Canadian Police Use Gun Registry to Confiscate Guns

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Canadian Police Use Gun Registry to Confiscate Guns

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

If this isn’t the perfect evidence of why any freedom loving western citizen should be against gun registries, then you can’t make the case at all. Over the last few weeks the police in Toronto, Canada have been stormtrooping through the homes of average, everyday Torontonians that have had the misfortune to have appeared on the area’s gun registry and confiscating their legally owned guns.

What has been the pretext for this massive gun confiscation program? Unfortunately, the restrictive gun laws in Canada allow authorities to stomp through any citizen’s home and demand to see where that citizen stores his legally owned firearm. At that point, if this brownshirted police thug decides that the citizen is not storing the firearm to the law’s liking, then that citizen may have his firearm immediately stolen by the state.

Toronto’s jackbooted cops have confiscated nearly 400 firearms from basically law abiding citizens claiming that they are making the city safer. How? Why, because now criminals won’t be able to steal these guns from the public, naturally. So, because a few criminals might steal a gun here and there, these government tyrants feel that they should take everyone’s rights from them.

Catch this pretzel logic from one of Toronto’s top tyrants.

“Legal handgun owners are not dangerous individuals,” Blair told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. “But we know from experience that their firearms can become extremely dangerous when they get into the hands of criminals. And so we have undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the availability of those handguns.”

Legal owners are not dangerous… so let’s put them at the mercy of criminals. Isin’t that a great idea?

Gosh. Seems to me a car gets stolen every once in a while, even in Toronto. Shouldn’t we have the cops forcefully steal every car from Toronto’s citizenry to prevent this crime?

But here is the real lesson. If the government has your name on a list of gun owners you WILL lose your rights eventually. The state WILL invade your home and take away your right to self-protection at some point. That is the sole reason to have a state gun registry, so that the state can kick down your door and take your firearms from you.

Toronto’s toadie cops have proven this singular truth.

Robert_Ingersoll

The guns were confiscated because they weren't stored properly. If the people in Toronto don't like that law they should have it changed.

I follow the laws concerning my gun, therefore I get to keep it.
RWNReader2

Posted by Robert_Ingersoll

2009-09-25 13:09:07

Wow.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Posted by RWNReader2

2009-09-25 13:36:02

I concur.

WOW but this new troll is dumb.
tblrk2006

Robert, you do know that your govt has already set themselves up for confiscating all guns with the justification that private citizens cannot possibly safely store a gun. They can change what defines a safely stored gun at anytime. All I can say is it will be a bloodbath here in the states if obama decides his "common sense" approach to gun ownership really means gun control. The only reassurance I have that this wont happen is my belief that law enforcement agents wont comply with disarming the citizens.
whats_up

All I can say is it will be a bloodbath here in the states if obama decides his "common sense" approach to gun ownership really means gun control. The only reassurance I have that this wont happen is my belief that law enforcement agents wont comply with disarming the citizens.

Posted by tblrk2006

2009-09-25 13:59:40

Fortuantly for you Obama wont do this, he has actually increased gun carry laws by allowing firearms to be carried in National Forests
RWNReader2

Posted by tblrk2006

2009-09-25 13:59:40

LOL! That felt like an episode of Leave it to Beaver. I applaud your effort!
RWNReader2

Fortuantly for you Obama wont do this

until of course you become ineligible for your government compliant private health insurance plan because "studies show that guns increase the cost of healthcare for a family of 4 by 25%" and you are forced to decide between your gun and checking the "insurance mandate eligibility" box on your 1040.
tblrk2006

Fortuantly for you Obama wont do this, he has actually increased gun carry laws by allowing firearms to be carried in National Forests

Posted by whats_up

2009-09-25 14:04:21

A. obama did not have anything to do with this and im sure he didnt like it.

B. He and holder have already said they will try another AWB. It will be(if they retain control)in 2010-2011.

C. Obama says he backs "common sense" gun ownership and control. Who’s common sense? Obamas? Haha. More waffling around trying to not say anything while saying something.
whats_up

A. obama did not have anything to do with this and im sure he didnt like it.

Posted by tblrk2006

2009-09-25 14:51:58

You mean other than signing it into law. Also if he hated it so much he could have vetoed it, yet he did not.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

You mean other than signing it into law. Also if he hated it so much he could have vetoed it, yet he did not.

