Canada’s law-abiding gun owners still don’t trust the Liberals’ intentions, and there are reminders here as to why. Altering the background checks that would-be gun licence holders (or current holders renewing their licences) must undergo is a suggestion most people will live with. The ATT had been largely eliminated by the previous Conservative government, and made a condition of a valid restricted firearms licence. Their astonishingly expensive long-gun registry, despite massive costs and trouble for gun owners, never properly functioned. The average annual number of homicides with rifle or shotgun for the full 10 years before the long-gun registry was scrapped was 37.3.

Source: National Post March 23, 2018 20:15 UTC