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[CHIMO]

Give back flood victims' guns, Harper's office tells RCMP

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office is urging the RCMP in High River, Alta., to focus on "more important" tasks and to return the guns officers took from homes while searching for victims in the evacuated flood zone.

Harper's office issued a statement Friday morning in quick reaction to the news that the RCMP had taken some firearms that they said weren't stored properly in empty homes.

"If any firearms were taken, we expect they will be returned to their owners as soon as possible," the statement said. "We believe the RCMP should focus on more important tasks such as protecting lives and private property."

"We are expressing our view," a spokesman for Harper, Carl Vallee, said in an email when asked for comment about the statement.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/28/pol-pmo-guns-alberta.html

Jun 28, 2013 12:49 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 28, 2013 8:23 PM ET

[earthbone]

1. He must be getting marching orders from the NRA.

"We believe the RCMP should focus on more important tasks such as protecting lives and private property."
I think that was the RCMP,s intent when the took the guns.

[arikara]

2. Do we have an NRA here?

Actually I think he's just pandering to the reform element in Alberta. They were dead against the long gun registry too and Harper did away with it to appease them.