Gun Policy News
Opposition Bill Offers 'Fix' to Canadian Long-gun Registry Bitterness
7 October 2010
National Post (Toronto)
OTTAWA — A New Democrat who formerly opposed the federal long-gun registry will table a private member's bill Friday that he hopes will make the database more palatable to rural Canadians by decriminalizing failure to sign up.
Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay in northern Ontario, was among six New Democrats who helped save the gun registry by withdrawing their support last month for a Conservative backbencher's bill to scrap it.
Mr. Angus said Thursday that... (GunPolicy.org)