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An easy target
By Sam Cooper - North Shore Outlook - April 10, 2008

‘sitting ducks’ - PSA president Mike O’Neill (right) and v.p. David Weiser.
Scott Neufeld photo
Pick your pun for the plight of the embattled Pacific Shooters Association.
In the cross-hairs of regional bureaucrats. Easy political targets. Sitting
ducks.
Members of the range, which has been situated on the North Shore for 60
years and faced a GVRD (Metro Vancouver) shut down in the Lower Seymour
Conservation Reserve in 2006 and will likely have its lease cancelled for
good by the regional authority on Dec. 31 2008, believe all possible reasons
stated for turfing them — environmental, safety, noise — are uncorroborated
by actual facts. The real underlying reason is bureaucrats see the gun club
as an archaic entity, more related to gangs and gun-nuts than a respectable
sport, PSA president Mike O’Neill says.
“We are being discriminated against, it’s a sport and they are treating it
like cops and robbers,” O’Neill said. “I’d like a concrete answer (from
Metro Vancouver) why we can’t stay here.”
*O’Neill says the reason PSA was shut down for about a year in 2006 was
spent bullet casings had allegedly been discovered near the Seymour
Filtration Plant. However the PSA upgraded their facility with additional
screens and other measures to assuage Metro Vancouver concerns and got a
clean bill of health in an environmental impact assessment last summer,
O’Neill says. O’Neill says another negative expressed by Metro Vancouver,
that workers constructing the new water filtration plant might object to
noise from the range or have safety concerns, thus leading to possibly
costly labour stoppages, is not substantiated by past experience.
“We’ve had no complaints from the public in 60 years over noise or safety.”
O’Neill says it’s become clear LSCR officials don’t want the shooters there
anymore, and he’s heard the range is coveted as a mountain biker parking
lot.
While the PSA has about 550 members plus guests using the facility, most who
participate in others sports as well, they don’t have a unified voice
because these days, sport shooters are afraid to stand up for themselves,
PSA vice-president David Weiser said in an interview.
“We are the easy target politically, we sit still and we’re quiet,” Weiser
said “The issue here (of closing down the PSA range) is political, it’s not
the sport that’s the problem.”
O’Neill says the PSA has been looking for a new home unsuccessfully. The
imminent closure of the range will mean loss of a valuable Olympic training
facility in Vancouver, sending shooters further from the city, to Squamish
and beyond.
“We’ve tried (to find new range lands) O’Neill said. “There’s nowhere else
to go in an urban setting.”
O’Neill said the PSA hopes to mount a final plea to Metro Vancouver
officials in the coming months. Metro Vancouver spokesperson Bill Morrell
said the PSA has been judged to be incompatible with future plans in the
LSCR.

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Robert LaCasse  REPLY:

(*O’Neill says the reason PSA was shut down for about a year in 2006 was
spent bullet casings had allegedly been discovered near the Seymour
Filtration Plant.)

        That is an interesting observation and assumation, since we found
that a .45 ACP did not go that far from the ranges perimeters.......observe
the (spent bullet casings) the GVRD found on their Filtration Plant site
which can only mean that the bullets were fired from the Filtration Plant
site...possibly into the ground and therefore fired from the GVRD Filtration
Plant site and nowhere else.....

        The place were the casings are found is the place were the bullets
were fired.......right, obviously and not 3 miles away..were the range is
located....

        This GVRDHEU ploy has been ongoing with their Judenrat Utopia
setting of bureaucRatic mindless mindlessness bullshit, power grubbing
little men who beat their chest for a living and endorse ludicrous
legislation for a few bux and nothing more....

        They did the same thing to 13 shooting ranges in B.C., with brute
police legislation, and tons of toilet paper full of lies....... and as we
all know because of that action, B.Columbia has been a thriving haven for
Illegal Handgun Criminals on the Streets, and the laughing stock of the
USA......
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