun Control, Canadian Chiefs of Police Association and their respective supporters. High resolution copies can be made available to any member or club who wishes to post the ads in their local newspapers. ...view ad....
 CSSA Blast in Calgary
The Calgary Gun Show is always very busy, but this year was a block buster thanks to the attendance of Members of Parliament, Garry Breitkreuz and Candice Hoeppner. Both popular M.P.'s helped work the CSSA booth on Friday to meet gun owners, listen to their concerns and answer their questions on a variety of issues relating to firearms legislation. ...more....
President's Address, Annual General Meeting, 2010.
Is it over yet? Did we win? What are we fighting? Why are we still fighting? ...more....
 We Have a Winner in the Office!
We are very proud to announce that we have a bronze medal winner working at the CSSA office. Diana Cabrera, one of CSSA's office administrators and a member of the Uruguay National Team, shot 573/600 in Sport Rifle to earn a Bronze Medal at the South American Games last month. ...more....
NRA Comments On C-391
STANDING GUARD (by Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association)
Canada's Reversing The "Irreversible Ratchet" Of Gun Control Owners. ...download pdf....
The cops came and took my gun (Joe Fiorito, Toronto Star)
(We were assured that the Registry would never lead to confiscation. That was, obviously, a lie.)
A pounding at the door the other morning; my windows rattled. ... ...more....
Laws make bad memorials (National Post editorial board)
Memorializing victims of violent crime through law is a dangerous habit, in any case: It generally leads to both bad law and bad memorials. ...more....
Only 11% of Canadians think gun registry effective in preventing crime.
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Download the complete poll here. (PDF)
Our Charter Rights under attack?
Toronto Police Chief Blair expands his appalling and constitutionally-questionable searches of citizens private homes from just gun owners to the general public.
Police dragnet oversteps (Toronto Star)
... their latest tactic – seeking entry to every single one of 6,000 homes in her neighbourhood – may be crossing the line. ... But launching a sprawling dragnet has the effect of putting thousands of citizens on the spot – like it or not – to submit their private homes to unlimited and unwarranted search by investigators. ... they are sending a strong – even intimidating – message that they will not take No for an answer.
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A very inconvenient poll on the long gun registry (National Post)
Sub-populations amongst which more people would prefer to scrap the registry than keep it include NDP voters, Green Party voters, Ontarians, and women. Ouch!
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Grandstanding in the name of gun safety (National Post)
I would like to think that the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is above political interference on matters regarding law. However with the history of the City of Toronto and its mayor's obsession with firearms, I am beginning to wonder.
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The Blair Witch-hunt Project -- Abuse of Authority?
Toronto Police Chief Blair's much touted "Project Safe City" is nothing more than a witch-hunt targeting firearms owners, seizing their private property without compensation and describing them as "criminals." Their "crime?" Allowing their Firearms Licenses to expire.
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Ten Myths Of The Long Gun Registry (English) (Français)
Myths Surrounding The Dawson Tragedy (English) (Français)
Police use of the gun registry exaggerated... ...more... Canadian Firearms Centre website: here.
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