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To: longnshort who wrote (583995)	9/4/2010 4:49:51 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572158

"Canada's firearms laws have two components: licensing and registration. The real "control" part of the law is the licensing, which determines who can own a gun in Canada. Under Bill C-17, passed in 1991 (two years after the Montreal massacre) potential gun-owners are required to take and pass at least one firearms safety course and to submit to a police check of criminal and mental-health records. The law denies gun ownership to the recently-divorced, and police routinely seek spousal approval for an application. That same law requires firearms to be stored, under triggerlock and key, separate from ammunition. Basically, the registry is just a list -and an expensive one at that. When then-justice minister Allan Rock introduced the long-gun registry, he estimated the cost at $2 million. Ten years later, the cost had reached $1 billion, and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation now estimates it at $2 billion. It will cost $87 million (Mounties' estimate) to $106 million (Taxpayers' Federation figures) a year to continue to operate it." Read more: montrealgazette.com