Tories reintroduce bill to eliminate long-gun registry
Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2007 | 3:35 PM ET
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The federal government reintroduced a bill Friday aimed at killing the controversial registry for rifles and shotguns.
The Conservatives first introduced the bill to amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act last June, but it died when the last Parliamentary session was prorogued in September.
"Our government has made a commitment to repeal the long-gun registry and we are following through on our promise," Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told the House of Commons.
The bill would repeal the requirement for businesses and individuals to register non-restricted long guns, but gun retailers would have to record all sales of non-restricted guns, as they were required to do before the registry came into effect.
People would still need a firearms licence to buy rifles and shotguns.
Day said the Tories will use the money that would have gone to the registry to fund law enforcement.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry, which was supposed to cost $2 million when the Liberal government introduced it in 1995. Its cost wound up being roughly $1 billion.
Opposition parties have said they are against eliminating the registration requirement.
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