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BREITKREUZ BILL - BACKGROUNDER - Draft #1

By Garry Breikreuz, MP (Yorkton-Melville) - February 9, 2009


This Bill accomplishes a number of innovations to lower the excessive costs and unnecessary complexities of the Firearms Act without having any negative effect on public safety:

- Eliminates the useless Long-Gun Registry for Non Restricted Firearms;

- Asks the Auditor General to perform a Cost/Benefit Analysis every five years;

- Requires License Verification upon Transfer of Non-Restricted Firearms;

- Merges "Authorizations to Transport" for Licensed Individuals;

- Combines the Possession Only Licences and "Possession and Acquisition Licenses;

- Changes the License Renewal Period to 10 Years; and

- Changes the Grandfathering Dates for 12(6) handguns.


- Firearms owners will still require a License, background checks, continuous eligibility, references, and safety training;

- All licenced owner information is still available to police;

- Bill does not affect restricted and prohibited gun registries. They remain intact;

- Save taxpayers millions of dollars per year to be redirected to real police priorities.

Streamlining Authorizations to Transport (ATT):

- Bill makes no changes to lawful transport or storage requirements

- Bill re-establishes the existing reasons for transport in the Firearms Act; and

- Provides an increase to public safety by freeing up more funds and resources for law enforcement.

Combining the POLs and PALs:

- Currently: Three kinds of license: Possession and Acquisition License (PAL), the Possession Only License (POL) and the Minor's License. Amendment in bill merges POLs and PALs;

10 Year Licensing:

- The RCMP has developed the enormously successful Continuous Eligibility System;

- The Continuous Eligibility System cross-references the individual license holder's name with every police computer in Canada. In effect this amounts to an individual's license being renewed daily;

- High tech data management solution eliminates the costly paperwork system developed in 1995;

- This will save significant costs spent in an unnecessary renewals process; and

- The bill adds a two-year license suspension period to allow owners with expired licenses to renew without inadvertently becoming criminals. Holders may not acquire firearms or ammunition during this suspension period.

- No impact on public safety as police will still receive the same information in a timely manner.

A step in the right direction, or back where we came from...
At any rate, it is better than what we have now, for certain.

Thanks for posting.

RO

This IS a step in the right direction,and nothing more than Stephen Harper promised the the legitimate owners and users of long guns in Canada.I sure hope it passes;if it does 2 or3 years of unregistered selling and swapping of long guns would totally screw up any future Liberal attempt to reimpose registration.They'd have to start from scratch,and I doubt they would reach the same level of compliance if they did try! Monashee

There is a little more here than just the death of the long gun registry. The removal of the stupid ATT system for restricted and 12(6) firearms alone will save the taxpayers of this country hundred of thousands of dollars.

The proposed changes in the dates for grandfathering for the 12(6) class of firearms will vindicate the thousands of Canadians who legally bought firearms that were legally registered with the feds who then had this private property seized and destroyed without compensation.

What I'd call a good start...

Unfortunately the latest is that Gary Breitkreuz is going to amend this bill when Parliament resumes. This is no doubt due to pressure from the left due to a variety of events around the world.
These amendments will apparently have to do with items that did not relate to the registration of nonrestricted firearms.
We wait patiently to see exactly what is going to be removed.
BillR