Now why should he make an open move to ban guns, getting law-abiding gun owners upset, when he can take thee much easier road of banning the DoD from selling used brass casings to ammo dealers, causing the price of legal ammo to skyrocket?
tblrk2006

Now why should he make an open move to ban guns, getting law-abiding gun owners upset, when he can take thee much easier road of banning the DoD from selling used brass casings to ammo dealers, causing the price of legal ammo to skyrocket?

Posted by CavalierX

2009-09-25 15:31:53

Yup. I have never expected obama to go right after guns…thats a loser for him. Its much easier to make a blanket statement like "you can keep your guns" but restrict the ones you can have, make ammo hard to get or linked to a registry, or some other sneaky move….but you can still have guns. Kinda like "you can keep your insurance" but make it illigal to change or add people to it.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

I'd say this is more of a problem with the government's abuse of the registry than registry its self.
Ralph_Gizzip

The LEOs need to ask themselves this question, "Is it worth my life to try to take a law abiding citizen's gun?"

Because it's damn sure worth mine to keep it.
NorthernCanuck

While I don't own any guns, I do live in the NWT and it's common for people to have firearms. The great majority are not registered because this registry has been a fiasco from the beginning. These are fine people and otherwise law-abiding, but not the type to bow before Ottawa.
tblrk2006

I'd say this is more of a problem with the government's abuse of the registry than registry its self.

Posted by Christopher_Taylor

2009-09-25 16:54:11

The registry was designed to be abused.
tblrk2006

The LEOs need to ask themselves this question, "Is it worth my life to try to take a law abiding citizen's gun?"

Because it's damn sure worth mine to keep it.

Posted by Ralph_Gizzip

2009-09-25 17:56:46

Yup. These are dangerous times and fully intend to make sure my family can always protect themselves.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

I'd say this is more of a problem with the government's abuse of the registry than registry its self.

I would argue that's precisely the problem. The registry (at least in this case) lends itself to abuse far too easily.

My dad always used to say "when you make a rule, write it as if your worst enemy in the world had the power to enforce it". Clearly the Canadians didn't keep that in mind.
rmiller

My dad always used to say "when you make a rule, write it as if your worst enemy in the world had the power to enforce it". Clearly the Canadians didn't keep that in mind.

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-09-25 21:24:58

Perhaps true….But that assessment assumes that the enforcers of the rules did not know the worst enemies might be correct.

There is no reason to assume that the white males who owned the firearms rules in the Americas were mistaken.
jasamc

Posted by whats_up

2009-09-25 14:55:45

Why would he bother to veto it.

"Sure, you can bring your legally purchased weapons into a park. Oh, by the way, we just criminalized weapons, so, since there aren't any such animals, it's a machs nicht."
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Posted by rmiller

2009-09-26 02:16:38

You realize what you just said made no sense whatsoever, right?

Seriously Rmiller, you're killing me here. I'll cut you some slack because I seem to remember someone mentioning that English is not your first language, but for the love of God, stop trying to comment on things you don't fully understand. It just makes you look foolish.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

There is no reason to assume that the white males who owned the firearms rules in the Americas were mistaken.

Posted by rmiller

2009-09-26 02:16:38

Racism alert. Someone has interjected race into a discussion about legal firearm possession.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

The fact that something can be misused by bad people is just an indication that they are bad, not that the thing is flawed in and of its self.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

The fact that something can be misused by bad people is just an indication that they are bad, not that the thing is flawed in and of its self.

In most cases, sure. But there are also cases where the law or program in question lends itself too easily to abuse. I contend that this is such a case.

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