Bracelets for Gun Owners – CFOs & RCMP
Bracelets for Gun Owners – CFOs & RCMP
How’s this for gun control: Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department wants to explore gun tracking bracelets as part of a new form of gun control.
While appearing in front of the House appropriations subcommittee on Friday, Holder focused on technological innovations.
“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said. “By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/eric-holder-wants-gun-owners-wear-tracking-bracelets/mon-04072014-221pm
CFOs and RCMP
On April 12, 2012 the Conservative Government announced passage of Bill C-19, Ending of the Long-Gun Registry Act. Bill C-19 required the deletion of all data held by the RCMP and provincial CFOs associated with the non-restricted firearms registration records collected since the coming into force of the Firearms Act on December 1, 1998 (emphasis added). In the RCMP Commissioner’s 2012 Firearms Report tabled in Parliament he reported: In October 2012, the RCMP deleted all (except those of Quebec) electronic records identified as being related to the registration of non-restricted firearms in the Canadian Firearms Information System. http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/rep-rap/2012-comm-rpt/highlights-grandstitres-eng.htm
President Clare continued, “To date the NFA has identified three instances where long-gun registry data was used or suspected of being used by police after Parliament passed this law ordering that long-gun information be destroyed: the Ottawa area in June of 2012, High River, Alberta in June of 2013, and Fredericton, New Brunswick in June of 2013. The only case we are at liberty to make public at this time is the incident in High River that we reported on December 17, 2013.” https://nfa.ca/news/nfa-fifth-letter-rcmp-public-complaints-commissioner
https://nfa.ca/news/police-using-destroyed-long-gun-registry-data
Knives kill more than Guns
This is an interesting fact, particularly amid the Democrats’ feverish push to ban many different rifles, ostensibly to keep us safe of course,” Awr Hawkins wrote.
In 2005, for example, 445 murders involved rifles while 608 were committed with clubs or hammers. 905 murders were committed with “personal weapons” like hands and feet. Knives were used in 1,920 murders that year and shotguns were involved in 522 murders. Handguns, however, accounted for 7,565 murders that year.
http://www.examiner.com/article/fbi-more-people-killed-with-hammers-clubs-fists-than-with-rifles-shotguns