Gun Registry To Be Shot Down Says Harris

Thursday, March 02, 2006 04:03 AM

The new Harper government wants guns like these, spared from registration

The gun registry is a dead duck.

Prince George-Cariboo MP Dick Harris says "Getting rid of the gun registry is our highest level of priority. We want to get rid of it as soon as possible"

Harris says there are two ways to make it happen:

" We would like to do it through legislation, by seeking out support for it from other parties" According to Harris, some members of the NDP are opposed to the registry, and "Along with a number of Liberals, with a very few Bloc members. We would like to get rid of it in that manner."

But if that fails then there is plan "B"

Get rid of the registry by means of drying up the funding that the registry has been receiving.

Harris says "It has now cost the Canadian taxpayers $2 billion dollars, $1.8 billion more than it was supposed to cost. It is simply too costly to carry on in this manner".

This item has been a high priority and a platform plank in the Conservative Party for many years says Harris "We will scrap the registry one way or the other."

The Conservatives are proposing to have all automatic weapons and hand guns registered while long guns such as rifles and shotguns would be exempt from any registry.

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Comments

Posted by: acrider54 on March 2 2006 5:53 AM

I'll believe it when I see it. Probably not in my lifetime. Soon you will be registering knives and baseball bats.

Posted by: Palopu on March 2 2006 8:36 AM

You can go to the bank on this one. This registry is finished. The money saved will go into Policing or some other crime reducing activity that will procduce some results.

Posted by: Gofaster on March 2 2006 8:41 AM

I wonder if those honest folks who paid the ransom for their firearms will get it returned?
Some how I really doubt it.
Legal theft?

Posted by: Palopu on March 2 2006 11:19 AM

They should send a bill to Paul Martin, Alan Rock, and Anne Macellan, as they were the pushers and shovers behind this legislation. Thank God they are all gone from the Political Arena.

Posted by: giterdun on March 2 2006 12:00 PM

IT'S TOO BAD SOME OF THESE ELECTED IDIOTS CAN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS DISASTER.BILLIONS SPENT AND THOUSANDS OF HERITAGE FIREARMS DESTROYED.ALL FOR NOT.THANKS TO THE CONSERVATIVES THE AVERAGE HONEST COLLECTOR-HUNTER CAN CARRY ON IN PEACE.TO THOSE WHO DIDN'T REGISTER THEIR LONG GUNS----CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Posted by: Free Enterprise on March 2 2006 4:37 PM

There are only two entities that can take money from you. One is a criminal and the other is government. Gun registry was legal theft.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on March 3 2006 5:19 AM

"They should send a bill to Paul Martin, Alan Rock, and Anne Macellan, as they were the pushers and shovers behind this legislation. Thank God they are all gone from the Political Arena."

Hey these guys are not gone, just pull out your wallet and have a look, you are still paying for their retirement and perks.
This legislation was an awful thing to do to so many law abiding people. I'm totally comfortable being a criminal now. It's no big deal like I thought it would be.

Posted by: metalman on March 3 2006 7:15 AM

I am pleasantly surprised,we finally have a federal government with some backbone, I agree that auto's & handguns should be registered, but let us have a simpler system, that does not require billions of our dollars to mis-administer
My regret is that after holding out for years, I finally registered my firearms, but at least it made me feel safe and protected!
Perhaps common sense government will prevail.......

Posted by: Percy on March 3 2006 11:03 PM

Finally, a little common sense. Not difficult for the masses to buy into this one.

Especially all those who were affected.

In the past, the ones it didn't affect seemed to have the most say. A huge financial burden will be lifted. It's getting better daily. Percy