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Former MP says Canadian gun owners treated like pedophiles

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Letter to the editor

For Inky Mark, C-68 gun owners are on same level as “child molesters”

Dear Editor;

For many years and elections before becoming the prime minister, Stephen Harper promised over and over again that he would get rid of C-68 when he formed government.

Stephen Harper did kill the long gun registry.  Killing the long gun registry is not the same as getting rid of C-68. Under C-68 the firearm owner must be registered and possess a valid government licence as long as he or she owns a firearm or else he or she breaches the criminal code.

In other words possessing a firearm without a valid PAL can land you in jail as well as having all of your firearms confiscated by the government and end up with a criminal record.  At this time there are over 600,000 firearm owners whose PAL have expired.  These are the paper criminals that Harper has created by not repealing C-68 or by not taking the recreational firearm control section out of the criminal code.

I believe that lawful firearm use regulations should be under provincial legislation. Hunting and safe firearm use is already under provincial jurisdiction. The federal government should only be dealing with criminal use of firearms.

Owning a firearm lawfully should never be deemed a criminal act just because a paper licence expires.

We all know that C-68 was a waste of over two billion dollars and had no impact on crime. All it did was create criminals out of lawful tax paying Canadians. Did you know that only child molesters and pedophiles are registered in Canada besides lawful firearm owners?  Why are firearm owners put into the same category as pedophiles?

When will this prime minister fulfill his broken promise made way back when? Or will he make that same promise again before the next election?

Inky Mark, former MP for Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette

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