This is how it should be.
You are incorrect. Here in Canada, according to our firearm laws, you CAN pass on prohibited firearms to a child, grandchild, brother, sister, or spouse of the lawful owner. They have the legal right to own them as long as they have a firearm license and can pass the Police check.
This is correct. Technically, the Governor General is the most powerful person in our Government. They are the Queen’s representative.
Yes. That's their property that they paid for, has financial value, and in some cases emotional value that can not be financially compensated for.
and they're appointed by the PM. This particular GG has been a prime example of how at this point they're just an extension of the PMO. It's about time Canada becomes a republic.
The firearm Act is law. If the RCMP is allowed to determine the classification of firearms, then they are determining how the law is written. Not the entire law, just a part of it.
The rest of your questions are great questions, unfortunately I don’t have to time to answer them all, or have all the answers.
Exactly. They only have ceremonial authority due to influence. If we ever decided to stop the practice, their only recourse is cohesion (military action) and that isn’t going to happen.
I think when you're talking about the ability to just show up at my house and seize thousands of dollars worth of my property to be destroyed, there needs to be some kind of process.
This is correct. The core issue isn’t the RCMP handling the empirical research and testing involved in the process, it’s the RCMP having final say without our lawmakers having the ability to change the law.
Yes, and I also have to take issue with the Liberals assertion that the RCMP are the foremost experts in firearms, which I believe is there justification for wanting to give them this autonomy.
You are incorrect. Here in Canada, according to our firearm laws, you CAN pass on prohibited firearms to a child, grandchild, brother, sister, or spouse of the lawful owner. They have the legal right to own them as long as they have a firearm license and can pass the Police check.
Do you really think that a lawful property owner should not be able to will their lawfully owned property to their beneficiaries?
Prohibited Firearms - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
@ConorMcGregorsBeard do you agree with this?
I know this is off topic but since you feel so strongly against the govt taking things of value from its citizens it must be asked...
RCMP can decided which firearms are considered prohibited under the current laws. RCMP doesn't have the ability to create law as originally stated and which lead to this discussion.
My understanding of the 12.7 is that a condition of that license excludes the holder from being able to pass it on. So you could pass it to your son, after him off to the smelter. Even in that instance I believe there are only certain relationships that allow you to be the recipient of a 12.xx firearm.
I think it's a very different, and much more complicated issue.
Short answer, no. I think that might be the worst possible solution.
Technically what the RCMP does is offer an "expert opinion". Their opinions, the FRT (Firearms Reference Table) isn't law. The firearms act outlines what classifications a firearm should fall under.
How so?
You dont think they deserve compensation? Or?
So the idea that the RCMP have the power to create laws in Canada is false.
No, they're very different. One has already happened and wasn't universally confiscation without compensation. The other might happen and will universally be confiscation without compensation.
So then shouldnt we be up in arms venting against the govt for the lack of compensation for the remaining First Nations groups who had their land taken without compensation?
As it is now LEO's will charge people with what's on the FRT and not what's in the firearms act. Once C-71 is law they will then have the ability to legally change a firearms legal standing and parliament will not have the ability to overturn those decisions. For all intents and purposes that is allowing the RCMP to write laws.
No new laws are being created.
If you're looking for people who think the Indians got a fair deal you're barking up the wrong tree. Having said that, it would depend on what compensation they were seeking. Ie, Seizing your house to hand the land back to an Indian tribe isn't a viable solution. It would also depend on if there were a consensus of what a tribe watned or if it were the like the fuck show my sister in law is currently going through here in Ontario where they chiefs are trying to freeze out the members of the tribes. The biggest problem I see with the Indian situation is that we aren't asking them as individuals what they want and working towards that. Rather we're offering them settler solutions and then being surprised when they don't turn out. The first thing people (particularly this Liberal government) need to do is stop treating them like their children that need to be babysat.
If memory serves a handgun ban with confiscation was estimated to be about $1B if a buyback were implemented. I believe there are about 2 million licensed firearms owners in Canada. Gun owners in this country are hardly a handful of individuals.
That's a very, very broad description.
So under C-71 the RCMP won't have the ability to classify firearms?
