Gun Owners' Resource

The NFA provides a dose of antiBS for the disinformation the RCMP has been coughing up about the Walther G22 and its stock, in their feeble attempt to justify their latest abuse of the powers granted to them by C-68.

The true status of the factory stock of the Walther G22 rifle

by National Firearms Association
1/17/2012

1. The stock of the Walther G22 is a factory manufactured piece assembled with the barreled action and receiver of the firearm.  It is a part which is integral to the safe operation of the rifle as intended by the manufacturer. It is obviously intended to increase the overall length of the firearm's barrel and receiver group so that the firearm can be used for sporting purposes as intended by the manufacturer. The stock of the G22 is not an aftermarket supplied conversion designed to reduce the overall length of the firearm as envisioned in the Former Prohibited Weapons Order N0.9 (JUS - 92 - 0563-01 SOR/DORS).  It in fact does exactly the opposite.

"Gun control:" the criminal's best friend

by Michael A. Walsh
New York Post

Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home. All were “nabbed” when they naively sought to check the weapon with security.

These innocents fell afoul of the nation’s toughest gun laws. But few New Yorkers know how those laws came to be.

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York.

Holding purveyors of anti-gun junk science accountable?

by Kurt Hofmann
St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner

An article last month in the Conducive Chronicle raised the question of civil liability for publishing studies (or enabling their publishing) that support the "wrong" side of the climate change debate--or even making involvement in such studies illegal (emphasis added):

Which raises the question: if these studies are largely designed not to shed light on climate change, but to create doubt and confusion to delay greenhouse gas regulations, why is it legal, and do those deliberately spreading misinformation face liability?

Entrance into the debate about anthropogenic climate change is obviously far beyond the scope of St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner, so what am I getting at? Just that if, as the article puts it, "deliberate manipulation of science" in an effort to influence policy becomes illegal, the forcible citizen disarmament lobby might want to "lawyer up."

Examples? Glad you asked.

Government to gun owners: We made a mistake. Fix it for us or go to prison

by Matt Gurney
National Post

Two small-calibre rifles have been suddenly reclassified by the RCMP-run Canadian Firearms Program. The rifles in question, the Armi Jager AP-80 and the Walther G22, are both unremarkable .22-caliber long guns. While any firearm is dangerous, .22-caliber firearms are among the weakest around — indeed, they’re typically used to train rookie shooters basic firearm safety and operation.

Canadian law divides firearms into three categories, using complex technical criterion and a bevy of politically-motivated “exemptions”, and citizens can only legally own firearms in the categories their licence covers. No further licences are issued for the third and highest category, prohibited. By declaring a new exemption and moving these rifles from the non-restricted list — the category subject to the least controls  — to the prohibited list, the RCMP has essentially banned them for all but a constantly shrinking group of Canadians who owned prohibited-class firearms before the current gun control legislation was passed under Jean Chrétien.

That’s bad. This is worse: Any citizen who already owns an AP-80 or G22, and does not already possess a rare prohibited-class licence, has been ordered to turn in their rifles within 30 days. Failure to do so will mean they are unlawfully in possession of a prohibited firearm, and subject to as much as 10 years behind bars. It doesn’t matter if they purchased it legally, paid all the sales taxes, and have stored it safely ever since. The RCMP has declared that it was a mistake to allow citizens to purchase these firearms, and wants them turned in, pronto. Or else.