Federal gun police worry local shooter

A LOCAL shooting enthu-

Siast is worried about a _ mew offspring of the fed-

eral gun, registration bur-

eaucracy.

While Terry Morris doesn’t deny the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team may have _ good intentions in trying to stop firearms trafficking and smuggling, he ques-

. tions yet more costs in _". what he calls a misguided

* effort at gun control.

: + “What this is just anot-

** ther growth in the bureau-

eracy. It's providing jobs

and security in that bur-

eauctacy,” said Morris

_- Who teaches firearms safe- fy classes in Terrace.

The enforcement team ‘is, for now, to number | per- haps six individuals who will analyze information, pass along information and : keep in touch with police

forces across the country _ in the effort to stop gun

Zoning to be a hot

| THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Tuckus over Rossco Ven- tures plans for multifamily ... housing on the bench ’ could be just the first of a number of similar issues. ‘Terrace city planner David Trawin said he’s going. to recommend add- ing more muiti-family zoned land on the bench. He said one of the ~~ pending recommendations _ of the city’s Social Plan- ning Commission is that there be a variety of types of housing allawed in ail

trafficking aad smuggling.

“T just don't think the Canadian Firearms Centre is cost effective,” said Moris.

“I don't believe in em- pire building. The problem is that if a bureaucracy does grow, somebody doesn’t have a job.”

“And the need for growth can fuel misuse of the power.”

David Austin of the Ca- nadian Firearms Centre said people are wrong if they think the enforcement team is to be same kind of American-style SWAT outfit wearing black uni- forms.

“They were at a meet- ing and they were all wearing suits,” he said,

Austin added that there has never before been a national attempt at co-or- dinating information on il- legal weapons sales and

smuggling.

neighbourhoods.

And while duplexes, townhouses and apart- ments are allowed in var- ious pockets of the south- side and horseshoe, there’s very little land so zoned up the hill,

Trawin notes the bench is also the part of the city where most residential growth is expected to occur.

“Some areas of the bench are very much de-

void of multifamily,” he’ * said.

“We're looking at: -

Terry Morris

“This is something that the police chiefs wanted,” he said.

“Now when there’s a report of something going on in Vancouver, some- body at the support team will be able to say it sounds similiar to a situa- tion in Halifax”

issue

putting some multifamily in those areas.”

For the most part it will be restricted to townhouse developments, he said.

_ Still, he said, the move may draw concern from

neighbours, noting about.

40 people turned out to an information meeting on the Rossco proposal just off Yeo St.

“Anylime you're look-

ing at putting multifamily —

anywhere it’s a hot issue,” he said,

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