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Conservatives bring home long gun registry—alive, not dead.

Subject to correction and update

As best I could, here’s a summation of the announcement by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day about some changes to the long gun registry. 

** They will transfer responsibility of the Gun Control Act to the RCMP where it belongs – which will reduce $10 MILLION from the annual cost, which will be reinvested in public safety.  Sources tell me that Liberal leadership contender Carolyn Bennett said she was happy because she thought that meant the cash would go to their Liberal-Left socialist child care (and early learning —wink!) social program, to prevent Canadians from going to jail the day after they grow up. 

** Will kill the fees to get license and to register non-restricted firearms like most hunting rifles. 

** People themselves will still have to have a possession license though—along with background checks.  Mandatory safety and training programs to stay.  Firearms owners themselves are in support of that.

** One-year amnesty for people to license themselves. 

** Eliminating of the cumbersome process of a physical verification of non-restricted firearms.

** Repeal of the requirement to register non-restricted firearms. 

** Hand gun registry to stay.  Has been there since 1934.  Nobody except liberals ever tried to pretend that the hand gun registry was going to be abolished. 

** List of restricted weapons stays in place. 

Seven million firearms are registered right now.  Most are long guns.  6 million or so. 

The current records will become obsolete.  They are in question now as to their accuracy, as spelled-out in Fraser’s report. 

Ultimately, they will seek to end, through legislation, the long gun registry.

Joel Johannesen
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