CALL TO ACTION – PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!- ATT Challenge

[R. LaCasse]

CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE
ACTION

CSSA SPECIAL REPORT - January 29, 2013** Please share this E-news with your
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ATTENTION CANADIAN FIREARMS OWNERS



CALL TO ACTION – PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!



Canada’s firearms community must join forces to fight the
anti-gun civil servants who are trying to steal your rights.



The Ontario Chief Firearms Office (CFO) has suddenly
introduced new Authorization To Transport (ATT) regulations that are unfair,
unnecessary and undemocratic. Responsible firearms owners must make our
voices heard on Parliament Hill, where all CFOs derive their mandate. Let
the government know why Canada’s ATTs are nothing more than an exercise in
useless red tape. ATTs do not help to keep Canadians safe -- these redundant
rules are intended to frustrate sport shooters into quitting their heritage
activities.



The Canadian Shooting Sport Association (CSSA) is preparing
to take the CFO to court for imposing artificial transport regulations on
responsible owners of restricted and prohibited firearms. Under ATT
regulations imposed many years ago, the CFO has permitted transporting
firearms between the owners’ home and any approved shooting range in Ontario
in accordance with the federal Firearms Act. Responsible firearm owners have
been doing it for a very long time, virtually without incident.



The CFO’s new arbitrary ATT regulations quash the previous rights conferred
under the Criminal Code, and suddenly specifies that sport shooters are only
permitted transport to shooting clubs where the permit holder is a “member
in good standing.” New rules say sport shooters may only visit shooting
ranges where they have a written invitation, and incredibly, they must
surrender that invitation to a police officer upon demand.



Let’s go one better – write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
and your Member of Parliament today. Politely explain why ATTs are a waste
of time and resources. If you are not an Ontario resident, rest assured that
all provincial CFOs are watching – they make up the rules as they go and get
away with it. But, enough is enough. Your letter can make a difference – but
your silence will certainly be interpreted as your approval. Do not remain
silent.



Please tell our
federal politicians:


a) ATTs are specifically designed to harass sport shooters
and do nothing to keep Canadians safe

b) Every ATT application to the CFO to move restricted and
prohibited firearms is granted with a rubber-stamp – it is an expensive,
useless exercise

c) Criminals do not seek permission to transport firearms,
so the ATT does not prevent crime

d) ATTs provide CFOs with another avenue to make up more
stringent and unfair rules on their own

e) The federal government grants power to the CFOs and then
refuses to take responsibility for those powers. The CFO's don't make the
law, Parliament does.

f) Scrapping ATTs was advocated by the Public Safety
Minister’s Firearms Advisory Committee who are Canada’s leading experts on
firearms.

g) The Conservative government campaigned on scrapping Bill
C-68 for years and gun owners everywhere supported it – the government
should stand and deliver



Please write a personal letter to:



Prime Minister Steven Harper

House of Commons

Ottawa ON K1A 0A6

(no stamp necessary)



or please email the Prime Minister at the address below and
CC the following:



To: stephen...@parl.gc.ca



Copy and paste into
your CC: vic....@parl.gc.ca, peter....@parl.gc.ca,
jim.fl...@parl.gc.ca, tony.c...@parl.gc.ca, john....@parl.gc.ca,
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Find your M.P
here:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=current



Thank you for writing a letter NOW – this is a very
important firearms initiative and could help to get rid of the useless ATT.



Court cases can be expensive. WE NEED YOUR HELP so please
donate to this cause. Donations to this
challenge may be made to:



"ATT Challenge" 116 Galaxy Blvd, Etobicoke, ON,
M9W 4Y6

Or
by phone 416-679-9959, Fax 416-679-9910, Toll Free: 1-888-873-4339

On
the Web to: www.cdnshootingsports.org
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