Has The NRA (Northern Branch Plant Division) Come To Victoria?

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That's some image/word salading, from the Twittmachine, above, eh?

Apparently, it was 'triggered' by a story in the VT-C by Bill Cleverly whose lede (and a little bit more) goes like this:

Victoria is looking at ways to regulate the sale of firearms and ammunition in the city.

After hearing that a pawnshop was buying and selling guns, Mayor Dean Fortin wanted a staff report on possibly “restricting” the sale of firearms in the downtown core. But councillors Thursday broadened the scope to include “regulating” the purchase and sale of firearms within city limits...

{snippety doodle-dandy}

...Victoria police said while firearms sales out of a downtown pawnshop concerns them, there’s nothing they can do. “Do we like the fact that it’s there? No,” said Victoria police spokesman Const. Mike Russell.

Apparently it was that list bit, from the Victoria police spokesperson that really got the fine folks from CSSA_CILA upset given the following rejoinder attached to their 'E-News' round-up for Dec 16, 2013:

Editor's note: This is yet another blatant example of police propoganda. Const. Russell, a mere public servant, is pushing an ill-informed and prejudicial agenda to harm a perfectly legal small business.

(Bolding all theirs - why not ALL CAPS!?... Not entirely sure)

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Now.

What's the header to this post all about, anyway?

Well...

It turns out that the 'Canadian Shooting Sports Association' (CSSA) has a bit of a history with the fine folks from the American NRA as we noted last year (with an assist from a CBC story from 2010) in the wake of the dismantling of the long gun registry:

In 2005, NRA strategist Glen Caroline came to Canada to provide logistical support in the form of "political action" training for an upcoming federal election.

"Who better to show us how to protect our rights," said the CSSA's promotional material for the event, "than the most powerful lobby group in the world, the National Rifle Association?"

In 2006, former NRA president Sandra Froman was the featured keynote speaker at the CSSA annual meeting in Toronto. Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz co-hosted the town hall meeting for the event.

Earlier this year (2010), Breitkreuz also found himself in hot water when a news release from his office called the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police a "cult" and "politically motivated" for supporting the long-gun registry. He later apologized and forced the aide who sent it to resign.

That aide, Brant Scott, now works for CSSA as its communications director....


Hmmmm....

I guess if you can call the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police a 'cult', why not call the City of Victoria 'paranoid' for trying to keep guns off its streets.

And as for Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA) side of the 'alliance'? Well, there's this:

...The National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group in the United States that advocates fewer gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade, CBC News has learned.

Documents and correspondence obtained by the CBC show the NRA has provided logistical and tactical support to organizations such as the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA), established in 1998 to lobby Ottawa to shut down the registry.

The NRA provides the Canadian gun lobby group with "tremendous amounts of logistical support," and while the NRA's constitution prevents them from providing money, "they freely give us anything else," Tony Bernardo, an Ontario gun advocate and CILA's executive director, said in Canadian Firearms Digest in July 2001...

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Gosh.

Whose Canada is this, anyway?


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If you want a peek at the abject craziness and willful ignorance (and projection) that Mr. Harper's 'conservatization' of our body politic has wrought, hold your nose and have a look at the comment thread/conspiracy theories at the bottom of Mr. Cleverly's VT-C story...


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