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CSSA's Tony Bernardo on Cam and Company regarding RCMP's inexcusable attempted gun confiscations. Video, 2012-01-11
Cam Edwards talks to Tony Bernardo.
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Bureaucrats gunning for rifle owners Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, Thursday 2012-01-12
When Bill C-68, the gun registry bill, was being debated, opponents said registration of firearms would lead to their eventual confiscation.
Now that is happening.
Just before Christmas, owners of certain firearms were informed by letter that their rifles had been reclassified as prohibited firearms in Canada and they must be turned over to police officials. Failure to comply would mean the firearms would be taken by force and the owners thrown in jail. The reason for the change: The rifle looks scary.
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Here is Brian Lilley with coverage of a bureaucracy out of control. (See links on page.) All Canadians need to be concerned. WARNING Graphic pictures of a scary rifle....more....
CSSA addresses Parliamentary Committee in support of Bill C-19. Video, Thursday 2011-11-17
Statements by Tony Bernardo (CSSA/CILA), Diana Cabrera (CSSA), Cst. Randy Kuntz (EPS), MP Garry Breitkreuz, and MP Candice Hoeppner
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Garry Breitkreuz on Bill C-19, the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act Statement to the House of Commons, October 27, 2011
In January 1994, before the Liberals had even put the long gun registry in place, I was invited to a meeting by a number of concerned gun owners in my constituency ... Since that time I have worked for years to see the wasteful and ineffective long gun registry scrapped once and for all. It has taken a long, long time. I have talked to thousands of people and have attended meetings on this issue from Vancouver Island to St. John's, Newfoundland. I have lost track of how many meetings I have attended.
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Daily Split covers CSSA http://www.dailysplit.com/
Daily Split announces show donated almost entirely to the CSSA. ...See video on Youtube....
Privacy Commissioner of Canada 2000-02-09
"At the heart of any conception of privacy, and any code of privacy protection, lies the notion that people have a basic right to control their personal information. What this means, in concrete terms, is that when the government comes to collect information from people, they have the right to know why the information is being collected, how it will be used, how long it will be kept, and who will have access to it. The government has an obligation to tell them, and then proceed accordingly. This means that the government may use the information only for the purposes for which it was collected. And if personal information is going to be given to third parties, people need to be told that at the time it is collected. If they were not told that, release of the information to third parties should be subject to their consent. ... Although I recognize the potential value of this information, I also recognize that the use of this knowledge may lead to serious breaches of privacy. ... The information was collected for a specific purpose. That purpose has been fulfilled. In accordance with the principles of fair information practices, the information should not be retained. To retain it beyond its stated use is to invite pressure for other uses. No consent was given to other uses of the information."
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Gun registry is not gun control Tony Bernardo, Ottawa Citizen, 2011-10-29
We agree with the Citizen's editorial that laments the rhetoric in the gun registry debate, and we suggest journalists across the country take a look in the mirror. Responsible firearms owners in Canada have been patiently explaining for years why the registry was never designed as a public safety measure.
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Q&A: Scrapping the gun registry Global News, 2011-10-27
Why should Canadians be concerned with the registry, and what happens now? Global News talks with gun policy expert Gary Mauser ... ATI requests show that the registry has been accessed inappropriately over 400 times by police employees, occasionally for criminal purposes.
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Press Release: New government bill to scrap registry moving in right direction CSSA, 2011-10-25
Canadian Shooting Sports Association commends proposed legislation
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) has been working with the Conservative party for several years to scrap the ineffective and over-priced registry. Tony Bernardo, CSSA spokesman and executive director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, says the new legislation has been a long time coming.
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 Right to self-defence under assault (National Post, 2011-09-18)
Citizens treated like felons for taking up weapons against criminals Over the past half century, the right of citizens in Western countries to defend themselves has eroded.
Last August, Ian Thomson of Port Colborne, Ont., awoke early one morning to find three men lobbing firebombs at his rural home while also shouting death threats at him. A trained firearms instructor, Thomson took a handgun he legally owned from the storage safe where he kept it in his home and fired warning shots over the attackers' heads. When he reported the incident to police, they charged him with careless storage of a firearm and dangerous use.
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Homeowners not required to flee intruders: court National Post, 2011-09-16
When someone is under attack in their own home, fleeing the premises is never a requirement, the Ontario Court of Appeal has affirmed. “If someone breaks into your home, it seems to me that he does so at his own risk.”
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CSSA Group Health Insurance -- New Benefits For CSSA Members 2011-09-10
In order to protect further you and your family/employees from the cost of health care not covered by provincial government plans, we have researched and found an excellent group of plans with Manulife Financial exclusive to CSSA members. These plans are very flexible in coverage and you can choose what level of protection you and your family needs.
