Canadian LGR is dead! Bill C-19 is law as of 1400EST, and in force as of 00EST

[Chuckbuster]

AND IT'S OVER!! The GG signed the death of the registry into law at 2pm. It comes into effect at midnight tonight my time (eastern standard)...about 7AM your time, I believe. The registration of hunting rifles and shotguns in Canada is OVER!

YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAWWWW! Oh, and I erred in my first statement...it's not over yet. I'm sure Wendy and friends will be shedding tears in their lattes tonight...sometimes you just gotta love schadenfreude. Besides that, we have many other bits of Wendy's handiwork to be undone. But, at least the scotch tastes just a little bit better now. Also, I now have some interesting bits of toilet paper to use. Hey, at least I found a use for those certificates, in the end.

And for you guys, the benefit is that Wendy's credibility just took a big hit: if her home and native land just dumped her registry, why would anyone else want one from her??

[FrankH]

[steveninthematrix]

and just yesterday I was talking about moving to Canada; hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Maroelas]

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And for you guys, the benefit is that Wendy's credibility just took a big hit: if her home and native land just dumped her registry, why would anyone else want one from her??

Unfortunately here in good ole RSA the Gava-ment doesn't care about credibility! So we will be stuck with our registry and crappy laws!!

[Doublefeed]

Does this apply to semi-autos?

[BigT]

Good stuff.

[Paul]

Guys, in olden times when an attacking force wished to conquer a stronghold, but the fortifications of the stronghold were just too strong for a frontal assault to succeed, they would tunnel under the walls, supporting their tunnel with timbers as they went. Then they would evacuate their diggings and set fire to the support timbers, which would lead to a hanging wall collapse under the walls of the fortress, and the fortress walls would collapse in turn.

We have just witnessed the collapse of one of the walls of the fortress on Gun Control Inc.

[FrankH]

Senate pumps final bullet into long-gun registry


By Jordan Press, Postmedia NewsApril 5, 2012

The Conservative government vowed during the 2011 election to eliminate the long-gun registry.
On Wednesday evening, the bill to officially end the registry - Bill C-19 - had its final vote in the Senate, leaving only a signature from the Governor General needed to officially kill the registry.
By a vote of 50-27, senators approved Bill C-19, marking the last political hurdle needed to kill the registry.
A few Liberals rose to vote in favour of C-19, including senators Charlie Watt and Lillian Eva Dyck. Each received applause from the Tory benches when they had their names called during the vote.
Senator Anne Cools, who sits as an independent member of the Senate, also received applause when she voted and a few jabs from the Liberal benches, where she sits.
"It's called democracy," she said during the vote.
There was no such applause for Tory Senator Elaine McCoy, who voted against the bill.
The vote was quieter than the one that took place last month when C-19 passed its final vote in the House of Commons.
There, the public gallery was packed with onlookers. On Wednesday, five people sat in the public gallery of the Senate to watch the vote.
Watching the vote on the floor of the Senate was Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner, who originally pushed to end the registry.
"We are all counting the hours until the moment comes when law-abiding Canadians will no longer have to register their long guns," Hoeppner said earlier n the Commons.
"We are grateful that we are going to be able to follow through on our commitment and end the long-gun registry once and for all."
The federal law will end the requirement for lawful gun owners to register their long guns, and it relaxes rules around selling or transferring guns - that last point being a point of concern for Liberal senators when they reviewed the bill at the committee stage.
Gun licences for individuals will still be required, and the registry for restricted and prohibited firearms such as handguns will be maintained.
Gun control has been ferociously debated in Canada for decades, particularly since the École Polytechnique massacre of 1989, when a gunman shot and killed 14 women with a rifle in Montreal. That prompted the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien to tighten gun controls and create Canada's first mandatory long-gun registry in 1995.
But the battle over the long-gun registry is not quite over.
On Tuesday, Quebec Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier announced he would challenge in Quebec Superior Court the constitutionality of Bill C-19.
The Quebec government has asked repeatedly that records on Quebec residents be transferred to the province.
© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist







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[Chuckbuster]

There is no requirement to register semi-autos such as REm7400s and Browning BARs etc. However, the Restricted and Prohibited registries remain in place. Nevertheless, the current event is of monumental significance. Wendy and others alluded to Canadian gun control measures as being irreversible. Surprise, Wendy! You are wrong! The only fly in the ointment of an otherwise great day in which we also saw proposed new and draconian ammunition regulations shot down, was Quebec's legal shenanigans which will see Quebec LGR records temporarily spared from the virtual shredder.

[Spy]

This is a Victory for Gun owners all over the world & it will have a ripple effect!We fought real hard to make this law a reality,there is no reason you guys can't do the same in SA !