And now for some good news

[TARCHER]

Havent seen this posted yet, http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcanadianfirearmsblog.ca%2Fs-223-officially-dead%2F&h=OAQGu8m0C&s=1

[Rhyno]

The link no worky

[pukakoe]

The link no worky

he was trying to point here http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/s-223-officially-dead/

[Spy]

Bill S-223 dropped from Order Papers, officially deadNovember 4, 2016 (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/2016/11/) Brian (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/author/brian/) Politics (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/category/politics/) 2 (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/s-223-officially-dead/#mh-comments)


http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/chp_c-223.jpgBill S-223, tabled in the Senate earlier this year that would have heavily restricted firearms ownership in Canada, is officially dead.
The private member’s bill, titled “Strengthening Canadians’ Security and Promoting Hunting and Recreational Shooting Act (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/bill-s-223-read-second-time/)” and known as S-223, that sought to introduce sweeping changes to the Criminal Code and Firearms Act that would almost entirely eliminate lawful firearm ownership in Canada has been dropped from the Senate Order Papers (http://www.parl.gc.ca/Legisinfo/BillDetails.aspx?Mode=1&billId=8177186&Language=E) on Thursday.
S-223 was introduced in early April by former senator Celine Hervieux-Payette, who reached the age of mandatory retirement just 10 days after the bill’s first reading leaving the bill without a sponsor.
In the Senate a bill cannot be debated on without a sponsor, and has a deadline of 15 sitting days to be debated in the Upper House. After 15 days of no debate, the bill is automatically dropped from the Senate’s Order Papers and can no longer be debated. If the bill’s sponsor wishes to resume debates after being dropped from the Order Papers, they must reintroduce the bill start over again at first reading.
According to the bill’s text the Firearms Act would undergo a massive overhaul to include incredibly draconian restrictions. Such changes include the reclassification of all restricted firearms and non-restricted semi-automatic, centre-fire guns as “circumscribed firearms”; the prohibition of all firearms in Canada except hunting rifles, guns used at shooting clubs, and collectors’ firearms; making only hunting firearms legal to possess anywhere but at a shooting range; limit the transport of “circumscribed firearms” to sanctioned transportation companies; replace registration certificates with “inscription certificates; repeal most of the Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act; and prohibit the storage of circumscribed firearms int he homes of licensed gun owners.
Before being introduced as S-223, the bill was originally introduced by Hervieux-Payette in 2015 as Bill S-231 (http://canadianfirearmsblog.ca/bill-s-231-retabled-senator-hervieux-payette/) where it also died during second reading

[604Stalker]

Yay we gets to keep our guns.. Too bad I sold them all :)

[adriaticum]

Good that stinking old *******

[dougan]

Yay we gets to keep our guns.. Too bad I sold them all :)
Yep sold all mine too dang gummit

[Linksman313]

You know its funny we had local region 8 SO/WK riding MP Richard Cannings ( NDP - natural resources committee vice chair) come in to one of our local Wildlife Federation meetings to speak on Bill C-246, he came off at first like the bill was a joke, only dealing with Shark fin soup and such. His thoughts towards the bill were that it was some bleeding hearts attempt to save some cute furry animals and dismissed it as such. Then when the voting time came around, guess who voted in favor of the bill? You guessed it the Hon. Richard "Dick" Cannings (or used to be Honorable). I have written a letter to his office to inquire on the change of heart (I couldn't catch up to him on his cycling tour through here a little while back) but have no response so far. Gonna keep this in the memory banks next time he is up for re-election. I know this is a little off topic (I missed my time to rant) but many of you in this region may want to know.