Gun Policy News
Tories Extend Canadian Long Gun Amnesty, Drop Fees for Another Year
15 May 2009
CBC News (Canada)
The federal government will once again offer a one-year amnesty to long gun owners who have yet to register their firearms with the federal gun registry, Treasury Board president Vic Toews said Friday.
Speaking in Winnipeg, Toews said the Conservatives still intend to do away with the registry, which was brought in by a previous Liberal government and has been relentlessly lampooned by the Tories as a bloated bureaucratic boondoggle.
The second extension, Toews said,... (GunPolicy.org)