No time for firearm crime
Police refuse to arrest local who turned himself in for bucking gun registry
By PABLO FERNANDEZ, CALGARY SUN

A Calgary man called Ottawa’s bluff and walked away from a police station with his unregistered gun and his freedom, after officers refused to enforce federal law.

“The incident is not a police matter because they are not officers under the act,” said police Duty Insp. Keith Pollock, following the non-arrest of the 67-year-old registry outlaw.

Ken Palmer had demanded to be arrested for possessing an unregistered firearm when he walked into Calgary Police Service Dist. 3 offices yesterday.

“Actions speak louder than words,” said Palmer at the federal Harry Hays Building, before driving down to the police station and demanding Bill C-68 be enforced.

Palmer addressed dozens of gun owners, most admitting to willfully failing to register their firearms before the Jan. 1 deadline, and who were there to protest the gun registry.

“The Liberals will have to prove to me they have the guts to enforce (Bill C-68),” said Palmer.

“Prove it and book me,” he said defiantly, before making his way to the police station.

The senior entered the station with a written confession and an affidavit stating he possessed a licensed, but unregistered, .22 calibre single-shot rifle.

The rifle never left his vehicle.

Palmer wanted to be charged with being in contradiction of a new law, not for breaking old ones, he said.

“I’m demanding you place me under arrest … for my infraction of Bill C-68,” Palmer told a police officer at the station.

But police refused to arrest or charge Palmer and told him they were under no obligation to make the arrest.

After providing an officer with personal information, Palmer walked out of the station with his freedom and record intact.

Police said they will pass the confession on to federal authorities, who can follow up if they wish.

By implementing the law, which Palmer referred to as undemocratic and unconstitutional, the Liberals may have put themselves between a rock and a hard place, he said.

If they enforce the law and charge “civil disobedient” gun owners, the government will turn them into martyrs, said Palmer.

If the law isn’t enforced, the government will have to admit Bill C-68 is a financial disaster, he said.

Palmer was supported in his protest at the federal building by Jim Chatenay, an Alberta farmer who recently spent 23 days in jail for defying the Canadian Wheat Board.

Also supporting Palmer and opposing the gun registry was senator-in-waiting and U of C professor Ted Morton.

“He represents only the tip of the iceberg,” said Morton, suggesting similar acts of protest are bound to occur across Canada.

Morton said such wilful disobedience exists because the gun registry isn’t stopping the gun-related crimes that terrorize Canada.

Recent crimes have seen young adults using unregistered weapons in urban settings, not by those at whom the law is aimed — rural or older gun owners, said Morton.

Unregistered Firearms Association founder Bruce Hutton said that money should have gone to police departments, suicide-prevention programs, and to stop the illegal import of guns into Canada.

“History dictates that irresponsible governments force ordinary people to extraordinary things,” he said.

Wow Look out America if you bothered to read through all those articles this is already happening here on a smaller scale…

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