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Canada's long-gun registry
on the chopping block

October 24, 2011

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(GunReports.com) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's longtime desire to kill Canada's long-gun registry will soon come to pass. The Conservative government failed to end the controversial registry in the last minority Parliament, but now with a majority government, the Tories will be able to pass their motion with ease.

The Tories have long held that the registry is an expensive and inefficient mess that does little to control gun crime in Canada.

When the Conservatives brought forward a motion in the last Parliament to kill the registry, they initially found support. However, when the final vote came, several supposed allies voted against repealing the registry.

The motion to abolish the registry is likely to be debated in the House of Commons in the next few weeks and, given the Tory majority, will pass easily.

Read the story in the St. Catherine Standard and then come back here to discuss.

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GOOD, and the sooner the better. I'm all for destruction of ANY gun registry. History proves that registry leads to confiscation leads to genocide by government. All citizens everywhere should be armed - if not with guns, then with whatever they can carry discreetly.

Good for Canada for finily seeing the writing on the walls. I was hoping that Commiforia Rebublic of would wee how stupid and costly it was but the Moron tax and speend, chase everyone that has a bussiness or is a conservative, constitution, 2nd amendment supporter out of the state just had to pass long gun resistry and of corse the Druggy Moon Beam Brow signed it along with the Open carry law, so now only the ccw is able to carry witch is in fiolation to can Not infringe. I can asure you that this state doesn't hand out that many ccw's. The gangs and bad guys can be shooting into your house and kicking in you front door every night and rubbing you business every other hour and your up a creek with out a paddle. I have been told that bussinesses should just hire security gaurds but to get a permit to carry as such takes for ever, and still they don't have any more power that you do to arrest the bad guys, so why go though the hassel. The elderly and disabled are just targets anymore inMexicommifornia, Republic of. So I am Hoping and back the Riverside Supperviser to make 13 counties into another state that is Conservitive (Mostly) God Bless America and Our Troops Past Present and Future. Keeping to My Oath Locked Loaded and Keeping My Powder Dry Get the US Out of the UN and the UN Out of the US

Canada has been an interesting study concerning firearms. Back in August 1967, I drove from the Lower 48 to Alaska via the Alaska Highway. When I crossed from Montana into Alberta, I stopped at the border station and brought all of my firearms into the guard shack. The inspector put all of my handguns into a plastic bag that he sealed with an official wire and lead seal. He didn't even care about my rifles and shotguns......and he never knew about the Colt Detective Special that I was wearing on my belt under my jacket. The same thing happened when I drove back in January 1969 (on my way to Vietnam). What an amazing turnabout has occurred with our Northern Neighbor. I'm glad that some sense of rational logic is returning to Canada. Now, they must get off of their paranoid pedestal concerning handguns.


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