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Applaud Tory MP, win a Beretta semi-automatic
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Mar 19, 2009 08:57am |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Mar 19, 2009 08:00am |
| Description | OTTAWA – A Saskatchewan Conservative MP is coming under fire for his starring role at a gun lobby dinner in the Greater Toronto area next month where the raffle prize is a Beretta semi-automatic handgun.
Garry Breitkreuz is the guest speaker at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association's (CSSA) annual general meeting and dinner on April 18 in Mississauga, where he's to be lauded for his private member's bill to abolish Canada's controversial long-gun registry and relax rules on prohibited and restricted weapons.
The "special dinner draw" of this "very rare and valuable collector's item" is advertised on the association's website. Raffle tickets will be sold at the dinner for $20 each or three for $50.
News of the gun prize drew immediate outrage.
"We have got to be finding ways to get (handguns) off the streets, not handing them out as prizes," Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) said yesterday. |
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