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Originally Posted by C-D-P
As he said. Everyone is a collector. Now with this. I honestly do not have a problem with a collectors back ground check. It would not limit rights, but could limit mass buy for harm.
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If you can pass a standard background check you can pass a collectors background check. Everyone could still just claim they are a collector.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Nope, once they are deemed collectors, no more. That is another form of control.
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When there is a suspicion people are growing weed in their house it can be searched. If there is a suspicion that a gun collector is selling his collection off his back porch to criminals, surely he can be inspected.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
I have only one hand gun registered. That is because to get my CCW while in the Corps. I have to register it on base so the command will sign off on the paperwork required by the LEO for my CCW. Technically I am supposed to register all firearms with base. Not going to happen.
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Yea, but that only shows the its not an integrated system. In Canada, the guns are registered with the store, and then the registration is transfered to the person when the gun is sold. Its not like the gun is sold and the individual just registers it later whenever he feels like.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Good for them. Cause that regestery is just stupid.
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I agree that the long-gun registry is useless. I am a member of the Conservative party and donate each year.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Not really. If they do not know who has them. Then they can not target people.
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They can target CCW holders pretty easily. They can find out who has hunting licenses, those people probably own handguns. People already have to fill out tax forms for some weapons, those people are targets. They can have secret police watch gunshops and department stores to see whos buying ammo and get their license plate numbers. Confiscate sales records from gunshops.
It would be quite easy for someone to discreetly and gradually take away handguns, and other guns if they wished, from a huge number of people in your country.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Right now they are. Maybe not so much tomorrow.
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Parliamentary democracies are the best systems for resisting dictatorships because of the difficulty of centralizing power in the executive branch.
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Originally Posted by JLB
Germany was also a parliamentary democracy when Hitler came to power in 1933.
It is possible.
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Its very unlikely. The Canadian constitution is alot more rigid (entrenched rights and a strict amending formula) than the 1933 constitution that Hitler was operating under.