Reply #86: very cute

[iverglas]

"I had a permit to purchase rifles and shotguns," the burly grandfather of four says matter-of-factly. "All the guns in there were training guns. ..."

Quite the sin of omission. Rifles and shotguns ... AND ...

They included numerous RESTRICTED firearms -- handguns and semi-automatic rifles that are NOT available to people who do not have collector/sports shooter permits. I don't care what he called them.

There are very few places for criminals to get those weapons in Canada. Theft and smuggling are the initial sources, with internal trafficking after that.

Someone with his c.v. was well aware of that. He absolutely knew that "collections" of handguns and semi-automatic rifles were prizes that criminals would and do go to great lengths to acquire.

He suspects that is one reason the police have charged him — they don't like that he used his knowledge of guns for people charged with gun-related offences....

Yes, the unsubstantiated self-serving statements of this kind of person are exactly the evidence I know I like.


Looks like a case of "If your guns are stolen, ipso facto you didn't have them properly secured-no matter what steps you took to do so, or whatever extremes the thieves went to in order to get at them"

Yeah, pretty much; I don't really have a problem with that. Nobody forces anybody to own guns; if they don't want to be responsible and accountable for them, they can get rid of them or just not bother acquiring them.

When you own a fucking arsenal like this one did, of things that you absolutely know attract very very bad people, people with resources and motivation, not just yer average junkie/burglar, you do whatever needs to be done to keep them out of those hands.

Leaving them unattended in a housing project in a high-crime, gang-ridden urban area, nope, doesn't make the grade.