A backbench Saskatchewan Conservative MP is coming under fire for speaking to a gun lobby in the Greater Toronto Area next month where a Beretta semi-automatic handgun is being raffled off.
MP Garry Breitkreuz is the guest speaker at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association’s annual general meeting and dinner April 18 in Mississauga where he’s to be lauded for his private member’s bill to abolish Canada’s controversial long-gun registry and relax rules on prohibited and restricted weapons.
News of the gun prize drew immediate outrage.“We have got to be finding ways to get them (handguns) off the streets, not handing them out as prizes,” Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) said yesterday.“It really is an insult to a community that has seen so much gun violence and where so many people have been killed … to give that away as a (raffle) prize,” Holland said.The Toronto Star could not reach Breitkreuz, the MP for Yorkton-Melville, or the CSSA, which claims to be very politically active.
Source: Metro News
Obviously Breitkreuz has no clue as to the feelings of myself, and many others in the city, who want all handguns banned. I have no problem with legitimate hunting guns and/or hunters, but handguns have only one purpose and this raffle is a load of crap.
Source: Metro News
Obviously Breitkreuz has no clue as to the feelings of myself, and many others in the city, who want all handguns banned. I have no problem with legitimate hunting guns and/or hunters, but handguns have only one purpose and this raffle is a load of crap.
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