importing Dewats from US

[Marc Montgomery]

the FLQ iissue is/was yet another police red herring, The terrorists had no ability to re-activate firearms. Instead they broke into an armoury to steal firearms. murdering a guard in the process. (BTW they were communists who wished to establish a french speaking socialist state..ie political as much as linguistic)

The Mohawk, had/ have many illegal firearms. At one point in a French radio interview about why the QPP would not go onto the reserve, (avoiding the word "afraid"). the officer said, "because they have more and bigger guns than we do"

Also when the Mohawk police near Oka were disbanded, thieves (allegedly) broke into the station and stole (iI believe if memory serves).35 handguns.

I think use of the term "Cdn gun culture" is very inappropriate. Cda never was, and is not, in any way similar to the US in its attitude towards firearms. However I do agree its a bloody shame to destroy a functional firearm.

Ask yourself when was the last time anyone was injured, shot, robbed or threatened with a Bren or Sten, or Thompson?

more red herrings..as was the recent issue about BB guns which looked like AK-47..which the police claimed could be "easiily" converted to real firearms... (not)
and seized them from owners who legally bought them, and then also raided a Wpg
gun shop that phoned the cops to say they had two in stock ie- wanted to be fully cooperative.. Instead the cops-raided_ took the entire inventory (probably destroying the shop's future as a business) and indicated there were looking into unsafe storage charges.

Also- you have to be very watchful about terminology used by (unknowing) media which often refers to guns as weapons... nothing is a weapon until it is used to harm another person...But such terminology does serve to raise the fear factor in the general population