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	Gun registry cost soars to $2 billion
		Canada's controversial gun registry is costing taxpayers far more than previously reported, CBC News has learned.
		The gun registry was originally supposed to cost less than $2 million.
		Canadian soldiers are again atop Vimy Ridge, this time preparing for ceremonies marking the momentous battle 90 years ago.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/02/13/gunregistry_rdi040213.html (1337 words)

	Long gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long guns are at the opposite end of the firearm size spectrum from derringers and handguns, and are longer than carbines.
		Shotguns are long guns, but shoot many tiny projectiles at once and have poor accuracy at all but close range, where the scattering, volume and destructiveness of the blast make up for the poor accuracy.
		In historical navy usage, a long gun was the standard type of cannon mounted by a sailing vessel, called such to distinguish it from the much shorter carronades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_gun (646 words)

	Canadian gun registry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian gun registry is a government-run registry of all legally-owned guns in Canada.
		However, gun registry checks are automatic with other searches for information on unrelated matters, and often quoted number of checks done does not reflect the true utility of the registry or what value line police officers place in the registry.
		Furthermore, the registry is certainly not definitive as to whether or not an individual or a residence has firearms; criminals have shown a universal refusal to register their illegal firearms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_gun_registry (1963 words)

	CANADAS GUN REGISTRY
		This Canadian example is a good illustration of why we must fight ALL gun control legislation, even the most "harmless sounding laws".
		A Canadian law on gun registry called Bill C-68 mandates that all owners of rifles and shotguns that had been previously exempt from other registration requirements obtain possession license by December 31, 2000, or after their existing firearms acquisition certificates expire.
		Canadian police are deeply divided in their support of the controversial law.
	www.beachbrowser.com /LPNWF/news/Feb-2001/CANADAS-GUN-REGISTRY.htm (311 words)

	January 2004 News from The Canadian Liberal Gun Farce
		Air soft guns are devices that have a low muzzle velocity and muzzle energy, and that usually discharge projectiles made out of a substance such as plastic or wax rather than metal.
		Canada’s universal gun registry has been plagued by a variety of problems including billion dollar cost overruns, the use of shady “back door” financing to hide costs, administrative debacles, and the refusal of 8 of the 10 provinces to comply with the new law.
		The Canadian cells are intended to spearhead a fresh wave of terrorist activity in the United States, a repeat of the failed attempt to bring off the Millennium attacks in December 1999.
	www.geocities.com /Liberalgunfarce/Jan2004.html (14785 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Gun Control
		At the time, the government says the registry would cost about $119 million, but the revenue generated by registration fees would mean taxpayers would only be on the hook for $2 million.
		The group argues the gun registry goes against an understanding that Inuit would be able to hunt, trap and fish without licensing or fees.
		Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association leader Jim Turnbull and another man are arrested for having firearms at a rally in Ottawa.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/guncontrol (1448 words)

	Canada's Boondoggle
		Under the law, every gun owner would be required to have a license and undergo a background check, and every gun in the owner's possession, no matter how old, would need to be registered.
		In that instance, the killer applied for a license to purchase a gun and was approved, even though his estranged wife had complained to police several times that he had threatened to kill her.
		Gun owners had until Jan. 1, 2001, to obtain a valid license and until Jan. 1, 2003, to register all guns in their possession.
	www.allsafedefense.com /news/International/CanadaBoondoggle.htm (1990 words)

	Lobbyist predicts end to Canadian gun registry - The Online Independent - April 2, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Canada's gun registry will soon be history because of Liberal MPs' growing opposition to its skyrocketing costs, says a lobbyist for firearms owners.
		Bernardo urged audience members to write letters to the editor, join organizations that represent their interests, and support federal and provincial candidates who are opposed to the gun registry, without regard to their party affiliation.
		He warned the registration of guns will eventually lead to their ban and confiscation by the government, as has happened elsewhere, in Britain and Australia, and, more notoriously, in brutal regimes such as Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
	www.indynews.ca /archives/news/april_2003/gun_registry.html (969 words)

	Gun registry vulnerability exposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		OTTAWA -- A former webmaster with the Canadian Firearms Centre claims that despite repeated warnings to his managers, little has been done to improve a security flaw that is leaving the Canadian government's gun registry database vulnerable to anyone with a home computer -- let alone experienced hackers hoping to obtain personal information.
		During his three-year contract, Hicks was shocked to discover a major flaw within the gun registry's $15-million online program that could allow anybody to access the database and obtain personal information belonging to millions of licensed Canadian firearms owners.
		Gun owners "should also be assured that steps are being taken to ensure that information is being kept confidential," he said.
	www.canada.com /globaltv/national/story.html?id=9d95b92f-0a14-4e37-97d6-df25984725a8 (534 words)

