Book/Printed Material Gun control in Canada
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Image 1 of Gun control in Canada GUN CONTROL IN CANADA Prepared by Stephen F Clarke Senior Legal Specialist American British Law Division Law Library of Congress April 1994 LL 947- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 2 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 1 Overview Even though the total number of homicides annually committed with firearms throughout Canada is lower than those recorded in many American cities Parliament has twice approved…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 3 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 2 Introduction In 1977 Parliament initiated a thorough tightening of Canadas extant gun control laws by adopting a completely redrafted chapter to replace what is now Part III…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 4 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 3 years later Parliament approved a bill that contained sweeping amendments to the Criminal Code Most of this new law was brought into force immediately However some of…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 5 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 4 Firearms and Other Offensive Weapons and its subsidiary legislation have evolved in stages and that they combine numerous prohibitions with an extensive supervisory scheme Before 1991 it…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 6 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 5 homicide level in the United States first hit 20613 in 1986 and then tapered off to 20096 in 198713 In 1990 and 1991 it went back up…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 7 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 6 Since 1978 the number of homicides perpetrated with a handgun in Canada has risen so slowly as to have stood no higher than 57 by the end…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 8 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 7 Legislative history of Part III of the Criminal Code In February of 1976 the minority Liberal Government headed by former Prime Minister Trudeau introduced a package of…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 9 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 8 Classes of firearms Part III of the Criminal Code distinguishes between prohibited restricted and what might be termed other weapons In the first of these categories are…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 10 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 9 ammunition and barrelled weapons that have a muzzle velocity of less than 500 feet per seconds are generally outside the scope of Canadas gun control laws Since…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 11 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 10 are authorized to conduct extensive background checks but not to ask for details concerning the makes or serial numbers of shotguns or riflescommonly used for hunting or…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 12 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 11 The applicant for the certificate is the holder of a firearms acquisition certificate and is eighteen or more years of age The restricted weapon to which the…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 13 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 12 Restricted weapons registration certificates are usually more difficult to obtain than firearm acquisition certificates because they are available to a narrower class of persons and the police…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 14 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 13 Appeals Any decision to deny one of the many types of permits and certificates provided for in Canadas Gun Control Law can be appealed first to a…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 15 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 14 Search and seizure Whenever a member of one of Canadas national provincial or local police forces has reasonable grounds for believing that an offense is being committed…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 16 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 15 years of imprisonment for any subsequent conviction These minimum sentences must be served consecutively with any other sentence arising out of the same series of events Other…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994
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Image 17 of Gun control in Canada Law Library of Congress 16 Gun Control Legislation in 1983 Because the findings were almost entirely based on statistics covering a period of just three years the findings set out by this…- Contributor: Law Library of Congress (U.S.). American-British Law Division - Clarke, Stephen F.
- Date: 1994