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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Don Hurst who wrote (697053)2/3/2013 1:01:35 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) of 1574782
 
They dropped the rifle registry as it was useless and expensive.

en.wikipedia.org

The Canadian Firearms Registry was part of the Firearms Act and was managed by the Canadian Firearms Program of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). It required the registration of all restricted and prohibited firearms in Canada. It was introduced by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in 1993 and implemented by successive Justice Ministers Allan Rock and Anne McLellan. The net annual operating cost of the program, originally estimated to be $2 million, is reported to be $66.4 million for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. [1]

This part was amusing:

However, the government brought forward regulatory changes to bring in an amnesty for rifle and shotgun owners facing prosecution for failing to register their firearms. The government extended this one-year amnesty four times, with the most recent amnesty having expired on May 16, 2011.
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