What is unlawful about our gun control laws?
Highlights: Supreme Court decisions indicate the current permit system is illegal. If it is illegal to do something unless one possesses a certificate (or permit) the court ruled in the recent abortion law decision the permit is thus a “specifically tailored defence to a particular charge” and “…when Parliament creates a defence to a criminal charge, the defence should not be illusory or so difficult to obtain as to be practically illusory.” It is illegal to carry a firearm without a permit, but citizens are routinely refused that permit, and so the defence is illusory or so difficult to obtain as to be practically illusory. In Director of Investigation and Research of the Combines Investigation Branch et al. v. Southam Inc. [1984], the Supreme Court of Canada ruled “The location of the constitutional balance between a justifiable expectation of privacy and the legitimate needs of the state cannot depend upon the subjective appreciation of individual adjudicators. Some objective stan