If you own a small business and want to provide coverage for your employees, there are further savings available with this program.
Details and a link for quotes can be found in the ‘members only’ section of this website. (If you have any problems accessing the site, please let us know.)
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Ray Laycock 2011-08-19
With sadness, CSSA mourns the passing of Raymond Alexander Laycock of Strathmore, Alberta on August 19th, 2011 at the age of 82 years at the Agape Hospice.
For much of his life, Ray was an active member of the Firearms Community. He was a founding member of the National Fireams Association, Okotoks Rifle & Pistol Club, and Guns of the Golden West. He was a dedicated participant in various gun shows, black powder shoots, fast draw demonstrations and competitions. In particular, Raymond was very proud to participate as a member of the Canadian Team in the World Practical Shooting Competition in 1979 in South Africa. He was well-known to the firearms community through his newspaper column – The Major’s Mortar – that ran for several decades in the Gun Runner.
Ray's contribution to the Canadian firearms community will be missed
Getting gun safety completely backwards Homeowners not required to flee intruders: court
This is ridiculous, but oh so typical of gun banners — indeed of those who would ban most pleasures or recreations in the name of public safety or the “public good,” whatever that is. In the name of bettering us despite ourselves, they take leave of common sense and typically end up making the situation worse.
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In memory of Jack Layton. 2011-08-22
On behalf of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, we would like to express our sympathy to the family of Jack Layton at this most difficult time. Both his friends and foes recognized and respected Mr. Layton as a caring, passionate Canadian dedicated, in his own fashion, to improving the country he loved. We sincerely hope Mr. Layton's family will find some comfort and solace in his legacy.
On the Right to self-defence 2011-07-27
A fellow firearms owner recently said that, in Canada, we don't have an actual Right to defend ourselves. He is wrong, of course. Tragically, this erroneous assumption has become all too common among Canadians.
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Women need guns Jennifer Dadson, The Province, 2011-08-03
Gun-control advocates have been saying for years that guns are a women's issue. They're absolutely right. By denying us the legal authority to carry the necessary tools to defend ourselves, be it a pocket knife or pepper spray or a handgun, the authorities have ensured that women will remain victims of violent crime for many years to come. Being unarmed doesn't make us safer. It just makes us defenceless.
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Statement by the United Nations Delegation of Canada to Arms Trade Treaty Preperatory Committee
Canada would like to see language in the “Principles” section that explicitly recognizes that there is a legal trade in small arms for legitimate civilian uses, including for sporting, hunting and collecting purposes. To that end, therefore, Canada would propose the addition of a 20th clause to the “Principles” section that would read as follows:
“Reaffirming that small arms have certain legitimate civilian uses, including sporting, hunting and collecting purposes.”
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Gun control groups slam Canada's stance at UN arms talks
Vancouver Sun, 2011-07-14
Canada proposed the following clause be added into the draft accord: "Reaffirming that small arms have certain legitimate civilian uses, including sporting, hunting and collecting purposes."
Kenneth Epps, of Canadian arms control NGO Project Ploughshares, said Canada's move is hampering efforts to forge a comprehensive global arms control regime.
Epps said a representative of the Canadian Sports Shooting Association — a major gun owners' group — attended the meeting alongside Canadian officials Thursday. ...more....
We've Moved!
The CSSA is growing and the office has moved to new, better digs. We are now located at 116 Galaxy Blvd in Etobicoke (Dixon and Carlingview area). The new phone number is 416-679-9959, fax: 416-679-9910. The toll free number (1-888-873-4339) will remain the same.
We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced during that time. Thanks to our wonderful members for your help and patience while we grow -- we couldn't do it without you!
Do gun bans make us safer? Ezra Levant, Sun News Network, 2011-07-08
Professor John Lott discusses why banning guns does not make streets safer.
Bear scare ended with one bullet Calgary Sun, 2011-05-17
A lifetime of steak dinners in exchange for not having his own life end as a grizzly bear's supper. For 19-year-old Nick LaGarde, the deal couldn't be more fair - and if not for the steel nerve and still hand of his friend Scott Proudfoot, he'd almost certainly be dead. "I'm buying Scott a steak every week for the rest of his life," said LaGarde. ...more....
MAJORITY: A great day for Canada's firearm owners!
Congratulations to the members of Canadian Shooting Sports Association for pulling together during the federal election campaign. You can share in the credit for the positive outcome. ... There is little doubt that gun owners had considerable influence in removing several pro-registry MPs, including Mark Holland, Larry Bagnell, Todd Russell and Anthony Rota, and there is little doubt that we played a substantial role in the election of many MPs. ...more....
