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	Auditor General Blasts Gun Registry Mess
		Opponents of Bill C-68 were viewed as gun nuts, conspiracy crackpots (after all, the most rabid among them claimed the legislation was a precursor to Ottawa confiscating their weapons) and fiscal alarmists.
		Gun control advocates such as the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police argued then, as they do now, that a national registry helps police track the thousands of legal guns that are stolen each year.
		Individual gun owners also proved obstinate, waiting until the last minute to apply for a licence or register their firearms and creating backlogs that were costly to unclog.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012424 (1305 words)

	Canadian gun registry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian gun registry is a government-run registry of all legally-owned guns in Canada.
		While initial opposition to the registry came from the minority of Candians the opposition was vocal and supported by the American National Rifle Association and local Canadian gun groups.
		Canada had earlier had a gun registry during World War II, when all people were compelled to register their weapons out of fear of enemy subversion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_gun_registry (834 words)

	Crime control is high on Canada's agenda as it dismantles gun registry - The Boston Globe
		Canada created the gun registry in 1995, the result of persistent lobbying after 14 girls were shot at L'École Polytechnique in 1989 in an attack known as the Montreal Massacre.
		Handgun owners had been required to license their guns since the 1930s, but the registry put new restrictions on who could have them, required all guns to be recorded, and banned assault weapons.
		Catherine Bergeron, whose sister was gunned down in the Montreal Massacre, is fighting the repeal of the registry.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2006/06/25/crime_control_is_high_on_canadas_agenda_as_it_dismantles_gun_registry (857 words)

	Gary Mauser & Dave Kopel on Canada & Gun Control on National Review Online
		Auditor general Fraser complained that the registry audit was the first time her office had had to discontinue an audit because the government prevented the auditor from obtaining the necessary information.
		Yet the gun registry is defended as a memorial to the Montreal victims.
		Even columnists who dislike guns, such as Margaret Wente of the Toronto Globe and Mail, are describing the Liberal response as the "despicable defence of the indefensible." The scandal is entering its second week as newspapers, many of them committed to gun control in general, furiously denounce the Liberals and the registry.
	www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel121202.asp (2895 words)

	Suspend Gun Control Registry in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Runciman today called on the federal government to suspend implementation of its controversial gun registry until the Auditor General completes an audit of the real costs to taxpayers and conducts a cost/benefit analysis of the program.
		"The gun- related murders reflect the real face of our gun crisis." Ontario urges the federal government to suspend the gun registry component of the firearms program until the Auditor General conducts a complete audit of the costs and a public safety cost/benefit analysis of the program.
		The Ontario government believes funding earmarked for the gun registry should be redirected to police services and first responders in major urban centres.
	www.spruce.ca /auxgunctrlsusp0301.htm (808 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Canada sets sights on dismantling gun registry
		Harper promised stricter sentences but also a repeal of the gun registry, saying the millions it costs each year to track hunters would be better used for cracking down on gangs.
		Police groups say they check the registry 5,000 times a day, whether as part of a routine traffic stop or before officers enter a home to stop a dispute, although one analyst says that the database is full of errors.
		One of the effects of the gun registry was to reduce rural suicides and the toll of women gunned down by men with legally owned shotguns and rifles during domestic disputes.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003070516_canguns19.html?syndication=rss (1268 words)

	John Lott's Website: Verdict on Canadian Gun Registry
		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.
		The gun registry was about driving a wedge between urban and rural voters in Canada.
	johnrlott.tripod.com /2006/05/verdict-on-canadian-gun-registry.html (1179 words)

	Gun registry is millions over budget [Free Republic]
		The new federal firearms registry has cost taxpayers $327 million so far and is running up a yearly bill nearly 10 times higher than what the government forecast in 1995.
		The centre estimates there are 1.6 million gun owners to be licensed by the end of the year, with the backlog of applications already up to 45,000.
		Long guns, such as rifles or shotguns are now to be subject to registration and a permit will be required before you can buy one.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ff39931071.htm (1236 words)

	Disastrous Gun Registry? [Free Republic]
		The Firearms Act (Bill C-68) required by Jan. 1, 2001 that all gun owners be licensed to possess or acquire a gun and all firearms be registered by 2003.
		"Problems of ghost guns and gone guns are completely unsolvable." A ghost gun is born during a firearms sales transaction when there is a mistake in transcribing the serial number or description to paper or from paper to the computer or from the computer to the registration certificate.
		The guy in Vancouver now has the guns, he has the Edmonton collector's registration and according to the law he is now the holder of those registration certifications for as long as the Edmonton collector's willing to lend him the guns.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a6f4da10373.htm (1850 words)

