Recent content by Haggis

That was before you had Canada’s most rabid anti sitting in caucus, with considerable influence beyond her station.

How about a rollback to pre-Bill C68 along with a public acknowledgement that legal firearms owners are NOT a significant source of firearms related crime? Follow this with a non-partisan study of pre-Bill C68 regulations in the light of present day situational factors and then re-draft the...

Nice try, CFP. There will be no off-ramps. This is a no-fail project driven by the need to protect the LPC center of gravity in QC. The PS minister-in-waiting will not allow the government to walk this back in any form. See my post above where the current PS minister has tripled-down on...

Yet, the Minister still believes that the program can continue apace, by enlisting off-duty and retired police officers to run mobile collection units. despite the overwhelming opposition to it.

Which part of my post?

I've been a Defensive Tactics/Firearms instructor for my agency for over a decade. There are a small number of individual cases in mine and many other agencies I've trained with where I would agree with you. Most, like mine, have a procedure in place to remove the duty firearms (and other...

If the officer bought it recently and it was able to punch through two exterior walls, it was likely not a handgun.

If a specific police service stands against the scheme, will they allow public resources (i.e. vehicles, equipment and facilities) to support it? Secondly, many of the police unions are also standing against the scheme and a lot have sections of their collective agreements that govern paid-duty...

Crap! I know that. And we query folks and vehicles all day long for customs and immigration purposes. My phone dropped the second line of my post, which should've read: "You'd better have good notes to substantiate your access. Especially if you're up to shady stuff, like finding the phone...

You'd better have good notes to substantiate your access.

That would be my expected COA from this government. I also expect that once this particular exercise is concluded that the portal will become a revived registry for all firearms.

I expect QC residents might receive such a personalized correspondence from the SQ in due course.

My bet is that the conversation was mostly one-sided and that an apology was demanded. Whether it was delivered, I don't know. But given the US administration has played fast and loose with the truth in the past, I'll give it a doubt.

There are tons of reasons the police could show up at your house and coincidentally discover a newly prohibited firearm. Alarm call, welfare check, emergency evacuation, SWATing etc.

Indeed! People are seeing the benefits of this program and are eager to participate in making Canada safer. At this rate, there should be about a quarter of a million firearms declared by the end of March, plus what's already known in QC. That's a quarter of a million firearms ready to be...