What happens if the long gun registry is scrapped

The long gun registry was introduced in Managed by the RCMP, it is a database of information about firearms and their licensed owners. It tracks information for three types of guns: non-restricted, restricted, and prohibited. It was mandatory for Canadians to register their firearms.

They risked conviction under the Criminal Code if they possessed an unregistered firearm. The change means that Canadians will no longer have to register their non-restricted or non-prohibited firearms. On the day that Bill C received Royal Assent, the Quebec government was granted an injunction to prevent the implementation of the Act in Quebec. For now, information can still be collected in Quebec. The injunction has been extended and remains in place until June 13, Germany required registration during the Baader-Meinhof reign of terror in the s, and recorded 3.

Canada's suicide rates don't appear to have been affected by the gun law, either. Some police officers also questioned the efficacy of the registry in protecting them on domestic-violence calls, since the registry was riddled with inaccuracies and didn't say where guns are located, only who owns them.

There are problems with interpolating Canada's experience to the U. First of all, the statistics suggest the two countries are vastly different on a criminal-culture level. Canada's overall homicide rate is just 1.

So we Americans kill each other at a much higher rate, period. Before you condemn Americans as bloodthirsty, look at Russia : Its murder rate is 15 per ,! Canada's gun homicide rate is also proportionally lower at 0.

But Canada's gun homicides -- many of them with pistols smuggled in from the U. The fact is every country is different and rates of gun ownership versus homicides have almost no correlation with each other. Russia's legal gun ownership rate is a rock-bottom 4, per , citizens and the country has a murder rate exceeding 15; Norway's gun ownership rate is 30, per , and the murder rate is below 1.

The bottom line is there are sensible things the U. I believe most gun owners would agree to personal gun licenses, since hundreds of thousands of pistol owners have already gotten licenses.

Most hunters also grew up in a culture of strict regulation, where any passing game warden can ask to see your license and inspect your semiautomatic shotgun to make sure it has a plug limiting it to three shells. Any more and you lose your guns.

But Canada's experience suggests focusing on the hardware instead of the shooter is an expensive and ultimately fruitless endeavor. I would be curious whether that country's pistol registry has been more effective. This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. A: No. Canadian residents need a licence in order to possess and register a firearm or ammunition and that won't change.

There are a couple of different kinds of licences because of various changes to laws and regulations over the years. A: There are three types of guns under Canadian law : non-restricted, restricted and prohibited.

Most common long guns — rifles and shotguns — are non-restricted but there are a few exceptions. A sawed-off shotgun, for example, is a prohibited firearm. A handgun is an example of a restricted firearm. Different regulations apply to different classifications of firearms. A: As of September , there were about 7. Of those, 7.

A: The government says it is wasteful and ineffective at reducing crime and targets law-abiding gun owners instead of criminals, who don't register their firearms. A: Police and victims' groups are big supporters of the registry. Police say the database helps them evaluate a potential safety threat when they pull a vehicle over or are called to a residence.