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CBC: Canada: Guns not at ready before bear attack due to

misunderstanding of gun law

 

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=sep05gunlawattack05092003

Posted 9/5/2003

 

A misunderstanding about firearms legislation may have contributed to the

severity of a polar bear attack near Kimmirut on Tuesday.

 

The Inuit guide who was the victim of the brutal bear attack did not have

a gun to defend himself.

 

Kootoo Shaw says as far as he knew, he wasn't allowed to have a gun while

he's working as a guide.

 

'We Inuit are not supposed to have any guns when we guide people from down

south, that's why we didn't have a gun,' he says.

 

However, that's not what the law says. While Nunavut's Wildlife Act says

Inuit cannot use guns to hunt while they're guiding, they can carry guns

for protection against bears.

 

Shaw says that isn't how he understood the rules.

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