	Gun Policy News: Daily small arms policy and gun news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Daily small arms policy and gun news, firearm death and injury prevention news, gun violence and gun crime from international mass media.
		Authorities says they would like to recover some of the estimated 90,000 rifles and handguns in B.C. that are not part of the national gun registry.
		The Gun Control Alliance is lobbying the public to support its submissions on the crucial Firearm Control Amendment Bill.
	www.gunpolicy.org /Articles/310506.html (591 words)

	SayUncle » On that gun registry we don’t have
		Gun registration gives me nothing that isn’t already an enumerated right : ‘crime’ guns will still be destroyed or sold by the state, and I can already put out a notice for a stolen gun with the serial number identifying it.
		Specific to guns, if a gun is used in a crime, and that gun is recovered, you’re damn right I expect the authorities to try to find the gun’s owner — legal or not.
		The equivilant of gun bans would be to require registration for the ownership of fast internet connections (which have a direct correlation to the chance of being used for software and music piracy).
	www.saysuncle.com /archives/2006/07/29/on_that_gun_registry_we_dont_have (5743 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Canadian gun registry in deep trouble - may be scaled back
		Gun registry proponents: Please explain how you can continue to support the idea of a national gun registry for the US in light of this apparent catastrophic failure of the Canadian registry.
		I have asked for registry advocates to put themselves in the shoes of such individuals and honestly answer whether it would make sense for them (from their perspective) to report personal property about which the government surely has no knowledge.
		Question Four: I doubt gun owners are in the majority anywhere, but people who either support the Constitution of the United States and/or their home State are.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID32/1413.html (1328 words)

	Gun registry in crosshairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		OTTAWA -- The Harper government's vow to repeal the federal gun registry is in for a showdown in the minority Parliament after Justice Minister Vic Toews conceded Monday that the only way to completely eliminate the registry is by passing a law.
		Seeking parliamentary approval ensures that the registry, which has required shotgun and rifle owners to register their weapons, will not be abandoned in the immediate future.
		Despite the justice minister's suggestions that the gun registry is headed to Parliament, his communications spokesperson, Mike Storeshaw, cautioned that Toews may have spoken too hastily and that a decision has not been made.
	www.canada.com /saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=eff07b8e-13ea-461f-84c3-3bc986633e34&k=7170 (515 words)

	Scrap Federal Gun Registry
		Liberal officials answered doubters yesterday by saying the problem is not crimes committed by the owners of legal guns -- the total of such crimes is "minute," one official said -- but thefts by the bad guys of legal guns from private residences.
		The supply of guns south of the border is large enough and the demand in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver is strong enough that the prevalence of guns on the street is unlikely to be affected.
		From the government that brought Canadians a $1-billion gun registry, the proposed ban is probably not surprising.
	www.ofah.org /Gun.Registry/Handgun.cfm?A=Read&ID=8&P=1 (529 words)

	Alphecca: New Canadian PM to Scrap Long Gun Registry
		Registry critic Garry Breitkreuz, who is working with Justice Minister Vic Toews and Public Security Minister Stockwell Day, said he has been given wide leeway to deal swiftly with the registry.
		The registry is also one of those truisms for liberals, one of their articles of blind faith.
		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.
	www.alphecca.com /mt_alphecca_archives/002073.html (2890 words)

	EXCLUSIVE: Tories to disarm gun registry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was the death of 14 women in Montreal that sparked an outcry for tougher gun controls, and the gun registry was created in 1995.
		But the Conservatives are listening to Canada's gun owners, who have been screaming for years they are law abiding citizens who should not be forced to register their firearms.
		Adding to the gun registry's public relations -- huge cost overruns and originally promised to cost taxpayers 2 million dollars the bill is now more than a billion..
	www.canada.com /globaltv/national/story.html?id=61509d9e-0a4b-4481-ae33-900da829b6b0 (519 words)

	Canadian Alliance - Lambton Kent Middlesex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The registry doesn't even keep track of the current addresses of the 131,000 people prohibited from owning firearms and fails to make certain their guns have been taken away, he added.
		The speaker said money wasted on the gun registry should have been used for health care, defence and more police on the street.
		Alliance riding president Peter Aarssen said Wallaceburg was chosen for the meeting because area voters are frustrated with an MP (Liberal Rose-Marie Ur) that talks the talk but can't walk the walk on the gun registry issue.
	www.xcelco.on.ca /~CA-LKM/gunregistry.html (436 words)

	CBC Manitoba - Doer: gun registry 'boondoggle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Winnipeg gun owner Todd Zielke suspects Paul Martin's talk of revamping is an attempt to create more sympathy for the Liberals in time for the next federal election.
		The registry has rung up roughly a billion dollars in expenses since it was first announced in the mid-1990s.
		The prime minister says the gun registry review could take months to complete, meaning the recommendations would be released after the expected spring election.
	winnipeg.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=mb_guns20040108 (333 words)