Canada’s sport shooters have zero tolerance for gun crime (Tony Bernardo, Barriere Star Journal, 2011-05-02)
The shooting sports have been a casualty of political deception for many years, and this black mark on freedom of choice affects all Canadians whether you own guns or not. ... Firearms have secured our freedom from oppression and they have brought home Olympic medals. Yet somehow, our heritage activities have been tarred with the same brush as criminals who use guns to monstrous effect. As a result, governments and police have created regulations that affect the law abiding, but sadly, do not affect criminals. ...more....
CSSA Radio Ads (2011-04-20)
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Athlete of the Week: Olympic Shooting hopeful Chris Baldwin (A News London, 2011-04-20)
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Who Wants a Long Gun Registry? (CFRA, Madely in the Morning, 2011-04-05)
Steve Madely is joined by Cst. Randy Kuntz, of the Edmonton Police Service, to discuss the mixed message about who in fact wants to keep the long gun registry. ...Listen....
South Carolina may loosen gun rules (The Toronto Sun, 2011-04-02)
OTTAWA - Gun control in Canada usually means restricting firearms and imposing regulations on their owners. In South Carolina, lawmakers are loosening the rules. “It puts criminals on the defence,” Representative Thad Viers, a Republican, tells The State newspaper. “Criminals don’t know if you’re carrying or not.” South Carolina Democrats agree. ...more....
Increasing Compliance among Firearms Owners
Extending the Amnesty
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Self-defence: The good guys finally get a break (The Abbotsford Times, 2011-03-22)
The firearm registry itself was little more than a mischievous strategy to criminalize homeowners before the fact who might attempt to protect their family. Despite provisions in the Common Law regarding self protection and a legislated right to self defence, lawmakers and criminal justice practitioners have long made it their mission to ensure citizens and property owners are virtually helpless when under threat or attack.
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The right to self-defence (The National Post, 2011-03-07)
Crown attorneys in every province should be reminded that armed self-defence is a right enjoyed by all Canadians - and that a firearm used to defend one's life or home is by definition in use, not in storage, and is governed by different norms.
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Law-abiding 'criminals': It's ludicrous that people justly defending themselves face charges (Ottawa Sun, 2011-03-04)
There once was a time when the idea that man being attacked at night inside his own home could be charged for shooting warning shots would have been considered absurd. It should still be considered absurd. We have the right to self defence in this country, it is an ancient right that has not faded away with time nor the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Opposing self-defence means opposing democracy itself (Lorne Gunter, The National Post, 2011-03-02)
If those in charge of public safety cannot see the inherent difference between citizens and criminals, our whole notion that the people are in charge of our democracy has been turned upside down..
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CSSA applauds the introduction of Bill C-60 (2011-02-17)
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association applauds the Conservative government of Steven Harper for the introduction of Bill C-60
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Canadians have a right to defend themselves (Karen Selick, The Calgary Herald, 2011-02-12)
Canada’s Constitution guarantees citizens the right to security of the person. Crown attorneys need to recognize that historically and empirically, security sometimes necessitates the right to armed self-defence. Dropping the outrageous charges against Ian Thomson would be a good place to start.
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CSSA/CILA endorses defending those who defend themselves (2011-02-01)
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association/Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CSSA/CILA) support the historic, fundamental right of an individual to defend themselves when under attack. ...more....
Threatened citizens deserve the benefit of the doubt (Lorne Gunter, The National Post, 2011-01-26)
This seems to be yet another example of the Crown siding with a criminal against a victim who decided to fight back. ... The point is, in a self-defence case, the tie has to go to the victim, not the victimizer. ...more....
With Gun Control, Canadian Criminals Are Making A Killing (John Myers, 2011-01-26)
My girlfriend Angela later became my wife. To this day we don’t know if those men were the Calgary serial killers. All these years later we remain certain of two things: These men had evil intentions and we were damned lucky to have that shotgun. ...more....
Changing the criminal citizen's arrest law (The London Free Press, 2011-01-25)
The day had best be soon when Canadians no longer have to fear certain arrest and possible jail for defending their property, their family, or even their lives from criminals. The time of being a good little victim is over. ...more....
Protecting the lawful citizen (Matt Gurney, The National Post, 2011-01-25)
Shoplifters. Burglars. Home invaders. ... The cases of Thomson and Morrow illustrate the nature of such confrontations. Faced with an imminent and grave threat to their lives, with nary a cop in sight, what other options did these men have? Had they not acted in self-defence, both might well be dead. ...more....
