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Hot Topic: Gun registry, gun control and banning firearms

Fought over the hunter-farmer issue. It got the most press, and worked best as a talking point, but there were also the issues of badly written, vague regulations, the high cost, the ineffectiveness at solving crime, the dubious value for protecting police and battered wives, the high error rate in the registry and alleged corruption of the people running it. You’re trying to make the entire debate about the talking point. It was always bigger than that.

McParland: The point now is: the farmers got what they wanted. Why can Canadians still buy firearms that are clearly intended for uses that have nothing to do with getting rid of gophers or stalking deer? If there’s no legitimate everyday use, why allow them. (And your point about it “was always bigger than that” is exactly what anti-registry people claimed, that’s it’s just gun nuts wanting their guns).

Gurney: A lot more than just firearms owners objected to the registry, so writing it off as just gun nuts is a non-starter. There just aren’t that many of us (though, obviously, the gun owners were the loudest voices). And you’re mistaken if you think it’s easy to divide a firearm with a “legitimate purpose” from one without — what separates a bad gun from a good one? Range of ammunition? Capacity of magazine? Caliber? Convince me.

Source: National Post (blog)

ExportLawBlog » High Capacity Magazines Exported from U.S. to ...

by Clif Burns

Although this revelation has led some politicians and others to wonder why such exports are legal, these exports might well have been illegal. The magazines in question would clearly have been Category I(h) items on the United States Munitions List and would have required a State Department license unless one of the export exemptions in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations was applicable. The only one arguably applicable would be the one found in section 123.17(a) which permits unlicensed exports of certain parts and components, including magazines, of “semi-automatic firearms to caliber .50 inclusive” provided the value does not exceed $100 wholesale in any transaction.

Because of the dollar limitation, the export of these magazines, if done in one transaction, would not have been eligible for the exemption and would have required a license, something that likely was not obtained given the relatively low cost of the transaction....

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Hot Topic: Gun registry, gun control and banning firearms

National Post (blog) - Dec 31, 1969

Semi-automatic firearms do provide a higher rate of fire than manually operated firearms, but Canadian law already accounts for that by restricting the magazine capacity — how much ammo a firearm can hold — of a semi-automatic long-gun to five rounds