The Long Gun registry
Gun owners have to register their arms with the government. In addition to this, once registered, I believe, gun owners were legally allowed to purchase ammunition. As well, more importantly, all gun owners had to register their arms by midnight December 31, 2002. All of this sounded like a good system to me.
It turned out the registry was created to prevent such crimes like the one in Montreal several years ago. In 1989, 14 students in an all-women medical school were brutally gunned down and killed. Crimes like these have no place in the world, at least that’s what I think. 1.8 million Canadian had registered a total of 7.5 million firearms. That just proves how many people have a dangerous weapon that can be used as a killing weapon. If the long gun registry was to be abolished, all gun owners will still be licensed and will still have to renew there license every 5 years. When the police type in an address or a suspects name they will immediately be able to see whether the person has a gun license, if the person has a license you can then proceed with caution knowing that there is more than likely going to be a gun on the premises and if there isn't then all the better. As far as hand guns go, there always has been and always will be a very strict licensing procedure for these types of firearms.
