Firearms training company named in illegal weapons case
The Silvercore website shows a student practice firing a deactivated Heckler & Koch MP5 9mm submachine gun similar to the one shown in this file photo.
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Updated: November 03, 2009 8:54 AM
Multiple charges of possessing restricted firearms and ammunition, making or using explosives and other weapons-related offences have been laid against five people associated with Silvercore Advanced Training Systems, a Delta-based company that provides firearms training to a variety of local police agencies and security firms.
Court documents name Silvercore along with 67-year-old Gordon Cornelius Bader, 62-year-old Jane Ann Bader, 24-year-old Jared Wayne Bader, 33-year-old Sylvan Garth Bader and 31-year-old Travis Gordon Bader, the CEO of Silvercore.
Gordon Bader is a retired Vancouver Police officer who also worked as a firearms instructor at the Justice Institute of B.C. which trains most municipal police in B.C.
He is a past director of the (now-defunct) Responsible Firearms Owners Coalition of B.C.
Silvercore, located at 7198 Vantage Way in Delta, has posted a list of clients on its web site that include the Abbotsford and Vancouver Police Departments, Brinks Armoured Car, Churchill Armoured Car, Securicor Armoured Car and the Geological Survey of Canada.
The company offers the Canadian Firearms Safety and Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Courses (CFSC and CRFSC).
It also provides training in "personal safety and defending against edged weapons" the web site states.
Other Silvercore services mentioned online are firearms rentals, gunsmithing, and the safe disposal of old or unwanted weapons
The firm conducts courses at locations in Delta, Surrey, New Westminster, Langley, Abbotsford, and Richmond.
The five people named in the court documents are scheduled to appear in Surrey Provincial Court on November 17.
The firearms violations allegedly occurred in May of 2008.
Silvercore instructor PROVEing a single action semi automatic as part of CFSC Canadian Firearms Safety Course (YouTube video):
Excerpt from October 2006 letter to the editor from Gordon Bader that appeared in the Surrey Leader:
Society has a strange approach to crime today. We want to ban guns to reduce crime.
We make laws to require clubs on car steering wheels and we outlaw pepper spray.
We call for more police and we require gas stations to make prepaying mandatory to protect attendants.
Even if we had a ratio of one policeman for every two persons, crime would still be high because there is no deterrent.
Our courts allow criminals to continue their lifestyle because they receive ridiculously lenient sentences.
Without consequences, people will do as they please.
Instead, laws are made that require honest citizens to give up their property or freedoms and the criminals are allowed to commit crime.
These laws to remove objects of crime only makes it look like our legislators are doing something about it when in fact, they are doing nothing.
Perhaps we should concentrate on enforcing our present laws and punishing the criminal. Taking away guns will do nothing.
Gord Bader
Surrey
dferguson@surreyleader.com
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