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Skriven 2006-11-03 07:40:34 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
   Kommentar till text 7197 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: expertise 516
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Hello JIM,

    On Thursday November 02 2006 at 22:46,
    JIM WELLER [1:123/140] wrote to MICHAEL LOO,
    about: expertise 516

 ML>> I was very happy when we finally got the guns out of the house this
 ML>> year.

 JW> I had a heck of a time getting rid of my dad's. The rifles and
 JW> shotguns were easy enough; sell them to anyone who had an FAC
 JW> (Firearms Acquisition Certificate). And as I have a FAC myself so I
 JW> could transport the ones I wanted to Yellowknife from Ontario. But
 JW> handguns are either restricted with a special licence (long barrelled)
 JW> or prohibited (short barreled). Dad had one of each. (The short
 JW> barrelled one was not prohibited when he purchased it in 1946.) I gave
 JW> the restricted one to a licensed gun dealer who refused to pay
 JW> anything for it as he had too many in stock and no customers. He told
 JW> me to contact the gun registry office to dispose of the prohibited
 JW> one. I called the absolutely useless, multi billion dollar, was
 JW> supposed to cost just 10 million dollars gun registry office and was
 JW> on hold for 45 minutes until 4:59:59 when the line went dead. The next
 JW> day I was on hold 15 minutes, a voice asked me where I lived and then
 JW> gave me another number. I was on hold 35 minutes. Then they asked me
 JW> my name and address again. I explained I lived in Yellowknife but was
 JW> making an inquiry from Ontario on behalf of my mother who lived in
 JW> Ontario; they sent me back to the first number. I was on hold 45
 JW> minutes. They could not find my FAC number in their computer, they
 JW> also couldn't find my father's 1946 registration number (I still had
 JW> the faded hard copy; it was filled out with a manual typewriter with a
 JW> broken "e" and had 8 digits.) They told me they had been computerized
 JW> since 1972 with 16 digit numbers and that my father was breaking the
 JW> law by not re-registering. I told them he was dead. They didn't care.
 JW> I was then told to take it to a police station and turn it in if I was
 JW> a licensed gun dealer but to ask the police to pick it up if I was
 JW> not. I then called the closest police dept. I did not identify myself
 JW> this time or use mom's home phone. They asked where I was, then said I
 JW> was too far away and they were short staffed. I should cut it in half
 JW> with a hack saw and then bring it in. As it apparently no longer
 JW> officially existed, I just buried it in the back yard instead.

Only in Canada eh?  Pity!

Well, I am not surprised that the politicians have turned the Gun Registry
into a complete boon doggle...  Would you expect anything less?

I can see that I am going to put in a codicil to my will "Don't tell anyone
that I requested my short barrel firearms be thrown in a deep lake!  And,
no witnesses!"  BAH!

           Cheers ... Gerald

... A guy asked me what living in Miami was like, so I shot him.
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