«The government of Canada no longer seems to be treating law
abiding firearms owners as presumptive criminals.»
«Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran (R) is adding insult to injury by calling the betrayal of law -
abiding firearms owners «one of the greatest Second Amendment victories we've ever had,»» NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer wrote in an email Monday to NRA members.
Not exact matches
With 300 million
firearms in private hands (one - third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun
owners ARE responsible, law -
abiding citizens, which is why these horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and «Gun Free Zones»).
Ball said, «There are literally bills in the State Assembly that direct the state police to go the homes of law -
abiding gun
owners now, to take, to make illegal the
firearms that they have now, to turn those law -
abiding gun
owners into criminals.
WHEREAS, requiring law -
abiding gun
owners to verify ownership of certain types of
firearms every five years, in addition to registering them on their permits, which now also must be renewed every 5 years, does not increase the safety of the public and is unnecessarily burdensome to the residents of New York State; and
When section 102 of the
Firearms Act was enacted, granting
firearms officers the right to inspect the homes of law -
abiding gun
owners without warrant or suspicion of an offence, many questioned this seeming violation of privacy and fundamental rights.
Hence the former Harper government's destruction of the Liberal - created long - gun registry and its vandalism of the data contained therein, plus the Wildrosers» stout defence of the «property rights» of so - called «law -
abiding gun
owners,» as well as the party's insistence Ottawa leave non-criminal regulation of
firearms to the provinces.