PUBLICATION The Sault Star
DATE Tue 26 Jun 2001
SECTION/CATEGORY News
PAGE NUMBER B11


HEADLINE: Firearms regulations are changed again

   OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal government announced more delays Monday in implementing its
much-promoted and equally maligned firearms regulations. An amnesty for prohibited handguns and unregistered restricted guns has been extended to Dec. 31, and a $25 firearms transfer fee has been waived until the end of 2002. The transfer fee was first waived by the government last June.

   An omnibus justice bill which includes the firearms regulations has been stalled by opposition tactics and won't be passed until after the Commons resumes in the autumn following the summer break. Justice Minister Anne McLellan said in a news release that the latest changes are designed to protect both gun dealer inventories and individual gun owners while Parliament works to pass Bill
C-15.

   ``The transfer fee waiver provides firearms owners with a prolonged adjustment period to
familiarize themselves with firearms registration as well as savings on pending and upcoming transfers,'' McLellan said in the release.

[blue]Humm wonder if this is the beginning of the end of bill C-68?[/blue]
   

   

Seems like you bought a little time?  Need anything before then?

Thanks anothergene. Well money for starters I guess. Maybe an exemption from the hi-cap mag ban. FN's changed from prohibited to..buy as many as you want and use them for what ever you want. Okay..now I'm depressed[:(]

Too bad, just a little water between us (lake erie) or I could toss ya what you want! [thinking]

New govern'ment?? Where the heck are we going to find one that isn't a rehash of the conservatives or liberals. I think that young guy from PEI who pied the PM should get the job![:D]

Thanks anothergene. My luck everything would land on the stern of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Moe - no you don't

Benelli M1 super 90's are prohibited and have been since 94

No - but you can turn them in [}:D]