Canadians have a right to self-defence, even if our officials deny it (Lorne Gunter, The National Post, 2011-01-24)
These rights have not been extinguished just because Canada has become modernized and urbanized, or because our officials would rather pretend they don’t exist and never have. ...more....
Right to self-defence never abolished (The Edmonton Journal, 2011-01-23)
In truth, it is an individual right that existed before government and, so, cannot be extinguished by government. ...more....
CBC As It Happens, Guest Alan Korwin. (2011-01-10)
In the wake of the tragic shooting in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 14 on January 9, 2011, CBC Radio interviewed author Alan Korwin about the availability of guns in U.S. society. Korwin told his interviewers that it's time to stop confusing sport shooters with criminals.
Here is a transcript of that CBC interview..
The CSSA mourns the loss of John Holdstock (2010-12-30)
To learn of John's life, please read this wonderful article by Judie Steeves of the Kelowna Capital News.
Top political game-changer: MP Candice Hoeppner (CBC, 2010-12-31)
Power & Politics host Evan Solomon talks to Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner, the people's choice as 2010's top political game-changer. Part 1. Part 2.
The Timmins Times -- Letter to the editor (2010-12-28)
Any suggestion that a gun collection is a "distressing arsenal" evokes the stench of "yellow journalism." And, quoting the reporter in the third person asking if a gun and martial arts collection is connected to organized crime is beyond the pale.
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Martial Law and The Gun Registry. The Common Denominator (News Talk 980, 2010-12-08)
"The most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history.” -- Ontario Ombudsman ...more....
The best memorial is "strict, relentless gun control." Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, The Record, Dec 6, 2010
 'I did everything by the book to protect myself' (Telegraph-Journal, 2010-11-23)
Burton man says he was protecting his family, property when he took an unloaded gun out into his yard
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Public shows support for Burton man facing weapons charges (Telegraph-Journal, 2010-11-24) ...more...
N.B. man charged for pointing unloaded gun at trespassers (National Post, 2010-11-24)
“A lot of people at work and around the area think it’s outrageous that I’m being charged”...more...
The law must help victims (Daily Gleaner, 2010-11-27)
...victims of crime ought not to end up being treated as the criminals and receive harsher punishment than the real offenders merely for defending their property.
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NDP Long-gun registry bill betrays hunters (George Fritz Garson, Sudbury Star, 2010-10-26)
... [If] the NDP were going to "fix" the long gun registry and make it palatable to hunters, target shooters and collectors ... the framers of this bill, and all those who support it have failed spectacularly.
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NDP Bill C-580: CSSA Press Release and Analysis of the Bill. (2010-09-22)
NDP's Bill C-580 gives gun owners renewed energy for election fight. Sport shooters show disgust at feeble ploy to "fix" gun registry.
Private Members' Bill C-580 tabled by NDP MP Charlie Angus earlier this month is ill-conceived and leaves firearms owners to conclude it is nothing more than a confiscation tool.
View Press Release and Analysis of the Bill.
CSSA Alert -- C-391. (2010-09-22)
The vote is now in and the motion put forward by Liberal MP Mark Holland to kill Bill C-391 passed by 2 votes, 153 to 151. The Liberals were assisted in this affront to democracy by a number of rural NDP and Liberal MPs who turned their backs on their constituents. They will pay the price at the next election.
View Press Release.
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Registry vote leaves police image wounded (Lorne Gunter, National Post, 2010-09-23)
“Police chiefs and police officers have lost my respect, totally.” That’s what one reader told me immediately after the three opposition parties ganged up Wednesday to preserve the federal gun registry.
She was far from alone.
For weeks now I have been receiving scores of emails along the lines of the one above. People who before the registry would have been the most diehard supporters of the police, now see themselves as the victims of a smear campaign, especially by the chiefs. ...more...
 Op-Ed and full-page ad: Police chiefs should be enforcing legislation, not creating it. (the Hill Times, 2010-09-20)
How long will Canadians tolerate the tail wagging the dog?
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Radio Ads (2010-09-20)
The radio ads played on the following stations:
Welland Ont. CIXL 91.7 FM
Hearst CKHT 98.1 FM
Cochrane CHPB 98.1 FM
Espanola CJJN 99.3 FM
Timmins CHMY 93.1 FM
Elliot Lake CKNR 94.1 FM
Norther Manitoba CFAR 590 Arctic Radio
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 Chief Firearms Officer of Prince Edward Island Wants Your Firearms ... "OR ELSE." (2010-09-02)
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