House of Commons Petition e-1605 Initiated by Dennis R Young from Airdrie, Alberta, on March 28, 2018, at 10:04 a.m. (EDT)
Sponsored by Pierre Paul-Hus, Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Quebec – Conservative – Official Opposition Critic for Public Safety. FULL TEXT: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1605
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, CITIZENS OF CANADA, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to enact legislation requiring those convicted criminals who have been prohibited from owning firearms by the courts to report any change of address and this information be made available to police in a database on CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre).
The Petition is open for signature until July 26, 2018, at 10:04 a.m. (EDT)
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1605
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Thanks for visiting my website and adding your comments Chester. The preamble to the petition explains my rationale: Criminals should be on CPIC – not law-abiding gun owners. Whereas, more than two million licenced gun owners in Canada, individuals who have never done anything wrong but are tracked daily on CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre) are required to report any change of address to the government within 30 days or face criminal charges with a maximum penalty of two years in jail; And whereas, in his 2016 report to Parliament the RCMP Firearms Commissioner noted that between 2012 and 2016… Read more »
Doesn’t do anything to stop criminals only makes more paper work for the law abiding citizens. Governments get out of law abiding citizens life and do something to put criminals behind bars.