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Public Safety committee  Thanks very much for allowing me to appear. I'll try to address points that have not already been raised and keep to my time allotted. The Coalition for Gun Control is a non-profit organization that was founded in the wake of the Montreal massacre. Its position on firearms regul

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  --but in fact eliminate the requirement that we record firearms sales, in effect taking us back not just 15 years but more than 30 years. Thank you.

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  Thanks very much for raising that question. I'll try to be brief. One of the things that is clearly not well understood, and some would argue has been deliberately confused and misrepresented, is the fact that firearms are registered once--one time only--unless they're sold or t

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  Again, I think you raise a really important point. It's part of the reason it's important to look at rates per 100,000. That's basically what public health and epidemiologists consider, as well as criminologists. They look at the rates per 100,000 of crimes and death because that

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  Unintentional injuries or accidental deaths are actually a very small percentage of the overall firearm deaths. In 1991 there were about 1,400 firearm deaths in Canada. That was primarily suicide and homicide. Accidents were about 25. The number of accidental deaths has in fact

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  It was the comment with respect to the firearm use at Dawson College. If the translation was correct, I believe the senator stated that it was an unrestricted hunting rifle. In fact it was a restricted firearm that probably should have been a prohibited firearm. Many of you hav

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  We have argued for a number of years that the Ruger Mini-14 should have been moved to restricted category—that was the gun used at Polytechnique—because of certain characteristics. There are also firearms that are sold as restricted weapons, like the AR-15, that should be prohibi

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  The importance of registration in fulfilling our international obligations is the subject of some discussion. I know that many people around here received a joint letter that was signed by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, police associations, and police boards, argui

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  The principles are basically the same. That's why I started by saying that all guns are potentially lethal. All gun owners need to be licensed. All guns need to be registered.

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  I don't know the length of its barrel, but I know that it's currently sold as a non-restricted firearm and therefore will no longer be registered.

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  The Ruger Mini-14 is most certainly not a restricted firearm. It has a long barrel.

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

Public Safety committee  Some variants may be restricted, but the Ruger Mini-14 has a long barrel—

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier

May 25th, 2010Committee meeting

Wendy Cukier