The Chretien government has taken its share of lumps over the federal gun registry — particularly since Auditor General Sheila Fraser announced in December that her office had identified huge cost overruns that will bring the cost of the registry to close to a billion dollars. While the Liberals' continuing mismanagement of public resources annoys me as much as the next person (OK, probably more than the next person), I think it is unfair to assign them total blame... (GunPolicy.org)