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["Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>]

Excerpt from the Canadian Firearms Digest, V2 #612

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:40:01 -0600
From: someone@somewhere.net
Subject: RCMP now have .50 cal. BMG's

I have just learned from a highly reliable confidential source
that in addition to the .50 cal McMillian sniper rifles and
the untalked about Barrett Light .50's, the RCMP have now added
to their arsenal a number of .50 cal. Browning Machine Guns.

Staff from the RCMP are headed to Belgium to be trained in
the armoring of these military heavy machine guns. Machine
guns may at some point be used against the Canadian public,
possibly to quell a native disturbance or other civil unrest.
If we were attacked by outside forces the military would be
the pressed into service, as this is not the role of the RCMP.

This leads one to ask what use the RCMP, who are a police force
not an army in occupation, would have for such heavy armament
...... or is it possible that I have it wrong, possibly they
are now an army in occupation. Is it possible that the RCMP
are now the political policing arm of the Government.

The lethality of this weapon makes pepper spray look like a
Sunday shower. Maybe this is the next weapon demonstrators
will be facing at the orders of the PM's office.
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Ciao all.
Definition:  FASCISM: n.:  a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative
political units, are controlled by a strong central government.
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"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms".  - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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the German gun control laws were enacted by the "liberal" Weimar Republic government that preceded Hitler, and were a strong aid to his coming to power -- because they disarmed Hitler's opponents, and Hitler's adherents ignored them -- as criminals have always ignored gun control laws.

Disarming the public is a frequent first step toward dictatorships and genocides.  Once the disarming is complete, the public is helpless against those who have the guns.        -------------------------------------------------

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