I heard some Liberal MP yesterday talking about this on NW or CBC. His name is Paul something Stecle? Doesn't sound quite right. Anyway he was talking about how useless the registery is, and how it should be eliminated. He felt we should concentrate our efforts elsewhere. No kidding he was talking about agressive enforcement of safe storage. You know police searches, he mentioned that Sportsmen would be happy to rat out their friends if we knew they didn't safely store. This guy is presumably the untimate back bencher, I haven't ever heard of him before. But it does raise the question of even if they do destroy the registry, what will they then saddle us with. The registry is finaly implemented, people have taken the courses, registered their firearms, or gotten rid of their collections. Maybe the least harm is to let it all lie. Maybe not given the fact that many haven't registered, and may still need relief.

The Canadian system is to overlap gun intitatives one on top of the other, never resting, so how do the gun grabers extend their reach now, what is their next step?


While safe storage is a rational enough idea, it is also the most damaging legislation passed in the last 30 years for gun users (thank conservatives). It essentialy reduces the legitimate uses of a fiream to zerro, more enforcement shouldn't be something we look forward to. It isn't the registry that makes it illegal for you to have a loaded gun in case intruders or foxes make a visit... Once we reduce firearms legitimate uses to sport, there isn't any reason why they shouldn't be product managed, and there are lots of "unsafe" products that are banned in Canada at ministerial will.

Right at the moment we have one of the biggest victories the gun lobby has ever posted: Most now see the registry as a failure. That's massive, our opponents are worried. It's also a dangerous time.