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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (370)	12/17/2002 11:01:47 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (3) of 443

The "innnovation" here is registration of long guns -- rifles and shotguns. Hand guns have been registered in Canada since the 1930s. One of the revelations the government has had is that long guns don't carry unique identifiers. That's a fact that has been glossed over. There are basically two schools of thought in Canada on this issue. The one carrying the day is that somehow this registry will reduce gun crime. Or perhaps that it will let the police know what they're up against when they respond to a domestic incident. Or that when a gun is stolen, you can beat up the gun owner for not having it sufficiently safely stored. The other school of thought is that criminals don't register weapons, and that there's ample opportunity to "import" weapons across our fabled undefended border. And that the registry is the thin edge, promoting confiscation. One of the particularly interesting aspects of the new long gun law is the right of search and seizure -- that the possibility of an unregistered gun allows the authorities to dispense with a warrant. Guess which side I'm on.

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