"Its a 40 year plan..."

In June, [Toronto] city council voted to close down two shooting ranges on city premises — one at the Don Montgomery Community Recreation Centre in Scarborough, the other at Union Station. Following the death of bystander John O’Keefe who was gunned down with a legally registered weapon last winter, Mayor David Miller said, “I don’t think there’s any defence for sport shooters anymore… It’s a hobby that creates danger to others.”

"This tactic is being tried in other places as - in the yuppie areas of BC for example. This is more insidious than you might imagine, and something they didn't come up with on their own - presently, I'm of the opinion that the RCMP has had a hand in this through the CFOs(RCMP now "directs" regulation under C68), with a lot of prompting by the Liberal troll Chris Bentley.

Works like this: C68 regulates that unless mandated for employment, the only other legitimate use for legally owning a handgun is for target shooting or as part of a collection.

C68 only requires that target shooting be done on an approved range and "under the auspices of" a club or range. Now, "under the auspices of" has a broad meaning, largely meaning "with the support and blessing of". The CFOs have decided that the meaning is more narrow - that you must be a member of a club in order to target shoot. The range regulations around this point are not supported in C68 - only the narrow interpretation of "under the auspices of" lets them write the regulations the way they have.

Now, the Ont CFO, and likely the others, are busy trying to put in place a range/club requirement to report on the number of times you actually go out to shoot. At some time in the future,they will "regulate" an arbitrary number of times you must show up, or be given the choice to surrender your restricteds or revert them to a "collection". At some point you can expect a collection to be comprised of fully de-activated firearms only.

Now, zeroing in on Toronto - by eliminating the number of available ranges to shoot at, it will become easy for the Ont CFO to start closing down restricted owners who cannot practically get to more distant ranges in order to meet the "frequency" requirement that is coming. These owners will be forced to surrender their right to restricteds simply because they won't be able to use them "under the auspices of" a club or range.

Of course, if none of the handguns you own are registered, none of this applies to you, nor does the range requirement itself.

Has to be a moral in there somewhere... "

"Bravo...you're on the right track.

Last year, I got to meet and spend some time with an insider to the whole gun law thing that Alan Rock started. The overall plan is to incrementally get all guns (handguns and long guns) banned in Canada by 2035 - it's a 40 year plan with 1995 being year zero.

Stage one was to get 50% of all handguns banned (that was accomplished with the new barrel length requirements that came in in 1995). Phase two is for all remaining handguns to be banned by 2015.

Long guns are to follow. The much-discussed registry is simply laying the groundwork for the attack on those. After all, Mr. Rock discovered that it was easy to target handguns because of the already-in-place registry on those. Thus, they need one for long guns to ensure that they can get all of them in the future.

But the basic strategy is to, as you touched on, incrementally increase the level of regulation so as to make it too much of a pain in the a-- to bother owning firearms anymore. After one or two generations of it being tougher and tougher, fewer and fewer young people will take up hobbies such as sport shooting or hunting. By 2035, the Libs forecast, gun owners will be such a minority that the final ban will be easy to implement.

I'm not sure how the CPC being in power is affecting the long-term strategy. But, my guess would be "not at all" since they haven't been able to reverse the Liberal laws yet.

It's so sad when the society gets to a point where the people will accept this kind of behaviour: Elites imposing laws on commoners when those elites have no idea about what they are regulating."