(GunReports.com) — The members of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this any more.
The CSSA is advocating that all owners of registered non-restricted firearms take part in the Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle.
In the Shuffle protest action, Canadian gun owners would buy, sell, trade, or lend previously registered firearms to friends and family. Because these new firearms transactions are no longer tracked and compiled into Canada’s now-defunct gun registry, it makes data in the old registry outdated and useless.
“Provincial governments and advocacy groups have forced our hand by suggesting the registry data is somehow useful,” says Tony Bernardo, CSSA spokesman and executive director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA). “If they refuse to acknowledge the will of the people, we’ll do it for them. Canada’s previously registered firearms are now changing location, so the registry is even more useless, if that’s possible. The registry was never a public safety tool, and we’re removing once and for all the myth that the data was valuable. The Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle negates the silly straw man attempt to protect the data. Shuffling previously registered firearms is totally legal, responsible and appropriate.
Bill C-19 received Royal Assent on April 5 and clearly dictates that the gun-registry data must be destroyed, Bernardo said. In contempt for the new law, the Government of Quebec, the City of Toronto, the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, and the Region of Waterloo have asked the courts to preserve the data and ignore Parliament.
The CSSA says anti-gun advocates are deliberately ignoring the will of Parliament in an attempt to preserve registry data for future use.
“The Schlifer Clinic is funded by four Ontario government ministries, so it appears the provincial Liberals are hiding behind this anti-gun ploy,” he adds. “More than half of the firearms in Canada have never been registered and even anti-gun advocates admit that criminals won’t register their guns. As long as these nuisance court injunctions keep the registry data intact, they are maintaining a shopping list for computer hacking criminals to locate our firearms. That places gun owners in danger, so we are compelled to demonstrate that the registry is inaccurate by making it even less accurate. Pro-registry advocates need to see that there’s no useable data to protect. We are simply showing them the folly of their own political posturing. The registry is dead.”
