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Gun shop owners' plea to feds: Help us to defend o
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Gun shop owners' plea to feds: Help us to defend ourselves
By SANDIE BENITAH, TORONTO SUN
Gun shop owners want the government to stop making life easy for criminals and start helping retailers protect themselves.
Nick Barlas, owner of Nick's Sport Shop on Yonge and Wellesley Sts., said it's the government's tough gun control laws, not robbers, which keep him from defending himself.
"They're not protecting me, they're protecting the criminals," he said.
Registration laws have gotten stricter on regular gun-toting citizens since Bill C-68 was implemented in 1995.
Barlas said he isn't surprised when any shop is robbed these days.
Shop owners in countries like the United States, where gun control laws are much more lenient, are in a far better position to protect themselves.
"If a robber knows you have a gun under your store counter, he's not gonna come in."
Patricia Interdonato, owner of Giovanni's Gun Shop on Wilson Ave., agrees -- but after being robbed three times, she doesn't take any chances.
Now she won't let anybody through the store's locked gated door without seeing a gun owner's licence. "Maybe they should follow my example," she said of other gun stores.
David Austin, spokesman for the Canadian Firearms Association, said that shop owners are always welcome to apply for a permit that allows them to carry a gun.
http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-09-06-0005.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By SANDIE BENITAH, TORONTO SUN
Gun shop owners want the government to stop making life easy for criminals and start helping retailers protect themselves.
Nick Barlas, owner of Nick's Sport Shop on Yonge and Wellesley Sts., said it's the government's tough gun control laws, not robbers, which keep him from defending himself.
"They're not protecting me, they're protecting the criminals," he said.
Registration laws have gotten stricter on regular gun-toting citizens since Bill C-68 was implemented in 1995.
Barlas said he isn't surprised when any shop is robbed these days.
Shop owners in countries like the United States, where gun control laws are much more lenient, are in a far better position to protect themselves.
"If a robber knows you have a gun under your store counter, he's not gonna come in."
Patricia Interdonato, owner of Giovanni's Gun Shop on Wilson Ave., agrees -- but after being robbed three times, she doesn't take any chances.
Now she won't let anybody through the store's locked gated door without seeing a gun owner's licence. "Maybe they should follow my example," she said of other gun stores.
David Austin, spokesman for the Canadian Firearms Association, said that shop owners are always welcome to apply for a permit that allows them to carry a gun.
http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-09-06-0005.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Staff and agencies
Thursday September 5, 2002
Many are aristocrats who consider themselves to be pillars of society, yet a majority of fox hunters are willing to break the law to sate their enthusiasm for their chosen blood sport, according to a poll published today.
Two-thirds of people who ride out with hunts would continue to pursue their sport even if it was banned by parliament, the poll, conducted for Country Life magazine, found.
Of the 500 people interviewed across the country, 63% said they would break the law by continuing to hunt even if it was banned.
A further 47% of those canvassed said they would consider breaking the law to defend their perceived right to hunt.
The magazine editor, Clive Aslet, said the results highlighted the difficulties the government may encounter in trying to pass and enforce a hunt ban.
"Hunts have a total attendance of 1.28 million people throughout the season," he said. "This would present the authorities with a massive problem of law enforcement.
"This magazine does not condone law-breaking whether by hunting folk or anyone else. But we must warn a government that is not closely in touch with rural opinion of the implacable determination of many hunting people to resist bullying."
The Labour peer, Baroness Mallalieu, who is president of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, told the magazine: "A law which did not have the respect and support of the rural community to which it applied would be a bad law and unworkable and would bring those who seek to impose their own prejudices upon other people through criminal law into ridicule and contempt."
Several landowners have pledged to continue granting hunts access to their estates even if a ban is adopted.
The Duchess of Devonshire, for example, said she would allow hunting over her land at the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire.
"If ...the local hunts wish to hunt over my land I would give them permission regardless of what the consequences of such action would be for myself," she said.
Alistair McWhirter, deputy chief constable of Wiltshire police and spokesman on hunting with dogs for the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, promised to enforce any ban.
"Any legislation which is introduced must be practically enforceable," he said. "If hunting with hounds is to be made illegal, then powers of entry onto land, powers of arrest and powers of seizure of hounds and horses and other equipment must be made clear."
From next week, the government will hold a series of hearings at Westminster into the future of the sport.
MPs have shown their overwhelming support for a ban in a series of votes, but peers have voted for a "middle way" option of licensed hunting.
The survey comes a day after research showed that a ban on fox hunting imposed during the foot-and-mouth epidemic did not lead to an increase in the number of foxes.
The research, funded by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the RSPCA, undermines, a key defence of the practice as a vital means of pest control.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,786592,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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