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Official Liberal position on gun registry: More "Wait and See" than "Just Watch Us"

by Kady O'Malley Posted: November 6, 2009 11:37 AM Last Updated: November 6, 2009 3:22 PM
Further to my OLO-directed musings at the bottom of this post on Wayne Easter's gun registry-related rural riding road to Damascus, a response to my query about the official Liberal position, courtesy of Ignatieff spokesperson Michael O'Shaughnessy:  

We strongly support gun control and this registry. The bill has a ways to go yet through committee and the House, so right now we'll continue to work with police, the public and victims' groups to ensure we're focused on protecting public and officer safety.  

He also points out that, according to the RCMP report - you know, the one that Peter Van Loan kept babbling on about yesterday, and yes, I promise I'll eventually stop linking to that scrum, but it just keeps being relevant -- that "long-guns alone are searched in the registry about 90,000 times a year." 

What I want to know, however - and what I've asked in a followup email -- is whether, if elected (no snickering, you), a Liberal government would restore the registry to its current long-gun-including form if the Hoeppner bill does manage to garner Royal Assent. That's a pretty simple question, right? 

Tags: blackberry jungle, but what about the duck hunters?, c-391, gun registry, more on that liberal equivocating