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As tensions remain high in southern Alberta over the June floods, angry residents of High River seized the chance this week to vent their frustrations at a town-hall meeting.

Chief among their complaints: Police went out of their way to seize legal firearms that had been well hidden and were properly locked.

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Some people even suggested the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used the information in the federal long-gun registry — which has supposedly been destroyed — to target the homes of legal firearms owners.

They didn’t find them randomly

They included Don White, whose flooded house in the Hampton Hills area was searched by an officer on June 24.

Based on a photocopy of a police notepad he was later given by officers, Mr. White claims the policeman spent only 50 minutes searching the house.

“They went straight into that house, took the guns and took them back to the depot and secured them,” said Mr. White, who attended the meeting with his wife Jane.