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Title: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 28, 2013, 09:57:28 AM
The RCMP took guns from evacuated homes. The locals are not pleased.

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"This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alberta/RCMP+seized+High+River+firearms+from+homes+control/8588851/story.html
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Tallpine on June 28, 2013, 10:08:07 AM
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‘It’s just like Nazi Germany,’ says resident

It’s just like New Orleans  :mad:
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on June 28, 2013, 10:32:34 AM
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The guns will be returned to owners after residents are allowed back in town and they provide proof of ownership, Topham added.

You mean until they provide proof of registration?

I'll refrain from adding comments about suggested actions by any of the townspeople smart enough to have kept their firearms with them during evacuation.
Title: Re: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on June 28, 2013, 10:39:00 AM
Canada ditched long gun registry

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Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 28, 2013, 11:43:53 AM
Proof of ownership? Here's a bright idea: Give the guns back to the residents of the addresses you took them from. How does that not work?
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Fitz on June 28, 2013, 11:45:26 AM
Quote from: fistful on June 28, 2013, 11:43:53 AM
Proof of ownership? Here's a bright idea: Give the guns back to the residents of the addresses you took them from. How does that not work?

You think they kept track of where they took em from? I'd wager they didn't
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 28, 2013, 11:49:03 AM
Quote from: Fitz on June 28, 2013, 11:45:26 AM
You think they kept track of where they took em from? I'd wager they didn't

I wondered about that, too. If they didn't, that needs to be exposed.
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: HankB on June 28, 2013, 11:56:20 AM
Were warrants issued?

If not, does Canadian law permit forcible entry into temporarily unoccupied private homes without a warrant in order to search for valuables of a certain sort?

Or is it a case of "Screw you - today the law is whatever we say it is!"
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: lee n. field on June 28, 2013, 12:05:01 PM
Quote from: HankB on June 28, 2013, 11:56:20 AM
Were warrants issued?

This is Canadia.  Are they even needed?
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Scout26 on June 28, 2013, 04:03:51 PM
They didn't gather up TV's or Stereo's or Cars?
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Angel Eyes on June 28, 2013, 06:00:57 PM
Quote from: scout26 on June 28, 2013, 04:03:51 PM
They didn't gather up TV's or Stereo's or Cars?

Shhhh!  You weren't supposed to know about that.
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: Matthew Carberry on June 29, 2013, 03:32:39 AM
For future reference...

Disaster occurs.

Residents leave homes, securing doors and windows behind them.

Police fear looters will steal guns from homes with no outward evidence of containing guns..

Police break into secured homes (all homes? homes that were on old registry?) to collect guns so looters won't get to them, leaving houses unsecured and easier to loot.

Profit?
Title: Re: Mounties seize guns; Canucks learn the value of 2A
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 29, 2013, 03:50:48 AM
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Or is it a case of "Screw you - today the law is whatever we say it is!"

Isn't that pretty much the way it works here now unless you have the money to hire a tilecrawler to make it otherwise?
 :mad: