We all know that YouTube has the ability to launch someone into stardom--take LonelyGirl15, or the Bridezilla...or that kid that's just really, really good at guitar. But when I stumbled across Katey's Firearm Facts and the whole series of YouTube videos in which Katey is the star, I just had to dig deeper.

Turns out this popular video set stars 15-year-old Katey Montague, daughter of anti-gun control advocate and gunsmith Bruce Montague, an Ontario native whose court battle against Bill C-68 (a Canadian gun registry bill) has been much publicized and is set to go to charter court in March. We'll watch for what happens next, but in the meantime, here's an interview I did with Katey about the videos and her role in them.

Katey's Firearm Facts is below, and you can watch the entire set here.

How did you get involved in the videos?

Katey Montague: I'm in drama at school and at the Free Methodist Church in Dryden, Ontario. My dad directs the church youth plays, and my brothers have always been into drama as well. Our friend Chris DeArmani [a vocal advocate of Bruce's and member of his case management team] decided the videos would be good publicity and asked me to do them. I want to be an actress so I thought it would be good practice.

Can you outline gun control legislation as you understand it?

KM: I don't know much about the laws, but I do know that gun owners or hunters aren't the problem, criminals are. Law abiding citizens shouldn't be punished for crimes they didn't commit, and there are too many loopholes in the laws to protect law abiding people like my dad. They shouldn't be bugging regular gun owners. They should go after criminals.

Do you own your own gun?

KM: I don't. I used to target shoot, but the government took all of our guns away [Bruce was arrested in September of 2004 for violating the terms of Bill C-68 and jailed for 11 days. Police confiscated the Montague family’s guns and other items in an ensuing search of their home].

Do you remember your father's arrest?

KM: [Long pause; Katey is crying] I was with him at the gun show, and these policemen just came up and took him, it was scary. I was alone with him. He was in jail for a while and we didn’t know when he’d be back, and we had to talk to him through glass. It was scary.

Do you think the videos have helped your dad’s cause at all?

KM: We’ve had a lot of phone calls and donations as a result, so yeah I think they have.

Are there plans to make more videos?

KM: Chris [DeArmani] has written a bunch more scripts. I think there are sixty of them, that he wants to start working on. I’m pretty excited.

Anything else you want to say about the videos or your dad’s case?

KM: Just that they need to get rid of stupid laws. My dad never hurt anyone.