Originally Posted By: Robenstein
My only worry is what a generally anti 2nd amendment administration will consider as "mentally unfit". I can get people with a track record of homicidal tendencies or ones committed for being a danger to themselves, although I believe a determined person will resort to other tools. But just because you have seasonal affective disorder should not bar you from owning a gun.
Well if it is any indication, we had this absolutely moronic long-gun registry up here for a while that was implemented by the government. Having those that legally own long guns registering them in a big government run database. And then scare tactics wielded on the old folks about their WWII .303's that they use for Coyote's.... Or that 50 year old 12 gauge they use for the same thing.
This was foisted on the public under the guise of "gun safety" as it was supposed to get unregistered guns off the street or some such nonsense. The glaring hole in that argument was of course that criminals weren't going to be registering their guns and often used hand guns.
Ultimately the registry worked to simply anger a section of the population, cost the taxpayer a ton of money and accomplish absolutely nothing except gross inconvenience. It was eventually scrapped.
There's a decent WIKI on it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry
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"We have an ongoing gun crisis including firearms-related homicides lately in Toronto, and a law registering firearms has neither deterred these crimes nor helped us solve any of them. None of the guns we know to have been used were registered, although we believe that more than half of them were smuggled into Canada from the United States. The firearms registry is long on philosophy and short on practical results considering the money could be more effectively used for security against terrorism as well as a host of other public safety initiatives."
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The Conservatives won a majority in the 2011 election; during the campaign, party leader Stephen Harper reiterated his party's support for eliminating registration of non-restricted long guns.[36]
On October 25, 2011, the government introduced Bill C-19, legislation to scrap the Canadian Firearms Registry.[3] The bill would repeal the requirement to register non-restricted firearms (long-guns) and mandate the destruction of all records pertaining to the registration of long-guns currently contained in the Canadian Firearms Registry and under the control of the chief firearms officers.[3] The bill passed second reading in the House of Commons (156 to 123).[37] On February 15, 2012, Bill C-19 was passed in the House of Commons (159 to 130) with support from the Conservatives and two NDP MPs. On April 4, 2012, Bill C-19 passed third reading in the Senate by a vote of 50-27 and received royal assent from the Governor General on April 5.[38]
Upon passage of Bill C-19, the Province of Quebec moved for a motion to prevent the destruction of the records. A temporary injunction was granted on April 5, 2012 which will leave enough time for proper legal arguments to be heard.