	Canadian long-gun registry on last leg; finally common sense justice
		It's not a question of "if" the new Conservative government winds down the gun registry, which has cost taxpayers well over $1 billion to administer, with no benefit to show for it.
		Toews says he may be able to gut the program by repealing the gun registry's regulations, which could be done by cabinet.
		Toews says the abolishment of the gun registry would likely occur at the same time his government brings in tougher penalties for gun crimes, including mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years for crimes such as armed robbery and aggravated sexual assault with a firearm.
	www.huntingoutfitters.ca /Canadian_long_gun_registry_on_last_leg.htm (538 words)

	The World Forum \|\| Political Forums
		Most legitimate Canadian gun owners are either hunters or farmers (with military collectors being a smaller but still noteworthy addition), both of whom are overwhelmingly responsible and careful with their weapons.
		The gun registry was also supposed to require gun buyers to take training courses on the safe usage of weapons.
		I never thought the gun registry would make much of a dent in crime, but I figured it might make a bit of a dent since it would make it more difficult to obtain a new gun to use in a crime -- criminals would be forced to obtain guns on the fl market.
	www.theworldforum.org /story/2005/8/11/142648/798 (10769 words)

	John Lott's Website: Verdict on Canadian Gun Registry
		Canadian TV The former Liberal government went to great lengths to hide the true costs of the controversial gun registry, Auditor General Sheila Fraser said in a scathing report released Tuesday.
		The former Liberal government cooked the books on the much-maligned gun registry program, ignoring legal advice and hiding the true cost of the registry from Parliament, says the auditor general.
		Gun possession, in Churchill, should not be a right or a priviledge, it should be a requirement for residency.
	johnrlott.tripod.com /2006/05/verdict-on-canadian-gun-registry.html (1119 words)

	Debunking the myths driving the gun-control lobby
		The current gun registration and fraud by the Liberal Government of Canada, that has already run up a $1 billion dollar liability without having anything good to show, will most likely cost Canadian tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars more before it will be scrapped.
		Ever since its inception, the scheme to disempower Canadians by forcing them to register their firearms and thereby to raise enough money to have them finance their own demise, many voices pointed out the inherent fallacies of such a hair-brained undertaking.
		Massive Cost Overrun in the Gun Registry Completely Predictable The ballooning $1 billion price tag of the Canadian gun registry was predictable to anyone who has followed this massive boondoggle, says Gary Mauser, author of the study Misfire: Firearm Registration in Canada, published last year by The Fraser Institute.
	www.fathersforlife.org /health/guncontrol.htm (1340 words)

	The Gun Registry Must be Deregistered!! - Page 6
		Considering that guns are built to kill things and cars are designed to have other uses, the gun registry really isn't that bad.
		Similarly, the gun used to kill the four RCMP officers was not registered either.
		Making everyone register their varmit guns simply to appease an over reaction by central canada is what makes the western opponents of gun control so cranky.
	forums.canadiancontent.net /canadian-politics/38318-gun-registry-must-deregistered-6.html (3212 words)

	Gun Policy News: Daily small arms policy and gun news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The federal Conservatives are planning to table legislation that would repeal the gun registry, bringing an end to a financial boondoggle that's cost Canadians $2 billion.
		With rural Canadians wondering why the government isn't acting faster to axe the long gun registry - Peter MacKay is asking them to be patient.
		"Gun crime is a national problem that requires a national approach, and no city can solve the problem acting alone," Bloomberg said in a statement, announcing his partnership with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
	www.gunpolicy.org /Articles/190406.html (1170 words)

	10 reasons why we should keep our gun registry
		Now that the Canadian Gun Registry has been shown for what a fraud it really is, liberals and progressives everywhere are scrambling to find support for keeping it.
		Lawson’s claim about gun control being a world-wide trend, given the recent rise in dictatorhips and repressive governments around the globe, I question the assertion that the Canadian Firearms Registry "has produced a dramatic reduction in gun deaths".
		First of all, gun registration has been the law of the land for at least twenty years and if the Star’s editorial writer didn’t know that, then maybe writing editorials shouldn’t be his or her job.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/klaus052006.htm (560 words)

	Canadian Gun Registration....1/1/2003
		I understand that as of January 1st, all Canadian gunowners have to register or "attempt" to register their firearms or you are in violation of the law and can be prosecuted.
		The fratricidal sniping over the registry began with a damning report two weeks ago from Auditor General Sheila Fraser, who found the cost of the project was on track to balloon to $1 billion from the original estimate of $2 million.
		The gun registry was a portent of things to come, as MPs Benoit Serre and Paul Steckle called for the resignation of Industry Minister Allan Rock, who held the Justice portfolio when the registry was set up.
	www.nodakoutdoors.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=6088 (2146 words)

	Alphecca: Canadian Gun Registry Failure
		New questions are being asked about Canada's controversial and expensive gun registry, and why it didn't keep a high-calibre assault rifle out of the hands of a man who killed four Mounties in a cold-blooded ambush.
		The controversial gun control program — licensing owners and registering guns — was originally projected to have a net cost of $2 million, but after 10 years in the works, it surpassed the $1-billion mark last year.
		Roszko — a convicted child molester whom family and neighbours described as aggressive and in a lot of emotional pain — was known by local residents and police to have guns hidden on his farm.
	www.alphecca.com /mt_alphecca_archives/001058.html (965 words)

