Thursday, September 24, 2009

Gun Registration Leads to Door-to-Door Confiscation in Toronto (Canada)

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In the movie Red Dawn (R.I.P. Patrick Swayze), the invading army used the gun registration records to find its potential enemies. Law enforcement is not yet doing that in Canada, but if you have some archaic weapon that is now illegal under the British Queen's law delegated to the Canadian government, then the police are coming to get the firearm from you.

Is Attorney Eric "Stedman" Holder planning to institute a similar program here in the United States at some point? I hope not, because there are probably some people in the desert highlands or the salt valleys who have guns that would be considered illegal under the current regime. If Attorney General Holder had the power that the Toronto Police Department currently has, then Holder would be able to snatch many people's guns simply by saying the firearm is illegal with a stroke of a pen.

They used to be legal firearms, but now they're either unregistered or outright banned, and they're wanted by police before there's a chance burglars put them in Toronto's underground and underworld markets.

Since March 1, Project Safe City swept 400 unregistered weapons -- 150 of them handguns -- from homes throughout the city. No charges were filed.


It's part of a plan to ensure that neglected firearms don't fall into criminal hands, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said yesterday.


Police are reviewing thousands of gun ownership files to determine which weapons have lapsed registrations and which are now banned, he said.

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Source: Toronto Sun

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