Re: Firearms activist loses landmark battle: Proof that Gun Control works in Canada
- From: Jim Alder <jimalder@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:05:58 -0500
Roger Denney <rgdenney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: Firearms activist loses landmark battle: Proof that Gun Control works
in Canada
Do me a favor, Roger. Just so I can see how your mind works, can you
explain to me how, by disarming a former policeman, this proves that "gun
control works"?
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/Firearms_activist_loses_landmark_battle.html
Firearms activist loses landmark battle
By Quinn Bender - Smithers Interior News - March 26, 2008
A provincial court judge has thrown out a firearms activist?s latest
appeal to keep his Walther PP handgun.
On March 18, Justice John Milne declared a January B.C. Supreme Court
ruling upholding the Canadian Gun Registry, which states the Walther
PP is a .32 calibre, prohibited firearm, superseded his jurisdiction
to do anything more.
?It may not be a 32 calibre handgun, but it holds a .32 calibre
cartridge,? Milne said. ?The reasons here [for Supreme Court Justice
Harvey Groberman?s ruling] to me seem to say, you?re out of luck. He?s
dealt with it.?
Hromatka, not letting up, challenged the math of the gun registry that
designated the pistol a .32 calibre. Exasperated, he asked Milne
whether the public should accept rulings that state ?two plus two
equals five.?
Milne replied: ?If the Supreme Court says that, they?re right.?
Hromatka asserts the 7.65 millimetre handgun is not a .32 calibre
prohibited pistol, but a .30 calibre restricted pistol, which after
modifications he can legally possess. The incorrect designation he
said was essentially caused by the conversion from its European metric
classification of millimetres to the American imperial standard of
calibre.
?I have evidence that the Walther PP is not a .32 calibre,? Hromatka
told The Interior News after the judgement. ?Why are we so concerned
about what the Americans call it? This is Canada and we use the metric
system. The last time I checked we were still a country that could
stand on its own feet.?
But federal Crown attorney Jack Talstra said the actual calibre is
irrelevant.
?Regardless of some confusion over calibre... the intent of the
Firearms Act was to get rid of these kinds of firearms.?
Hromatka purchased and registered the once-legal pistol in 1995.
The Firearms Act, which changed the designation of certain types of
weapons, including the Walther PP, from restricted to prohibited,
received Royal Assent on Dec. 5, 2005 retroactive to when Hromatka
purchased the handgun.
Since then the former German police officer has engaged in constant
battles with the courts, including a failed Constitutional challenge,
to fight for the reclassification of the Walther PP with the Canadian
Gun Registry.
?It?s a matter of principle,? said Hromatka. ?I don?t need the gun.?
The Crown will now file an application with the courts to issue a
warrant for the gun?s destruction.
--
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm
to pass... it's about learning to dance
in the rain."
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