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Great White North
Handgun sales on the rise
2005-12-20
Gun shop owners say handgun sales in Edmonton are skyrocketing since Prime Minister Paul Martin's promise to ban them. The Liberal Leader made the promise a few weeks ago during a campaign stop in Toronto.

Phil Harnois is a former police officer who now owns a gun shop. Since the Liberal announcement, he says handgun sales have increased dramatically. He says his distributors have virtually nothing left in their warehouses, something that is very unusual. "There's always some odd piece here or there depending on the time of year," he told CBC News.

Harnois says the Liberal promise has pushed people to buy guns before the ban is imposed.
Now, why would you buy a handgun when you are going to hand it in when the ban is passed? Oh, right......
The Liberals say the goal of the handgun ban is to make communities safer for criminals.
Posted by:Steve

#5  To be clear, if Martin gets his way, only target shooters will be able to own handguns. Gun collectors will have to convert to a target shooter permit. Not sure what this would mean, except perhaps that they would not be able to keep guns in their homes.
Posted by: Rafael   2005-12-20 23:17  

#4  I was under the impression that handguns have been taboo for a long time in Canada. ??

They are. Martin is selling this as a "handgun ban" but in fact all he is doing is forcing gun collectors to become target shooters. These are, or were, the only two categories of handgun ownership permitted in Canada (for civilians). It always was near impossible to get a handgun permit in Canada.

More Liberal propaganda, to make it seem as though Martin is tough on crime.
Posted by: Rafael   2005-12-20 23:13  

#3  The Liberals say the goal of the handgun ban is to make communities safer.

So why don't they ban cars too? Aren't people also injured or killed by motor vehicle mishaps?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-20 23:06  

#2  Handgun sales in the U.S. this Christmas are slightly off due to the decline in activity of the stuck-on-stupid anti-gun lobby and their nearly relentless campaign. Quite understandable actually, most of them are also involved in the anti-Bush campaign, which appears to have priority of fires.
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-12-20 11:45  

#1  I was under the impression that handguns have been taboo for a long time in Canada. ??
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-12-20 11:37  

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