The Conservative Government of Canada; now in a majority position in parliment,today introduced legislation to scrap the Canadian long Gun Registry.The legislation also calls for the destruction of all records pertaining to the 7 million long guns currently registered. The Canadian tax payers have, according to some reports spent approximately 2 Billion dollars on this program .The benefits of same in reducing crime have been minimal.This investment could have been put to much better use fighting organised crime.
The legislation will be welcomed by all legitimate owners of long guns.Mandatory registration of side arms and certain automatic weapons will remain in place as will the registration, training and testing for all new gun owners.
