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Canada’s Long Gun Registration Ends

National Firearms Association

Bill C-19, the Conservative Government's bill ending the registration of non-restricted long guns was passed by the Canadian Senate Wednesday by a vote of 50 to 27.  Two Liberal Senators voted for Bill C-19, one Progressive Conservative Senator voted against it.

On Thursday April 5, 2012, Bill C-19 was signed by Governor General David Johnston and received Royal Assent.  Now the bill is law and will need to be enacted.  The Quebec government has filed an injunction to obtain the federal registration records to set up its own registration system.  However, despite what Quebec does, Canada's long experiment with universal firearms registration has ended.

Rob Anders asks the next logical question

by Rob Anders,
Member of Parliament, Calgary West

The repeal of the gun registry is expected to go from a Senate standing committee to third reading in the Senate within the next two weeks.

While the ineffective and expensive long gun registry will have been repealed there still remain issues with Canadian gun laws.

We still need to make the regulations more straight forward and more common sense.

We aren't done yet; not by a long shot

by Dennis E. Florian
GunOwnersResource

If you're anything like me (not that there's anything wrong with that), there has been a lot of celebrating going on in your house for the last few days; quite a bit of it of the liquid variety.  There's been off-colour gun-grabber jokes, about-damn-times, sighs of relief, back-slapping, clinking and cheersing — to the eternal dismay of the usual suspects — and of course, a few mornings after.  Funny, that; it never used to be a problem when I was young...

Well, stop it.

How many gun crimes are committed by registered owners? No one knows.

by Lorne Gunter
National Post

Last month, the RCMP and Statistics Canada were forced to admit that they don’t keep statistics relating to the number of violent gun crimes in Canada that are committed by licenced gun owners using registered guns.

“Please note,” Statistics Canada wrote in response to an access to information request filed by the National Firearms Association, “that the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) survey does not collect information on licensing of either guns or gun owners related to the incidents of violent crime reported by police.” Nor does StatsCan’s annual homicide survey “collect information on the registration status of the firearm used to commit a homicide.”

This raises the question: Why did it take so long for the government to begin ridding Canada of the horribly expensive, unjustifiably intrusive federal gun registry? If no one in Ottawa had any systematic way of tracking whether or not Canadians suspected of committing a violent gun crime were licensed to own a gun and had registered the gun being used, then they had no way of knowing whether registration and licensing were having a positive impact on crime.