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Paging Captain Obvious...

by Tristin Hopper
National Post

Criminal record checks, 28-day waiting periods, the long-gun registry: none has done anything to stem Canadian firearm homicide rates, according to a new study by an emergency-medicine academic.

"No significant beneficial associations between firearms legislation and homicide or spousal homicide rates were found," reads the abstract on the study, written by Caillin Langmann, a resident in the division of emergency medicine at McMaster University, and himself a vocal foe of gun control measures who has argued instead for enhanced social programs to combat the causes of gun violence.

To be published in an upcoming issue of the peer reviewed Journal of Interpersonal Violence, the study took historical statistics on Canadian firearm homicides and compared them to three key pieces of Canadian firearms legislation.

Quebec Long Gun Registry: Constitutional?

by Solomon Friedman
Firearms Law Canada

After reading the various news items in which the idea of a Quebec-only long gun registry has been floated, I have been considering the fascinating constitutional implications of such a move.

As firearms owners are well aware, the constitutional challenge against the federal Firearms Act on the grounds that it encroached on provincial jurisdiction ultimately failed at the Supreme Court of Canada.

And now, from the Ministry of Neverending Bullcrap:

Quebec might move to introduce its own gun registry

by Alexandre Robillard
The Canadian Press

Quebec is considering the idea of having its own long-gun registry if the federal government scraps the current version.

Public Security Minister Robert Dutil told The Canadian Press that civil servants are considering a so-called "plan B" -- a provincial registry -- if the Conservatives deliver on their promise to ditch the federal one.