	Gun Guys » Canadian Tragedy Puts Gun Debate Back on the Table
		With his application, he would have had to send a photocopy of one identification document, like a driver’s licence or a birth certificate, a passport photograph signed by a guarantor, the names of two references and, if he was in a relationship, the signature of his spouse.
		While Canada’s prime minister is campaigning off the tragedy (saying he will shut down the embattled Canadian gun registry because it didn’t prevent this), one of the victims’ family members is saying exactly that.
		Intelligence just isn’t their thing– that’s why, when weak gun laws allow a shooting like this one, they try to use it as an opportunity to weaken gun laws even further.
	www.gunguys.com /?p=1491 (1231 words)

	Canadian Gun registry - Law Enforcement,Police Officer,Criminal Justice,Background Checks,Cop
		Canada's billion-dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.
		And everybody at the gun registry is praying that criminals who steal those guns won't peel off the stickers.
		I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it at the time because I don't own firearms, so don't quote me. I believe it had a lot of advertising and publicity, and I seem to remember booths set up in mallls where people were supposed come down on their own to get it done.
	www.realpolice.net /forums/showthread.php?t=12495 (1482 words)

	Thoughts on the Canadian Gun Registry \| Muskoka Outdoors Blog
		That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them down, or the guns didn’t have serial numbers in the first place.
		But after hundreds of gun owners were sent licenses with someone else’s photo on them, the government decided to scrap photos on the licenses altogether, rather than fix the problem.
		taken the gun safety courses — one of the main arguments for licensing.
	muskokaoutdoors.ca /blog/?p=62 (707 words)

	Op-Ed: Media Catching On To Dangers Of Background Checks
		Or, perhaps, the FBI might decide to give their gun owner registry names in a particular state to officials in that state.
		To return to the reporter quoted by the Illinois Leader: "But there is almost unanimous concern about how the information would be used and who will be excluded." Gun owners might wonder if anti-self-defense bureaucrats in the FBI might plant disqualifying information in many of the files in their computers.
		Of course, a potential gun buyer could be dead following an erroneous denial because she could not get her name cleared in time to defend herself from a stalker.
	www.gunowners.org /op0338.htm (783 words)

	John Lott's Website: Comments of Canadian Police on The Canadian Gun Registry
		In contrast, the majority of murders that I have been involved in as an investigator, a knives were preferred and two separate occasions a hammer was the weapon of choice.
		I have however been involved in the investigation of countless offences such as robbery, where handguns were the weapon of choice and I must point out Sir, that the firearms registry did not assist in solving one, nor obviously in deterring one.
		The reasons that the firearms registry is so highly ineffectual are, I believe obvious, but basically it affects the wrong people, law abiding citizens and not criminals.
	johnrlott.tripod.com /2006/05/comments-of-canadian-police-on.html (491 words)

	Op-Ed: SEVENTEEN FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUN REGISTRY
		And gun owners aren't "clients" they were forced to participate under threat of severe criminal penalties of up to 10 years in jail for failing to get a piece of paper for their gun.
		Since the gun registry did not even come into effect before 1998, it can not possibly be credited with causing any declines that started before this date.
		In evaluating the past 25 years of Canadian gun control, the key question to ask is, have these laws improved public safety, not just reduced firearms crime.
	www.gunowners.org /op0507.htm (3025 words)

	PMFORUM, Connecting the World of Project Management - Case Studies
		On the other hand there is a large portion of mostly rural Canadian population that use small arms for sport hunting and eliminating animals that destroy property or crops.
		A significant group exists that owns guns for sport hunting in the forests close to most Canadian urban areas.
		The Canadian Federal Government, with support from the police forces of Canada, decided to implement a personal gun registry.
	www.pmforum.org /library/cases/2004/cases04-01.htm (1332 words)

	Les Jones: Tuesday Gun Links #6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The initial Government of Canada estimate for the gun registry database system was $1 million.
		Based on my on three decades of work in the field of distributed multi-user database transaction processing systems like the registry, and on some systems I'm currently working on which are of that type, I think $3 million would have been a better estimate.
		Never mind that it is to me unfathomable that it could take eight years to develop the registry database, and never mind that according to the CBC it doesn't actually work; $750 million divided by eight years is about $250,000 per day.
	www.lesjones.com /posts/000625.shtml (1508 words)

	Paul Martin - SourceWatch
		to disambiguate from his father who was also a Canadian politican) is presently the Prime Minister of Canada.
		He replaced Jean Chretien in late 2003 after a bitter battle of wills which threatened to divide their Liberal Party of Canada.
		Martin had served as Chretien's Finance Minister from 1993 until 2002, but despite a record of great success at reducing the Canadian budget deficit and cutting federal taxes(largely by "downloading" major expenses on the provinces and municipalities), Chretien responded negatively to pressure by Martinites for him to go.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Paul_Martin,_Jr. (286 words)

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