	CBC Calgary - Klein ties gun law to RCMP deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Premier Ralph Klein is linking the shooting deaths of four RCMP constables to the federal Liberals' gun registry, saying it didn't prevent the long-time criminal who killed the officers from owning weapons.
		The registry is supposed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and unstable people with a history of violence.
		Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman was not impressed with Klein being drawn into the gun registry debate just as Edmonton was preparing for Thursday's national mourning service for the slain constables.
	calgary.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=ca-klein-gun-registry20050310 (370 words)

	CBC New Brunswick - MP backs gun registry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charles Hubbard is the MP for the riding of Miramichi where the gun registry processing centre employees more than 100 people.
		Critics have attacked the registry for cost overruns that saw an anticipated $119-million price tag soar to the $1-billion mark and the program is now under review.
		He says the reason the registry costs have spiralled out of control is because Ottawa lumped farmers and hunters in with would-be criminals.
	nb.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=nb_gunregistry20040126 (292 words)

	TorontoSun.com - Commentary - EDITORIAL: The gun registry is irrelevant
		That would be the same, ineffective and poorly managed registry into which up to $2 billion of tax money has already been dumped, which Prime Minister Stephen Harper rightly wants to scrap in favour of better ways to combat gun crime.
		The irony is that the gun registry was never meant to stop the kind of spontaneous, random atrocity Kimveer Gill committed at Dawson College, before killing himself.
		Gun registries, permits, licences and strict storage and transportation rules are meaningless to people like Gill.
	torontosun.com /Comment/Commentary/2006/09/16/1852240.html (578 words)

	CTV.ca Oscars Spotlight
		The gun registry still resonates as a political issue, particularly in rural areas of Canada, nine years and two elections after it was passed.
		Opposition to the registry in gun-owning households was split 55-45.
		People who oppose the law are much more likely to vote based on the gun registry issue than people who support the law, she said.
	ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/1087336336712_22?...&no_ads= (980 words)

	Death in Alberta — where was the Gun Registry? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On March 3, four young RCMP officers, the eldest being only 32 years of age, were ambushed, shot and killed by James Roszko on his property in Mayerthorpe Alberta, a small town 130 kilometers northwest of Edmonton.
		And more importantly, it takes the discussion away from what really should be being discussed in light of the tragedy in Alberta; the government’s $1 billion boondoggle, otherwise known as the gun registry.
		Instead of letting the Liberals focus the debate on marijuana, they should be forced to account for their gun registry and how their wonderful legislation allowed a violent and unstable convicted child molester to possess firearms while everyone around them knew that he had them.
	www.torontofreepress.com /2005/weinreb030805.htm (915 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.
		Fraser finds that the planned computerized gun registry system is three years overdue and so far has cost $90 million, three times more than expected.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/guncontrol (1448 words)

	TheStar.com - Canada - Gun registry in crosshairs
		If the Liberals had waited for the dust to settle on a gang-style killing in a Toronto restaurant in 1994, the gun registry would probably not have seen the light of day, at least in the dubious shape it was born in.
		The termination of the gun registry was never going to be an asset to the Conservatives in the urban and Quebec markets that they need to break into to secure a majority in the next election.
		Canada's gun control regimen was born in Quebec in the wake of a shooting spree that left 14 young women dead at École Polytechnique in 1989.
	www.thestar.com /article/96066 (899 words)

	ESR \| June 19, 2006 \| Why don't lawful gun owners support the gun registry?
		In Canada the cultural minority of lawful gun owners have been subjected to ever-increasing regulatory pressure for many decades at the hands of a succession of governments from both ends of the political spectrum.
		Our government is attacking my culture and colleagues and has sold the idea to the non shooting public that we are the problem when it is the policies of the government itself that continue the tragic loss of life.
		It has wasted over a billion dollars on long gun registry that is every bit as useless as the handgun registry that preceded it as a tool for curbing violence while it cries that there is not enough money to adequately fund our police and courts.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0606/0606cdnreggun.htm (1232 words)

	The gun registry and the sunk cost fallacy
		The whole gun registration equals crime control argument rests heavily on the assumption that gun registration will apply to the guns of criminals as well as the guns of law-abiding citizens.
		A gun registry has zero connection to guns that are not registered.
		It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that criminals don't register their guns, and all the registry does is put stress on law abiding gun owners.
	www.stevejanke.com /archives/176644.php (3236 words)

	Op-Ed: Canada's Gun Registry Not A Crime-Fighting Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the concerns of gun registration everywhere is the potential for abuse.
		For most Canadians, the biggest scandal of the gun registry is the enormous cost overrun and the subsequent cover-up.
		After gun owners have their privacy and personal sovereignty invaded, it is not hard to imagine the rest of the country being forced to this level of transparency as well.
	www.gunowners.org /op0349.htm (622 words)

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