NRAwatch: Documents, documents and more documents

CBC News has learned that the National Rifle Association, the powerful U.S. lobbying group that pushes for less gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade.

The story is creating a buzz in Ottawa, with the Liberals calling on the NRA to stay out of the gun registry debate.

We've got a pile of documents relating to this story, showing that the NRA provided logistical and tactical support to organizations such as the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA), established in 1998 to lobby Ottawa to shut down the registry.

For your viewing pleasure, here's some of the items we've uncovered, on websites and in the form of PDF documents.

Some interesting links:

• The NRA provides the Canadian gun lobby group with "tremendous amounts of logistical support," Tony Bernardo, an Ontario gun advocate and CILA's executive director, says in this July 2001 issue of Canadian Firearms Digest.
• A 2000 NRA infomercial touches on issues in Canada.
• Sandra Froman, former NRA president, speaks at the 2006 Canadian Shooting Sports Association Dinner, and her speech is posted online. 
• Canadian Shooting Sports Association names Brant Scott, a former aide to Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz as its communications officer.

And three interesting documents pasted below:

1) In 2000, the NRA paid $100,000 for an infomercial about "the Canadian situation," Bernardo explains in an article in the May/June/July issue of the Gunmaker journal:





2) Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz discusses the cult of police in this 2010 news release:





3) NRA letter to Canadian Shooting Sports Association: