‘COUN, STELLA Jo Dean -wants the federal government to get tough with gun owners by legislating tighter gun con- trol regulations. - NGATH VANCOUVER SITY GOUNCIL . By Robert Galster _ ° During Monday night's council meeting, Dean read a notice of motion that urges the federal: gov-.. ‘ernment to implement six new. pro- * visions ia the Criminal Code of © Canada. : s . The listed provisions state that it shel be'a criminal offence: & for any person to be in posses- : sion of any firearm’ which is not registered in the name of that per-— B to be the océupant, tenant or-: owner of any premises: where an for any registered owner ‘to fail to produce for, examination by any peace officer any firearm registered. in-the: name’ of! that registered owner; @ for any person to allow any firearm, registered in his or her ame, to come, into. possession of any other person; whether or not by negligence, until that firearm is reg- istered in the proper name of that other pérson; and ;,4@ for any person to. bea ‘party, transferer, transferee, or registrar in any fegistration where the proper . name ‘of the new possessor is not used in that registration., -., og The final provision states that’ ‘the minimum punishment for an offence utider. provision one shall be imprisonment for three years da fine of $10,000,” while “the minimum | punishment for. an offence under any other provision ‘shall be a fine of $5,000.” ‘Dean’ said she put: forth the motion because she is disturbed by he “gun lobby's opposition” to. ustice Minister Allan Rock’s ‘attempts to implement gun: control “legislation: i. *“Allan Rock is having problems . putting through his legislation :. before’ Christmas, and this is one “way to hasten’ it,’ ” said Dean. Woman lobbies against rifle sales at Cap ‘Mall “NORTH VANCOUVER City _ Counciller Staila Jo Dean ... “wants to see tighter gun con- trols, ; She added that she doesn’t understand the cpposition when the Icgislation would only. “help make this a safer place.” - “There is registration for car owners and pilots ‘have registeation. - There's registration for everything | so why shouldn't there be registra tion for gun owners?"’: Dean also added that the pre- scribed ‘penalties .in her motion were arbitrarily : set and are not set in stone. * “You have to have some kind of ‘enforcement and penalties,” said ‘Dean. “It’s just to show that there , Should be penalties.” ; Meanwhile, in an unrelated but _ Similar notice of motion, Coun.’ Barbara Perrault called for a resolu- tion requesting staff to “investigate - municipal, provincial and federal. « legislation in order .to determine. ways in'which to restrict or effec-— tively. regulate the sale of such weapons in our local stores.” : Perrault’s motion comes in response to a recent statement by'a Wal-Mart spokesman that the chain ° ‘planned to sell rifles and bews and- arrows from its North Vancouver, outlet. ms Perrault also cited “rising public . concern relating to the role of such , ‘weapons in community violence.” “This isn’t Arkansas,”: said Perrault in reference to the site of Wal-Mart’s corporate headquarters in the U. S. ; ; NEWS phote Brod Ledwlaga SNOW PLAY and doggie dismay were evident at West Vancouver's Cyprass Bow! recently. RAIN FALLING on n lower elevations has not. ‘dampened enthusiasm for skiing on the peaks of wintry North Shore mountains. By, Tan Noble’ News Reporter called the response to the early opéning terrific. *““’s a real jump-start to the beginning of the se ‘ son,” Wood said. Three thousand people eager for snow sparta . : journeyed: up the mountain over the long weekend, .|° mame - while 4,000 normally: make the trip from Friday to: Ls _Sunday during mid-winter, he said. : ce co TE However, even with ail the new snow, none of * Grouse Mountain, Cypress Bowl and Mount: the mountains is fully operational yet. . ” Seymour all revved up the ski lifts over the: weekend ° To Tuesday. press time, Grouse’ Mountain’ had a — and the people came. ©.» . : 127-centimetre (50-inch) base at its‘ mid-station, but Grouse Mountain promotions manager Nancy _ Chilton said Grouse’s Peak chair was not yet open. i Chilton said 5,700 skiers and snowboarders carved The mountain; however, expects: to goto: full: - turns on the mountain over the weekend, compared’ hours —'8 a.m. to:10 p.m.— this. weekend, ‘Skiers -with past mid- winter averages of 4,000 people per are asked to call Grouse’s Snowphone at 986-6262 day. : for confirmation, ::- : Grouse’s Thursday night opening was the earliest Troman said Cypress, . with a 161- centimetre (63-. ‘in 16 years, while the Friday openings at C Cypress | ' inch) base at mid-station, may be open regular hours and Seymour were the earliest recorded for both tomorrow for both downhill and cross- country ski-: mountains. hs ing. ; ’ ~ Cypress Bow! alpine office manager Mary Lou- “Wood said ‘Seymour, which reported a 165-cen- Troman said the weekend response from skiers was timetre (65-inch) base at mid-station, will be. open “absolutely fantastic. A lot of people are anxious to on weekends until the first weekend of Decernber, go skiing.” : when the mountain will begin seven- days-a- ~week oS Eddie Wood, Mount $ Seymour’ 5 general manager, operations. , ap Lag a manager and [ didn’t hear that anyone was upset. They wanted clarification on what we were doing,” Gould said from Toronto. A NORTH Vancouver woman has apparently shot down the planned sale of rifles in the local Wal-Mart store. By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter ‘Doreen ‘Allen said she got on the phone last Thursday to various Wal-Mart repre- entatives, including people at its head ffice in Bentonville, Arkansas, and a Toronto public relations company that rep- ‘resents Wal-Mart Canada. “In Canada, we feel guns are instruments of violence,” said Allen. : “The only people we like to see them on are police officers and peacekeepers,” she added. Allen said she began her efforts against the American retail giant after reading ¢ Nov. 9 News report about a proposed sale of rifles at Wal-Mart's new Capilano Mall store. Some local Wal-Mart employees didn't want to stock the shelves with hunting rifles and bow and arrows, sources told the News. But Wal-Mart, which took over 122 Woolco stores in Canada earlier this year, wanted “product consistency” in all of its stores. Allen said she informed Wal-Mart Canada’s Toronto public relations company on Monday that she was going to have fly- ers printed urging a Wal-Mart consumer boycott. A short time later Wal-Mart Canada president Bruce West phoned her to say that “they had dropped the issue of selling guns” at the tocal district level.” The North Vancouver store won't be selling rifles and bullets. Wal-Mart Canada spokesman Ed Gould said the formal decision on whether the ’ Capilano Mall store would sell “recreational rifles” had not been made when the News first reported the issue last week. “To be very candid, § spoke to the store He said 76 Canadian Wal-Mart stores located outside large metropolitan centres are slated to sell hunting rifles. Gould said’ the Nanaimo Wal-Mart is licensed to sell a limited variety of weapons. Allen said she was told the the weapons initially planned for sale at the North Vancouver store included limited types of shotguns, long rifles. bows and. arrows and bullets. She said decision-makers at the American-based department store probably don’t understand the differences in American and Canadian consumer attitudes towards guns. “We (in Canada) just don’t go shopping for guns in our local ?-Eleven,” she said.