Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 24, 2010

Toronto resident Joe Fiorito was startled to find two police officers on his doorstep. They weren?t there to investigate a crime; they had come to confiscate his .20 gauge shotgun.

Last March, Toronto police began a campaign called ?Project Safe City? to confiscate unlicensed firearms from civilian gun owners.

The police who confronted Fiorito informed him that he had two options: The gun could be turned over to the police for ?storage,? or taken away and destroyed. Fiorito eventually relented after being threatened with more aggressive enforcement action.

If he hadn?t compiled, Fiorito would have been threatened with up to ten years in prison for violating the Canadian Firearms Act by possessing a duck gun without government permission.

?I guess when the Feds began the long-gun registry, I should have lied and not bothered to register [mine],? laments Fiorito, a self-described social democrat and columnist for the Toronto Star. His words are worth pondering by anyone who cherishes the right to armed self-defense.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.