"I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep over something as Orwellian as this proposal coming to pass. I'm far more concerned that legal gun ownership in the US will die the death of 1000 cuts - one "reasonable" restriction at a time."
Orwellian? Wars are being waged in Afghanistan and Iraq by Canadian and American one-man governments which are not supported by the majority of their citizens. We've been gulled to violate liberty ostensibly for freedom.
Canada is currently implicit in a human rights scandal involving torture of prisoners turned over to Afghan police and security services in violation of the Geneva Convention. It may bring the government down.
At the rate we're going, looking the other way while the Bill and Charter are infringed, it won't take 1,000 cuts. We're as culpable as the antis in this respect.