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MUST HAVE A PERMIT TO POSSESS ARMS
Five Stevensville Youths Fined For Having Guns and Revolvers
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 10 March 1921]
Provincial Officer Gurnett had five young citizens of Stevensville on the carpet before Magistrate Goodwin, in Welland Police Court, on Tuesday morning for having rifles and revolvers in their possession, without a permit. All five pleaded guilty to the offence, not knowing that a permit was necessary. One of these revolvers was encased in a holster and was compete with a buckle to fasten to a belt, and as Officer Gurnett explained it “looked too much like Jesse James style for young boys to be carrying around.”
The father of two of the boys could not see why the officer had to pick on his family, when probably every house in Stevensville had one or more guns. The magistrate explained that the law now requires that the owner of a rifle or gun must have a permit to have same in his possession, and that the Provincial officer must make a start somewhere. Each of the boys were fined $5 and costs apiece which amounted to $9.50. One of the boys who had two charges against him was fined the five dollars on one charge, and allowed to go on a suspended sentence on the other.
We are going to take this opportunity of advising both the residents of the rural communities and the citizens of Welland, that if they have in their possession a rifle or a revolver, the best thing they can do is to get a permit to own one immediately. Residents of the rural community had better see Provincial Officer Gurnett and parties in the city can obtain the necessary permit from Magistrate Goodwin.
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